At BusinessPrint everyone is driven by the idea of delivering “Reliable Perfection”. Such service demands only the highest standards as it applies to individual skills as well as the machinery and technology we utilise. Over the years we have always sought to obtain and master the very finest technology the market can offer, and today the proof is visible in both our workplace and our products.
BusinessPrint's focus on total integrated solutions allows clients to benefit from prepress, press and post press facilities:
PRE PRESS
1 Strategy and design
Our strategic focus is based on a clear understanding of our customers, competition, related organisations and, of course, the marketplace. These, together with a knowledge of your unique positioning, all help us develop an integrated design aimed at delivering your business goals and objectives. Central to all marketing, information communication, graphics and interactive media, is creative expression. Design is therefore pivotal to bringing your brand to life in a powerful and memorable way. In all this, our main role is to serve your business as a total solution provider and to make your vision a reality - quickly and efficiently.
2 Print project management
BusinessPrint will work in close relationship with your Marketing Strategy and Design Company to transform your branding into prited deliverables. As an alternative we are also able to offer the services of our own strategic partners who are specialists in integrated brand design and communication.
3 Digital prepress
We are well versed in:
- DTP and layout of all printed material and advertising material
- Conceptual and graphic design
- Authors' corrections on current work
- Logo and Corporate Identity design
- Retracing, table creation, graphic redrawing, photo manipulation
- Black & White and/or Full Colour lasers
- Our services also include relevant colour proofing, film play-out, large format printing (poster prints) and other supporting pre-press services.
We facilitate work and formats for both Mac and PC platforms, and we make use of the following software:
Preflighting
- Preflighting and problem solving of open files and PDF files
- Checking that all files (open files & PDF) comply to criteria that will enable it to be printed accurately
- Adjustments and corrections on open files and PDF files
- Client assistance and training of various file- and software usage
- Variable data preparation
- Assistance, setup and training on our online procurement systems
CTP
Equipment, software and processes used by our CTP division include the following
- Preparation of all printed material for presses
- Additional preflight to comply to colour profiling for printing presses
- Impositioning of all printed material
- Production of various printer proofs for client approval (Position Proofs & Contract Proofs)
- Production of printing plates to be used on presses
- Archiving of all files to be printed
- Acrobat Professional
- Enfocus Pitstop
- Kodak Prinergy Version (Prepress workflow system)
- Kodak Match Print (Colour control software)
- Kodak Insite (Online file approval and transfer system)
- Kodak BusinessLink (Linking software between prepress and MIS system)
- Epson 9800 series proofers
- Kodak Magnus Quantum Thermal plate setter (24 plates/hour)
- Harmony (Kodak Press colour curve control)
LITHO PRINTING:
Our litho printing division consists of:
- Heidelberg SM 74 eight colour Perfecter
- Heidelberg SM 74 four colour Perfecter with in-line coating unit
- Heidelberg SM 74 four colour
- Heidelberg SM 74 two colour Perfecter
- Kommori Spica four colour Perfecter
- Heidelberg Kord
- Heidelberg Cylinder for die-cutting
- Heidelberg GTO for A3 printing, numbering and perforating
- Heidelberg Platens for foiling and embossing, etc.
DIGITAL PRINTING:
BusinessPrint is able to offer amongst other services, Variable Data Printing. VDP's unique value proposition is to merge a mere static document with information from a data base to produce multiple similar documents, each having unique characteristics (unique/sequential numbering, individual personalisation etc).
Our digital printing division consists of:
FINISHING:
Finishing refers to the process that converts printed sheets into the final product. Imaging enhancing techniques are done in-house at our own factory andincludes the following techniques:
- Foiling
- Embossing
- UV and Aqueous varnishing
- Laminating
- Folding
- Die-cutting
- Saddle stitching
- Wiro binding
- Spiral binding
- Soft cover square back binding (perfect binding)
- Soft cover thread sewn
- Hard cover thread sewn
- Hand binding, etc.
The equipment that makes this array of bindery options possible includes:
- Muller Martini gang-stitcher
- Muller Martini Panda Perfect Binding with gathering line
- Two Stahl folding machines
- One MBO folding machine
- Guillotines
- James Burn punching and wiro inserting machines
DISPATCH:
All work is packed according to specific instructions. Delivery is done locally in Gauteng by our own fleet, and nationally with the help of courier services.
FULLFILMENT:
Warehousing and storage of completed, half completed and raw materials can be done on request for clients. This includes:
- Picking of completed, half completed products and raw materials
- Packing of completed, half completed products and raw materials
- Delivery of packed products to any destination in the world
NETWORKED COMMUNICATION:
MIS Software
Implementation
- Establishing an excellent web-based communication and control system
- In-time control and access to job status information
- Advanced web-to-print capabilities
Connections
- Diginet, Broadband Radio Link and ADSL-lines
- FTP-site