Arandell Corporation
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| Color Science | Press Room | Finishing | Paper | Mailing & Logistics | Customer Service | Customer-connect.net | Education & Consulting |
Arandell Color Science offers comprehensive prepress services and solutions to the catalog industry. With a wealth of industry knowledge and experience, we manage complex projects while offering our clients peace of mind. On average, each employee has over 20 years of experience in critical color matching and problem solving skills.
Digital Workflow Solutions
Arandell Color Science works with clients on establishing the most efficient workflow on a client-by-client basis. We do not believe in the “one size fits all” workflow solution. We begin by understanding your internal workflow and challenges, working with you on every step of the process to develop solutions that are efficient, timely and cost effective.
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Scanning / Photo Conversion - Color match / retouch
We spend a great deal of time upfront with your photographer, ensuring that they are capturing color in a manner that converts seamlessly into a Web Offset printing platform. In many cases, we establish a customized color converting workflow for each individual photographer in order to meet our client’s expectations.
Each of our color operators has over 20 years of experience with critical color matching and retouching in fashion, food, cosmetics and general hard goods. More importantly, they develop a thorough understanding of each client’s expectations and strive to exceed them with their technical and artistic skills. Each image is meticulously evaluated and adjusted to exacting standards that result in excellent color reproduction on press.
Our entire workflow utilizes calibrated monitors, scanners, and color proofing devices so that we can maintain consistent and predictable color throughout our process. Arandell adheres to the GRACoL 7.0 standard throughout its entire workflow. GRACoL (General Requirements for Application in Commercial Offset Lithography)
Proofing
Arandell Color Science offers both hard copy and soft proofs to our clients for both color and content.
Kodak Approval Proof - 150 & 175 Line Screen
20 & 25 Micron Stochastic
Epson Inkjet Proof
Kodak InSite On-Line Proof – content and color*
All proofing options are calibrated to GRACoL 7.0 specifications. Arandell requires a hard copy proof for use on press.
* The use of InSite for color requires the appropriate equipment at the client site and pre-approval prior to its use.
Workflow / Page production
Arandell Color Science offers 100% digital workflow solutions. All of our digital workflows are based on a PDF-X1a file format. We utilize a fully automated Kodak Prinergy Workflow for receiving, preflighting, optimizing and outputting client supplied files.
Every project is run through the same workflow which controls all of our output devices, including proofing and platemaking, ensuring accuracy and consistency throughout our entire process. Your job is RIP’d once prior to output (RIP Once – Output Many) so your proofs will match what is plated.
Content Management
Kodak EyeMedia makes all your content easy to find and easy to retrieve — making it much easier to control and maintain your corporate brand. The ability to find and distribute anything in your archive at Internet speed will give your entire organization a demonstrable competitive edge.
Our secure digital asset management system is available to you 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can simply view them or, within a couple of clicks, place them directly into a shopping cart and download them right to your desktop.
Asset management services are free to all prepress clients.
Computer-to-Plate
Arandell Corporation has been a leader in Computer-To-Plate workflows since 1996 when we installed the second platesetter in North America. Arandell has been 100% digital since the Spring of 1998 and today operate two fully automated plating and bending lines producing up to 150 plates every 8 hours.
Recently we installed a fully automated plate bending and racking system that has eliminated all operator intervention and plate handling throughout our workflow.
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The Arandell Press Room is a state-of-the-art facility that integrates the latest computer technology with veteran press associates to deliver the highest quality print work in the industry. On average, our press associates have 20 years of experience in the printing industry. Let our expert teams of press associates guide you through the color approval process quickly and efficiently.
Heidelberg M3000 Sunday Presses:
• Cutoffs Include: 22.25” X 54”, 21.5” X 54”, 21.5 X 57”, and 21.5” X 72”
• Single web with 5 printing units
• All with pinless double former folder (PFF 3) folders.
• One press with an additional double parallel folder.
