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140 South Road
Bedford, MA 01730
P 781.275.0720
F 781.275.1299 |
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Our prepress and color department utilizes the latest digital resources to quickly and accurately input, preflight, process, and output your job. Our completely digital workflow features state-of-the-art scanners, computers, RIPs and output devices, including Computer-to-Plate (CTP, see below), direct digital contract proofers, and imposed 2-sided dyluxes.
The equipment is only as good as the people running it. We have the best skilled professionals in the industry. Our Quality Control policy and attention to detail assures that every aspect of job planning, stripping, proofing, and platemaking is done to your exacting standards.
Among the Comprehensive Services We Provide:
- File Transfers via FTP, Email, and MassTransit
- Preflight, planning, and consultation
- File formatting and manipulation
- Typesetting, proofreading, and layout
- Creating die, emboss, and/or special varnish plates
- Scanning, color correction, image retouching and manipulation
- Electronic stripping, imposition, trapping, and editing
- Film output
- Computer-to-plate (CTP, see below)
- Contract color proofing (direct digital, including imposed 2-sided dyluxes; and analog)
- Backups, archiving, media conversions
- Re-purposing content, HTML conversion, special Internet projects
- Creating PDF files
- Regional, national, and global resources through RR Donnelley
Click here (PDF, 408 K) to see a detailed description of the digital prepress workflow process.
Using Computer-to-Plate technology we can streamline the prepress process, for faster turnaround, quicker make-ready, and superior quality plates. We use the same "RIP-once" file to output to both the digital proofer and platesetter, which guarantees more predictable results. And we save time by skipping the film, as well as the contact proof stages.
Advantages of CTP:
- Easier correction cycles, up to the last minute
- Proofs to match press
- Cleaner plates, due to thermal imaging
- Plates are first-generation, with no dust particles or other defects otherwise caused by contact printing from film
- Wide array of resolutions and screen rulings, including custom
- Maintains a finer and clean dot, for vivid details, greater contrast, and superior image quality
- Predictable dot gain
- Can put more ink on the paper
- Customized inline punch - register is a perfect fit, and allows for easy and precise repeatability
- Ability to respond to changes in the job specs or target press
- Greater flexibility in press scheduling
- Less downtime on press for remakes, etc.
- Click here to go to our File Upload page.
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