Magazine printing companies

What do I look for in magazine printing companies?

• You first must look at the capabilities of the magazine printing companies that most meet your requirements. Magazine printing companies can offer many different types of equipment, each with different capabilities. The smaller presses at magazine printing companies will only have the capacities for running smaller runs and the reverse is also true, that the magazine printing companies with the larger and faster presses will be more suitable for the larger runs. There are of course many other issues that will allow you to make the best choice and hopefully that choice will be PBD.

  Sheet Fed Vs. Web presses for magazine printing

• For smaller page counts and quantities you would limited to those magazine printing companies utilizing sheet fed presses. These presses run one parent sheet through the press at a time and can, with the larger forty inch press, run up to sixteen, eight and one half by eleven pages per signature or form. Therefore, those magazine printing companies running the larger forty inch press, can comfortably and cost effectively print up to 10,000 issues to thirty two pages as a ballpark average. PBD will be able to provide you with quality and cost effective sheet fed printing.

  When the page counts increase or the quantity becomes larger, then only those magazine printing companies with high speed web presses can be cost effective. The reason of course is speed and the fact that these magazine printing companies are utilizing roll paper stock and folding the printed signatures inline as they come off the press. Many magazine printing companies utilize heat set web presses and these are the ones necessary for running with gloss or matte coated stock. The magazine printing companies with cold set web presses (without heaters to dry the ink) are consigned to only running on uncoated offset or newsprint paper stocks. PBD will be happy to quote your web runs.

  How is the quality of the work in each case?

• Generally speaking, sheet fed press, running slower and with, in most cases, a higher line screen, will offer a better print quality. Heat set web presses will provide you with a better quality issue than a cold set web press, even when the line screen is equal, as ink sits on top of the coated paper, allowing for crisper images. Those magazine companies utilizing non heat set web presses, will have a less sharp image, due to the fact that ink sinks into the uncoated paper and has a tendency to spread.

  Press efficiency

• Press efficiency equals cost efficiency.  The right press for your job is the press most efficient that will be running it. PBD will always quote and run your job on the optimal press for you every time, thereby allowing you to get the quality you desire, at a price you can well afford. PBD is at the zenith of the printing companies in Los Angeles and will be more than pleased to serve you and print your issues with optimal quality at an affordable price.

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