Sands Creative Group Opens New World To Short-Run Heavy Stock Paper Color Laser Printing

Cost-effective way to quickly produce small quantities of book covers, folders, postcards, direct mail pieces, and oversized materials such as banners and retail signage, on heavy stock papers.

Boston, MA (PRWEB) May 31, 2005 -- It used to be that in order to print a small quantity of postcards, business cards, folders, brochures, direct mail pieces, table tents and in-store signage on heavy stock paper, you had to use an expensive digital printing process or use thinner paper. Now a new era of short-run color printing is taking shape at Sands Creative Group, which recently became one of the first graphic design firms in the Boston area to purchase a heavy stock-enabled Xante CL30 color laser printer.

The Xante CL30 HSE is the most exciting color print technology to come along in some time," said Rick Sands, president of Sands Creative Group. It offers the speed, versatility and affordability to print flat, easily finished, high-quality materials on thick paper stock at a fraction of the cost of the older digital printing processes."

Sands Creative Groups heavy stock enabled CL30 color laser printer prints on cover stock up to a 16pt. Kromekote and includes all of Xantes award-winning specialized graphic features. Those features include 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution, Adobe PostScript 3, and automatic color recalibration. The Xanté CL30 prints 30 pages per minute of full color and 37 pages per minute in monochrome. It also excels at printing oversized materials, such as banners and retail signage up to 12.9 inches x 47 inches in size on a wide range of paper and cover stock, from light to heavy.

Founded in 1989, XANTÉ is a privately held corporation based in Mobile, Alabama, that develops and markets high performance printing solutions. XANTÉ's product line consists of high resolution color and monochrome laser printers, computer-to-plate and computer-to-film systems, and camera ready output proofing devices.

Sands Creative Group is Bostons leading visual marketing company. It was recently named one of the areas top 25 graphic design firms by the Boston Business Journal. Sands Creative Group offers clients a unique set of core design and production competencies essential to their success. Services range from corporate identity and branding to the design and printing of marketing materials, visual displays, fine arts reproduction and large format output.

For more information call 617-536-6660 or visit www.sandscreativegroup.com.

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