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"I go to [Kay] when I need high quality and quick turn around. I appreciate
their honesty and reliability and I know the job will always be printed the way we want it."

Marketing Manager, Annin Manufacturing

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Prepress


At Kay, customer convenience is the essence of the prepress process. Working with MAC and PC platforms, we are able to accept a wide range of software. This allows you to create your project in the program of your choice and then send it to us with ease via disk or e-mail, or by downloading large files to our FTP site, saving you time and money. Once we have your job, our prepress specialists employ the most up-to-date equipment in the industry to flight check, prep and impose every file, insuring meticulous quality and speed.

Our prepress department also provides:
Typesetting and design
Color corrections and image retouching
High-quality color and black and white scanning
File imposition and output
Top-quality digital proofing

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Production Planning

"One thing I like about working with [Kay] is there are no surprises. If I make a change in the spec and it's going to effect cost, they tell me up front. They don't try to up sell me. They also make helpful suggestions such as, "I think this product would look better on heavier stock."
Marketing Manager

Indeed, at Kay, there are no surprises. Our production professionals are meticulous about insuring the best value for your printing dollars. We do this by extending our services beyond the printing and delivery of your job. Our expert staff provides you with valuable information at the start of each job concerning paper size and weight, postal regulations and rates, size requirements and job layouts that save you time and keep your project within budget. And we contact you immediately we anticipate any changes once the production process has gotten underway.

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Press Department

Our winning combination of expert craftspeople and high technology drives the expedient and high-caliber work that characterizes our pressroom, which produces both short and long run work efficiently. Our staff of printing experts brings years of experience to the operation of our diverse equipment. From our bank of short run presses to our four 28" x 40" sheet fed presses, we offer superior quality 1-to-6 color printing with in-line aqueous coating. No matter how challenging or complex, every job is tracked through each phase of the printing process to insure that the colors, images and layout are exactly as you ordered.

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Full Bindery Services

Our bindery handles the important finishing touches that make the difference at the completion of a job. We pay strict attention to this step, to guarantee the delivery of a polished final product. Having an in-house bindery allows us to retain cost and quality control since we eliminate the added fees and the potential for error that come with sending jobs to outside vendors. Our bindery offers a full range of options to finish your job properly within budget and on schedule, including:

Folding
Cutting
Saddle stitching
Binding
Drilling
Collating
Shrink wrapping
Scoring
Perforating
And more

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Fulfillment

Once your job is printed and bound, you can store your materials at our facility with Fulfillment Plus, a Kay Printing subsidiary located in-house. Fulfillment Plus packs, stores, manages and distributes your items via an assortment of carriers. Services include hand assembly of kits with multiple pieces, sorting, wafer sealing, inserting, labeling and metering for mailings.

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