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Ever wonder what happens to your job at any given point?
Take a look at "A Day in the Life of Job # 965341" and see what really happens.
Job Process Flowchart Link to Step One of the job process. Link to Step Four (Presses) of the job process. Link to Step Five of the job process.
 
Front Desk - you bring your Form 3 to Printing Services main office. A customer service representative or Design Services specialist helps you finish filling your form out, and goes over the details with you. A copy of he Form 3 is handed to you for reference (the job number is at the top right on the form)
 
Design Services - a Design Services specialist prepares a proof of job # 965341. You are contacted when either a fax proof, laser proof, or color copy proof is ready. You sign off on the proof. Then...
 
Prepress - job # 965341 is sent to Prepress where a dylux or contract proof is prepared for you to look over, as a final check before printing. You approve the proof, sign and date it. The job will then be imaged onto a plate.
 
Pressroom - job # 965341 is printed on one of our six presses. Or...
 
Copy Center - job # 965341 is sent to the copy center. You have elected to see a copy center proof, so you can see it on the paper you have selected. Then...
 
Bindery - job # 965341 needs to be folded, after printing, so it is sent to the bindery department. Job # 965341 is put on one of the folding machines and folded.
 
Mailing - job # 965341 is sent to mailing, which has already received the addresses you
had sent over. Mailing inkjets these addresses on your job, which already has a mailing permit on it.
 
Shipping - job # 965341 has already been mailed out, but there were a couple hundred extra copies that don't get mailed , but delivered to the customer. Shipping delivers them to your office.
 
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