Equipment Fact Sheet

It's what's on the inside that matters. From desktop to press, through bindery and beyond, we maintain a full range of equipment and 24-hour staffing to meet your manufacturing needs. With so many resources available, CRW Graphics offers the most efficient, economical options to produce your conventional and digital print pieces and direct mail. Plus, we have the capacity to meet your schedules.

                  Scanning Equipment       Press       Finishing       Mailing Services

PREPRESS SERVICES: Direct-to-Plate Technology


NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

HP ProCurve 5406zl Gigabit Switch Supports a maximum of 144 auto-sensing 10/100/1000 Gigabit ports or 24 10-Gigabit ports. Backplane throughput of 628 Gbps. 2 HP ProCurve 4108gl Gigabit Switch. Windows 2003 Servers for Digital Front end and File serving. Over 16 Terabytes of RAID storage. Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape backup system.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS & SECURITY

Redundant Sonicwall Pro 4060 Firewalls with Unified Threat Management, 3 totally independent Internet Service Providers with more than 40Mb total throughput, providing triple redundancy Remote Access 2.0 linked directly into prepress for file uploading and automated processing

ASSEMBLY WORKSTATIONS

CRW Graphics maintains over 90 networked Macintosh G5, Windows XP® computers and Windows 2003 servers for processing client files, custom composition and disk intervention. Our sophisticated retouching and image enhancement are the finest in the industry.

As authorized Adobe developers we offer the complete Adobe Font Library as well as support for: Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, PageMaker, Acrobat, QuarkXPress, MacroMedia Freehand, Microsoft Publisher and virtually all other major design-oriented software programs.

Heidelberg Prinect Signa Station imposition software is used to create a more efficient link between our job planners and prepress. Files processed using Heidelberg Prinect PrintReady full PDF workflow and (2) Meta Dimension RIPs.

SCANNING EQUIPMENT FOR AWARD-WINNING COLOR

Expert color scanning is the basis for superb color printing. For transparency or reflective art scanning we utilize:

  • DS SG-737 color drum scanner
  • Heidelberg Nexscan F4200 Copydot scanner

ICC COLOR CALIBRATION

  • Monaco Profiler Software
  • Gretag Macbeth ProfileMaker Software
  • DTP 70 Spectrophotometer
  • Heidelberg Prepress Interface to create CIP4 files for the pressroom and bindery automation

LASER IMAGESETTERS FOR FILM AND PLATE OUTPUT:

  • (2) Heidelberg Suprasetter S105 Fully Automated Platesetters

DIRECT DIGITAL PROOFS

  • (2) Epson Stylus Pro 9880 wide format inkjet proofers (for Digital Contract Proofs)
  • GMG colorProof color managed RIP for G7 calibration
  • Flashlight Digital Impoproofer with (2) Canon 8500 Wide Format Printers
  • Hewlett-Packard 1200 dpi laser printer
  • Xerox Phaser 7750 GX

PRESS

Press TypePrinting UnitsPress Size
Heidelberg CD 1026-units & Aqueous28" x 40"
Heidelberg CD 1026-units & Aqueous28" x 40"
Heidelberg 102Z Speedmaster2-units - Perfector28" x 40"
Xerox iGen34/c Process14" x 22"

This equipment is constantly updated. Ask your CRW Graphics Account Executive about our latest manufacturing capabilities.

FINISHING

Bindery Equipment

  • Bobst SP Evoline 102-E 40" Diecutter
  • Polar-Mohr 137 Monitor 54" Cutter
  • Polar 137 ED 54" Cutter
  • (1) MBO B-26 26" x 40" Folder
  • Stahl Z-Knife Soft Folding Unit
  • Moll Versa Fold Pocket Folder Gluer
  • Muller-Martini 321 Saddle Stitcher, 6-Pocket plus cover feeder
  • (1) MBO B26-S/644 Perfection Folder 26" x 40" with Navigator Control System
  • Acme Book Stitcher
  • Challenge Multi-Hole, Automatic Paper Drill
  • Shanklin Automatic L-Sealer with T-6XL Shrink Tunnel
  • Wexler Automatic Paper Bander
  • Sentra Counting Scales
  • Duplo DMB-250 Booklet Maker
  • Duplo DC - 1000S Collator

Bindery Equipment - Digital Pressroom

  • TEC Lighting Ultra-Violet Coater with Auto Feed
  • Morgana Digifold folder
  • Sterling Digibinder for Perfect Binding
  • Polar 66 24" Cutter
  • Martin Yale Scoring/Perforating machine

DIRECT MAILING SERVICES:
Mail Shop & Variable Imaging Equipment

CRW Graphics offers dependable lettershop services to get your printed piece into the hands of your target audience at the most economical postal rates. To accomplish this, we utilize:

  • Database/Mailing Workstations on a secure independent network supporting Smart Addressor 5 mailing software for CASS/DPV certification, NCOA and postal presort operations
  • Pitney Bowes Flowmaster, 6-Station Inserter up to 10" x 13'' booklet envelopes, also has Scitex Dijit Digital Inkjet Printer Model 5120 with two print heads
  • Pitney Bowes DM-10 6-Station inserter up to 6" x 9"
  • Kirk Rudy 535 Tabbing System in-line with Scitex Dijit Digital Inkjet Printer
  • (2) Kirk Rudy 535 Tabbers - in-line capable of mulitple tabs in one pass
  • (2) High-Speed Hewlett Packard LaserJet 9000 DN
  • PostScript networked 600 dpi Laser Printers-capable of producing up to 11" x 17" duplex output
  • Datamax I Class Thermal Label Printer
  • Pitney Bowes 5630 Automated Mailing Base with Postmatic Model 6000SA Stamp Affixer
  • Signode Model LB-2000 Automatic Strapping Machine
  • PAC, PSM1412-1C3A Strapping Machine
  • Dedicated International 4700 20' Straight Truck (To deliver your mail to the Post Office)


"I love working with CRW. All of you are wonderful! Thank you. I feel that Linda always goes the extra mile for us. Ret is fabulous. She takes care of us. The receptionist is very personable." - Babbling Brook