equipment list:
Color Department
• Crosfield “Magnascan Plus" - 8,000dpi high-end drum scanner with extensive color correction capabilities plus full color or black and white scanning profiles.
• Wright Technologies "Solar Scancontrol" - high-end scanner controller with unlimited optical archiving and complete desktop networking for both Macs and PC’s.
• Gateway 7400 XLS - advanced polling server - Quad Pentium IV workstation with DLT tape backup, 7 tape Exabyte library, DDS tape archiving, CD-R capacity, internal mirrored 500gb hard disk, 1terrabyte of Level 5 external RAID, and complete Luminous Color Central OPI, print spooling and multitasking capabilities
• (2)Creo/Scitex IRIS "4-PRINT" 5030 - contract quality continuous tone proofing capabilities, complete with Scitex SuperCombine and a Scitex Brisque interface.
• (2)Kodak MatchPrint Digital Contract Quality Proofers - fully integrated front end with SWOP Standard, ICC Profiled press fingerprinting for press matching industry elite 8-up Digital Proofs. Enhanced workflow includes 8-head color proofing for optimized pantone matching.
• Mac Pro - Dual processor Image and color retouching station utilizing Scitex CT’s for a no-RIP workflow utilizing our proprietary color management.
High-end Plate setting, Composite Film Output, and Digital Halftone Proofing
• Creo/Scitex Lotem Quantum Spectrum 800 - the industry's fastest and most accurate thermal platesetting workflow; Brisque quad-processor based RIP with Scitex APR workflow, Full Auto Frame trapping, digital imposition, spooling and multitasking capabilities, Scitex Class screening, Scitex “Stocatta” screenless printing capable, fully automated with the industry’s fastest 30 plate per hour productivity
• (2) IRIS 43 Wide Digital Imposition Proofers - two sided digital "blueline" proofer; complete interface with our Brisque quad-processor RIPs.
• Scitex Dolev 800 Imagesetter - Brisque RIPs with Scitex APR workflow, Full Auto Frame trapping software, digital imposition, spooling and multitasking capabilities, Scitex Class Screening, full size 33"x44" output.
• (2)Kodak MatchPrint Digital Proofing - the standard by which all others are measured, fully integrated front end with SWOP Standard, ICC Profiled press fingerprinting for press matching industry elite 8-up Digital Proofs. Enhanced workflow includes 8-head color proofing for optimized pantone matching.
• (2)Scitex Brisque Quad "Digital Front End" – Full PDF compliant workflow, user definable automated imposition, Full Auto Frame trapping, multitasking print spooler, complete interface with both Scitex and PostScript systems, four processor multitasking capacity with dedicated plate setting throughput, 1-bit tiff output inclusive of full Class Screening library
Page Layout/Desktop
• (3) Power Macintosh G5 workstations
• (2) Mac Pro workstations
• (2) Power Macintosh imposition stations
• (2) Pentium IBM compatible workstations
• Full complement of media drives for file exchange
• Multiple CD-R/RW/DVD-R drives
• AGFA Horizon 2400dpi line-art scanner
• A full complement of PC and Mac software and typefaces from Adobe, Quark, and all other major Pre-Press applications
Conventional Pre-Press
• DS 6500D vertical camera with electronic exposure controls
• Theimer bright light exposure system
• Douthitt Gemini plate and proofing systems (analog)
• Fuji "Color Art" overlay and composite film proofing systems
• (2) Devotech automated film processors
• Macbeth film densitometer
• PCT table film dot determiner
• Bacher control 2000 universal registration system with complete layout table
• (3) Conventional stripping tables
Pressroom
• (1) Heidelberg XL 105 High-Speed Six-color Speedmaster with 7th unit Aqueous coating tower, Fully integrated Pre-Press presets, Extended Delivery configuration, 18,000 Sheet Per Hour capability, Auto Register, Auto color adjustments with Sheet Scanner and integrated Spectrophotometer, Continuous fingerprinting for Matchprint digital proofs, computer print control and alcolor.
• (1) Heidelberg 28"x40" Six-color CD Speedmaster with 7th unit Aqueous coating tower, computer print control and alcolor. CP-Tronic front end controller with Pre-press integration module for profiled color matching.
