Company Overview

Mission Statement

Overview
Pictorial Offset Corporation supports your needs from Design to Destination™

1. Design Support
You don’t need limitations restricting your vision! Let Pictorial help you bring your creative imagination to life. Our team is your secret weapon.

Production consulting
Continuing education at Pictorial University™
Paper samples & ideas
Templates for unusual folds or tricky bindery
Printed samples to spark creativity
Ink options & varnish solutions
Budget estimates

2. Online Preflight
Reduce the stress of releasing files. All you need is Internet access and a link to our Online Preflight Solution.

Cost & time savings
Drag & drop simplicity
Instant confirmation
Get greater control
Eliminate font, image, format and color problems
Easy pass/fail results
No hassle uploads
Establish an error-free workflow
Fix problems before they cost you money

3. Digital File Transfer
Last minute changes and no time in the schedule. You need it there NOW! Choose your transmission option. It’s your call. We’ll be ready.

FTP: Use Pictorial’s FTP access and transfer files directly to our servers.
E-mail: attached native files or press-ready PDFs to your e-mail
WAM!NET: use a third party solution

4. Digital Prepress
Use your favorite plug-ins and let your creativity take flight — never leaving the digital space. We’ll make sure your file prints perfectly. That’s our Job.

Pictorial Imageworks© is your complete online design management system
Critical product matches
Color conversions
Expert retouching & imaging
Trapping
Higher line screens
Scanning
Dot gain allowance
Imposition of files for plating
File format conversions

5. Digital Proofs
You want a content proof or a high-resolution virtual proof online? Or maybe you still need that hard proof for your client — we can do that!

Consistent, calibrated proofs
Online Virtual Proofs for web-based, collaborative high-resolution proofing
Save time & money — with audit trail for approvals
Digital Matchprint & bluelines
PDF content proofs online
Color consulting to institute soft proofing at your site

6. Computer-to-Plate Printing
Whether it calls for short run, high-quality sheetfed or for a complex long run project, we can take care of you — all under one roof. Who can beat that?

Scitex Lotem 800 V digital plate making system
Both web and sheetfed printing under one roof
Heidelberg S-2000 gapless seven color press means less paper and greater efficiency — plus speed
Sophisticated in-line finishing capabilities
Pictorial is the first printing company in North America to earn dual ISO registration
Automatic densitometers on all presses
HiFi & Hexachrome printing

7. Finishing
A tipped sample, a cool die-cut, and elegant foil emboss or polybag — just tell us what you envision and it’s done!

Saddle & side stitching
Glued spines & perfect binding
Scoring, folding & collating
Tipped samples & grommets
Intricate foil stamping
Embossing & debossing
Shrink wrapping & polybag
Trimming & die-cutting
Spiral, coil & plastic binding

8. Mail & Fulfillment
Pictorial Mailworks™ closes the destination loop. Address your self-mailers, get online postal receipts and relax — your job is in the mail!

Data & mail processing
On-site postal verification
Windows TrueType font emulation
Ink Jet addressing on ANY surface
Wafer seals, live stamps and labelaire applications
Sequential numbering
E-mail postal receipts
Fulfillment & kit building
Hand assembly