Heidelberg M1000BE Press:
• Long cutoff: 22.75” X 38”
• Single web with 5 printing units
• PFF 2 former folder
• In-line one side UV Coating
• Pattern perforator
• Web sheeting capabilities
To improve productivity, quality, and performance the Arandell Press Room is on the cutting edge of computer enhancements. We incorporate color guidance controls, with automated ribbon, cutoff and register control systems creating an arsenal of superior presses.
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We combine binding and finishing equipment with old fashioned craftsmanship to create a versatile and flexible binding experience. All of our machines are selective bind capable with a variety of pocket combinations to match virtually any job requirements. We utilize blow-in card technologies throughout and have many lines capable of multiple card insertion. In addition, our 2” high quality ink jet heads can add messaging and maps to your project to add a personal touch.
Saddle Stitch
• Heidelberg SP1000 stitchers
• Heidelberg 850/855 stitchers
• Heidelberg 750 stitchers
Catalog trim sizes: 5” X 5” digest up to 10 7/8” X 107/8” square
Pockets: Up to 28 max
Additional capabilities: Blow-in, Dot-whack, Bind-in, Tip on, and full demographic binding
Perfect Binding
• UB200 system Heidelberg Perfect Binders with H/T trimmers
Catalog trim sizes: 6” X 9” min. to 10 7/8” X 10 7/8” max
Pockets: up to 32 pockets max. w/ 2 cover selective max
Additional capabilities: Blow-in, Dot whack, Hinge Scoring,
and Thin Caliper catalogs
Poly Bagging
• Buhrs six rotary and one shuttle pockets Polybagger
• Sitma seven rotary and two shuttle pockets Polybagger
Catalog size: 12” X 12” max to 4 ˝” X 4 1/2”
Additional capabilities: Blow-ins, 2 pg. Onserts, and inside/outside Ink Jet capabilities
Co-Mailing
• SIM Products standard mail Co-mailers, with variable height mail tables
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The majority of paper that is purchased by Arandell comes from paper mills or distributors that have met the standards for Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) or Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. SFI designates that members of the North American forest products industry are leading efforts to promote responsible forest management. The FSC sets standards that are intended to promote environmentally responsible forestry practices. Arandell holds a FSC chain-of-custody certification.
Product Mix
Our current product mix is divided between coated freesheet grades and coated groundwood grades. Since many of our customers require high quality, the majority of the grades we consume fall into the number two and three freesheet category. The bulk of our paper is produced in the U.S. and is spread among the four or five largest coated paper manufacturers. One of the reasons for this approach is to allow our clientele the flexibility within the narrowest time-frame to make changes to their print order. We try to guide customers to use the brands experienced by our pressroom that produce the best results. The more we can narrow down the focus to a few grades and finishes, the greater the pressroom efficiencies.
Paper Calculator
The Paper Calculator is a free, one-of-a-kind, interactive tool that enables companies, NGOs, communities, schools, and other organizations to understand and improve their paper use. Developed by Environmental Defense, the Paper Calculator provides users with U.S. average wood consumption, energy use, and other environmental impacts of different paper types across their full life cycle. For each of the 13 major grades of paper and paperboard, the Paper Calculator allows the user to compare the environmental impacts of papers made with different levels of recycled content and to see how using less paper or changing other specifications can reduce environmental harm.
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As one of the leading web offset printers in North America, Arandell can back you with world-class logistics and support. We mastered the technique of mailing and distributing catalogs long before most mailers understood the complexity of catalog distribution.
We will assist you in understanding complex USPS rules and offer solutions to fit in your marketing goals and budget. Our team will help you take advantage of the most comprehensive postal discounts.
Consulting
Our team of highly trained professionals will assist you in reviewing all facets of your mailing program. We know it’s not just a catalog, it’s your brand. While the USPS rules and regulations can be very intimidating, our specialized employees will use layman’s terms to explain how such regulations can affect your mailings.
