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What
is gang run printing?
Gang run printing is when you take multiple jobs
and place them onto one large sheet of paper. This reduces
the cost of each piece by spreading the cost of the
setup fee amongst multiple jobs. Rather than placing
one job onto one sheet, with gang run printing the jobs
are "ganged up" onto one run sheet. Gang run
printing is primarily used for quick turnaround and
inexpensive printing of marketing pieces. Jobs that
are ran using the gang run process are significantly
lower in cost than commercially printed jobs. Because
of the nature of gang run printing, there may be some
uniformity issues with the completed pieces.
Is gangrun printing
the only service SportsPrinter.com offers? No, we
can offer commercial printing that matches colors, guarantees
cuts, and use Pantone colors. However, the price is
not the same as gangrun printed jobs. If you would like
to have a job that guarantees colors and cuts please
get a custom quote and we will
get back to you with the price.
Is there anything I
can do to insure the best quality that gangrun printing
offers? Yes, you can follow our art submission
guidelines located here: Art Submission
Guidelines. This cannot guarantee that your job
will come out perfect but will insure that it meets
all requirements and provide better chances of your
job meeting your expectations.
Why do the products
vary in color sometimes? We send different
quantities of sheets to run so depending on the quantity
of your order we may have to run it 2-up (placed onto
the run sheet twice rather than once). An example of
this is if you order 10,000 business cards and we send
a 5,000 sheet run then we have to put your job onto
the run twice rather than once. Color also depends on
the other jobs that are ran with yours. The colors are
calibrated using the high and low value of the colors
on the entire run sheet rather than adjusting them to
your job. If there are a higher degree of dark colors
on the run sheet then your job will come out slightly
darker than the design. This also is true with lighter
color values.
Sometimes there are
pieces that look horrible what causes this? Our
pressmen and cutters need to use "make readies"
to align the press and color correct. Sometimes the
make ready pieces get shipped to the customer. Make
ready issues will be but not limited to; extreme color
shift, registration off, cuts being off, and hickeys
on the printed piece.
What all is involved in the gangrun process?
From the time your job is ordered and your art
is uploaded it goes through several processes before
it is complete. |
- Your order is placed through our website and it
goes onto our job queue. It is automatically assigned
an order ID. (10 minutes)
- Our prepress department views your art and does
what is called a preflight. This is where they check
the art to insure it meets all of our printing specifications.
If it fails to meet our printing specs then they
will contact you in order to update your art to
meet our specs. (Time dependent on art submitted)
- Once the art passes through preflight it is assigned
to a run. Several variables are involved when assigning
jobs to runs; quantity, coating, paper stock, and
job size. (No time needed to assign to run)
- Our prepress department then lay the jobs out
onto a large sheet of paper (press sheet). The sizes
are different depending on which press will be the
best for each job. Sheets range from 40" all
the way down to 11". (3 hours per run)
- Once they lay the jobs out onto the run sheet
they send them through a ripper that preps the art
to be burnt onto a digital plate. The rip is between
the layout computer and the platemaker. (1 hour)
- The plates are then transported to our presses
and the printing process begins. (4 - 8 hours)
- After the printing process is complete, the jobs
are then moved to the next station in our bindery
department. If they are UV coated then they have
to be left alone to let dry before UV coating is
applied. If not, the UV coating will crack and the
final product will not be acceptable. (8 hours)
- After the sheets go through the printing and
coating process they are sent over to our hydraulic
guillotine cutters to be trimmed down. (4 - 8 hours)
- The jobs are cut down and boxed in order to prepare
them for shipping. (Boxing occurs as jobs are being
cut)
- The product is then prepped for shipping. (1 -
4 hours)
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