Total Printing Systems

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About TPS

Please take a moment to learn about TPS (Total Printing Systems). If you are looking for affordable, quality book printing, you’ve come to the right place.

 

Since 1973 our company’s niche has been short-run and ultra short-run book printing; we are a single source provider for short-run publishers, small presses, authors, university presses, and others. We also offer Instant Quote which is an easy to use budgeting tool, as well as inventory management, Ship-On-Demand Fulfillment, Print-On-Demand, warehousing, and a Bookstore (coming soon).

 

Total Printing Systems shares your commitment to the protection of the environment. We are FSC certified. We use environmentally friendly digital inks (98% water) and toner and always stock recycled paper. We continue to make improvements to our practices in order to lessen the impact on our environment.

FSC Promo Landscape Green Negative_TPSOur forward-thinking company is always looking for continuous improvement. Located in the Heartland of American (Newton, IL), we remain dedicated to customer satisfaction.

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Our Services

  • Instant Quote (Internet Based Pricer)
  • Prepress – Digital or Conventional
  • Digital Printing – High-speed Inkjet, Toner Based Printing, Web and Sheetfed Full Color/Black and White
  • Complete In-House Bindery – Saddle Stitch, Perfect Binding, Case Binding (adhesive and Side Sewn), Mechanical Binding (Spiral/Wire-O/Comb), Loose Leaf, 3-hole drill, Lay-flat, and PUR Binding
  • Print-On-Demand
  • Foil Stamping, Matte Varnish/Spot Gloss, Embossing, and Debossing
  • Lamination – Gloss and Matte
  • Ship-On-Demand Fulfillment
  • Warehousing
  • Inventory Management
  • Bookstore – coming soon!

Our Niche

  • Books – One-Offs, Ultra Short Run (25-500) Short Run (50- 5000)
  • E-books and Flip Books
  • Our company provides digital sheetfed and digital web using state of the art equipment.

PREPRESS

DIGITAL
To better enable us to achieve our goal of serving customers, Total Printing Systems’ electronic prepress department includes computer workstations equipped with high resolution scanners, laser printers, an imagesetter for high resolution output. With the versatility to accommodate conventional or digital file formats and file transfers, our prepress department ensures that the job is done to your exacting specifications and when necessary will assist you in preparing your files for print.

 

PRESSROOM

DIGITAL PRESSES

  • Kodak Nexpress
  • 2 Konica 7100
  • Screen Truepress 520 EX  Highspeed Inkjet Web Press
  • Screen Truepress 520  HighSpeed Inkjet 4 Color Web Press

WEB PRESSES
We have 2 assorted non-heat set web presses with capabilities of up to 2 colors.

 

BINDERY EQUIPMENT

To insure the lowest price, and highest quality, at Total Printing Systems, we have a complete in-house bindery department that includes Saddle Stitch, Perfect Binding, Case Binding (adhesive and side sewn), Mechanical Binding (Spiral/Wire-O/Comb), Loose Leaf, 3-hole drill, Lay-flat, and PUR Binding.

 

It isn’t polite to boast. So we won’t. We’ll just tell the truth…

  • Our crew is dedicated.
  • Our owners are visionary.
  • Our equipment is state-of-the-art.
  • Our three pillars of turnaround time, quality, and value are unmatched.
  • Our location is naturally advantageous for reduced nationwide shipping costs.

The above five reasons are consistently cited  by our printing partners as primary reasons why Total Printing Systems was selected over all other considerations for their book business needs. Find out what your competition has been enjoying. Form a print partnership. Contact us today!

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