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Equipment List
Boyd Brothers
manufacturing facility consists of over 100,000 square feet. Our shop is predominantly equipped with GOSS, Heidelberg and Muller Martini pre-press, press, and post-press processing equipment.

Our Goss® Sunday™ 2000 press with gapless blankets makes it easier and more efficient to produce the highest quality commercial products and short to medium run publications. The performance and automation advantages are especially valuable when profitability depends on managing shorter runs, more makereadies and a wide range of jobs. The Goss® brand represents more than 170 years of innovation that has continuously enhanced the viability, value, impact and competitive position of print media. Goss International delivers unique opportunities for printers and publishers to advance the print medium to new levels of impact and value.

Heidelberg USA provides to the U.S. printing industry the finest and most technologically advanced pre-press, printing and bindery/finishing equipment in the world. Heidelberg is the world's leading solutions provider for the print media industry with nearly 25,000 employees in 170 countries. Headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, the company manufactures sheetfed, digital press systems as well as prepress and postpress components, software and consumables for all printing applications. Heidelberg has by far the largest manufacturing and support network in the industry with 18 manufacturing sites and 250 support centers worldwide providing 240,000 customers with service and knowledge.

Muller Martini is a worldwide organization with plants in the United States, Switzerland, and Germany. They have a long history of introducing innovative equipment with pioneering features that have made them a leader in their field. Our Bolero perfect binding system from Muller Martini is the most automated adhesive binding machine in the world. Using the PUR Process its benefits include good lay flat characteristics with thin glue application and high binding quality. In our shop, this means increased productivity, labor-saving efficiency and the ability to handle more jobs in a shorter amount of time.

We are proud to be associated with these reputable companies.

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Pressroom
GOSS SUNDAY 2000/24 page (57” wide) 4 Unit Heat Set Web Press (1) - 2008
*Heidelberg 28 x 40 8-color Speedmaster with Cutstar roll to sheet feeder (8/0 or 4/4) (2) - 2002, 2005
*Heidelberg 20.5 x 29.125 1-color SORM (1)
*Heidelberg 14 x 20 5-color + Coater Speedmaster (1) - 2004
*Heidelberg 14 x 20 2-color Printmaster (1) 2006
*Sakurai 28x40 Cylinder Silk Screen UV Coater
*(Utilizes Heidelberg CPC 24 Spectrophotometer w/Closed Loop Color System)

Bindery
Muller Martini Bolero Perfect Binder w/Cover Feeder and PUR glue system, 24 Pockets - 2008
with 16 Stream Feeders/In-Line Trimmer and ARPAC Packing System (1)
Muller Martini Panda Perfect Binder w/Cover Feeder, 24 Pockets and In-Line Trimmer (1)
Heidelberg ST270 Saddle Stitcher with
Cover Feeder, Card Feeder 8 Pockets and In-line Trimmer (1)
Polar Cutters (1 with Transomat Cutting System) (2)
Stahl Folders (4)
Macey Multibinder with 9 Pockets and Trimmer (1)
Challenge Round Corner Machine (1)
Challenge 3-Hole Drill (1)
Challenge 1-Hole Drill (1)
Spiel Plastic Coil/Wire-O/GBC Punch (1)
Spiel Plastic Coil Former/Inserter (1)
GBC Plasticoil /Inserter (1)
GBC Comb Inserter (2)
Kluge Foil Stamper and Die Cutter (1)
Cheshire Mailing Machine (1)
Chesire Tab/Label/Stamp system (mailing tabs) (1)
BX6300 VideoJet Ink Jet Mailing System (1)
Scott 10,000 Tabbing Machine (laminated die cut tabs) (1)
Kluge Pocket Folder/Gluer (1)
Shanklin Automatic Shrink Wrap/Polybagger (1)

Workstations
Macintosh Graphic Workstations (18)
IBM Compatible Graphic Workstations (6)
Printready Server/Preflight/Trapping Station) (1)
Printready Cockpit (5)
Signastation – Dedicated Imposition Station (2)
Dedicated Trapping/Preflight Station (1)

Imagesetters/RIPS
Kodak Magnus VLF Platesetter (1)
Heidelberg
Suprasetter (1)
Meta Dimension Rip (3)
SpinJet Rip (1)

Digital Proofers
HP 5500CP SpinJet Digital Dylux Color 2 Sided Plotter
HP 2000CP Wide Format Color Plotter
HP 5000CP Wide Format Matchprint Quality Color Plotter
HP 5500CP Wide Format Matchprint Quality Color Plotter
Prinect RemoteAccess web-based soft proofing

Scanners
Linotype-Hell 3900 Drum Scanner
NEXSCAN F4200 Multipurpose
Color/CopyDot Scanner
3 Flatbed Desktop Scanners

Software – Mac
QuarkXpress 8.0
Adobe InDesign CS5
Adobe Pagemaker 7.0
Adobe Illustrator CS5
Photoshop CS5
Microsoft Office 2000
Corel Painter X

Software – Windows
QuarkXpress 8.0
Adobe InDesign CS5
Pagemaker 7.0
Adobe Illustrator CS5
Corel Draw 11.0
Photoshop CS5
Microsoft Office 2007

Drives / Special Equipment
LTO Tape Drive
DLT Tape Drive
DVD + R
DVD - R
DVD
RAM
CD Recorder
Wacom Intuos 3 Tablets