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Print Place specializes in
high quality, quick turn,
one hundred percent offset postcard printing.
From the moment your
order is sent to press,
a team of qualified printing experts
begin producing your order.
First, our art technicians review your
job for several aspects, such
as size, embedded fonts, resolution and bleeds.
Once your artwork passes this review,
your job is passed onto pre-press.
The pre-press technician's job is
to assemble orders from maximum printing efficiency.
Yours as well as multiple costumers
jobs are grouped together from
property such as paper stock,
size, quantity, and processing options.
Several costumers orders are placed
into a single group for greatest efficiency.
Once assembled, jobs are sent to plating.
Here, the plate maker sends
each job to a thermal infrared imaging machine.
Aluminum plates, containing an
infrared sensitive emulsion, load
into the plate setter, where it wraps around the imaging drum.
The drum at a dizzying
1,000 rpm's as an
infrared laser exposes an image onto the plate.
From there, the now exposed aluminum plate moves to the processor.
A four-step treatment is applied:
developer chemical, water, buffing,
and gumming for further scratch protection.
A plate for each color
in the CMYK profile are printed for transfer to the press.
PrintPlace utilizes three Komori
offset printing presses for all of our printing.
Maxed out, the Komori press
can print a stunning 16,000 sheets per hour.
The Pressman takes the
aluminum plates, and hangs them
on ink units of each
corresponding color. Blank sheets
are fed from the back
of the machine series of
conveyers and rollers rapidly shoot
each sheet under cyan, magenta,
yellow, and black ink units.
The rollers evenly distribute ink
to the plates which offsets
the ink to a blanket roller,
that in turn, applies ink to the paper.
Coated sheets are then fed
through our aqueous coating unit
and run across heating elements for
drying. Every few
hundred sheets, the pressman pulls a sheet for analysis.
He scans a color bar along the bottom edge for color accuracy.
Visual inspection is also needed to check for highest quality.
After printing, the
sheets move to the cutter.
A large industrial cutting machine
slices up to 1,000 sheets.
Each job is then
separated for transfer to their particular finishing processes.
Once cut, your postcards go to mailing.
Before shipping, the specified
addresses are printed onto each
card using an ink jetting machine.
The worker loads your postcards.
Once running, a conveyer pulls
each card rapidly under two high-speed print heads.
A heating coil then dries
the printed addresses. The result,
a high quality, quick-turn brochure
ready for mailing to your customer's door.
Log on to PrintPlace.com today to get your project started!
Or call us at 877-405-3949.