Smith-Edwards-Dunlap Company

Before your customers read the content of your promotional or informational materials, they notice visual features such as layout, color, and font. The materials you release to your customers reflect your company image; and image is everything with documents and publications. Project a professional company image by investing in desktop publishing services from Regency Infographics, the typesetting division of Smith-Edwards-Dunlap commercial printing company.

Graphic Design
Graphic Creation. SED creates custom graphic designs for all forms of print media. Simply give us your vision and we'll see it through to the end product. Our graphic designers execute line art, bar charts, and pie charts with accuracy and flair. Or if it's an attractive brochure design that you're after, our designers deliver your message with color and dimension.

OCR and Image Scanning
With our OCR scanning services, your documents can be scanned and converted into editable text files. Manuals, sell sheets, newsletters, and more are placed on the computer to edit and change as necessary. Using optical sensing and computer software, OCR scanning records the patterns of light and dark areas reflected from printed text. SED's sophisticated software programs analyze the patterns and identify the characters they represent with tolerance for less-than-perfect and uniform text.

Page Layout
In all print work, graphics and text have a visual prominence that is appropriate to their role in conveying a message. To emphasize hierarchy, graphics can be enlarged and text can be set in bold or converted to color. For instance, if you wanted an effective page layout for a direct mail piece to announce a new product launch, we may make titles and key phrases stand out so illustrations do not dominate, but support the text that they illustrate. Based on your goals, we use effective page layouts to establish a hierarchy of each element.

Typesetting
To compose textural materials in an aesthetic form on paper or other media, Regency Infographics, a division of Philadelphia's industry-leading commercial printing company, Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED), offers typesetting as part of our desktop publishing and commercial printing services. Research shows that correctly designed and typeset text will be more easily read and comprehended. And while you may believe that it is initially cheaper not to use designers (or a typesetter who understands typography), without them your publication may not be read and understood as you intended.

Proofreading
Proofreading for Spelling & Grammar Mistakes. You've worked hard to develop your ideas and present them for others on paper. Why wouldn't you want to make sure that the text is accurate and that the overall copy reads well? Careless errors can distract readers from obtaining a clear understanding of your message. At SED commercial printing and desktop publishing, we believe it's worth paying close attention to the details for the purpose of making a good impression.

Digital prepress is the critical beginning of the production process. Prepress refers to all the steps between the receipt of electronic files and the actual printing process. As a pioneer in electronic prepress utilization, Smith-Edwards-Dunlap has consistently upgraded the process as the tools became available in the 1980's and 1990's. With the latest equipment, software, and a highly-trained and experienced staff, we are able to continually provide our clients with the best services at the fastest turnarounds. Digital files are commonly processed and ready for production within a few hours of receipt.

Preparation of Digital Files
Customers who submit files for commercial printing can use either Mac or PC platforms. These files are then loaded onto SED's prepress network. Files can be submitted on conventional media, such as CD, DVD, or Zip disk. Additionally, we accept web-based transfer which is made possible through our FTP site or our WebNative® portal.

Digital Color Correction & Photo Manipulation
Cyan. Magenta. Yellow. Black. This is the commercial printer's base for presenting color to the human eye. The human eye and changes in lighting alter the perception of printed color, especially when the four colors are not properly blended.

Digital Proofing
Digital proofing is a highly critical component in the commercial printing process. A prototype of the job is produced for the customer's review and approval. Smith-Edwards-Dunlap uses three different types of digital proofing: Sherpa®, HP®, and Fuji Final Proof®. SED's expert digital proofing staff evaluates the job and then produces the appropriate proof, based on the nature and content of the piece.

Direct-to-Plate
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...Environment. Direct-to-plate printing transfers files electronically to a machine that outputs the high-grade aluminum plate. Sometimes called computer-to-plate, direct-to-plate does not use the hazardous chemicals necessary for traditional platemaking and film processing.

Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED) puts your message in print with the latest press room capabilities in web offset printing, sheetfed printing, and large format printing. State-of-the-art press room equipment staffed with flexible cross-trained union member employees is what sets SED apart from the competition. Our equipment and employees work to maximum capacity to produce printed materials that match the digital prepress proof.

Web Offset Printing
Web offset printing functions at very high speeds. Production does not have to stop when a roll of paper runs out. Rolls of paper can be spliced together automatically as the web press is running. Press operators never have to adjust the press controls when rolls are spliced together. For this reason, faulty products are avoided through the automation of offset press room equipment.

Sheetfed Printing
When products are needed quickly and with the highest degree of quality, Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED) relies on sheetfed offset printing. As a commercial printing company in Philadelphia, Smith-Edwards-Dunlap houses multiple offset printing sheetfed machines that output high quality products efficently. Our sheetfed presses range in size and capability. Unlike web offset printing, sheetfed printing utilizes pre-cut paper that is rapidly fed through the press one sheet at a time. SED's sheetfed presses run a variety of single sheet paper stocks.

Large Format Printing
Signs. Banners. Posters. Promotional Displays. Whatever the application, SED is able to deliver superior commercial printing results to a broad range of industry segments. Smith-Edwards-Dunlap has invested in digital wide format inkjet printers to serve this evolving area in commercial printing. Large and wide format printing not only allows SED to address a greater variety of markets, but also to expand the portfolio of services offered to clients.

SED's capabilities include brochure printing, catalog printing, sell sheet printing, poster printing, newsletter printing, legal printing, financial printing, direct mail printing, and political printing.

Brochure Printing
By offering full service, full color brochure printing, Smith-Edwards-Dunlap makes sure that the potential customers who read your brochure have no doubt that your company is no less than first class. SED's business and corporate brochures create a lasting impression on potential customers and clients. More lasting than a spokesperson or a commercial, our brochures placed in the hands of potential customers serve as a constant reminder of a company's services, products, and integrity.

Catalog Printing
Catalogs are used to convey information. From basic inventories that simply list information, such as college course catalogs, to sell-oriented printings with full-color photography, such as high-end merchandise catalogs, Smith-Edwards-Dunlap provides complete in-house printing services to fit your needs. From catalog printing to mailing, we do it all. Your company offers the products or services that your audience needs. To reach them, rely on Smith-Edwards-Dunlap for custom catalog printing.

Sell Sheet Printing
At Smith-Edwards-Dunlap, we design dynamically for clients who do not provide their own designs. SED houses experienced designers, layout artists, and commercial printers who work with you for the purpose of understanding what you want and how to highlight your company's qualities in the best manner possible. Not only can SED design and print visually appealing sell sheets, but we do it at the speed you need to market effectively. From start to finish, Smith-Edwards-Dunlap ensures that your sell sheets are designed and printed with precision and care.

Poster Printing
Smith-Edwards-Dunlap, a dynamic commercial and poster printing company, provides clients with a high-impact, cost-effective way to create a unique impression. Market your products or services by displaying posters at strategic locations such as in windows, on bulletin boards, or by product releases. Promote your next trade show, campaign, festival, or opening with SED's beautiful full color poster printing and get noticed, generate more business, and improve the growth and profitability of your company.

Newsletter Printing
Smith-Edwards-Dunlap creates newsletters that are as attractive as they are readable to gain and hold the attention of customers or all employees within the company hierarchy. SED ensures that the highest quality color resolution is achieved early in color correction and photo manipulation during the digital prepress process. Our full color commercial printing makes photographs, text, and graphics pop. Our designers and union member commercial printers produce functional page layouts for both clarity and aesthetics.

Legal Printing
For more than a century, Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED), a commercial printing company in Philadelphia, has provided clients with high-end legal printing. Longevity, dedication, attention to detail, and our continual pursuit for a precise process make SED well-qualified to handle a broad range of legal printing needs. One of SED's specialties in the legal arena is the printing and mailing of class action notifications. Important legal, financial, or consumer notices are printed with maximum quality at a minimum turnaround.

