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PrePress Services
Working Smart at Garlich Printing means taking care of all your PrePress needs and ensures that your job will print smoothly and flawlessly. Garlich's PrePress department consists of an experienced team of professionals using state-of-the-art equipment. As technological advances occur, we continue to enhance our capabilities to provide you with the best possible service capable of handling a wide variety of files -- Mac or PC. Garlich's electronic PrePress department enables:

Internet file transfer of graphic files
High quality color separations, halftones, tritones and quadtones
Image retouching, special effects
State-of-the-art electronic page assembly and pagination
Finely calibrated color proofing

Electronic Prepress Equipment and Capabilities

Accepted Media: 3.5" Floppy, CD (650 Mb), DVD (4.7Gb), and Zip (100Mb and 250Mb)

Telecommunications: You can also submit your files through our FTP site at ftp.garlich.com or through InSite. Please call your Garlich Printing sales or customer service representative for access to our FTP site or to setup an InSite account.

Preferred applications: Garlich Printing accepts files generated from a wide variety of Macintosh and IBM-compatible desktop applications. We work most efficiently in Quark XPress and InDesign for page layout, Adobe Photoshop for raster graphics images and Adobe Illustrator for vector graphics artwork.

Our Electronic File Submission Guidelines are available on-line. You may view the Guidelines in either HTML format or you may download and print out a PDF of this document. If you need to download Acrobat Reader, please follow this link.

Scanning Devices (all measurements are in inches)

Dainippon-Screen 1045-AI: a desktop drum continuous tone scanner. Max. input size of 12 x 18.

Purup-Eskofot EskoScan 2024: a flatbed copy-dot/linework scanner. Max. input size of 16 1/8 x 22 3/4 for films, and 19 1/2 x 23 1/8 for reflective linework.

Output Devices (all measurements are in inches)

Digital Proofing:
Techsage SpinJet 4000: Imposition color proof for binding and finishing, utilizing an HP Designjet 4000ps printer.

Epson 10600 Ultrachrome: An inkjet proofing system for contract color proofs. The associated GMG Color Proof software allows for accurate color reproduction, including many spot colors.

Digital Contract Proofs:
Garlich Printing uses an Epson 10600 Ultrachrome inkjet printer for contract color proofs. The associated GMG ColorProof RIP allows for accurate color reproduction, including most spot colors.

Remote Soft Proofing:
Kodak's InSite soft proofing system offers color break and content proofing at any time, via a web browser and any Internet-enabled computer.

Platesetters:
Kodak 800 Quantum Trendsetter Spectrum: 8-up format, 2400dpi thermal platesetting and thermal halftone proofing device. The Trendsetter Spectrum images Fuji thermal plates and has both conventional and stochastic screening capabilities. Max. image size: 30" x 40".

Kodak Trendsetter 3244F: 8-up format, 2400dpi thermal platesetting. The Trendsetter 3244F images Fuji thermal plates and has both conventional and stochastic screening capabilities. Max. image size: 30" x 40".

Synapse® Prepare: Links the creative and production processes, enabling the quick and easy creation of trustworthy PDF files. This program provides designers and production artists with the tools to easily create PDF files that match Garlich Printing's precise production specifications.

Synapse® InSite: Makes Internet-based communication between Garlich Printing and our customers a convenient reality. It streamlines the process of job submission, job-status tracking, online collaboration, and remote proofing or approval. Synapse InSite is an Internet portal into Garlich Printing's Prinergy® prepress environment. From any Web-enabled computer, customers, prepress operators, and customer service representatives can manage and track job review and approval activity, proof print jobs online, collaborate with creative and prepress staff on changes, and approve work from any location, any time. A powerful, user-friendly collaboration tool, Synapse InSite is an effective means to move jobs through production faster, eliminating opportunities for unnecessary error, confusion, or delay.

Staccato® Stochastic Screening: Produces high-fidelity, artifact-free images of exceptional detail without halftone rosettes, screening moiré, gray-level limitations or abrupt jumps in tone. Staccato stochastic screening also improves color and halftone stability on press, making it a perfect complement to consistent "by-the-numbers" printing. When imaged with the consistency and accuracy of our Creo® plate imaging devices, Staccato screening delivers unmatched quality to the press sheet, making stochastic screening a practical tool for demanding graphic reproduction.