Logistics
Arandell’s logistics group offers commercial print and mail freight delivery anywhere in the nation through an efficient distribution network. Our powerful resources provide more flexibility and economy than ever before. We have national coverage available at all service levels to and from all 50 states, Canada and Mexico.
International Mailing Services
Our mailing department not only has extensive knowledge of domestic rules and regulations, but we also have comprehensive knowledge of international mailing requirements. We belong to and participate in various international associations that keep us informed of the market and its opportunities.
Co-Mailing
The co-mailing system used is a sophisticated approach that is more effective and less restrictive than co-stitching. The co-mailing program allows catalogers vast partnership opportunities based on in-home and mail dates and our strategy gives nearly any cataloger the opportunity to participate. Co-mailing will be a part of our industry for the foreseeable future and Arandell is at the forefront of this transformation.
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Arandell’s customer service is unique within the printing industry. How do we know? Our clients keep telling us! They tell us how much they appreciate our attention to detail, our on-line communication tools, and our personal service. At Arandell, our focus is not just on producing a quality catalog; it’s also on building long-lasting relationships. Your service team will guide you every step of the way. Our mission is to understand your processes so well that we become an extension of your company and a second set of eyes for your projects.
Our Team
Sales Representative – They are the voice of your organization at Arandell from the initial consultation to the final delivery of your product.
Sales Support Representative (SSR) – Your SSR will verify your project specs, schedule, and pricing by utilizing Customer-Connect, our on-line communication tool.
Client Services Representative (CSR) – The CSR communicates your print instructions throughout Arandell and follows up with you to guarantee your expectations have been met.
List Processors – They ensure your address files are presorted and inkjet requirements are formatted according to your unique needs.
Consulting
Our service team will draw on their many years of experience to assist you in reviewing all aspects of your catalog program. From design through distribution, we are able to offer up cost-saving opportunities for your consideration.
Customer-connect.net
Arandell Corporation is pleased to offer you the best communications tool in the industry. Project specifications are available at your fingertips, making it easy to communicate a change anytime, anywhere. As your project progresses through production, Customer-Connect.net provides you with valuable real-time tracking of your mail and non-mail product.
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Arandell Corporation’s Customer-Connect.net is a unique workflow management and communications tool developed for catalog marketers. Unlike other systems created for general print applications, Customer-Connect.net is focused on providing our customers real-time access to key project details – anytime, anywhere.
State-of-the-Art Communications System
Customer-Connect.net enables you to:
Real-time Catalog Production Management
Developed by the Arandell Information Technology Group, Customer-Connect.net is designed as an easy-to-use communication tool that gives customers access to real-time information through all stages of the production process including pre-press, press, bindery and logistics.
You can instantly determine your job status, make any necessary changes, update your management team, and retain tighter control of your projects.
Communication Was Never Easier
Change requests can be submitted quickly and easily to the Arandell team at any time, day or night! At Arandell, team members receive the highlighted changes and route them electronically for a rapid response from the various departments.
Anytime, Anywhere
Customer-Connect.net is a secured online service that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you have internet access, you can log on and check the status of your projects anytime, anywhere you are located.
A Team Player
Customer-Connect.net will assist you, along with your Salesperson and Account Manager. Although Customer-Connect.net contains a great deal of information, we welcome the opportunity to discuss projects with you over the phone or face-to-face. Customer-Connect.net will not diminish our personal touch. It was designed to provide you, the customer, with a faster means of checking status, requesting quotes, or reacting to changes.
User Friendly
We kept you in mind when we designed Customer-Connect.net and know that you will find it exceptionally easy to learn. All the terminology is readily understood and the system can be customized to your needs in a variety of ways. You can install different levels of usage for people within your organization.
By using Customer-Connect.net, you have the ability to view a single spreadsheet that summarizes all of your current projects, as well as a personalized job calendar to keep your projects organized.
On-Time Delivery
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