Catalog Printing | Booklet Printing | Magazine Printing
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Printed catalogs, booklets, magazines and manuals provide cost-effective solutions for event promotion, user manuals, program booklets and retail sales pieces. Full-color magazine and catalog printing may include numerous eye-catching graphic elements including photos, product pictures, charts, artwork and illustrations to promote your products and services and keep current customers informed while educating potential new customers on your business offerings.
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With a well-equipped shop featuring a 6-color Komori press with inline aqueous coating, Tigerpress can handle large sheets up to 28x40 inches.
This full size sheet is appropriate for 16-page signatures, an ideal size for folding an 8.5x11 inch saddle-stitched booklet or a perfect bound catalog or magazine.
Our 4-color Komori press complements our 6-color Komori. The 4-color handles sheets up 10 20x28 inches, and is an ideal machine for printing 5.5x8.5 inch booklets and catalogs.
The Booklets and Catalogs we print and produce come in all sizes and shapes, the most popular being 8.5x11 inch saddle and perfect bound, with half-size 5.5x8.5 booklets and catalogs also a popular design.
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Perfect Binding Catalogs vs. Saddle Stitching Booklets
Perfect Binding goes by many names depending on the specific process involved, but generically, perfect binding is similar to book binding whereby the folded signatures of a catalog are collated and the excess paper on the binding edge is ground off and glued, or sewn, into a cover forming a spine.
Many of the glossy-style magazines found at your newstand feature perfect binding, as do hard- and soft-cover books and product catalogs with a significant number of pages.
Saddle-stitching does not have a spine. The printed catalog signatures are folded and stitched (stapled) at the binding edge before trimming.
Saddle-stitch binding has a page limit, so be sure to contact your printer before production of your color catalog printing project.
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TIPS FOR ENSURING PRINT ACCURACY AND BUDGET EFFECTIVENESS
To get the best price for your catalog printing project, consider the following information when preparing your files for print.
Include The Catalog Fonts
This seems so obvious, but you will be amazed how often print and screen fonts are missing when print jobs are delivered to the printer.Missing fonts will bring your brochure project to a screeching halt, possibly causing AA charges for another round of flightchecking your files.If in doubt which fonts are needed (especially PC users) then burn a disk with all your fonts and send that along. A common problem transferring Mac fonts arises when PC networks or PC formatted disks delete the resource fork that contains the Macintosh font information rendering the fonts unuseable. To compress fonts with Mac OSX for transfer via FTP, email, CD-R or DVD-R, right click (control-click) the folder and "Create Archive". Mac OS9 users should compress fonts into an SIT file using Stuffit.
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Include All Artwork
Sometimes missing fonts can be substituted by your printer, but missing art cannot be corrected, unless it's a regular job that the printer has done before, and keeps common artwork on file.Low resolution artwork isn't recommended, but if that's what you send, that's what you'll see on the final brochure. Minimum DPI recommended is 200. Anything less than 200 dpi risks pixellation of the image.
Bleed Artwork
Art, color blocks and photos need to extend beyond the page size (.125 of an inch is recommended) if bleeds are part of your brochure's design. Better to leave a gap between photos and the edge than to align the photo directly on the page edge.
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Creating Print-Ready PDF's
PDF documents are great. We appreciate, and even prefer using them in the pre-press process, but only if they are created print ready. Print ready means the PDF includes all fonts, all artwork is embedded and not downsampled less than 300 dpi, spot colors, if used, are retained, and the brochure pages contain bleed. Contact us if you need assistance creating print-ready PDF files for your catalog printing project.
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