
Pressroom
Our high speed web presses produce a variety of products to
fit your marketing needs including: Standard, letter rate,
and oversize catalog pages. Closed-loop color control utilizing
preset digital targets assigned in platemaking enhances color
accuracy and fidelity. From press forms as small as 4-pages
to as large as 96-pages our presses deliver efficient print
products while maintaining precise inking control and registration.
Our sales and customer service personnel are trained to offer
input throughout the print process to help you to develop
a catalog program that prints well and maximizes postal savings.
With first-class mail slowly eroding away, the time is now to implement five-day delivery, according to Sam Pulcrano, vice president of sustainability for the U.S. Postal Service. “The dilemma we have is it’s growing and growing exponentially,” Pulcrano said during a March 29 conference call. “We really can’t do anything without legislative changes.”
The Postal Service has seen its mail volume fall 20% since 2006, and it’s expected to drop another 20 billion pieces in the next 10 years. First-class mail is expected to fall by 30 billion pieces, while modest growth is anticipated for advertising mail.
Multichannel MerchantAmerican Press in Gordonsville, Virginia has had several crews qualify for the Pacesetter Club in past years with its Pacesetter 1000 stitcher. This year, crews on all three shifts did the same with a new Pacesetter 2200 system, averaging as high as 20,875 books per hour.