Miles Printing is striving to be an environmentally conscious printer.  We believe in being good stewards of the natural resources we have been given. 

Here is a great piece from Unisource titled “Six Myths About Paper”. 

• Myth #1: Making paper destroys forests.
• Myth #2: Paper is bad for the environment.
• Myth #3: The paper I use consumes a vast amount of energy.
• Myth #4: Paper has a high carbon footprint.
• Myth #5: Recycled paper is always better for the environment than virgin paper.
• Myth #6: Paper contributes significantly to landfills.

For more information on our Green Initiatives click here!

Sometimes Miles Printing gets lost in the paper printing shuffle. Probably because we’re best known for printing on plastics. We get that. After all, we do  a lot of printing on plastic and vinyl.

Miles Printing is a paper certified printer too!

But we do a tremendous amount of printing on paper, too. In fact, approx.80% of our printing business is paper printing. We are a certified PAPER printer!  Our standard and oversize sheet fed printing presses are state of the art – environmentally friendly, and use UV inks for sharp, colorful, quick-drying detail.

Next time you have a paper printing job, think of Miles Printing. We’re WBE certified, use green printing technology, and will give you a quote that makes sense for your project and your budget.

Think of Miles Printing for plastic AND paper:

• Business Cards
• Stationary Packages
• Brochures
• Direct Mail
• Booklets
• Note Pads
• Annual Reports
• Marketing Materials
• Posters
• Postcards
• much, much more!

When it comes to binding options, Miles Printing understands that it can be pretty confusing to know which technique is right for your next printing project. We offer lots of choices, but which one will work perfectly with your printed piece, underscoring its purpose and design qualities?

Ask a Miles Printing rep to see a sample next time you are ready to finish a binding project.

You may want to consider Saddle Stitching — stapling through the centerfold of a piece. It is called saddle stitching because folded booklets or brochures (called signatures) are placed over a “saddle” and then stapled along the spine. Saddle stitching is one of the most economic options available for binding multiple pages.

Saddle stitching is one of the easiest and most common ways to bind a booklet.

It is an excellent binding choice for booklets, brochures, newsletters, pamphlets, direct mailers and catalogs. Typically, saddle stitching works best for booklets that don’t have a lot of pages, from 8 pages to as many as 64. The key is that page quantities have to be in multiples of 4.

Because Miles Printing does a great volume of saddle stitch binding, we have invested in a Stitcher that not only automatically feeds the product signatures and 3 knife trims to the final piece size, but also has a camera detection system that recognizes feeding error and draws attention if bad pieces occur – saving time, money, and providing a perfect end-result.

Miles Printing can do all kinds of binding. Take your pick or choose a combination of bindings.

Although Miles Printing is known for printing on plastic — and we do a lot of that, it is certainly not all we do. Did you know that Miles has a full service bindery in house?

Next time you are looking for interesting ways to bind your printed piece together, consider ALL the binding choices – find the perfect option to give your finished piece impact and staying power.

The term “binding” includes all the ways to attach pages together, whether it is a manual, catalog, annual report, calendar, book, magazine, or even a flip chart. Because there are so many types of materials / substrates you can choose from, there are also many different ways to bind them together.

Miles Printing offers a full array of binding choices: depending on the look, feel, budget, quantity, weight, number of pages, stock, and longevity of your printing project. Some types of binding are classy such as saddle stitch; others such as wire-o binding have an edgier appeal. Your budget, design and stability of the piece all work together with the binding, so it’s a good place to do some planning and research.

Consider binding with:

• staple bound
• saddle stitch
• wire-o binding
• perfect binding
• plastic coil binding
• screw and post
• even rubber band binding

Your Miles Printing rep is a good source for ideas and recommendations and has dozens of samples. Let us help you get into a “good” bind!

Let’s talk a little about “variable data printing” or VDP (a.k.a. variable information printing).  Miles is doing great things for our customers using variable data such as: helping to enhance direct marketing and customer relationship management, incorporation PURLs, and adding unique eye catching QR technology.

Variable data is a form of on-demand printing that is gaining popularity.  Text, graphics and images can be changed from one printed piece to the next, without slowing down the printing process. Another reason it’s so popular? The returns for variable printing vary from double the return to 10-15 times the return for fully variable jobs, depending on content and the relevancy. Which means variable data is a highly effective tool for increasing ROI on marketing campaigns.

Why change these elements? Adding personalization is a great way to get the attention of your audience and it’s a simple process.  We use information from a database to personalize each printed piece, using a different name and address, inserting a PURL (personalized URL) or QR Code(quick response barcode) or any other field, for that matter. Variable data printing enables 1:1 marketing campaigns – instead of producing 10,000 copies of a single document, delivering a single message to 10,000 customers, variable data printing could print 10,000 unique documents with personalized messages for each customer.

Let Miles Printing show you how you can use variable data in your next printing project to dramatically increase your return.

If you are like most of our clients, you think of Miles Printing as a commercial offset printer who primarily prints with UV inks – and you likely know that we specialize in printing on all types of unique substrates.

This folder for Harrison College required Miles to print, die cut, fold and glue the pocket folder, then print the inside pages with tabs, which required die cutting. Miles also gathered all pieces and collated the finished product into kits.

All of that is true, but we do a lot more, including:

• CD / DVD replication & packaging
• Variable data services including Purls (Personalized URL’s) and QR codes
• Signage
• Die cutting
• Folding & gluing
• Saddle stitching
• Print on demand
• Mailing
• Fulfillment services

Because we can provide multiple services, Miles Printing can streamline the production process – from printing and mailing and even fulfillment. And because we can handle the entire process, it’s cost-effective!