Offset & Large Format Printing in Blackwood, NJ

Offset printing is still the standard for high-volume, color-consistent print runs. Ink is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the sheet, which holds color accurately across long runs and a wide range of stocks. At Print and Mail Communications LLC's Blackwood, NJ plant, offset runs on two Heidelberg 40" 6-color CD 102 presses with inline aqueous coating, so a job can be printed and coated in a single pass instead of a separate finishing step.

Short-run offset jobs typically ship in 3 days, which makes the format practical for newsletters, brochures, postcards, booklets, magazines, business cards, letterheads, NCR forms, labels, invitations, flyers, rack cards, reports, menus, folders, and posters: the range of products PMC runs through its press floor. Envelope printing runs separately on Halm Super Jet 2-color presses, handling sizes up to 10×13, which matters for statement and direct-mail work that needs a printed envelope to match the piece inside.

Because the press floor, bindery, and mail shop all operate out of the same Blackwood facility, an offset job doesn't wait on an outside vendor to move to cutting, folding, or stitching — it goes straight from the Heidelberg presses into PMC's own 24/7 bindery. For clients across South Jersey and the greater Philadelphia metro who need consistent color on a real production schedule, that's the practical difference between one in-house workflow and coordinating a print shop, a separate bindery, and a week of back-and-forth between vendors.

Prepress runs on a Javelin 8300 platesetter with a Fuji XMF workflow, so plates come off the same digital file that's proofed on an Epson SureColor P8000 before the job ever hits a press, a step that catches color and layout issues before a full run is committed. That prepress-to-press pipeline is also why offset and digital work at PMC aren't run in isolation: a job that needs the color consistency of offset for a long run, or the speed of digital variable-data printing for a personalized short run, moves through the same plant and the same production team either way.