Professional Scanning

At PrePRESS Solutions we pride ourselves in being the first, and currently the only company to provide professional scanning and color separation services in the region. You can have pictures scanned for a variety of reasons: for printing to your laser or inkjet printer, for screen presentations, or for posting into web pages. For purposes of printing to color laser or inkjet printers, optimal color cannot be guaranteed in these cases because of certain color management issues regarding monitor and printer calibrations. World Wide Web scanning is also available in GIF, JPEG, or a variety of other formats.

Scanning services included:

• From photographs or art work
• Reflective (photographs and printed material)
• Transparency (slides and negative films)

Film and Inkjet Output

PrePRESS Solutions' film output capabilities can provide designers with the high-quality material required for today's competitive printing market. File enhancements, trapping, and troubleshooting are all offered at competitive rates to help your project print correctly and efficiently. We believe that the easiest stage of development at which to catch potential problems is during the creation and planning of the document itself. We can provide film output up to 2400 dots-per-inch, 150 lines-per-inch.

• High-resolution laser output
• High-resolution film output
• Wide-format inkjet output
• Wide-format laser output

Color Separation

We accept straight color separation of submitted photographs, artwork, printed images, ganged-up pictures, slides (positive or negative), or transparencies. Depending on volume and quantity of submitted originals, standard turn-around time is two days. Rush jobs can be accepted at special rates. Color separation charges include color correction, minimal image retouching and four loose film separations.

With proper coordination regarding file, font and image formats, we can also do color separation of submitted files ready for output. Media currently supported are 3.5" PC or Macintosh disks, 100MB Iomega Zip, and 1GB SyQuest SparQ disks.

When a file is ready to be brought to and printed in the printing press, separations are created based on the number of inks that will be printed. When a document is printed using process colors (also known as four-color printing), any elements in the document that are not already defined as CMYK colors must be converted into CMYK. This includes colors originally defined using the HSL, HSB, or RGB color models, colors selected from a spot-color matching library and colors scanned and saved in an RGB format such as TIFF. This conversion can be done either before of during printing. PrePRESS Solutions typically produces these separations and prints them onto film using the imagesetter.

Graphic Design

Our talented team of designers and prepress technicians can offer what very few companies can: complete control over your project from its very initial concept stages right through to the finished film, ready to be sent to the printer. This amount of control over your project enables us to design creative, high-quality publications and documents. Our years of experience in prepress assures our clients that the printing production will run smoothly. Our creative services include the design of logos, brochures, annual reports, magazines, product flyers, newsletters, etc.

• Professional graphics & design
• Logos, calling cards, letterheads and envelopes
• Brochures, annual reports
• Magazines and newsletters
• Product flyers and advertising & promotion pieces

Web Page Design

The advent of the World Wide Web has created the ultimate virtual marketplace, a place where companies around can post updated information to their clients, employees, or any other audience to whom they wish to convey information. As a service bureau dealing with both printed and electronic media, PrePRESS Solutions offers reusability of scans, text, and other graphic elements for your Web site. For example, we can convert printed information pieces and catalogs to World Wide Web pages using the same scans and publication files used in the prepress production of the project. This ensures consistency between your applications, and lowers the production cost incurred. We can give you internet presence at very reasonable rates.