Bindery
Does your brochure require folding, do your invoices need to be in a book or numbered?

Austin Graphics has a full service bindery, from stapling to coil binding, laminating
to shrinkwrapping. We have what it takes to finish your project.

Artwork
Are you designing your own printing or do you require it to be done for you?

Our Art Department is fully equipped with Mac and PC computers to output from your
disc or emailed file. Call our office for file specifications required.

Design is our specialty… our experienced designers will create an image to fit your
business.

Estimate
Always get an estimate before you begin so there are no surprises. If you are price
shopping, make sure each company has exactly the same information. Your can not
compare apples to oranges. If four colour process is not in your budge, try a smaller
quantity and digital colour copying. Austin Graphics will work with you to find the
right process that fits what you need, at the price you can afford.

Stay tuned for more information about printing

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Here’s me and family, I think soon they will be leaving us

And a little father and son time.

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As many businesses and organizations grow, they may realize a demand for more printed products. It may become too time consuming to continue producing in house.

Calling a printer is the natural answer. But how expensive is it? What should it look like? What kind of paper should I print on, and how many should we buy?

Budget
Determining a budget is the first step. Champagne taste on a beer budget is a common factor. Are you spending $50.00, $500.00 or $5000.00? Whether you are offset printing or digital photocopying, in 1 colour or 4 colour will be determined by what your budget allows.

Quantity
The more you buy, the less per piece your cost will be. A six month supply is generally recommended. If you are sure you will not require any changes, then 1 year is also a good choice.

Print One Side or Two
The amount of information you have will help determine if you need to print on one side or two.

Size
The size of your printed product will again be determined by how much information you have, and what budget you have allowed. If you have a small amount of information the instead of and 8.5 x 11″ brochure, a 4.25 x 11″ rack card size will do.

To be continued…

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The babies visit the office - 5 weeks and adorable!

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Doesn’t take long for the springer bark to come into play. My Grandma dropped a heavy steal coat hanger in the utility room this morning. Hoover up on his feet and barked his fool head off, growling and barking just like his mother. Guess their ears are working now…. Grandma started feeding them from the bowl last night and again this morning. the fun has begun. wet sticky mess…. there is a reason for those cheap plastic table cloths.

Here is a shot of Buddy from April 13.

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Hey all!

I’m sorry I haven’t written in a while, but I’ve been a bit preoccupied with my girlfriend, Cali,
who was expecting. But to make up for it I have included some pics of Cali and I and our new puppies.

Here’s Cali and I at the beginning of the pregnancy and the next pic is Cali and Momma about
1-2 weeks before the bundles of joy arrived.

And here are the babies!!

Cali and the kids

Puppies

Puppies

Family is all doing well. The girl it the one with the white on her back. The one with the solid brown back
is the boy that was small and came out feet first. He was the hardest to get him going. But all seem to be doing fine now. 

Now that the babies have arrived, I’ll try really hard to keep you all more up-to-date.  But our world is going to busy
for awhile!

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Well, yesterday I decided I should try my hand at administration.
I think I could handle this job….

There’s nothing to it really, I just lay it the middle of everything and it magically gets done

I’ve decided out of the jobs to do around here, I make the best overseer

Ciao for now! Apple

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So recently, I’ve been testing my talents…

I’ve discovered I’m really good at sleeping.

I’ve tried designing…

But it thoroughly exhausted me.

Yesterday, I tried my hand at accounting.

But in the end I discovered… Math Hurts!

I think I’ll just stick to what I’m good at
Talk to you all again soon!

Apple

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Agfa Graphics  announced that 25 customers in North America have been selected to receive the GreenWorks™ Environmental Recognition Award. GreenWorks is an exclusive program created by Agfa Graphics that recognizes and supports environmental efforts in the graphic communications industry. The newest GreenWorks customers from Canada and the U.S. are acknowledged to be exceptionally proactive in their efforts to minimize their ecological footprints while maintaining the highest quality standards of professional graphic communications.

Printing companies become part of Agfa’s GreenWorks program through a nomination and review process by an outside agency. To qualify, they must use either Agfa Graphics’ :Azura chemistry-free plates or :Amigo low-chemistry CtP plates. They must also utilize a number of other environmentally-friendly products and be involved in other efforts such as recycling, reducing waste, utilizing alternative energy sources in their plants and other similar ventures. They stand out as graphic communication companies who are more environmentally sensitive and are marketing themselves in that way.

Austin Graphics is honored to be one of only 79 companies in North America to receive the Greenworks Environmental Recognition Award for Excellence in Environmental Printing.

Our current status as an environmental leader results from the following installations and implementations:

Installation of Chemistry-Free Printing Plates
By eliminating the chemistry traditionally used when producing printing plates, we improved the quality of our customers’ print jobs and our delivery times, while reducing the negative impact on our environment.

The Use of Vegetable and Soy-Based Inks
These inks are less harmful to the environment than petroleum-based inks and are widely recognized as the environmentally-friendly choice.

We recycle or reuse any unused inks.

Choosing FSC Certified Papers as our House Brand
All products carrying the FSC Logo are independently certified as coming from forests that meet the internationally recognized Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Principles and Criteria of Forest Stewardship.

To learn more about Forest Stewardship Council go to http://www.fsc.org/

Recycling our Offcut and Scrap Paper
We donate to local churches and daycares for their creative and craft programs.
Traditional recycling methods for paper, cans, plastic, and tin have been in place for many years.

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Screen printing is a durable & weather proof printing process. There are a variety of materials & products available. T-shirts, site signs and magnets are good examples of a screen printed product. In screen printing, or silk screening, ink is spread across a fine open-mesh fabric that is held in place within a frame. A squeegee is used to force the ink through the open areas of the fabric to form the image.

Artwork printed onto vellum is placed onto a framed screen. The screen is coated with a photo sensitive emulsion, it is held in place under vacuum and then exposed with intense light which burns the image into the screen. Any non-image areas become permanent, which blocks the ink from passing through everything except the imaged area. Ink is poured inside the frame and a squeegee is drawn across the screen pushing the ink through the imaged area onto the printing surface. The inks are usually the consistency of thick paint. Due to the thickness of the silk screening ink, prints coming off the press cannot be stacked; they must either pass through a dryer or be separate on racks to air dry.

Although automatic presses are available some silkscreening is still performed by hand. The process while relatively slow, is versatile enough to be performed on almost any clean flat surface.

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