Digital Colour Printing
Our core digital colour printing technology is the Indigo TurboStream which provides "virtual litho" quality on the industry's leading technology.

For simple "replication" of the same image, digital colour printing is most cost effective for runs of up to 500 sheets (1,000 product sheets, 3,000 post cards, or larger volume runs for variable image printing etc.). The on-line collation and two sided printing allows us to run complete booklets or binders of multiple pages as fully collated "sets" right off the press, one sheet after the other, ready for trimming and finishing.

Variable imaging, from simple addressing to full variable imaging from database driven content mapping is used for applications such as:

  • Customer Relations Management
  • Business to Business
  • High Value Business to Consumer (automotive, household appliances and furniture, insurance and financial products).

Internet fulfillment is a process where demographic data is collected from web inquiries and site visits and is manipulated to produce custom product or service literature. Specific needs and benefits determined by user responses to prompts and forms are used to provide the mapping of the content.


Direct to Press

Dots & Pixels was one of the first in Canada to order the Heidelberg Quickmaster "DI" (direct image) presses.

Our business focus has always been on "short run colour". In some people's books 2,000 or 5,000 copies is a "short run". In order to be of greater service to our clients we determined that the addition of the DI technology would put us in a position to look after our customers requirements from a single copy to several thousand.

The combination of the DI with our digital colour printing capabilities is a potent one-two punch. Often, a project may run with English quantity on the DI and the French on the digital press for optimum cost effectiveness. Similarly, a generic version of a corporate brochure or product literature may be run on the DI and specific targeted versions run on the digital press.

Our analysis indicates that the DI technology becomes cost competitive with digital printing at around 400-500 press sheets.


Large Format Imaging

In 1997 we entered the full colour large format market with a bang - producing the Guinness Book of Records™ recognized "Largest Catalog Ever Produced".

Always keeping on top of technology, in August 2001 we acquired yet another leading edge technology; "Piezo Ink Jet" large format printer. This replacement of our original electrostatic plotter offers superb 360 or 720 dot per inch resolution rendering smooth, vibrant solids and gradients with incredibly crisp type.

We now print directly on paper, vinyl, canvas and backlit material as well as offer full in-house finishing including

  • lamination, mounting
  • jewel trimming
  • and all sorts of custom hand finishing.

With its 2 year UV resistance in outdoors this new technology is the perfect solution for

  • short run posters
  • point-of-purchase displays
  • in-store signage
  • marketing event graphics
  • signage, trade show graphics etc.

Our Web-to-Print process is also available for large format products.

In addition to full colour large format we also offer cut vinyl in a rainbow of colours for cost effective vinyl banners and signage.


Phone/Loyalty/Membership Cards

Getting to market quickly is of prime importance in the phone card market. Lost time to market results in lost time use hence revenue shrinkage.

At Dots & Pixels, our combination of Direct Image litho printing for the full colour face of phone cards and Digital printing for the backs of the cards is a potent solution in both cost effectiveness and turnaround times.

The imaging and finishing operations in traditional phone card manufacturing is the most time consuming for conventional inkjet or thermal imaging methods. On the other hand, we have the ability to image over 80,000 cards per hour and finishing capabilities in lamination, scratch-off application and die cutting in excess of 50,000 cards per hour.

Due to the high resolution of our printing technologies, the imaging of pin numbers, serial/control numbers or variable bar codes is litho quality, not matrix patterned such as with ink jetting. Additionally, our imaging is beneath the lamination which provides an additional element of quality and security.

We have the ability to image multiple channels onto a card to incorporate PIN numbers, serial numbers, mintage etc. in both human readable as well as bar codes for inventory and retail UPC encoding.

Our specialty is in laminated paper based cards primarily in the "credit card" format as well as sundry custom formats such as hanger cards. We also provide printing of instruction/promotion sheets and cello-wrap packaging in single or multiples.


Variable Data Driven Printing -- One-to-One Personalized Printing

The holy grail of marketing communications and customer relationship management (CRM) is printing to a specific individual audience.

Since the development of digital colour printing technologies, early adopters report previously unheard of response rates - often in excess of 30%. The power to fully customize content from business intelligence collected into a database gives you the tools to speak directly and specifically to the intended audience.

Any traditionally printed piece attempts to be "all singing, all dancing", trying to distill information into a single document that addresses the interests of every reader. By the nature of the process, replication of a single document does not effectively communicate the right benefits to the right needs of each specific reader.

Through variable data driven printing we are able to provide litho quality brochures, product sheets, newsletters, statements etc. that are fully unique and customized to the recipient.


Web-to-Print
Order Your Printing Requirements Direct from the Internet

Our Web-to-Print service is unique to the industry. The web component is a customizable interface to provide a facade of the user company with their graphics and user definable parameters for authorization, etc. The document generator component is a proprietary software and order management utility that strictly conforms to any corporate graphics standards.

Ordering documents through these services virtually eliminates administrative costs for the user. For example, by traditional methods a simple business card order may take as much as $17.00 in soft administrative costs in over a dozen steps to execute. The Dots & Pixels solution can be as simple as a single step.

Because the orders are a product of capturing information from a simple form on the internet, all of the information about the order is automatically encapsulated and loaded into the system. The content of the document is fully user controlled and hence the entire proofing and copy change cycles are eliminated allowing the orders to be immediately and automatically processed. As a result, orders can be turned around in a fraction of the time a conventional order would take.

Think about how Web-to-Print can be used in your environment:

  • Business Cards & Stationery
  • Invitations
  • Greeting & Thank You Cards for every occasion
  • Event marketing collateral
  • Signage and Posters
  • Newsletters
  • Sales & Marketing Collateral