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Why You Should Choose Polymancer Studios for your Printing and Publishing Needs
Polymancer Studios has extensive experience in publishing, marketing related to both published works and the many forms of entertainment products available to the general public, and the graphic arts.
Our expertise covers all facets of the publishing and print industry such as:
- Making an initial design concept for a publication based upon a client's specifications.
- Designing and provisioning of parts, pieces, cards, and boards.
- Acquisition of parts, pieces, cards, and boards.
- Providing artwork or written content for a publication.
- Providing any additional materials needed to see a project to completion.
- Layout.
- Designing and procuring or printing of packaging.
- Marketing and distribution of published material.
- Printing.
- Business Cards
- Brochures
- Multi-Page Publications
- Letterheads
- Flyers
- Covers
- Scratch Pads (Writing)
- Posters
- Inserts
- Packaging
- Miscellaneous
- Press Sheet Combinations
For your publishing needs we have expertise with Quark and the Adobe Suite of Applications, as well as over 20 years of practical experience in the industry. If you require a quote or would like answers to questions regarding a publishing project, please contact us through our Contact Us page and we will respond by the next business day at the latest. For a rush job please give us a call.
We offer the following pre-press services:
- Proofs - A copy prepared prior to printing which allows the client to check how color, photos, type, art, and so on will register and print on the press. Approval of a proof is always necessary before commencement of printing.
- Scanning - If it is not possible for the artwork to be sent to us electronically, we will scan a hardcopy into our computer using a high resolution scanner.
- Film Stripping - Changes or modifications made to existing pieces of film.
- Color Correction - Process of filtering and adjusting effects on color such as brightness and contrast.
- Copy Dot - A high resolution scanning process ideal for magazines, catalogs, books, etc.
- Extra Burns - Additional film required due to changes or modifications when film has been supplied.
- CD/DVD Burning - Process of taking the archived digital files and burning them to a CD or DVD. We can also supply a version of any printed publication that we print for you.
- Folding - Process of laying one part over another part of the sheet thereby creating multiple pages.
- Cutting - Process of splitting a sheet into multiple, smaller sheets of a desired dimension.
- Saddle Stitching - A method of binding a multiple page publication which involves the pages being stitched together over a saddle shaped support with wire, which is later cut and bent across the middle pages. The result is a publication which appears to have been stapled together. Usually limited to publications of 64 pages or less.
- Scoring - Process of splitting a sheet into multiple, smaller sheets of a desired dimension.
- Drilling - Process of placing holes in specific locations of a printed sheet.
- Loop Stitching - A method where loop(s) of a single thread are fastened in the center of the fold to bind a multiple page publication.
- Perforation - Small holes or slits punched in a sheet of paper or cardboard to facilitate tearing along a desired line. Maybe used for a counter sheet as well.
- No Bindery - No pre-press services are required.
- Perfect Bind - A method of binding most commonly used in magazines or multi-paged books in which the pages are trimmed and glued, not sewn.
- Spine Pasting - A method of binding in which the pages are pasted to a cloth spine.
- Case Bound - The most common type of binding for hardcover books where pages, arranged in signatures, are sewn together and hard covers (cloth, vinyl, or leather cases) are attached. Also known as edition Binding.