The Omega Lithograph building on 23rd Avenue North in Plymouth
Commercial printing · Plymouth, Minnesota

Printed, bound and mailed from one building.

Omega Lithograph has printed out of Plymouth since 1987. Prepress, offset and digital presses, bindery and mailing are all at 15090 23rd Ave N, so a job does not leave the building between departments.

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The building on 23rd Avenue North, Plymouth. Prepress, the presses, the bindery and the mailing floor are all inside it.

In business since1987 Founded by Kevin Hanson. Many of the people here have been with the company since the beginning.
PressesOffset & digital Process and spot color offset, plus short-run digital with no plate to make first.
Bindery & mailSame building Folded, stitched, coiled, drilled, addressed and presorted without a courier in the middle of it.
Ink & platesSoy-based Environmentally friendly soy inks only, on metal plates that get reused rather than thrown out.
Capabilities

Five departments,
one address.

Prepress, offset, digital, bindery and mailing. Most jobs need three of the five, and plenty of shops only own one of them.

Offset PrintingProcess & spot color, soy-based inks Digital PrintingShort runs, fast, full color PrepressLayout, proofing & direct-to-plate BinderyFolding, stitching, coiling & cutting Direct MailAddressing, inserting & presort

Send the specs and we will tell you which of the five a job needs, and what it costs.

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How a job runs

File to mail.

A print job is usually handed between a prepress house, a printer, a trade bindery and a mail house. Here it is five departments in one building, in this order.

PrepressThe file comes in and gets checked the way a printer has to check it: fonts, image resolution, bleed past the trim line, and colors built so they separate the way you expect. If there is no artwork yet, prepress will lay it out — a letterhead or a full-color catalog, both start in the same place.
ProofA proof comes back to you as an emailed PDF, or as a hard copy you can hold, whichever the job needs. This is the last cheap place to find a mistake. After it, a correction costs a plate and press time instead of two minutes.
PressApproved artwork images straight onto metal — no film in between — and the plate hangs on the press. Long runs, and jobs that have to hold an exact spot color, go offset, in process or spot color. Short runs go on the digital presses, where there is no plate to pay for.
BinderyPrinted sheets get folded, saddle stitched, coil bound, drilled, padded, shrink wrapped, or cut down on a programmable cutter. Because bindery is in the same building as the presses, the job goes from press to finishing without a courier in the middle of it.
Mail or pick upA mailing goes through ink-jet addressing and wafer sealing, or through the inserter, and out bulk presorted — standard or first class. Anything that is not a mailing is boxed and waiting for you at 23rd Avenue North.
Products

Everyday paper.

The paper a business runs on. Cards, letterhead and envelopes that match each other. Booklets and catalogs. Forms and labels a lot of shops stopped printing.

Business cardsDigital or offset, one color to full process, on stock that feels like something.
LetterheadsMatched to your cards and envelopes, printed to run through an office laser without curling.
EnvelopesPrinted #10 through catalog, with or without windows.
LettersFills, statements and appeals — printed, folded, inserted and mailed in one pass through the shop.
FlyersOne-sheet sell pieces, short-run digital or long-run offset, whichever costs less at your quantity.
BookletsSaddle-stitched or coil-bound, collated, stitched and trimmed on one machine.
PostersFull-process color. Tell us the finished size and we will say what it runs on.
NotepadsPadded, printed one color or four.
Note cardsFolded or flat, with matching envelopes; the folded ones scored so they crease instead of cracking.
FormsBusiness forms, printed and finished here.
LabelsSheet labels for product, shipping and asset tagging.
CalendarsWall and desk, stitched or coiled, drilled to hang.
BrochuresLetter, Z and double-parallel folds, folded in the same building they are printed in.

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Quantity, size, stock and the number of colors are enough to put a price on any of these.

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Equipment

What the work
is done on.

The presses and the finishing kit decide what a shop can quote at all, so here is the press floor and the mailing line. Electronic prepress and the bindery are on the full list.

Sheet-fed offsetMulti-unit sheet-fed offset presses for process and spot color · Small-format one and two color presses for short, simple work · Envelope feeders, for work that prints on the envelope itself
DigitalDigital color press · Digital black-and-white press
MailingInk-jet addressing transport, wafer-sealing in line with addressing · Envelope inserter, for multi-piece mailings · Bulk presort, standard and first class

The full equipment list

Whether a job runs offset or digital changes what it costs, so it is worth asking before you settle on a quantity.

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Great service, high‑quality products, and timely turnaroundsOmega’s own line about itself, not a customer’s
Questions

Buying print, plainly.

More on the FAQ page.

What is the difference between offset and digital printing?

Offset transfers ink from a metal plate onto a rubber blanket, and from the blanket onto the sheet. Making that plate costs money before the first copy exists, so the longer the run the less each copy carries of it — and a plate is how you hold an exact spot color. Digital prints straight from the file with no plate at all, so a short run does not pay for one. Omega runs both and quotes whichever is cheaper at your quantity. More in the offset vs. digital guide.

Will I see a proof before it goes on press?

Yes. Proofs go out as an emailed PDF or as a hard copy, whichever suits the job. Ask for a hard copy when color or a fold is the thing you are worried about — a screen is lit from behind, and it cannot show you whether a score will crack.

What files do you need from me?

A press-ready PDF with the fonts embedded, images at full resolution and roughly an eighth of an inch of bleed past the trim is the easiest thing to work from. If all you have is a Word file, a photograph and an idea, prepress will lay it out instead. Either way it goes through send a file.

Start a job

Tell us what you need printed.

Quantity, size, stock, how many colors, and the date you need it in your hands. Send that over and we will price it — or call and we will work it out on the phone.

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