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Prepress

We have a reputation for exceptional color and high-quality digital images. Whether you supply a file on disk or if ProGraphics creates your design, the Prepress Department will prepare your job for printing with care and attention to detail. We use high quality drum scanners to ensure that your images will look at least as good as the originals. With our expert color correction and photo retouching, your images may look better. Plus we are constantly updating our equipment with the latest advances in technology and service.

When you bring a printing job to ProGraphics you can be assured of a predictable outcome. Primarily, we use both Apple Macintosh and Creo, a division of Kodak, equipment. Macintosh files are the most common and reliable file format for desktop prepress work. Creo is a proprietary hardware and software system that is solely designed for high end electronic Raster Image Processing (RIP). We have implemented a "RIP-Once/Print Many" work flow that is color managed via International Color Consortium (ICC) profiles. This virtually eliminates RIP problems and we are able to produce accurate and color correct proofs of what your job will look like when it comes off the press.

ProGraphic's RIP also supports frequency modulation (FM) screening, also called stochastic screening. Stochastic screening has several advantages over traditional screening, as described on the next page.

Digital Input :

  • Internet:
    –Broadband internet connection
    –FTP and e-mail data transfer
  • Scanners:
    –Creo iQsmart flatbed scanner
  • Desktop Media
    –DVD ROM/RAM R/W
    –CD R/W

Digital Editing:

  • Desktop Publishing Systems
    –11 Power Macintosh workstations
    –3 Pentium IBM/PC compatible workstations
  • Postscript Ripping Stations
    –1 Creo Brisque V5 imposition Raster Image Processor (RIP)

Proofing / Printers / Output:

  • CTP Computer to Plate
    –1 Creo Lotem 800 Quantum
  • Digital Proofing
    –1 Epson 9600 44" wide with ICC-based color management
    –1 HP Designjet 1050C 36" wide imposition proofer

 

CD Duplication :
  • CD Duplication and Printing

Desktop Publishing Software includes current versions of:

  • Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Pagemaker
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Autocad
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver
  • Macromedia Fireworks
  • Macromedia Flash
  • Macromedia Freehand
  • Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Publisher
  • QuarkXPress
  • ScenicSoft Preps
  • Adobe Font Library
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