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Grand River bindery department brings in new cutter

Detroit, MI — Grand River Printing & Imaging now has a POLAR 115 XT in operation. The POLAR 115 XT is a guillotine cutter with auto trim. This new cutter is also equipped with an industrial scale and lift that will be used to cut and trim a large variety of commercial printed material from [...]

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Grand River Printing & Imaging adopts next-generation management information system

Belleville, Michigan — Grand River Printing & Imaging has selected an industry-leading new management information system to operate its business. From customer relationship management tools through to delivery and fulfillment services, the new MIS will improve Grand River’s on-time performance, quality of product and provide a state-of-the-art web portal for clients to obtain real-time information [...]

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Grand River offers online contract color soft-proofing

Belleville, MI — Grand River Printing & Imaging is now offering customers the latest in color accurate and consistent on-screen color proofing that eliminates the need for hard copy proofs entirely. Based on the Kodak MatchPrint Virtual system, Grand River’s new solution requires the use of qualified and color calibrated LCD displays. The soft-proofing technology [...]

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Grand River offers next-generation printing technology Energy-cured printing enhances catalogs and publications

Catalog and magazine publishers can now take advantage of the improved quality and enhanced value of the latest technology in web offset lithography: energy-cured (EC) printing. Among the first companies to implement the EC process, Grand River Printing & Imaging is pioneering next-generation printing that is free of the high costs and environmentally harmful elements [...]

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Grand River holds successful luncheon seminar on Acrobat 8 and PDF/x

Grand River Printing & Imaging hosted a well-attended luncheon seminar for print production professionals on March 27 at the Skyline Club in Southfield entitled “Tying it all together with Adobe Acrobat 8 and PDF/x.” In attendance were designers and print production specialists from local corporations, advertising agencies and educational institutions as well as representatives from [...]

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Grand River hosts Production Club seminar on color standards

Detroit, MI – Grand River Printing & Imaging hosted an Advertising Production Club of Detroit educational seminar on Wednesday, February 21 entitled “Better Living Through Print Standards.” The main speaker at the well attended event was Bill Birkett of Doppleganger, LLC, a consultant and expert on the subject of color management. Mr. Birkett’s talk centered [...]

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Grand River to hold Acrobat and PDF seminar on March 27

Southfield, MI – Grand River Printing & Imaging will hold a luncheon educational seminar on Tuesday, March 27 on the topic of Adobe Acrobat 8 and the PDF/x file specification. The event will be at the Skyline Club in Southfield and will include a luncheon buffet for attendees. With the release of Acrobat 8 by [...]

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Grand River June 1 seminars: How online technologies are changing the printing process

Southfield, Michigan – Grand River Printing & Imaging hosted two seminars on June 1 about the significance of soft proofing and online project management for the graphic arts and print production workflow. The luncheon and dinner seminars, held at the Skyline Club, consisted of a presentation on the state of the technology generally and then [...]

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Grand River to host seminar on June 1: Online project management and soft-proofing

Southfield, MI – Grand River Printing & Imaging is hosting an educational seminar on Thursday, June 1 that will address the growing adoption of online project management and soft-proofing tools and their impact on the print production workflow. There will be a lunchtime and an after-work session and they both will be held at the [...]

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Grand River adopts PDF/X-1a specification for prepress production

Grand River Printing & Imaging has adopted the PDF/X-1a specification as a preferred file format for exchange of files to and from clients and other print suppliers. This specification is a subset of the PDF file format that is specific to the printing and graphic arts industries. It addresses all of the requirements for font [...]

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