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Technology
UGS is equipped with up-to-date printing and publishing technology donated by companies of the printing industry. Listed below are the companies and the donated equipment and software that UGS relies on from day to day activities.
Production & Estimating Software
  • PSI 12.0
    • A program that provides production planning and estimating solutions in a optimized management software.
Prepress Programs & Hardware
  • QuarkXPress: Page layout program
  • Adobe Creative Suite
    • Adobe Photoshop: Raster Art Program
    • Adobe Illustrator: Vector art program
    • Adobe InDesign: Page Layout Program
    • Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional: PDF creation/editing program
  • Enfocus Pitstop Professional: PDF editing/enchancement program
  • Flightcheck: Preflight software
  • ApogeeX: Prepress workflow software
  • Xenith Xeitron: Prepress workflow software
  • RIP Manager: Prepress utility
  • Preps 5: Imposition software
  • Matchprint Proof Pro: Wide format workflow software
  • Hardware Used: Macintosh OS X G4
Sheetfed Offset
  • Creo Trendsetter: CTP device
  • Plate Puncher
  • Heidelberg SpeedMaster CD 74 offset lithographic press
Web Offset
  • Creo Trendsetter: CTP device
  • Plate Puncher
  • Goss Community 4-Unit Web Offset Press
  • Enkel Roll Stand and Box tilt
  • Stoesser Register Systems (SRS) Plate Bender
  • Lincoln Power Master 8 Automatic Black Ink Pump
  • Baldwin Accumix Dampening System
  • All-Pack-Co Bundler
  • Flint Group Ink
Bindery Equipment
  • Mohr Polar Cutter
    • The Polar Cutter is a programmable guillotine cutter used in the UGS Bindery. It is currently used to cut press sheets prior to folding, and stitching, as well as for precutting parent sheets to press sheet size.
  • MBO Buckle Folder
    • The MBO Buckle folder is used for folding brochures, and signatures to be saddle stitched or perfect bound.
  • Müller-Martini Presto Saddle Stitcher
    • The Müller-Martini Presto Saddle Stitcher, is used to create saddle-stitched books, and catalogs. The machine gathers and collates folded signatures, stitches them, and moves them through a three-knife trim where they are cut, completed and ready to be packed and delivered.
  • Müller-Martini Amigo Plus Perfect Binder
    • The Müller-Martini Amigo Plus Perfect Binder is a hot melt glue binder that creates perfect bound books. Pre-collated book blocks are fed into the machine, where the spines are ground in a milling station, and moved into two glue units where glue is applied, and the cover is attached.
  • Heidelberg Windmill
    • The Heidelberg Windmill is a letterpress that UGS uses for foil stamping and foil embossing.
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