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G7 is an improved method for matching color across multiple devices. It’s all about calibrating printing presses and proofing systems with the goal of repeatable, consistent color and images from proof to press, press to press and even facility to facility. The G7 specification is managed by IDEAlliance, and the biggest breakthrough is its emphasis on gray balance “target values” to monitor and control color. The ‘G’ stands for the new calibrating Gray values and the ‘7’ for the core colors in our ISO printing rainbow . . . Cyan (C), Magenta (M), Yellow (Y), Black (K), Red (M+Y), Green (C+Y) and Blue (C+M).
For print buyers, G7 means that if you are working with two or three firms – say one in New Hampshire, one in Chicago and one in Texas – and all of them are G7 Masters, you can be more confident that the vibrant reds and yellows in your new marketing campaign will “visually match” across all three locations, regardless of whether it’s printed heatset web offset, sheetfed, inkjet or digital … and whether it’s a point-of-purchase display, brochure, self-mailer or packaging.
G7 has proven to be very adaptable and reliable across many printing processes at Great Western Packaging, it’s brings us to color faster and more reliably on our presses, saving make ready time, reducing paper waste, and, best of all, making our customers happy.
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We are an
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FSC Certified Printer
We have always known that our environment is something to be treasured and preserved. As printers, we have felt a growing responsibility to care for our environment. Our customers have expressed their concern for the environment, looking for a method to show their customers a responsiveness to the need for conservation. To address this concern Great Western Packaging has earned the FSC certification. Great Western Packaging is proud to have been awarded the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC) certification. We are now certified by FSC Chain-of-Custody manufacturing and material handling guide-lines. Great Western's FSC Chain-of-Custody certificate number is SCS-COC-002865 which is audited on an annual basis.
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We are proud
to announce that we are now G7 Masters.
Great Western Packaging is the leader in the latest innovations of packaging. From starting your design template to finished product we bring you the finest finished product in the industry.
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Overview
Founded in 1970, Great Western Packaging is committed to meeting and exceeding customer expectations through superior printing quality and rapid delivery. To achieve this goal, we rely heavily on the knowledge and values of our personnel. Great Western Packaging senior management team possess more than 100 years of industry experience and place great emphasis on building long-term customer relationships.We believe our greatest attribute is the ability to meet the changing needs of our clients. We continuously invest in new technology and equipment to remain at the cutting edge of quality and consistency. As a testament to our philosophy, several of our customer relationships date back more than 30 years.
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Structural Design
Great Western Packaging is proud to have its own Structural Design department. This not only allows us to create a package that is not only visually striking but also structurally sound.Having a in-house Structural Design department allows us to create a package from start to finish. All you have to do is supply the artwork.
Digital Dept.
Great Western Packaging operates a Digital Direct-to-Plate department designed to maximize printing quality and accelerate our customers' time to press. We possess the latest technology, enabling the swift transfer of digital files to plate. To expedite work flow, we accept multiple image formats and software applications. For more information on our software capabilities and preferred image formats, please refer to Pre-Press Guidelines page.
Pressroom
Great Western Packaging's Pressroom represents the finest in sheet-fed printing technology.We operate three 40" six-color presses, including a state-of-the-art Mitsubishi 3000LX, and possess online UV coating and aqueous coating capabilities. Our industry-leading equipment enables us to execute large volume runs and specialty projects on 50 lb. paper to 24 point board.
Bindery/Finishing
Great Western Packaging operates its own full service Bindery to maintain our high quality standards throughout the production process. We offer an array of bindery solutions, including folding and gluing, windowing, security labeling, stitching and perfing to deliver maximum functionality to our customers' printed pieces. We also operate two 40" die cutters to accelerate the flow of finished sheets into the Bindery / Finishing department.
Delivery
Our fleet of trucks can meet pick-up and delivery requirements across all of Southern California.
President
Digital Manager
Production Coordinator
Vickie Kaplan
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Project Manager
General Manager
Jim Courtright
Mike Muir
Vice President of Finance
Casey George
Misty Bright
Michael Warner
Estimator
Noah Browning
Denise Beilowitz
Accounts Receivable
Michael Warner
President
Vickie Kaplan
Vice President of Finance
Denise Beilowitz
General Manager
Mike Muir
Estimator
Jim Courtright
Accounts Receivable
Misty Bright
Project Manager
Casey George
Digital Manager
Noah Browning
Production Coordinator
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We are located at:8230-8240 Haskell Ave,Van Nuys, Ca 91406Phone: (818) 464-3800 Fax: (818) 464-3872
Pre-Press Guidelines
Great Western Packaging has created a set of guidelines to help you get the most out of your original artwork.Every program has it's own idiosyncrasies and we take pride in helping you get around them to produce the cleanest and finest looking product.