Financial Printing
Philadelphia's go-to commercial financial printing company, Smith-Edwards-Dunlap, offers financial printing services including annual reports, proxy statements and proxy cards, quarterly and semi-annual reports, and any documents required by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Our experience in the commercial printing industry spans over a century, which makes us more than qualified to meet all financial printing needs.

Direct Mail Printing
Fuel the growth of your company with direct mail printing from Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED), Philadelphia's one-stop commercial printing company. Most of our direct mail work consists of cards, folders, or booklets; however, we can also produce other materials including bind-in order forms, coupons, direct mail packages, mini-catalogs, package enclosures, postcards, publication inserts, retail inserts, and self-mailers. Our direct mail printing specialists and commercial printers will turn your concepts into effective mail pieces that draw your customer's attention and sell your products or services.

Political Printing
Smith-Edwards-Dunlap streamlines the entire commercial printing process through efficient designing, printing, folding, binding, addressing, and mailing capabilities. We house a state-of-the-art digital prepress department staffed by dedicated union member employees to ensure that you receive a proof that meets or exceeds your expectations prior to full-scale production. Our sophisticated press room equipment including large format presses, web offset, and sheetfed presses operated by skilled commercial printers who produce brilliant color quality. In-line folding, binding, and addressing sends jobs to mailing and fulfillment at record speeds. SED's streamlined production saves you time and money so your funds can be put to other uses.

Exceptional commercial printing is often overlooked when bindery and finishing is sub par. Smith-Edwards-Dunlap, one of Philadelphia's largest and most comprehensive commercial printing companies, not only prints to the highest quality, but also reflects your business' distinct style with superior custom print /www.sed.com/bindery-finishing.html>bindery and finishing services. We have the printing and finishing solutions clients need to stay well within budget and deadline.

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Our folding equipment provides consistent high quality work that meets and exceeds client expectations. We use folding machines to create folded brochures and a variety of other complex pages. SED's folding machines can make numerous kinds of folds, including standard business letter folds, accordion folds, gate-folds, single folds, right angle folds, and barrel folds just to name a few. Folding is quick and easy with SED's 12 folding machines, 1 Macey Signa-Stitch in line Folder-Stitcher-Trimmer, and 1 automatic Pocket Folder/Gluer. An assortment of folds can be accomplished in a single pass for short run production.

Saddle Stitching
Saddle stitching, also known as stapling or bookletmaking, is one of the most efficient bindery and finishing methods available. SED utilizes integrated collating finishing equipment or in-line automated stitchers to cost effectively saddle stitch your printed documents. With SED's saddle stitchers, booklets, calendars, and other similar commercial printing products get done fast and to exact specifications.

Perfect Binding
Want a classic look at an economical price? Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED) offers perfect binding as a viable option that easily lends itself to a variety of printing formats. SED, Philadelphia's preferred commercial printing company, offers perfect binding as one of our many bindery and finishing services. With our perfect binding capabilities, covers are attached to the spine of the assembled signatures with a flexible, durable adhesive for a professional style.

Die-cutting
For a commercial printing company to be truly committed to the needs of today's private and public businesses, institutions, and political agencies, it needs to offer comprehensive services that range from desktop publishing and digital prepress to bindery and finishing and mailing and fulfillment. As one of Philadelphia's largest and most comprehensive commercial printing companies, /www.sed.com>Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED) offers clients from a broad range of industry segments extensive bindery and finishing services which include /www.sed.com/bindery-finishing/die-cutting.html>die-cutting.

Wafer Sealing
For many years wafer seals have been required for folded brochures and other printed materials to pass through U.S. Post Office processing machinery. We feature a variety of wafer seal tabs and state-of-the-art machinery to strategically affix one or two wafer seals to your mailing piece so it complies with U.S. Post Office regulations. Wafer seals not only keep your mailers closed, but they also help qualify mail for maximum postal discounts. By offering wafer sealing in conjunction with other bindery and finishing services and commercial printing capabilities we are able to extend our client base from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and across the United States.