• (2) Heidelberg 28"x40" Six-color Speedmaster with computer print control and alcolor.
• (1) Heidelberg 28"x40" Four-color Speedmaster Perfector with computer print control and alcolor.
• (2) Heidelberg 28"x40" Two-color Speedmaster Perfector with computer print control and alcolor.
• (1) Ryobi 3302 Portrait Two-color
• (2) Hamada 11"x17" Two-color
Digital Pressroom
• (1)HP INDIGO six-color variable data Digital Printing Press. 12 X 18 maximum press sheet size with duplexing capabilities and variable data and mailing capabilities.
• (2) 7000 Series Xerox digital presses equipped with color profiles for coated and uncoated paper. Optional duplexing capacity, online font storage, and extended media capabilities. Full integration with Kodak Brisque and Adobe PDF workflows.
Bindery
• (2) Polar 137 EMC 54 X 57 inch paper cutters, programmable up to 99 channels with JDF workflow.
• Polar jogger with air removing roll
• (4) Stahl folders, continuous feeding, with gate folding attachments
• (2) Stahl TC high-speed continuous feeding parallel folder
• (2) Stahl TC high-speed roll-to-fold direct mail folders
• Dick Moll in-line perf. and crease for letterpress quality scores and perfing at folding speeds
• Mueller Martini Saddlebinder-6 pockets with cover feeder, three and five hole in-line punch, six stitch capability
• Mueller Martini Saddlebinder-4 pockets with cover feeder, three and five hole in-line punch, six stitch capability
• Watkiss 25 station automated collator, single corner stitching capability
• (2) Challenge 5 hole paper drills
• WG Industries automated D-tape machine
• Cryovac high-speed automatic shrink wrapper
Direct Mail
• (1) Oce’ Digital variable laser 2240 – 300 DPI
• (1) Oce’ Digital variable laser 372 – 300 DPI
• (5) HP 8150 Cut Sheet high-speed laser printers
• (2) Stahl TC high-speed roll-to-fold direct mail folders
• (2)Fully integrated Windows based Hewlett Packard Inkjet (Ektajet) system with true type library capabilities, multiple color inkjet heads with bitmap capacity including 4 print heads with 6” print area.
• Kirk Rudy 203P – High Speed affixing machine (fugitive glue) for a wide variety of card and pre-packaged attachments. High pile delivery with both friction and shuttle feed.
• (1) Pitney Bowes fully integrated intelligent inserting system with continuous input, slit nest, bursting, folding and insertion.
• (1) Pitney Bowes smart inserter Flowmaster
• (1) Phillipsburg standard direct mail inserters
• (2) Bowe burster, slit, nest, fold and cutter
• PrintNet integrated software for variable layouts and importation to drive continuous laser output. Complete software for CASS certification, barcode, and all presort capabilities for expedient mail delivery at lower costs.
• Mail Manager presort software for all facets of mail preparation. CASS certification, barcode, and all presort capabilities for expedient mail delivery at lower costs.
• Fully networked data transfer environment using PrintNet page proof with PDF.
• Integrated PrintNet Quark modules.
• Micro encoded cut sheet lasering.
• Plant Load for BMC drop ship and mail entrance.
• On-site tray and palletization.
• Merge Purge and file maintenance.
• Multiple data retrieval and file maintenance systems – fully networked
Print Production Management
The plant production at Cavanaugh Press centers around the Hagen OA software suite.
Dedicated Microsoft NT environment with client networking to include Order Entry, Production Reporting, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, and Accounts Payable.
World Wide Web
• LAN connected Fiber Channel backbone connected to an NT Server Firewall with Network Virus Protection, Secondary Firewall Appliance protection, Internal XServe Protection with 1-Terabyte of user space, 8gb Ram, dual processors.
• In-house internet mail services, Http, Ftp.
• Complete html editing programs including Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks Suite, bbEdit, Adobe Pagemill, and Microsoft FrontPage.
• Export functionality from virtually any PostScript application to your website
• T-3 connectivity via Fiber-Channel direct connection