CT (Photo) files should be 300 d.p.i. (150 line screen)
Spot colors or files used in Photoshop should be saved as PSD files with spot channels included.
Images should be not be enlarged more than 135%.
Clipping path tolerances in Photoshop should be set to a default tolerance of flatness.
Adobe Indesign is the preferred page layout program
Master template for pages should be used when possible.
A minimum 1/8 inch bleed should be used around any given page size or template.
All fonts should be included in a separate folder with printer and screen fonts.
Pseudo typestyles such as B or I should not be used, use the exact font style only.
Layered Adobe Photoshop files or Adobe Illustrator files that have fonts not outlined need to be submitted with the fonts used.
Pantone (PMS) colors used in any document should always be identified
Never use layered .tif images only layered native Adobe Photoshop files with layers should be used.
Documents should only have colors loaded that are needed for printing,
Make sure there are unwanted white gapes between elements,
All areas of a document that use a large amount of black should have an undercolor of at least 40% cyan,
Picture boxes in Quark should have 0% black in them,
PDF files can be used but not preferred in case any adjustments need to be made to the file. If your are supplying a PDF file please submit using the X3 format.
FTP accounts are set up on a per customer basis, you will be issued a login name and password.
A proof of the job is needed unless customer supplies own proof.
Please include written instructions or a read me file detailing Customer, Due Date and Delivery Information.
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CD inserts and Tray Cards
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Templates
Great Western Packaging has created a wide variety of templates to suit your products special needs. Below you will find our most commonly used templates in a variety of formats.We also have our own in-house Structural Design Department where we can not only custom fit your product but also make it stand out. Please click on download all templates to download all of the templates below in all of the formats.Please click on a link to download individual files.
7" x 4.75"
CD/DVD Sleeve
Trays
10.75" x 7.25"
Standard DVD
3 Panel Brochure
Inserts
10.5" x 5.875"
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Tutorials
Great Western Packaging is always streamlining ways to make your project run as smoothly as possible.In this effort we present to you some tutorials to help you in your project and to help you learn about the most common types of issues that we run into.We hope these tutorials will be beneficial to you in making your whole job what it's supposed to be, FUN.
Barcode Tutorial
How to create and use barcodes
Tutorials
Great Western Packaging is always streamlining ways to make your project run as smoothly as possible.In this effort we present to you some tutorials to help you in your project and to help you learn about the most common types of issues that we run into.We hope these tutorials will be beneficial to you in making your whole job what it's supposed to be, FUN.
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Finally,here are a some links to some of the bestbar code creators on the market.
http://www.itsapparent.com/barcodeproducer/
http://www.waspbarcode.com/barcode_software/barcode_maker.asp
http://www.agamik.co.uk/barcoder.php
Digital
Tour Facility
Great Western Packaging is proud to have the latest in Digital, Printing and Bindery technologies.Below are some of the images of the many different machines and technologies we have at our disposal to help you get the most out of what is available for today's packaging industry.
Tour Facility
Great Western Packaging is proud to have the latest in Digital, Printing and Bindery technologies.Below are some of the images of the many different machines and technologies we have at our disposal to help you get the most out of what is available for today's packaging industry.
Gallery
Great Western Packaging is proud to present some of our most stunning projects.These samples show off our Structural Design ideas as well as our print, die cutting, foiling and embossing techniques. Hopefully some of these techniques will inspire the designer in you.
Gallery
Great Western Packaging is proud to present some of our most stunning projects.These samples show off our Structural Design ideas as well as our print, die cutting, foiling and embossing techniques. Hopefully some of these techniques will inspire the designer in you.
Digital Manager
Casey George
Casey George
Accounts Receivable
Digital Manager
Estimator
Noah Browning
Production Coordinator
Estimator
Noah Browning
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4/0Full color (CMYK) printing done on the front side with no printing on the back side.
4/1Full color (CMYK) printing done on the front side with black or grayscale on the back side.
4/4Full color (CMYK) printing done the front and back side.
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