Commercial printing in
Maple Grove, Minnesota.
Maple Grove is a short run north of the shop. Same presses, same bindery, same people — and because prepress, press, bindery and mailing are all in the one building, a job is not waiting on a courier between vendors.
Printing for Maple Grove businesses
Direct mail into a defined carrier route, and the booklets and catalogs that go with a showroom, are jobs that need press, bindery and mailing. All three are in the one building.
Mail is the part most printers hand to somebody else. Here the addressing runs on a Cheshire Model 7000 ink-jet transport that wafer seals in line with addressing, and the mailing goes out bulk presorted, standard or first class.
Presorted simply means the mail is sorted into the postal service's own routing order before it is dropped, so they handle less of it and charge less for it. On a run of any size that difference is the whole argument for mailing rather than stamping.
The showroom side of the same business tends to want books — a catalog, a seasonal look-book, a price list. Those are collated, stitched and trimmed on one machine rather than passed between three.
What runs here
It is one floor for all of it: offset printing at one to five color, digital printing for the short runs, prepress and direct-to-plate, bindery, and direct mail. What comes out of it is on the products page; what it comes off is on the equipment page.
Sending artwork. A press-ready PDF with the fonts embedded is the least trouble for everyone. If the file is too big to email, put it through send a file; small ones can go to print@omegalith.com. If all you have is the native layout file, send that — prepress will tell you what it still needs rather than guessing.
What Maple Grove work
tends to need.
Printed and mailed, one vendor
Addressed on the Cheshire transport, wafer sealed in line, presorted and dropped — without the job leaving the building first.
Books bound in one pass
The Muller Martini Minuteman collates, stitches and trims at up to 7,000 books an hour, in a range of trim sizes.
Short runs without a plate
A piece that changes every season is usually cheaper digital: there is no plate to pay for before the first sheet comes off.
Good to
know.
Can you mail the job as well as print it?
Yes. Addressing, inserting, wafer sealing and bulk presorted mailing — standard or first class — happen in the same building as the press.
What is a presort, and why does it cost less?
Presorted mail is sorted into the postal service's routing order before it is handed over, so they do less work on it. The rate is lower than the same envelope sent one at a time.
How do I get a price?
Send the specs through the quote form or call (763) 475-1826. The panel beside this page lists what a quote needs.
Where is the shop?
15090 23rd Ave N, Plymouth, MN 55447. Ten minutes north, up Highway 169. Proofs go out as an emailed PDF or as a hard copy, whichever the job needs.
Nearby
A job to price in Maple Grove?
Send us the specs and we will quote it. Or call (763) 475-1826 and describe it.