ANYONE™ Field Trip
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 5:09PM At the beginning of the week the ANYONE™ team was lucky enough to be invited to a local print shop for an informational tour through their facilities. Longtime friend Jennifer Quintana, Sales extraordinaire, was kind enough to schedule us for the visit to teach our intern team some of the key points of a print production house.
We arrived at Southern California Graphics (link) and was greeted by Jennifer. After a quick debriefing we were then introduced to Tim Toomey - President - who took us to the proofing area of the facility. Tim gave us a rundown of the different types of printers for proofing and what each one was specifically used for.
After the proofing area Tim took us to the digital printing space where we got to check out the machine while being taught the different types of colorization and print styles. We were also shown samples all the different types of printing techniques - it was so great!
From the digital printing area we then moved to the mother of all printers - the space had two gigantic machines that can print up to 14,000 pages an hour - it was amazing to see. We were introduced to Mike Riggen - Vice President of Operations who oversees the production, use and maintenance of the two large printers. He took us around and explained how ink was transfered from the plates and onto the paper through a process of cylinders and rubber mats.
As we moved from being fascinated with the largest printers most of us had ever seen in person - we were taken to the binding and cutting area and got a short tour of the machines. From there we had finished our tour and were given Southern California Graphics gift bags! We couldn't have been more happy with the experience we had with Southern California Graphics and want to say THANK YOU again for such a great time!
Big thanks to Tim, Mike and Jen - you were all awesome!
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