design & prepress.

DT&P clients have access to our innovative, meticulous & creative prepress/design team

The DT&P prepress/design team will manage your project with care. The team prioritizes accuracy and prides itself on being creative and innovative.

If you are unsure about how to proceed or are stuck on a design concept, please contact us to discuss your project goals. We can talk about the details and assist you with the design process.

Our pre-press department accepts customer files (images and text) in all commonly used formats. Please submit files by the following methods: email, internet or FTP.

printing.

DT&P is able to print on a wide range of sizes and materials, including plastics

Lithographic vs. Digital Printing

Offset

Digital

Quantity

High quantities, 750+​

Low quantities (short runs) less than 750

Colour

Pantone® (PMS) or CMYK

CMYK

Price

Prints higher quantities at a significantly lower cost

Prints lower quantities at a significantly lower cost

Quality

Higher image quality, higher resolution and no streaks/spots. The ability to produce gradients, vibrant colours, solids and metallics

High image quality not a factor

Sheet Size

Max Sheet 28" x 40"

Max Sheet 13" x 19"

Variable Text

No

Can print variable text or images where each sheet off the press is unique in some personalized way (database driven for mailing lists, marketing materials, direct mail pieces, letters, etc. with a different name/address or number/code on each printed piece)

Finishing

Must dry or be coated before handling[.] More suitable if your piece requires finishing such as tight register foil stamping, embossing, die cutting, etc.

Once a sheet is off a digital press it can be cut, folded
or finished immediately

Special Inks

Yes - metallics, fluorescents. PMS colours
Including Aqueous Coating & Varnishes

No special inks (metallics, fluorescents) since
all colors will have to fall within a CMYK gamut

Stock/Printing Surfaces

Works on a wide range of printing surfaces including
thick paper, rough paper and specialty papers

Limited choice of stocks available

Proofing

If you need hard-copy proofs, very accurate, colour proofing can be expensive

Offers more accurate proofs, since what you see is an actual sample of the printed piece; printed using the exact process as the intended run

direct mail fulfillment.

Data Services Variable Printing

Make connection with DTP's Direct Mailing Services

Merge/Purge

Address Correction

Canadian and US Postal Sorts

Upper/Lower Case Conversion

Custom Data Programming

Automatic Multiple Insertions, up to 9×12

Tab Sealing

Postal Pre-sorting

Post Office Delivery

bindery & finishing.

Bindery Options

Folding Options

Special Finishing

Diecutting

Foil Stamping

Emboss/Deboss

Spot UV

Perforation

Score

Padding

Hand Assembly