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Capabilities Profile

Press Equipment
Heidelberg Speedmaster 74-6PH (6-color press) with aqueous coating unit, 20.5 x 29 sheet size with perfecting unit for 4/2 work
Heidelberg Speedmaster CD74-5PF (5-color press), 23 x 29 sheet size with perfecting unit for 3/2 work
Heidelberg Speedmaster 74-2PH (2-color press), 20.5 x 29 sheet size with perfecting unit for 1/1 work
Heidelberg Speedmaster 52 (5-color press), 14 x 20 sheet size
Heidelberg Quickmaster 46 (2-color press) (3), 12 x 18 sheet size
Ryobi 3200 CD (2-color press), 11.5 x 17.5 sheet size
Halm Jet Press (2-color press), prints envelopes from 3.25 x 4.25 (smallest) to 12.75 x 18 (largest), perfecting capabilities 2/2

Digital Press Equipment
Kodak NexPress 2500 digital color press (2)
Xerox Nuvera 144 EA digital press
Standard Horizon BQ-270 Perfect Binder
Standard Horizon HT-30 Robot Book Trimmer
Heidelberg Polar 78X Precision Flatbed Cutter
SmartLinc Shipping System

Specialty Press
Heidelberg Platen letterpress (2), up to 10 x 15, perf, score, microperf, crash number, crash imprint,
     diecutting
Heidelberg Cylinder press (2), up to 22 x 30, perf, score, microperf, diecutting
Kluge press (2), up to 14 x 22, foil stamping, embossing, debossing, perf, score, microperf, diecutting
Therm-O-Type 475, up to 10x13 thermographic printing
Dick Moll Marathon/Sprint gluing unit, glues and final folds flat pocket folders. Also has 3-D box pocket
     attachment which forms 1/8", 1/4", 3/8", 1/2" pocket

Bindery
Polar Jogger
Polar EM & EMC 92 paper cutters (4) 36"cutters
Stahl automatic buckle folders (3) in-line saddle pasting, 2 right angle units for folding, gate fold
     attachment, econo-crease score and perf attachment, stacker attachment
MBO automatic buckle folder
MBO knife folding unit
Stahl Saddle Stitchers 4-pocket and 8-pocket configurations, in-line cover feeder/scorer, 3-knife
     trimming
Therm-O-Type Slitter MP-12
Challenge 5-hole punch
Lasco round cornering
GBC binding - plastic comb punch
Rena Wire-O-Punch/comb machine
Rosbach hand-fed saddle stitcher
Bostitch heavy duty stapler 1/2" thick book
Accufast KT tabber for wafer sealing
Beseler shrink wrap tunnels (5)
Felins loop 1000 plastic bander (3)
F. Anderson paper bander (2)
Handwork and fulfillment services
Laminator GBC-3mil. thick
Shanklin Automated Shrink Wrapper
Challenge Paddy Wagon Padding Press (5)

Mailing Services
Cheshire 7000 Inkjetter
Cheshire TLS system tabber

Shipping
Cell phone dispatched fleet of delivery vehicles
Third Party: FED-X and UPS

Electronic Prepress
PowerMac workstations (18) OS X
PC workstations (4) Windows XP
Imposition: Esko-Graphics FastImposeSoftware: Quark XPress, Adobe (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator,
     PageMaker, Acrobat, FrameMaker, Streamline), MS (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher),
     Macromedia Freehand, Corel WordPerfect, Corel Draw!, Markzware FlightCheck, Appleworks
File Server: Dual 1.0GHz Pentium III Xeon, Windows 2000 Server, 436GB on-line,
     26-bay SDLT with 1.6TB near-line storage, Adobe Font Library,
     Media devices: ZIP 100/250/750MB, Jaz 1GB, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R

Computer-to-Plate System
Esko-Graphics PlateDriver 4 (2)
     Fully automated 4-up platesetter, violet diode laser 405 nm, 2540 dpi resolution,
     up to 250 line screen, output rate of 22 4-up or 36 2-up plates per hour
Esko-Graphics PERfection, FlowDrive, PC Commander software
Agfa LAP-V Plus silver halide plates
Agfa LP-82 plate processor (2)

Digital Proofing
DuPont Digital Waterproof (2): single-sided contract color proof, ICC calibrated to match our presses for
     4 Color Process
HP SpinJet 1000 inkjet plotter (2): dual-sided content color proof

Scanning
Drum Scanner: Screen DS 1045AI, PowerMac
Flatbed Scanner: Heidelberg Topaz, PowerMac
ICC Color Calibration: X-Rite DTP-41 Spectrophotometer
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Heidelberg LinoColor Monitor Calibration: X-Rite Monitor Optimizer,
     Colorshop

Job Tracking
Custom client-server system using FileMaker Pro software, PC/Mac compatible Dual 3GHz Xeon server,
     Windows 2003 Server

RIPs, Imagesetters, Output
Esko-Graphics Scope NORM workflow server (Dual 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Xeon)
FlexRIP screening and proof servers (2 - Dual 2.8 Pentium 4 Xeon)
12 x 18 B/W laser output

Electronic File Transfer
Access Type: dedicated T1 connection
File Transfer: files <4MB can be emailed to preflight@printpca.com. Larger files can be uploaded
     via FTP to our open site at PCA´s FTP server is ftp.printpca.com. For a personalized ftp account,
     send an email to ftprequest@printpca.com with your request.

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