On the Fast Track to Results

More. Better. Faster. It's a reality of doing business in the new millennium, and often easier said than done. Today's sophisticated consumers not only demand more timely and accurate information, but they also expect it to be attractively packaged and on target with their needs and interests. ABCO's digital printing services can make you more than equal to the task. Using your digital file, we produce high quality, black and white, or color documents that can be customized to create eye-catching and effective one-to-one marketing campaigns. We have the ability to archive your files electronically so that you can print it later - on demand - in the exact quantities you need.

Print on demand is just that: producing a document when you need it, in the quantity that you require. ABCO uses leading-edge DocuTech technology to provide this cost-effective solution for printing large or small documents.

Digital printing enables your document to be produced directly from a digital file to a digital press. The time and expense of pre-press and plate-making are eliminated. Quality is high because each document can be created from a digital master rather than being reproduced - i.e., second generation - from a paper or film image. The result is professionally printed materials in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional methods for short runs.

Just-In-Time Digital Printing Pays Big Dividends.

Digital printing utilizes electronic documents that are stored on-line, so it's inherently fast and convenient. Because your document can be archived electronically at our facility, you can reorder it later in the quantity you need - a single phone call to ABCO puts it in our production line. This "just-in-time" approach to document publishing can pay big dividends to your business improving turnaround times, decreasing warehousing costs, and eliminating waste caused by obsolescence.

All the Benefits of Digital Printing in Full Color. When black and white publishing simply will not do, ABCO's digital printing capabilities include the option of producing full-color documents. Color on demand is an exciting, cost-effective process. We use your electronic file as a digital master. When you're ready to print, so are we. We can print one or both sides. On paper or transparencies. In coated or matte finished text and cover weights. On sheets up to 12" x 18". Let the power of ABCO's color print-on-demand help you gain an undeniable competitive edge.

The Spectrum of Applications

Digital full-color printing can be an economical solution for a spectrum of documents and applications, particularly for:

• Color presentations and educational aids
• Test marketing materials
• Initial runs of marketing collateral and sales literature
• Newsletters
• Preliminary annual report runs
• Binder inserts book covers and title sheets
• CD-ROM case inserts
• Mock-ups and dummies for graphic presentations
• Index tabs

Variable Printing

Effective One-To-One Marketing

Variable printing affords you the means to increase the effectiveness of your marketing programs in ways never before envisioned. The technology merges database files with image and text files from other desktop applications to build a customized, personalized document. You can add specific verbiage to a product manual based on the model and options purchased. Thank a benefactor by name for a specific contribution. Create a customized newsletter based on the interests and needs of individual recipients. Design a direct mail piece based on known buying habits. The possibilities and the potential are virtually endless and market studies show that the response rates to personalized materials soar. Ask your sales representative for a presentation on this latest digital technology.

Opening the Door to New Business Opportunities

Variable print can be used to enhance the effectiveness of nearly any document:

• Newsletters
• Direct mail promotions
• Commemorative publications
• Customer appreciation programs
• Proposals and reports
• Consumer bulletins and product data sheets
• Instruction manuals
• Employee handbooks

ABCO offers comprehensive finishing and binding services at our manufacturing facility.

ABCO's finishing services include:

• Custom die-making and die-cutting. We have a die-maker on staff, so we can produce dies quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively.
• Decorative finishing, such as foil stamping, silk screening, embossing, debossing
• Perforating and drilling
• Laminating
• Collating
• Folding
• Gluing and padding
• Shrink-wrapping

We offer an array of binding options:

• Saddle-stitching and side-stitching
• Stapling
• Hand and machine tape-binding
• Perfect binding
• Plasticoil and GBC
• Wiro-binding
• Ring (three-ring or multiple rings for loose-leaf documents)

Fulfillment Services

ABCO provides reliable, convenient and economical fulfillment services. Our efficient and detail-oriented fulfillment specialists can make easy and fast work of your complex project. If your job comprises two or more elements for example, offset sheets and covers, text sheets produced via digital printing, index tabs and / or binders - we can help you put it all together, and still keep your project within budget and on time.

ABCO's fulfillment services include:

• Hand assembly and insertion of documents, insert sheets or cards, index tabs and binders
• Collating and project assembly
• Shrink wrapping and packaging
• Custom kitting to individual specifications
• Coordination of various elements from in-house and outside sources
• Short and long-term warehousing of materials for on-going projects
• Shipping or distribution