Corporate Graphics offers the following finishing services for a total solutions package in completing your project. Please also see our Finishing Equipment List.

 

Bindery

All work with press sheets other than the actual printing: cutting, jogging (the process of handling press sheets to form a neater, more even stack of sheets), collating, folding, and stitching.

 

Die Cutting

Fabricating process to cut any shape, design or pattern through the use of steel rule dies, rotary or circular dies, thermal dies and clicker dies, as well as machined compound and progressive die tooling.

 

Embossing/Debossing

Impressing an image in relief to achieve either a raised surface (embossing) or an indented pattern (debossing); may be either on blank paper (blind embossed) or overprinted.

Foil Stamping

The use of a thin sheet of metal, plastic or other material (clear or opaque) which is “stamped” onto the paper surface. Foil stamping can be combined with embossing or debossing. (Debossing is pressing an image into paper so it lies below the surface.)

 

Folding

An operation performed—commonly after printing and cutting—to fold a press sheet into a signature, map,

pamphlet, etc.

Hand Bindery

Any work done by hand: patching, tooling, outlining, etc.

Lamination

Technically, the bonding of two sheets, either of the same or of differing materials. Generally meaning the application

of a thin plastic film to a printed sheet for protection or appearance, creating a hard, glossy surface that is impervious

to stains.

 

Trimming

Cutting off excess press sheet material to create the final size of the printed page/image.