Welcome to Prepress Consultants

Specializing in Color Management and Process Controls, Prepress Consultants, Inc. is a full-service prepress education, training, and consulting company. We are the premiere agency when it comes to improving your efficiency, production, quality and color. Our consultants provide best-in-class results.

Please take a moment to read about our services and then contact us to see how we can help you acheive "Bottom Line Results".

PCI Obtains ICS Certification
Soft Proofing for content has been the norm for a while. With the support and certification thru ICS (Integrated Color Solutions), PCI is proving that Soft Proofing is now a reality for Color Approval, as well as Content Approval. With many customers doing press ok's via ICS, inkjet proofing could soon be a thing of the past, and PCI is leading the pack, and keeping you informed of your options.
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PCI Achieves G7 Certification
Prepress Consultants, Inc. now has G7 Certification. The G7 process allows for a better color match from device to device. There are a limited number of color specialist that have currently been G7 Certified. Once again, PCI is ahead of the game and staying current with technology and trends that affect our industry.
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New Sign & Banner Shop For The Trade

PCI has opened a new division called “Print Things, Inc”. Open since November of 2006, it’s a great way to make money and offer services to satisfy your customers, without having to make the investment of wide format printing equipment vinyl cutters and laminators, employees etc.

It seems to be a natural progression of the printing business, that our customers need short run printing or signs, banners, posters etc. in addition to their offset printing. Print Things, Inc. offers all of the above, but also offers a discount to companies in the printing trade. We allow you to make money on our services. Whether it’s indoor or outdoor products, we can handle it.

Our services include variable data printing, short run offset printing, wide format signs, banners, posters, vehicle wraps, stickers, brochures, laminating and more.

More updates to come … In the mean time, check out www.printthings.com.

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Are You Backing Up?
To continue to move forward, you have to Back-Up. With all of the new technology that we have to make us more productive and efficient, we must not loose sight of one basic necessity. Back-up your work! "Backing Up" refers to the process of copying your computer data onto a secondary media for safe storage and retrieval. When your computer system fails you may loose some or all of your data and the effort to recreate this data can be very time consuming and expensive. In some cases it will be impossible to recreate the data. Bottom line, if you are not backing up your computer system on a timely and regular basis, you will ultimately loose time and money.
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Are You Out Of Control?
When times were good and print was plentiful, it was said that sales “cures cancer.” It certainly caused many problems to become a lower priority. However, in today’s economy, operating at maximum efficiency had better be near the top of the priority list. Have you recently evaluated your workflow? Are you out of control? I’m often asked to help production departments identify bottlenecks and eliminate barriers to more efficient production. Many times I’m greeted with “We’re too busy for this. We just don’t have time to fine tune our workflow.” Pure observation indicates this is true. Everyone is stressed out, overtime hours are excessive, and managers, supervisors and CSRs have little time to answer calls and emails, much less take a lunch break, between meetings. Closer examination usually reveals that spoilage and rework is high. Fewer jobs are going out the back door on time. Jobs must be rescheduled. In many cases this means moving work to another press causing additional time to re-impose, re-output and re-plate. As a result, everyone is working overtime to catch up and stress levels escalate.
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Testimonial

We can always count on PCI to make our jobs easier by having the right answers and a professional, friendly approach to our prepress and pressroom issues. I cannot reccomend them highly enough!

-- Mike Sadler, Prepress Manager, Publishing Enterprises, Inc.

Prepress News *

· Print CEO Forum Keynotes to Focus on Changes in Print Buyer Community
· Print CEO: Deciphering the LVI Bankruptcy Filing
· A Printing Office: PIA Says Itâ€™s Wary of New Managed Print Services Offerings by HP
· HP Offers Payback Guarantee for Managed Print Services Customers
· May U.S. Commercial Printing Shipments Down -9.4%
· Heidelberg Booth Will Center on Workflow at Print 09
· Bernhart Hiring Report Showing Signs of Bottoming
· PIA Issues Statement Regarding HP Managed Print Services
· Specialty Print Communications Opens Lettershop Facility
· EFI and Xerox Bring Affordable Color to the Office