Crown Roll Leaf
Crown Roll Leaf is a world leader in the manufacture of quality
hot stamping foils, diffraction gratings, heat transfers and
individual holographic images. Their foils decorate retail packaging,
labels, cosmetics, greeting cards, video boxes and more. Vice
President Stewart Glazer explains that “hot stamping foils
enhance and add value to packaging, and also create greater
product visibility and consumer awareness in the marketplace.” Crown
offers over 2,000 standard products and inventories millions
of square feet of foil, and its unique system of vertical integration
allows all aspects of manufacturing — from design concept
through production, converting and shipping — to be done
at its facility in Paterson NJ.
T 800.631.3831
W www.crownrollleaf.com
CTI Paper Group, Inc.
 CTI Paper Group, Inc., is made up of three divisions: CTI Paper
USA, WorldWin and ThePaperMillStore.com. The largest of these
is CTI Paper USA, an important supplier and manufacturer of premium
specialty printing papers for graphic designers. Sold under The
Fine Paper Collection umbrella, the offerings are among the most
unique papers available in the world, and are used for annual
reports, brochures, business cards, pocket folders, greeting
cards and any project that calls for elegance and sophistication.
Gradelines include Aspire Petallics, Glama Natural, Bindakote,
Constellation, Virtual and Splendorlux are available through
local paper merchants. A very useful Resource Binder as well
as samples and promotions (such as CTI’s new Glama Natural
promotional piece) can be ordered online. A second division,
WorldWin, prepackages selected papers and distributes them through
hundreds of retail stores. Last but not least, the company has
recently introduced ThePaperMillStore.com, an industry supported
e-commerce site partnered with several leading paper manufacturers.
(See also ThePaperMillStore.com in this report.)
T 800.284.7273
W www.thepapermill.com
Dell
Dell, needless to say, is a major provider of computers and information
technology infrastructure. Its climb to market leadership is
legendary, the result of a persistent focus on delivering quality
and affordability while selling directly to customers. The direct
model, asserts CEO Michael Dell, allows the company to better
understand its clients and build every system to order. The
company is making a concerted effort to better serve the creative
professional community with appropriate workstations, printers
and other products. Interestingly, in the traditionally Mac-oriented
world of design and publishing, Windows use among graphic designers — particularly,
in-house graphic design departments — is on the rise.
T 800.WWW.DELL
W www.dell.com
Digital Vision
 Digital Vision is a premier royalty free publisher known for
its fresh and cutting edge imagery. Launched in 1995 by two stock
photography professionals, Mark Austin and Mike Watson, the company
publishes photography, illustration, music and moving footage
used widely by designers, advertising agencies, publishers and
corporate clients. The company has rapidly expanded to a worldwide
presence in the royalty free creative content market. Headquartered
near Tower Bridge, London, Digital Vision also has an office
in Manhattan NY and sells directly in France, Germany, Holland
and Spain through an International Sales Center based in London.
Additionally, their design elements are distributed by over 100
partners in 70 countries around the world. The hallmark of its
success has been quality and innovation, garnerning recognition
among contributors and design professionals, winning numerous
awards, including, in the UK, the Queen's Award for Export. 10,000
fresh, new creative elements are added to the collection each
year.
T 888.381.9445 W www.digitalvision.com
DK Images
DK Images is the stock image library of the visual-intensive
publisher Dorling Kindersley. Over the last 25 years Dorling
Kindersley has photographed an amazing array of subjects and
themes for its highly illustrated products, and the encyclopedic
collection of over 3.5 million pictures is comprised of DK Studio
shots and specialist commissioned work. Pictures range from
simple plant and food cut-outs to animals and exotic locations.
Over 200,000 of these unique pictures can be viewed and purchased
online, and there is a well-trained staff that will conduct
free searches, as well.
www.dkimages.com
Domtar
 With an appreciation for every designer’s individuality,
Domtar offers a comprehensive roster of coated and uncoated graphic
design papers. This includes a broad selection of quality environmentally
responsible papers bearing FSC certification and high recycled
content to maximize choice and flexibility. It is all part of
the company’s “different feel” experience.
More than just a paper company, though, Domtar also produces
a range of educational resources. A free Product Info Kit helps
with paper selection. Four free Answer Packs — On Color,
On Texture, On Dots and On Black & White — demonstrate
printing techniques for colored papers, textured papers, dot
manipulations and black and white graphics. And the Domtar Kudos
contest honors graphic designers who create outstanding work
with “a different feel” on Domtar papers. This year’s
winner: a poster, the “Spirit of Nashville,” conceived
by Anderson Thomas Design and printed by McQuiddy Printing using
Domtar Solutions’ smooth Carrara white.
T 800.6.DOMTAR
W www.domtar.com
Dynagraf
For over 30 years, Dynagraf has taken pride in providing the
design community with quality printing and customer service.
Dynagraf is “committed to the art of ink on paper and
to making your vision a reality.” State-of-the-art equipment,
including eight- and ten-color Mitsubishi presses outfitted
with UV drying lamps, maximize press results on uncoated papers
and provide designers with a wide range of substrate options.
An ink lab customizes and proofs spot color selection and, while
on press, a technical support team is on duty to answer questions
and help designers and print buyers. Dynagraf offers sheetfed
and web capabilities, prepress, bindery, mailing and fulfillment.
T 781.575.1700
W www.dynagraf.com
EFI
EFI is a world leader in digital imaging and print management
solutions for commercial and enterprise printing. EFI's award-winning
technologies offer document management tools from creation to
print, including high fidelity color and black and white Fiery(r)
print servers that can output up to 2,000 ppm, powerful production
workflow and print management information software solutions
for increased performance and cost efficiency, and an array
of business-critical enterprise and mobile printing solutions.
The company is increasingly focusing its products and technology
on the needs and concerns of graphic designers and other creative
professionals: note products such as the Fiery Graphic Arts
Package, Premium Edition, with color management and color control
tools for digital printing. EFI maintains 26 offices worldwide.
T 800.875.7117
W www.efi.com
envelopemall.com
Traditional and specialty envelopes are the reason-to-be for
envelopemall.com, an e-commerce site for graphic designers and
other paper buyers. Stocked envelopes include Brown Bag Krafts,
parchments, whites, blacks and translucents in many colors, as
well as CD carriers and much more. Envelopemall offers a wide
range of monthly specials, savings on large orders, custom printing
options and fast shipping. A new development: the site now offers
writing, text and cover sheets in small prepackaged quantities
from several leading brands and mills.
T 800.632.4242
W www.envelopemall.com
Epson
Epson offers an extensive array of award-winning image capture
and image output products for the graphic arts market, consumers
and businesses. Founded in 1975, Epson America is the US affiliate
of the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, a global manufacturer
and supplier of high-tech products. Epson manufactures, among
other products, scanners, desktop printers, graphic printers,
photo printers and projectors. Additionally, the company is
a major supplier of ink and media. Extremely popular among graphic
designers are the company’s wide format printers and proofers — the
Epson Stylus Pro 4000, 7600 and 9600 — engineered specifically
for creative professionals. The latest enhancement to the line:
a Professional Edition of the 4000 featuring a ColorBurst RIP
with a full Pantone color library, so that there is no need
to convert spot colors to process equivalents.
T 800.GO.EPSON
W www.epson.com
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