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PrintPlace specializes in
high-quality, quick turn
100% offset brochure 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 on to prepress.
The prepress technician's job is
to assemble orders for maximum printing efficiency.
Yours, as well as multiple customer's
jobs, are grouped together
for properties, such as paper
stop, size, quantities and processing options.
Several customers' orders are placed
into a single group for greatest efficiency.
Once assembled, the 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 spins 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.
Clean sheets are fed from the back of the machine.
A series of conveyors 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 the sheet for analysis.
He scans a color bar along the bottom edge for color accuracy.
Visual inspection is also needed 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.
From there, your brochures are fed into a scoring and folding machine.
A conveyor allows
for continuous loading of jobs for maximum efficiency.
After the worker activates the machine,
each brochure shoots towards the
folder plates where up to
four folds are applied along with necessary scoring.
The result; a high quality,
quick turn brochure ready to ship to your door.
Log onto PrintPlace.com today, to get your project started.
Or call us at
877-405-3949.