The GST BOCES Print Shop is committed to exceeding expectations by providing excellent customer service and raising standards.

Within equipment capabilities, we consistently strive to produce high-quality, cost-effective printed materials in the shortest turnaround time. In-house printing allows control over production to ensure a quality appearance.

Our GST BOCES Print Shop services all school districts within the Greater Southern Tier region.

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• 3 High-speed black copiers - options available:
  - Networked computer-to-copier reproduction
  - In-line booklet makers for 5.5 x 8.5 or 8.5 x 11 books
  - 3-hole punching
  - Collating, folding, or stapling
  
• Networked full color copier.
• Full color poster printer - 24 in width to varying length, great for onetime use such as school sports events, classroom study posters.
• Digital Plate Maker for computer-to-plate output.
• Four offset presses with second color T-heads.
• Risograph for low cost, small quantity orders of basic one-color ink printing (blue, red, green, maroon, black).
• Fenimore Vijuk Booklet Maker - Collates, staples, folds, face trims and single-hole punches.
• Challenge Paper Cutter- Digitally controlled programming.
• Pitney-Bowes SmartMailer system with Bryce addressing printer. Pitney-Bowes tabbing machine.
• Spiral Comb Binder with 8 colors of combs available.
• Hot melt glue padder.

• For the best masters, please use a black laser printer. Use color printers only for color-copy masters.
• 600 dpi master output provides best quality. Our camera cannot capture graphics that are 1200 dpi or higher.
• Minimum of 5/16 gripper space. Inside pages of a book or a newsletter use a consistent top and side margin along with uniform placement of page numbers.
• 20% screens or higher, because less can result in an image being lost or broken up.
• Registration Marks - color separations require at least 2 coordinating registration marks on each master (same size and placement).
• Photos and Graphics - whenever possible adjust your photos or graphics to a midtone value.

We can mail the finished product directly to your target audience with our Pitney-Bowes SmartMailer system.

Bulk mailings must consist of a minimum of 200 pieces. Newsletters, calendars, letters, postcards and booklets are prepared in accordance to U.S. Postal regulations (tabbed if required). Your mailing database merged with SmartMailer allows us to encode and sort carrier routes, thus offering our customers a substantial savings in postal charges.

Contact GST BOCES Computer Services to select your mailing database by district, school, student, grade, family or taxpayer.

We also assemble and prepare zip code saturation mailings using the most current USPS address information data.

• We recommend that someone, other than the typist of the master, do the proofreading.
• Supply as much information as possible.
• Numerical amount in the quantity line.
• Specify actual date needed.
• Quantity of original masters - indicate page number on each.
• Specify paper size, color and paper type.
• For envelopes, specify regular or window, and #11, #10, #9, 6-3/4 or other.
• For NCR forms, specify how many parts per form and the quantity of sets.
• Specify desired ink color(s).
• For folding, please indicate quarter, half or tri-fold.
• Stapling, indicate 1 or 2 staples.
• Binding, indicate spiral combs or staples.
• Specify if you need perforation or scoring.
• Padding, indicate quantity of pads, sheets per pad and edge to pad (along left side or top of form).
• Contact GST BOCES Computer Services to order bulkmail databases.
• Plan to allow 10 working days to produce your order. We will ship as soon as your job is finished.
• Please keep in mind that specialty papers may require an additional 3 to 5 days to be ordered from our supplier.
• We always try to accommodate any requests for rush orders.
• A letter of permission must be included to legally reproduce copyrighted items.

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1700 College Ave. * Elmira, NY 14901

(607) 734-4937 * Fax: (607) 734-6341 * E-mail: ssctaps@gstboces.org