Seamlessly preparing your content for print and other media.

Quad/Imaging offers a full range of services to meet any and all of your prepress needs under our "one roof," and provide you with straightforward and seamless service. Using the industry's most advanced prepress technology, our employee-experts swiftly and consistently prepare your files and images in a 100 percent digital PDF-based workflow for the best possible reproduction on press, not to mention other media channels.

Strength and flexibility come from our strategic network

Regardless of your location, our strategic network of fully integrated service centers puts a large capacity of prepress power just around your corner, if not closer. Operating round-the-clock and year-round, our centers are linked to each other and to all our printing plants via a high-speed network. That means any one of our facilities can be instantly mobilized to meet critical deadlines or accommodate last minute changes, and we can synchronize jobs — across multiple locations, no less — to put the most updated, color-accurate and high-resolution image and page files within your reach at all times. And because each Quad/Imaging facility follows the very same standard operating procedures, you can be assured you'll get the same high-quality production wherever your job is prepped.

Expert color management

Our color specialists employ the latest in color management technology and color profiling combined with industry standards to close the loop on color from image capture through press and achieve the highest quality color reproduction on your final product.

Working smarter through workflow automation

Through investment and innovation, we're continually upgrading our platform to reduce your cycle times while improving color quality. Through our revolutionary Smartools — many of which are specific to Quad/Imaging — we're automating and simplifying our collective processes to eliminate wasteful steps and generate efficiencies. Use our Smartools to complete a variety of prepress-related tasks, including converting your digital advertising files into reliable print-ready file formats, approving press-ready files online and more. Our customized solutions not only deliver improved quality but also the abbreviated job cycles mandatory in today's digital age.

Tap into Quad/Imaging for the following services:

• Scanning, retouching, color manipulation, silhouetting, special effects
  and digital page assembly
• Color management from creative to press
• Soft proofing
• Automated PDF creation, file transfer and conversions
• Asset, workflow, content and rights management
• Advertising resource management
• Online digital blueline content and position proofing
• Digital platemaking and cylinder engraving
• Workflow/process improvement consultation and software development

• Find more information on supplying prepress files to Quad/Graphics here.