Our on site graphics technician is available to help you with all your project needs. Spend some time learning about our services.

Layout and Design

Choose from an array of graphics and design options for creating printed documents, custom illustrations, and more.

Scanning

Turn printed images into computer graphic files for use in your design project.

Prepress

Prepare your projects for quality offset printing.

Layout and Design Services

Our graphics technician is available to assist you in creating great looking, professional designs for any kind of printed materials:

• Newsletters, brochures and booklets
• Reports, manual and guides
• Forms, flyers, announcements
• Diagrams, flowcharts and organizational charts

Good design is good communication. To achieve this, our designer will work with you to learn about the image you wish to convey – and develop an overall design concept suited to that end.

To bring your concept to life, our graphics technician thoughtfully selects the appropriate design elements…

• Artwork (pictures, illustrations, diagrams, charts, etc.)
• Type styles (fonts) for text
• Paper color

The result will be a great looking, high impact document that effectively gets your message across. Catch your audience’s attention with something unique. Our designer will create custom illustrations for your project or suggest choices from our extensive graphics library. We save all design projects in our computer archive. Your completed project is safe and ready for easy access if you want to reprint or modify it in the future.

We support Windows and Macintosh platforms

We can accept data from the following software applications:

Word, WordPerfect, Excel, Pagemaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand, QuarkXPress and InDesign. We will also except files in PDF form.

You may put your files on floppy, ZIP, or CD and deliver to the Duplicating Dept.

If you have any questions on available services, file formats, or software applications, please feel free to call us at (619) 585-4402. If you have art work that goes with your data file, please include them. Please be sure that everything you give us is a final and has been approved by all responsible indivduals.

Scanning Services

Get that picture off of the page and into your design. A scanner converts printed material into files that can be used on the computer.

Image Scanning

Our scanner can convert images-photos, drawings, diagrams, logos…any printed “picture” into a graphic format, then place the image into a design layout. We can even convert full-color photographs into high resolution computer images for use in your Black & White document.

When developing a design project, our designer can scan the printed images you want to include, then use our graphic and layout software to manipulate the image and incorporate it into your design. Using our graphic software, we can even alter your image. We can retouch, move, remove or replace parts of the image.

Text Scanning

The scanner can also convert pages of text into word processor format. We can scan your text pages and use our ORC (Optical Character Recognition) software to creat a word processing file. You can then use the text in your word processor or in other programs that acept word processor format.

Prepress Options

Services

Prepress is the last step in the overall design process for projects that will be printed on the offset (ink) press. We use these services to create camera-ready originals of your designs.

1200 dpi Printer

We use this printer to produce high-quality originals – 1200 dpi resolution – from the computer files containing your design. Ink jet or 300 dpi printers do not produce very good results or the halftones needed for photographic images.

Paste Up

We can use paste-up methods to manually modify an existing original of your design. Paste-up involves physically cutting out old parts of your original and pasting in new elements, such as text.