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Printing Services

Services

Offset Printing
Photocopy
Color Copying
Finishing/Bindery


Offset Printing

Printing Services offers quality offset printing to the university community that is convenient, cost effective and timely. We are equipped with single and two-color offset presses. We can provide you with PMS colors, screen tints, quality halftones, duotones, solids, reverse, bleeds and more.

A large variety of paper is always in stock including coated enamel sheets. Specialty papers can be ordered and delivered within two working days. Sheet sizes range from 3"x5" up to 12"x18"

Our computer-to-plate technology allows us to accept your work on disk.  Any Macintosh file can be imported from your Flash Drive, or CD/DVD media. You can also send electronic files to a shared folder by mapping to the network drive: \\customshare\dapsdrop$    To learn more about mapping network drives, please see this document from the Office of Technology Services: http://www.towson.edu/adminfinance/ots/training/documentation/Windows/Mapping_network_drives.pdf

Our workstation can also accommodate the following software:

• Quark Xpress
• InDesign
• Illustrator
• Photoshop

• Freehand

• Microsoft Office Suite (Publisher, Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Adobe Acrobat (PDF)

Please see the FAQ page for prepress/preflighting tips. The Design Center (410-704-2229) can assist you in taking your concept to print.


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Photocopy

Printing Services is equipped
with two Black-and White Xerox high-speed digital Production Publishers. These two state-of-the-art products provide our customers with enhanced image quality and quick turn-around time.

When copying in tandem, these machines can produce up to 270 copies per minute with ultra-sharp 600 dots-per-inch resolution. The on-line finisher provides a variety of stitching capabilities as well as thermal glue binding. Originals can be reduced down to 10% or enlarged up to 200%.

Our Xerox Production Publishers are networked to the campus. You can
send your electronic files directly to our postscript printer from the convenience
of your office PC. See the Direct Digital Printing Instructions to download our black-and-white \\white\dt6155 print driver.  

Our workstation can also accommodate the following software:

• Quark Xpress
• InDesign
• Illustrator
• Photoshop

• Freehand

• Microsoft Office Suite (Publisher, Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Adobe Acrobat (PDF)


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Color Copying

Your documents can make an impact with the power of full color produced
on the Xerox Docucolor 250 digital color copier.

Printing Services can reproduce your full color documents from you Flash Drive, CD/DVD media, or directly from your hard-copy originals.  Better yet, you can send your full color files directly to our printer from the convenience of your office PC.  See the Direct Digital Printing Instructions. to download our \\white\PrintSvcsColor print driver.

Our workstation can also accommodate the following software:

• Quark Xpress
• InDesign
• Illustrator
• Photoshop

• Freehand

• Microsoft Office Suite (Publisher, Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Adobe Acrobat (PDF)


The Xerox Docucolor 250 reproduces at 1200 x 1200 dots-per-inch print resolution. It can handle a wide variety of paper weights: #16 bond up to #100 Cover, plus transparencies. We can accommodate sheet sizes of 4" x 6" up to 12"x18".


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Finishing/Bindery

A wide variety of auxiliary work can be done in-house:

• collating
• stapling
• folding
• booklet making
• numbering
• 3-hole punching
• laminating
• cutting and trimming
• tabbing
• addressing/labeling
• padding
• perforating
• scoring
• envelope stuffing


The following Bindery Options are available:

• GBC Spiral Binding
• Thermal Glue Binding
• Sure/Velo Binding

 

Free Campus Pick-up and Delivery

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