Buyer's Guide: Publication Printers

Apex Engraving & Lithography
9854 National Blvd., #209
Los Angeles, CA 90034
P: 310-766-2553
F: 310-766-2553

Apex provides premium-quality gravure printing for the commercial market.

DNP Corporation USA
335 Madison Ave., Third Floor
New York, NY 10017
P: 212-503-1853
E: hotta-t@mail.dnp.co.jp
www.dnp.co.jp/index_e.html

Dai Nippon Printing, parent company of DNP Corporation USA, is the world’s largest printing company when all the publication, commercial printing, packaging, and decorative printing divisions are included. All the related plants are in Asia, mostly in Japan. When you have any plan to print in Asia, please contact us.

Editora Abril S.A., Printing Company
Av. Otaviano Alves de Lima, 4400
02909-900, Freguesia do Ó
São Paulo, Brazil
P: 011-55-11-3990-1322
Commercial Department
P: 011-55-11-3990-1999
E: publiabril@abril.com.br
www.abril.com.br

Brazilian publisher Abril’s printing division, which employs 1,100 people and occupies an area of 48,000 square meters near the Marginal Tietê highway in São Paulo, produces 350 million printed copies, including magazines, supplements, and special issues.
Plant production is completely integrated with the logistics and distribution areas, boosting productivity and making the operation tremendously competitive. All this technology and process integration makes it possible, for example, to deliver Veja to subscribers on Sunday, in spite of the magazine’s editorial deadline on Saturday at dawn.

Quad/Graphics
N63 W23075 State Hwy. 74
Sussex, WI 53089
P: 1-888-782-3226
E: qgraphics@qg.com
www.QG.com

Quad/Graphics offers flexible, high-quality gravure production at the speeds and run lengths required to keep pace with the needs of today’s publishers and catalogers. Established entirely through “greenfield” growth, our three gravure plants—in Lomira, WI; Martinsburg, WV; and Oklahoma City, OK—are homes to the very latest in gravure technology, from next-generation cylinder engravers to rotogravure presses that are fully automated from cylinder loading and unloading through product delivery. Since entering the gravure market in 1986, Quad/Graphics has installed more than half of the industry’s new gravure capacity. According to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reporting data, our gravure printing facilities collectively are the best performing in the industry for minimizing air emissions.

RR Donnelley
111 South Wacker Dr.
Chicago, IL 60606-4301
P: 312-326-8000
E: dana.fredrickson@rrd.com
www.rrdonnelley.com

RR Donnelley, a global provider of integrated communications, works collaboratively with more than 60,000 customers worldwide to develop custom communications solutions that reduce costs, enhance ROI, and ensure compliance. The company, drawing on a range of proprietary and commercially available digital and conventional technologies deployed across four continents, employs a suite of leading Internet-based capabilities and other resources to provide premedia, printing, logistics, and business process outsourcing services to leading clients in virtually every private and public sector.
In 2008, the company reported sales of $11.5 billion and was ranked #233 on the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest corporations.

Founded more than 145 years ago, RR Donnelley is the world’s premier full-service provider of print and related services, including business process outsourcing. It provides products and solutions in commercial printing, direct mail, financial printing, print fulfillment, labels, forms, logistics, call centers, transactional print-and-mail, print management, online services, digital photography, color services, and content and database management.

The company serves customers that are active in the advertising, financial services, healthcare, publishing, retail, and technology industries, as well as in many other segments. The largest companies in the world and others rely on RR Donnelley’s scale, scope, and insight through a comprehensive range of online tools, variable printing services, and market-specific solutions.

Worldcolor
999 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montreal, QB, Canada H3A 3L4
P: 514-954-0101, 800-567-7070
F: 514-954-9624
www.worldcolor.com

Worldcolor is a global leader in providing complete, high-value marketing and advertising solutions to leading retailers, catalogers, branded-goods companies, and other businesses with marketing and advertising activities, as well as complete, full-service print solutions for publishers.

To its customer groups, the company states, “Worldcolor is the partner of choice for reaching your target audience through print and electronic communications.”
The company is a market leader in most of its major product categories, which include advertising inserts and circulars, catalogs, direct mail products, magazines, books, directories, digital premedia, logistics, mail list technologies, and other value-added services.

Worldcolor operates a leading North American coast-to-coast dual-process gravure and offset platform providing publishers and retailers with consistent top-quality product, delivered on time in close proximity to the end-user. Approximately 20,000 employees work in Worldcolor’s printing and related facilities in the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.
In late October, the company announced a multi-year contract with Macmillan’s U.S. operations to print about 800 million major trade bestsellers, textbooks, and mass-market (paperback) books.

The Worldcolor name became the business denomination for the company’s legal denomination World Color Press Inc. on September 17. The company traces its founding to 1903.