Collating
Collating at Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED), Philadelphia's leading commercial printing company, is performed in a variety of fashions. Finished multi-page books are typically sorted on our Sulby Collator. Single leaves and four-pagers can be set up on our Gatherall 20-pocket collator. Collating and inserting for mailing is achieved on two available devices. And while we try to eliminate labor-intensive handwork with automated collating capabilities, our bindery employees will methodically and accurately assemble those projects that don't lend themselves to automation. Once in proper order, commercial printing products are ready for binding and other finishing services.

Shrink Wrapping
Shrink-wrapping is a frequently utilized bindery and finishing service at Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED), a leading commercial printing company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Whether you want to protect the quality of your printed product during shipping or to simply keep sets of materials organized, we can surround printed products with durable plastic packaging on one of our 3 automatic shrink-wrap machines. Thanks to continual investment in the newest, most versatile automated equipment and by maintaining an expertly trained and dedicated commercial printing staff, we have the capacity to produce thousands of shrink-wrapped packages daily.

Letterpress
Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED) is a preferred commercial printing company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and features a fully equipped letterpress department as one of many bindery and finishing services. As the city's leading commercial printer, we create custom printed items of the highest quality for private, corporate, and institutional clients based nationally and regionally in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, and Maryland.

Save time and money with in-house mailing and fulfillment services from Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED), Philadelphia's premier commercial printing company. SED's mailing services reduce postage fees and shorten time in the mail, while our fulfillment services provide clients with unbeatable quantity pricing and the fastest turnaround possible. Let Smith-Edwards-Dunlap distribute your products around the corner or around the world with efficiency and accuracy you can rely on.

Mailing Services
Smith-Edwards-Dunlap is the commercial printing company that not only produces high quality products but also offers superior mailing services. From pressroom to mailroom, mailing is often the last piece that completes our clients' puzzles. In addition to mail list management services, we will qualify your direct mail piece for automation postage rates.

Mail List Management
Mailing lists are an excellent vehicle for distributing focused, targeted information to an interested, receptive audience. Consequently, mailing lists can be used as a highly effective marketing tool. Unfortunately, mailing lists are vulnerable and prone to misuse through a variety of means. With mail list management services from Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED), Philadelphia's preferred commercial printing company, you can avoid common pitfalls and maintain a high response rate as well as reduce costs associated with managing complaints.

Ink Jet Addressing
Inkjet addressing, one of SED's many mailing services, is a process in which the names, addresses, and bar codes are printed directly onto your mail piece. All information is maintained and formatted in a data file that is fed electronically via a computer to the inkjet head where tiny spray bars emit ink to form letters, thus creating a neatly "printed" address. SED's inkjet addressing systems deliver quality, versatility, precision, high speeds, low operating costs and eliminate the need for a separately affixed label.

Mailing Labels & Barcode Tracking
Mailing labels with bar code tracking commercial printing services enable Smith-Edwards-Dunlap (SED), Philadelphia's high quality commercial printing company, to electronically track the location of your mail pieces from inventory and the time they leave our facility to the time the USPS® carrier delivers the mail and the recipient reviews the order. By combining our expertise in programming with our inkjet technology, we can provide a barcode on any high quality commercial printed piece. In addition to state-of-the-art barcode tracking, SED also offers personalized mailing label services. Names and addresses can be printed in a variety of fonts for a professional image.

Fulfillment Services
We take pride in getting the right package to the right place at the right time. For this reason, we build a fulfillment system,/a> around your needs and handle all aspects associated with inventory control and drop shipments. Whether you are sending brochures directly to your customers or employment forms directly to your human resource department, we help fulfill your order quickly and efficiently.