Image Ink's partnership with the B. Allen Company ensures fulfillment of all of your postpress needs. B. Allen Company provides extensive bindery, finishing and packaging services including; saddle stitching, perfect binding, case binding, Wire-O, gluing, folding, laminating, U.V. coating and handwork assembly.

When your project is complete, B. Allen can handle your mailing and fulfillment needs. We can sort, insert, package and ship locally, nationally, or worldwide.

POSTPRESS SERVICES

  • Inventory Management Organizing, updating and managing inventory of printed matter, products and samples. Orders and daily inventory updates are available via B. Allen web site. All products are insured and guaranteed.
  • Just In Time Delivery Store large volumes of printed matter, products and samples plus ship upon request. Shipment requests can be communicated via B. Allen Web site, fax or phone. Shipments to anywhere in the world.
  • Warehousing Storage of printed matter, products and samples.
  • Fulfillment Order taking, packaging, labeling and shipping. Shipments to anywhere in the world.
  • Handwork Assembly High volume hand inserting, packing, hand gluing, hand folding, easel mount, hand taping, kitting.
  • Trucking Two 45 ft. tractor trailers, two 14 ft. trucks plus two vans for same day or next day deliveries anywhere in California.
  • Mailing Sort and ink-jet address, match mail, insert, bar-code, message, sequential numbering.
  • Labeling Affix labels to products, cartons and packages.
  • Die-cutting Make steel rule die and die-cut from flat press sheets. Boxes, Point-or-Sale, Folders, etc.
  • Gluer/Folder Folds and glues from die-cut sheets: CD sleeves, software boxes, cosmetic boxes, video sleeves, food cartons and presentation folders.
  • Envelope Conversion Makes envelopes from press sheets - conversion is done usually because of bleeds, heavy coverage or when using less common substrates. From #10 size to 11 x 14 plain or window.
  • Perfect Binding Collates signatures, mills and glues text to cover for magazines, catalogs, product monographs.
  • Saddle Stitch Collates signatures and staples spine for booklets, magazines, catalogs, collateral, etc.
  • Point of Purchase Mount litho sheets to thick substrates like corrugate or 80 pt. chip, die-cut, assemble, pack and ship. Products include: counter cards, standees, floor displays, power wings and counter top displays. Also 10 - 24 pt displays, shelf talkers, door hangers and table tents.
  • Large Format Ink-Jet Printing Posters, banners, tradeshow signs, in-store displays - 72 inches wide to 100 ft. long.
  • Document Printing Digital short-run books and manuals, 10 to 2000.
  • Auto Shrink-wrapping Capabilities to 250,000 packs/day.
  • Laminating 1.3 mil to 10 mil film laminate, matte or gloss. Litho laminate for Point of Sale and packaging.
  • UV Coating In-line or off-line, matte or gloss.
  • Fugitive Glue Tip On Removable glue used to affix samples, cards, magazine inserts, and PI's. Also, to temporarily seal direct mailers.
  • Presentation/Capacity Folders
  • Auto Padding high volume padding
  • Cutting Cutters to 54"
  • Auto Folding Up to 50" press sheets. Versatile, high-volume.
  • Miniature Folding From 1" x 2"
  • Perforating
  • Comb and Wire-O Bind Plastic and double-loop wire binding.
  • Wafer Sealing
  • Velcro
  • Kraft Wrap
  • Binders Screen print on vinyl, case bind, litho laminate mount, auto/hand collate, 3-hole punch, insert text, assemble w/tabs and other literature.