Prepress
“Boutique Printer” Texas Graphic Resource Installs Suprasetter A74
Friday 03. December 2010 - Texas Graphic Resource, Inc., Dallas, recently took delivery of a top-loading Suprasetter A74 with automation and debris removal system to anchor its prepress workflow.
It is the first platesetter for the company. According to vice-president Jacques Cangelose, the installation amounts to replacing one technology for another, as the company prepares to transition from direct-imaging technology and “go live” with a standalone CtP device and Heidelberg Saphira processless thermal printing plates. The company’s prepress operators seem to be taking the transition in stride, especially the new Suprasetter’s ease of use and potential for unattended operation. Customers “should not notice any changes in the quality or timely delivery of their products,” Cangelose said.
To the contrary, Texas Graphic Resource is in the midst of standardizing its color processes across a range of devices that reflect the boutique printer’s highly diverse capabilities, which include offset, digital and screen printing, specialty packaging, display graphics, book-making, typesetting, detailed hand work and more. “We don’t live on the 8.5×11″ cut sheet,” Cangelose said, citing the exacting, mostly very short run work his company performs for high-end agencies all over the U.S. and across the world. One recent job, for example, required the company to build 200 wood-and-metal presentation boxes with offset collateral, exterior screen printing, with a leather-bound bookdesigned and made from scratchtucked inside.
Established as a hot typesetting company in 1907, family owned Texas Graphic Resource, Inc. acquired its first offset press as recently as 2000. With a staff of 23, the family run company takes a “very hands-on,” approach to its business, Cangelose said, with a collaborative style that often brings ad agencies into the shop for two or three press checks before a job is finished. Elsewhere in the shop, the company also operates a Heidelberg Speedmaster SM 74 press, a POLAR cutter, and a scoring and folding machine from Heidelberg/Stahl.