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Our History |
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Before
founding Progressive Printing in 1978, Phil Gray was a high
school teacher, instructing his pupils in the art of offset
printing. With Progressive Printing, he wanted to create a
brand based on responsive, smart and dependable service
while sharing his knowledge of printing with his clients,
just as he had with his students. He believed that working
closely with clients was the only way to ensure that they
got exactly what they wanted and for a price they were happy
with. He set a goal to be completely honest with them and to
always make deliveries on time.
Phil＊s
strategy was a success, and with the help of his wife Terry,
Progressive Printing grew into a mid-size commercial printer
with a strong foundation of loyal customers.
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Our Process |
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We pride ourselves
in our efficiency and attention to detail. Take a look at
our
video, which we created to walk you through our
time-tested process step-by-step. |
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Our
Environmental Policy |
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At
Progressive Printing, we care about the environment. We use
only soy and vegetable oil based inks.
Instead of conventional petroleum-based lithographic inks,
we minimize our emissions by using inks with 2 percent or
less VOC (volatile organic content). Not only are these inks
brighter and more vibrant than petroleum-based inks, but
they are also more easily removed from paper during the
recycling process.
We
offer both coated and uncoated recycled paper, all
containing between 15 and 100 percent post-consumer waste.
This helps to cut down on environmentally-hazardous
fertilizers stripping nutrients from soil, deforestation,
and energy expenditure at the paper mills.
We
recycle. Our paper trimmings go to a recycling company, our
useable leftover paper to public schools, and our imprinted
aluminum plates to a scrap aluminum company for recycling.
We
discard responsibly. Between our low-VOC (volatile organic
content) press washes, corrugated waste material separation,
and removal of leftover ink by a licensed hazardous
materials company, we strive to minimize our ecological
footprint. |
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Our Equipment |
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Electronic Prepress |
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- G4 Quicksilver Mac, 40gb,
640mb RAM Internal Iomega Zip 250 Drive, CD Burner,
w/22§ Color Monitor
- G4 Mac, 26gb, 768mb RAM
Internal Zip 100 Drive, Toast Titanium CD Burner, w/17§
Color Monitor
- PC Dell Dimension 4700
Pentium 4 3.2ghz, 1gb RAM, 80gb hard drive with 17§ Flat
Panel Display and CD-RW Drive.
- EPSON Stylus Pro 7600/9600
- Digital Color Proofing
System (24 inch wide rolls paper)
- Dupont Croma Pro XP Color
Management Proofing System
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- Custom Color Profiling
Software with Dell Proactive CPU and 17§ Flat Panel
Display
- Dell PowerEdge 1600 with
SCREEN TRUEFLOW
- Workflow System, 17§ Flat
Panel Display, Dual Intel Xeon Hard Drives, 250gb,
Windows 2000 Server
- UMAX Power Look II Color
Scanner
- Iomega Zip 100/750/250
Drive
- (1 Mac and 1 PC)
- T1 high speed internet
service
- Laser Writer 每 12/640 PS
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Computer to Plate |
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- Screen 4100 Platesetter w/ inline punch system
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- Kodak Automatic Plate
Processor 28§
- X-Rite Plate Reader 20
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Pressroom |
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- 4-Color Komori Lithrone 每
20§ x 26§
- 2-Color Komori Lithrone 每
20§ x 26§
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- 2-Color Hamada 660CD (2) 每
11§ x 17§
- Polychrome PMS Ink
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Bindery & Finishing |
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- 115 EMC Polar Cutter 每 45§
- MBO Folder with 2 Right
Angle Unit (20§ x 26§) up to 16pgs
- Rosback Saddle Binder with
3 Knife Trimmer
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- Dual Head Stitcher
- Shrink Wrap
- Padding
- Single Head Drill
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Computer Software |
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- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Pagemaker
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
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- Corel Draw
- Freehand
- Microsoft Word (Mac/PC)
- QuarkXpress
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