EPI has provided commercial printing services to some of America’s best-known brands for decades and today is widely regarded as a leader in producing everything from corporate marketing materials and signage to folding cartons and greeting cards. With full-service prepress; 28” - 56” sheet-fed printing up to 8 colors; aqueous and UV coating; bindery and specialty finishing, including trimming, die-cutting, drilling, gluing and padding, foil-stamping, embossing and mounting; EPI offers some of the most comprehensive in-house commercial printing capabilities in the industry.

Our PrintEasy job automation solution features world class digital asset management; prepress .pdf digital work flow; online job tracking, collaboration, proofing and approval; standardized color profiles across all presses; and digital capture of all job settings for archiving, recall and transfer across all production facilities. Combined with our suite of other in-house services, equipment and technology — including onsite die-making capabilities — EPI will respond faster to the market, shave days off production scheduling, reduce administrative effort, eliminate costs of transporting materials from vendor to vendor and reduce inventory on your commercially printed projects. EPI’s offset printing capabilities include:

• PrintEasy job automation solution
• Three fully-networked Midwest production facilities
• Real-time job tracking
• On-hand stock (consignment) to eliminate paper delays
• Onsite ink production to mix and adjust ink on demand
• One-to-eight color printing
• In-line aqueous and UV coatings
• Large format printing, up to 56”
• In-house die-cutting, embossing and foil-stamping
• In-house bindery
• Folding carton converting
• 24/7 operations
• Gracol 7 Certification
• AIB certified print facilities

EPI is changing the way companies manage printed materials with our digital print and print-on-demand capabilities. We’ve saved our clients millions by converting inventoried print items to POD and giving them the ability to customize and print on demand everything from in-store signage to direct marketing campaigns through our proprietary MarketingEdge tool.

EPI's in-house lettershop specializes in digital print, including full color, black and white, versioned and variable items with full bindery and finishing capabilities and CD/DVD replication. We also offer comprehensive large and grand format POD capabilities — as described below.

For more information, please see the Digital Printing and POD page under Fulfillment.

EPI has long been recognized as an industry leader for variable data flexographic applications including barcode and serialized labels, tags and coupons. Our presses are equipped with color-reading and registration controlling devices as well as video-monitoring and barcode reading equipment to ensure your variable items are in the proper registration and sequence. We can use data you supply or we can custom build a specific program for you. EPI’s flexographic printing capabilities include:

• Wide variety of substrates, including polyester, vinyl and polyethylene
• One-eight color in-line, two-sided printing
• Press widths up to 13”
• Numerous in-line effects, including laminating, perforating, scoring, die-cutting, kiss-cutting, sheeting, UV coating and continuous printing
• Conventional and UV ink systems
• In-line converting (reduces time and cost)
• In-line variable/serial number printing
• In-line die cutting

From eye-popping, in-store signage and POS displays, to photorealistic banners and floor graphics, EPI is the single-source for all your large format printing and cutting needs. We offer some of the most sophisticated equipment and capabilities available that will allow you to take your large format projects to a whole new level.

EPI offset prints sheets up to 56” wide with corresponding 60” die-cutting. And our multiple large and grand format digital presses deliver uncompromising versatility including the ability to Print on Demand, on roll-to-roll and rigid substrates. And, our high-speed digital cutters combine sophisticated cutting technology with state-of-the-art material handling for sheets, boards and rolled materials to accommodate the most demanding cutting requirements. EPI’s large and grand format printing capabilities include:

• Dual resolution (600 dpi or 1000 dpi)
• White printing variations: overprint, underprint, spot, underspot ll, and overspot
• Flexible or rigid material up to 126.5” wide and up to 2” thick
• Banner finishing including hems and grommets with reinforced corners, pole pockets, sewn in rope, velcro
• Transitions quickly from rigid material to roll to roll media
• Multiple high-speed precision digital cutters

EPI saves our clients time and money by offering a wide variety of in-house finishing services including:

• Trimming
• Stitching
• Die-cutting –including large format
• Drilling
• Gluing and padding
• Collating
• Foil-stamping
• Embossing
• Mounting and folding – including unique configurations

Our digital print services include in-line finishing capabilities which allow our presses to print, collate, stack and stitch in one press run without operator intervention.

For more information, please see EPI Equipment.

Five of EPI’s largest partners are clients for whom we have assumed operations of in-house print facilities. The continuous investments in new technology and equipment required to most cost-effectively service their own in-house needs could not be rationalized by their own demand alone. The HR policies and compensation plans of these Fortune 500 firms were not consistent with industry averages for the print, mailing and fulfillment industries—driving their in-plant labor rates well outside of the competitive range. And their intellectual capital and cash were both better directed to their core missions of developing better products and services and increasing market share.

EPI’s role with organizations seeking to evaluate in-plant outsourcing is not only to assume operations and reduce operating costs, but also to partner with them in the development of the upfront financial modeling, HR planning, process mapping and change management to ensure that the transition process runs smoothly and the affected personnel and processes are positioned for on-going success.

At EPI we understand the organizational impact of an in-plant outsourcing effort. We welcome the opportunity to demonstrate to your team our value as a partner to not only cost-effectively service the needs of your business with the same standard of care provided by your in-plant today, but to also provide the resources throughout the analysis and transition process to ensure that your in-plant outsourcing effort is successful financially, operationally as in the hearts and minds of your employees.