Pre-Press

American Litho’s pre-press environment combines a fully electronic workflow with high-speed digital pre-press, digital proofing, and direct to plate imaging. Our sophisticated, platform-independent systems accept work seamlessly from host-user interfaces, the Internet and FTP. And with Project Insight, the leading web-based project management software, our expert technicians ensure that resources and time are allocated to your project effectively. Experienced in all the major Macintosh software packages, our staff guarantees that the project you envision will be the product you get.

And our state-of-the-art equipment will ensure the job gets done right:

Electronic Pre-Press

  • 6 Mac G5 workstations with 23 & 30 LCD Apple Displays
  • 2 Mac G4 500 MHz workstations with 21" Apple Studio Display monitors, internal Zip Drive
  • Mac G3 workstation with 21" Pressview monitors, internal Zip drive and 1GB Jazz Drives
  • Creo/Scitex Prinergy PowerEdge 830 4 3.00 GHZ and 4GB RAM
  • Prinergy PowerEdge 2800, 4GB RAM, and internal RAID with 675GB
  • Qualstar TLS 4000 Tape Library
  • 2 DLT 7000 tape backup drives
  • Kodak PowerEdge 2600 Insite Server
  • Kodak’s Insite – Remote online soft proofing solution

Pre-press Plate Making

  • Kodak Magnus 800 Automatic Direct to Plate laser Plate setter
  • Kodak Trendsetter laser Plate setter

Proofing

  • 3 Creo/Scitex Iris 43 wide digital ink jet proofer (8-page format)
  • Kodak Integris 42” wide color proofer
  • HP LaserJet 9050 B/W proofer
  • Creo/Scitex Spectrum proofer (8-page format) & 4pg
  • 2 Kodak Veris Proofer
  • XANTE Ilumina Digital Proofer
  • Kodak Approval Digital Dot Contract Proofer (4-page format)

Software

  • Quark Express
  • Adobe PageMaker
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Macromedia Freehand
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Scenicsoft Preps (for imposition)
  • Creo/Scitex Prinergy Workshop (for RIP)
  • Creo/Scitex Virtual Proofing System (Soft Proof)
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Aladdin Stuffit Deluxe
  • Alsoft Master Juggler (for type font manipulation)
  • Project Insight

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