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PREPRESS DEPARTMENT

ELECTRONIC PREPRESS

Our Electronic Prepress department is a member of the Quark Alliance program as well as the Adobe Solutions Network. Please click the vendors' links above for more information on the products that we recommend. We constantly upgrade both our hardware and software in order to offer you a state-of-the art exclusively computer-to-plate imaging facility. Our equipment list includes:

Two Power Macintosh G5 imging workststions (Dual 2GHz G5, 1GB RAM) with calibrated monitors, Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger), 23" Apple Cinema Display
Six Power Macintosh G4 imaging workstations (1000Mhz and above, 768MB RAM) with calibrated 21" monitors, MacOSX 10.4
Four Power Macintosh G4 imaging workstations (500Mhz and above, 512MB to 768MB RAM) with calibrated 21" monitors, MacOS 9.2.2
Six MacOS G3 and G4 "workflow support" workstations
Three Windows 2000/XP 2.8GHz or faster workstations
Two switched 100baseT/gigabit ethernet networks
Cisco Systems Catalyst 3524 XL Ethernet Switch with 2 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks
Two Dell Poweredge 2800 Dual 3.0GHz Xeon file servers, 3GB RAM, 768GB RAID
Two Dell Poweredge 4300 dual 600 Mhz Pentium Xeon file servers, 1GB RAM
Dell Poweredge 2600 file server, 2.4GHz Pentium Xeon, 1GB RAM, 364GB RAID
Winchester Systems Flashdisk 768GB RAID
Qualstar TLS4220 AIT2 Tape Library, 1.2 Terabyte near-line storage
Two Dell 2500 Windows 2000 Pentium 4 file servers
Cisco Systems 2600 router with T-1 module
Power Macintosh G4 web and file server with 72GB RAID storage
Rampage Ripping System with two 3GHz dual Xeon RIPs and three satellites
Rampage Remote server with 3GHz dual Pentium Xeon processors
Eye-One display calibrator
X-Rite 528S Spectrodensitometer
X-Rite DTP41 Scanning Spectrophotometer
Four Colortron Spectrophotometers
Six calibrated contract digital inkjet proofers
Epson 9000 wide-format color proofer
Screen USA Cezanne high end flatbed scanner
Heidelberg Linoscan F 2400 XL scanner
Nikon flatbed scanner
Nikon transparency scanner
QMS Hammerhead 2060 tabloid laser printers
All popular software applications for Macintosh and PC
Support of all popular media ( Zip100, Zip 250, Orb 2.2GB, Jaz 1GB, Jaz 2GB, Syquest, etc.)
Long term storage available on CD-R, DVD, AIT2, DDS-2 or DDS-3 tape.
File transfer capabilities include 24-hour T-1 internet connection for ftp transfers or email attachments,Wam!Gate for secure file transfers.

PLATEMAKING DEPARTMENT

Two Heidelberg/Creo Trendsetter 3244AL with inline plate processing and finishing
Two 2.4GHz Impose-X imposition workstations
HP DesignJet 1050C wide-format plotter for imposition previews
Two Cortron 4500 platemaking systems with integrated software
Two 30 x 40 plate frames
Two Enco automatic plate processors