Print Promotion

When will my order arrive?

From the time of proof approval, your job will be in your hands after the production time required to print (indicated above) plus the time required for shipping. More details..

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Product Options Explained
Printing Colors:
Full color means your artwork can utilize any combination of colors, which the printing process achieves by using varying percentages of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CMYK) inks, which is why full color is often called four color process. Black Ink (grayscale) means your artwork can be anything created in grayscale, such as a black and white photograph or plain black text or any shade, screen, or percentage of black. None is a simple as it sounds, it’s simply blank with only the white of the paper showing.
Paper:
We use 12 point Coated two side paperboard (110# Topkote), We use stock that is coated 2 sides to be able to accommodate most print jobs for promotional use. With coating on two sides, your images from the front of the piece to the back will be consistent.
Proof:
PDF soft proof: Free of charge we can provide a PDF proof that you can download or view from within your web browser. PDF files require the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free and can be downloaded here. PDF proofs are great for making sure the layout is correct and that all text is correct and typo free. However, PDF proofs are not used to ensure that colors will print exactly as you desire.
Hardcopy Proof:
We produce hardcopy proofs within 48 hours of file submission and ship them via UPS or FedEx overnight. If you want to touch and feel something as “proof” of what was received by us from your files, we will be happy to provide to you. Please keep in mind that a hardcopy proof is not a proof of what your piece will look like after it is printed, although it will be similar, however it is a proof of what was submitted to us via the internet. This is what a proof has always been in printing, but misunderstanding and after decades of commercial printing, people have gotten confused. If you think about it, you cannot prove something that has not happened yet, referring to the actual printing of the job after your proof is approved, you can only prove or make a proof of what you were given as “print-ready” or “Camera-ready” artwork.
Hardcopy proofs in custom run printing are used to match the printing to the proof which was produced using your files. In commercial printing, and custom printing specifically, a proof is tweaked over several rounds and made to look acceptable tot he client, then matching that proof at the time of printing, or “on-press” is more realistic. Cosmetics and sexy car ads aren’t just luck, there is a lot of time and money spent to make those images just right.
Set-up:
Also known as “make-ready” for a printing press, which consists of the following processes and costs;
Production of plates from your digital files, that get R.I.P.ed (Raster Image Process) through a digital process creating a dot pattern out of your electronic files. Then we take the plates and put them or “hang” the plates on the press. Adjust the plates with the proper tension. Then we add the ink to the various ink towers and make sure the ink is flowing smoothly and that the plates are accurately reproducing specific color separations of your artwork. Then we can start printing test or “Camera-ready” sheets in order to adjust the plates for fit, registration, and other fine-tuning procedures.
When you choose a Coop run, there are no shortcuts, only shared cost savings. We have to go through the exact same process of printing and we use the same equipment to do so.
As a matter of fact, there is more testing in the beginning to get an acceptable color reproduction to try and make many jobs look good, vs. just a repeat of the same image.
It is just a different prepress procedure that allows us to place many jobs on the same printed sheet using the same paper and the same inks at the same time.