When someone gets something in the mail that was unsolicited, chances are that it will wind up in the garbage in record time. However, occasionally a piece will come in that catches the eye or the imagination. What is the difference between these pieces - the ones that got noticed were most likely created by a professional graphic artist, the ones that went in the garbage - well who knows - the point is, we design the ones that catch the eye. After twenty five years of printing for some of the best ad agencies around, we (though not an official ad agency) feel confident that we have learned from the best teacher there is . . . Experience.

We have a state of the art typesetting department, and the people with the talent (computer and design - it takes both) to make the machines work.
Proofs are given to the customer in 1200 DPI laser black and white first until the type and different elements are in the position desired, then if color is involved a color print is done to verify color breaks. Most of the initial proofing can be done with the fax machine. If a color proof is involved we will be glad to drop it by if that is possible, if not the mail usually delivers any letter in the surrounding areas in one day and longer distances can be FedEx'ed or Priority Mailed. A viewing of the file can also be downloaded to you via the internet.

We have a large pool of design ideas, drawing on 25 years of printing experience.

We do work for many large corporations with a lot of people, so that means sometimes there can be a lot of changes before the project is finished. Not because of the design work but because what is requested of us is not what they want when they see it. We try to make clear any pitfalls and definite no-no's to avoid, but in the end the decision to go ahead is up to you the customer.

We have different design ideas for brochures and mailers that are not your
run of the mill average piece.

If you have a piece that you like and want recreated with your information, we can do it. We cannot re-create copywritten material but most design ideas are usually not copywritten. Logos and copy are usually what is copywritten, leaving the basic idea wide open for reconstruction.

We can create composite photos from existing photos, logos or prints - our extensive knowledge of our photo-manipulation software makes almost anything possible.
In the past we have set guitars on fire (see below), put human heads on ducks, pieced cars together, we have even put people standing in a swimming pool with water up to their shoulders in a lake situation with trees in the background and water up to their noses, the swimming pool was totally edited out leaving a very realistic picture of people standing in a lake.

If you didn't know that the people were photographed in a pool and the fire on the guitar was super-imposed, you would never know.

All effects and manipulations are seamless, making the photo look like it was taken that way.

A picture of a guitar with fire superimposed.

We have a lot of experience doing custom forms work. We have been doing forms for several police departments, courts and municipalities for over 12 years. We all know those kind of organizations have plenty of paperwork. However, the only red tape we have is on a roll.
When doing a custom form all we ask is that you get us started with a rough draft
(in pencil is fine) of what you have in your head so that we can start off with a better understanding of the form from the beginning. Believe it or not this is very important.

We have a large library of different forms that we have done in the past saved in our computer, often we can rearrange them to suit your needs, saving time and money.
Please ask for information on any forms we have, we would be glad to save you money.