our partners
four colour print group
The ever-changing landscape of worldwide book manufacturing requires continual monitoring. Technology, production capacity, customer service, financial stability -- Four Colour ensures all our print partners maintain the highest standards in every area. We craft solutions from the world's top printers to provide just the right balance of low price and timely delivery.
Everbest Printing Company Limited
Everbest Printing Company Limited was founded by Mr. James Chung in 1954. His visions and the seed of his effort has grown steadily over the years into the formidable book production plant that it is today, recognised as one of Asia`s foremost printing houses with a strong reputation for producing high-quality printed products.
The variety of Everbest production ranges from simple text books, to prestigious multicolor art books, coffee-table books and professional source books of different binding requirements. In addition to traditional book manufacturing, the other main stay of the company`s printing business includes the production of board books and pop-up books as well as a wide variety of hand-assembly work.
With a skilled and experienced workforce of around 1200 in both Hong Kong and China, it is this dedication to perfection that has seen many of Everbest`s products winning international book production awards. Everbest has established themselves as one of Asia's most environmentally friendly printers, having achieved both FSC certification and attaining the ISO 14001 classification. Everbest has also passed both the comprehensive Disney and C.A.R.E. audits to ensure workplace safety, market-based wages, and ethical treatment of workers.
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Lifetouch Production, Inc.
The Lifetouch story began in 1936 when two young entrepreneurs, Bruce Reinecker and Eldon Rothgeb, made plans to bring “School Photography of Distinction” to one-room schoolhouses throughout rural Minnesota. A little more than a decade after its founding, Lifetouch had become the largest school photography firm in the country. In 1994, Lifetouch entered the school yearbook business to leverage their success with school photography. Two modern and efficient book manufacturing plants were built during the 1990s to bring the service, speed, and quality previously unavailable for school yearbooks. In 2008, Lifetouch became Four Colour Print Grou's preferred print partner p to bring this same level of precision to educational and trade publishers at prices rivaling Asian competitors. Today, the company remains privately held as a 100% employee owned enterprise, a legacy of the founder's commitment to their employees and customers.
The Lifetouch press team strives for excellence in print beginning with our advanced computer-to-plate technology. We operate 4, 5, and 8 color sheet-fed Heidelberg offset presses capable of exceptional print quality and running at some of the fastest press speeds available today, as well as Indigo digital presses for superior reproduction in an on-demand environment. We own two of the most modern, fully equipped binderies in the nation, featuring high-speed smythe sewing, hard-cover casebinding, and a full array of softcover binding machinery. As innovative book manufacturing professionals, we have brought the famed "6-Sigma" quality control techniques to both our plants, and strive for incremental improvement on a daily basis. Our customers find we regularly exceed their expectations and achieve completely satisfying results.
The Merrick Printing Company, Inc.
Merrick Printing Company, located in Louisville, Kentucky operates a fully equipped printing and binding facility featuring 5&6 color printing (in-line aqueous coating), perfect binding, and saddle stitching. Merrick operates one of the most advanced on-demand digital printing departments in the country, featuring the latest Xerox iGen3 for high-speed, low cost digital color printing, along with latest Xerox Docutechs for single color work. Variable data applications are a specialty. As a customer driven company, Merrick will continue to invest in improving personnel, products and equipment that will increase our technological leadership position among independent printing/communication companies.
O’Neil Printing
Since 1908, O'Neil Printing has had a long tradition of caring about our customers, the community and our employees, as well as an ongoing commitment to the innovative use of technology. It's no wonder that O'Neil is known as Arizona's 'traditionally innovative' printing company. O'Neil Printing offers high-quality scanning and pre-press capabilities. Our pressroom is equipped with one through eight-color computer controlled Heidelberg presses with aqueous coating, and we have complete bindery, mailing and fulfillment services. Our most recent addition is a new HP 5000 Indigo 6-color press designed for high quality, short-run printing with variable data capabilities for one-to-one marketing applications.
Roswell Bookbinding
Roswell Bookbinding was established in 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona by Mark and Iris Roswell. The original focus of the company was on Library Binding, with binding service initially provided to private and public libraries statewide in Arizona. Edition Binding was added in the late 1960's, and our family-owned business has grown steadily over the past four decades. We offer competitive prices for custom binding, excellent craftsmanship, and a commitment to provide our customers with the best binding service available today. Our Trade, Library, and Specialty Divisions are directed by our President Michael Roswell, the son of the founders. Our customer base has expanded to include both national and international customers, and the demand for our top quality custom binding is greater than ever.
Times Publishing Group, Malaysia
Throughout its history, Times Publishing Group has pursued a strategy of growth that has made the company one of the most reputable names in publishing, printing, distribution and retail in the Asia-Pacific. It has a global network of 40 subsidiaries and four associated companies that spans across key cities in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, China, Australia, Europe and the USA.
TPG had its beginnings in 1968, as a pioneer of English language publishing in Singapore. In the early 1970s, the company established itself in textbook publishing for primary and secondary school textbooks in Singapore and Malaysia. A bold move made by the group in 1980 saw the acquisition of the partwork publisher, Marshall Cavendish Ltd in the UK and its U.S. subsidiary Marshall Cavendish Corporation.
The group's presence in China since the 1990s has seen the establishment of a network of printing plants and sales offices in major cities that include Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Harbin, and ventured beyond book and magazine printing into packaging printing.
Times Print Group's printing brand, Times Printers, has likewise attained international status with a highly integrated one-stop service that encompasses every stage of print production and even post-production, including finishing solutions, distribution and fulfillment. Today, TP has eight printing plants in Asia and an international sales network established in key cities in the U.S., Europe and Australia.
fci digital
Established at the dawn of the desktop publishing revolution in 1989, FCI Digital serves as the leader in scanning and prepress exclusively dedicated to the needs of high quality color book publishers and graphic arts professionals. Today, we continue as the experts in digital color management, insuring that files and proofs created here will print true to color anywhere in the world. We've calibrated and profiled our partners' printing equipment and installed the latest and most cost-effective digital proofing technology. We maintain a level of personal service and technical support unavailable from any competitor.