Print Production

Throw it over the wall, and let us worry about the details.

Whether you want to outsource print production for a regular publication or it's just that one big project that you don't have the staff for, put these projects in our expert hands. We will return files to you that are correct and trouble-free.

CQ has years of expertise in InDesign, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat. We are specialists at creating print-ready PDF files in either CMYK, Spot Color, or Black & White. We do books, brochures, monthly publications, and single page ads; producing excellently structured files that follow your style guidelines. Page composition and formatting services include flowing and formatting text, placing pictures and executing illustrations. Finally we follow up with your printer to make sure everything is correct. We welcome working with other design firms, so call CQ and leave the preparation to us!

Recent projects include:

We updated a 36 page, table-heavy brochure with almost entirely new content keeping the same style. We started with an 8-year-old Quark 4 file and converted it to InDesign, including converting static tabbed text with manually positioned rules and shaded boxes to InDesign tables that flow from page to page with rules and shaded boxes in place. This made the production much less time consuming and much quicker to incorporate changes to the table content.

A 24x36 poster was created in Photoshop with large gradients that looked great on screen but printed with very pronounced banding on press. We re-created that art in the program that produced perfect gradients on press.

We designed a 2-sided flyer that needed to be produced in many versions in a way that enables the client to update the content themselves. We set up the templates with type styles that their staff could use without the need to become experts with design software. They go through an internal revision cycle with the copy in position, then send the flyer back to us to make sure everything is correct for printing. This is a more efficient and cost effective workflow for our client.

A client's internal designer created a new look and feel for their quarterly publication, but needed someone else to actually produce each issue. We took it from there. We work with their editorial staff to place the new stories and photos for each issue, using the style guidelines provided by their designer, preparing the final files for delivery to their printer of choice.

A manufacturer created a new design for their product labels and needed someone to apply that new design to 16 different products. We converted the design to the software standard for labels and die cutting, and provided the client with several rounds of revisions while the new design was refined.

A research firm needed a format for technical reports. They provided the raw data and we produced a set of 28 reports that lay out the research clearly and consistently, with a professional presentation far above the word-processing and pie-charts look of many such reports.

A university needed their 500+ page course catalog produced ASAP after realizing their internal staff was too overburdened to do it in-house. We picked up the ball, starting from their Word files, following their established style format, and got it done on time.