PRINTING CAPABILITIES

We’ll help make you and your company look great!

Letterhead, envelopes, business cards, note cards, note pads, labels, announcement cards, social cards, invitations, presentation folders, booklets, brochures, flyers, menus, postcards, rack cards, order forms, invoices, merchandise forms, transfer forms, internal forms, NCR, continuous multi-part with or without numbering, posters, banners (paper or vinyl), signage and displays, and promotional items; pens, coasters, napkins, mugs, magnets, and more!

DIGITAL – 4 COLOR AND BLACK & WHITE

Our extensive printing experience is your assurance that we’ll advise you as to when digital printing is the best choice for your print job.

Digital printing is often best for small runs of business cards, flyers, brochures, and postcards under 500 units. Digital printing is the perfect solution for these short-run print jobs, or for when you need a job done quickly. The downside to digital printing is the color control and quality, and you’re limited to the type and thickness of paper stocks you can print on.

Pros: Very fast turn around and cheap. No drying time needed for the ink. Great for small printing runs under 500 units.

Cons: Size is limited. Usually, can’t print bigger than 12” x 18”. Weight and type of paper being used is limited. Expensive for large runs over 500 units. Difficult to reproduce colors accurately. Cannot print or match Pantone colors accurately. Cannot print light or white colored inks on dark paper. Cannot print varnish or spot UV. Cannot produce foil stamping, or raised printing. Cannot not produce a matte finish. Printed results limited to semi-gloss or gloss finish. Lower quality print/color consistency can be poor. Toner can crack and peel off printed pieces.

OFFSET PRINTING

We offer high quality offset printing at very attractive and competitive prices, and deeply discounted prices for continuous ongoing print projects.

Offset printing provides high volume, high quality printing. Offset printing is very efficient and fast, so it is often the best solution for when you need to print high quality pieces, larger runs over 500 units or very high volumes.

Pros: Quick turn around. Large format size is supported. Can use specialized colors and techniques. Great, fast and inexpensive for printing runs over 500 units or larger. Can print on a wide variety of paper and thick stocks. Can print Pantone colors, varnish and spot UV. Can print white or light colored inks on dark paper. Can do adjustments to ink density. Better, and higher quality of printing.

Cons: Ink needs time to dry. Expensive for small runs under 500 units. Requires attention to detail during the printing process.

ENGRAVING & THERMOGRAPHY PRINTING

Engraving is a printing technique that adds an extra level of dimension to business cards. With engraving, the ink literally rises upward from the paper due to application during the printing process. This process results in stationery, invitations and business cards business that will have a unique textured lettering or image effect that can be felt when the business card is handled. Engraving is a more elegant printing process and can be expensive.

Thermography (also known as raised ink printing) is a practical alternative to engraving and is more affordable, and still versatile enough to create a high quality, raised finish. Thermographic printing raises the image or typeface by sprinkling powdered resin onto wet ink, then heat-fusing it onto the sheet. This results in a tactile, gloss finish of the image and or typeface, or for a more subtle appearance a matte powdered can be used to achieve a matte finish.

EMBOSSING & DEBOSSING

Embossing, debossing and foil stamping are used to add extra graphic impact to your stationery, invitations, presentation folders, and booklet covers. All three processes involve a piece of metal known as a “die” with a reversed image of the desired design. The die is commonly made of magnesium, copper or brass. If the image is to be embossed, a metal die (female), and a counter die (male) are required that fit together and squeeze “mould” the paper to the shape of the image creating a three-dimensional effect of the image being raised higher than the paper.

Embossing (also known as “registered embossed” or “Print Embossed”) is the method of first printing the image in ink and then pressing the image into the paper with the dies to raise the printed image higher than the paper for a three-dimensional effect.

Blind Embossing is embossing without the use of ink, foil or pigment. The image is pressed into the paper creating a more subtle three-dimensional effect of the design.

Debossing is depressing the image into the paper. Instead of the image being raised, the image is below the paper surface, creating the effect that the image has been lowered into the paper.

Many confuse embossing and debossing – The easiest way to remember and distinguish between the two is; Emboss is UP from the paper / Deboss is DOWN in the paper. This rule can also help you when distinguishing between engraving, thermography, and letterpress; engraving and thermography are both UP / Letterpress is Down.

FLAT FOIL & EMBOSSED FOIL STAMPING

Flat Foil stamping is the application of metallic foil (often gold or silver) or pigment color foil to press a thin layer of foil onto the paper’s surface with a heated die through heat and pressure. The foil is pressed onto the paper as a flat image.

Embossed Foil stamping is combining both foil stamping and embossing (also known as “stamp and bump”), either with a foil embossing die or embossing an image that was previously flat foil stamped to create a more striking raised image.

EDGE GILDING & EDGE PAINTING

You’ve seen it on the edge of book pages, but it has become very popular on the edges of business cards, invitations and stationery items and it can really make these items jump and pop. While most dramatic on business cards, announcements, and invitations produced on thicker paper stocks, gilded and painted edges are subtle and elegant on stationery items such as letterhead that are produced on thinner, text weight stocks. The price of edge gilding and edge painting business cards depends primarily on the thickness of the card.

Edge Painting is painting the edge with any PMS color, from fluorescent to metallic inks.

Edge Gilding is very similar to edge painting, but gilding involves applying a gold leaf or a shiny foil (silver, gold or color) to the edge.

Neither should be confused with or mistaken for “Edge” business cards which are made by taking three individual pieces of paper and pasting them together. The center (or middle) layer of paper is one color and it is glued between two other layers (top and bottom) of paper of another color to give the card the appearance of having a colored edge. This is a more affordable solution to Edge Gilded and Edge Painted cards, but is nowhere near the same quality and distinguishing product.

BINDERY

We also offer complete bindery services from start-to-finish including; collating, folding, scoring, perforating, saddle stitching, spiral bind, perfect bind, padding, numbering, lamination, drilling/hole-punching, die-cutting and corner rounding.