21st Century Technology
Printing methods have changed dramatically within the last few years and St.George Publishing believes that change is beneficial to our publishing partners. Rather than using labor intensive and limited traditional printing methods, we employ digital equipment. In a simplified view, think of it as similar to the way that you send one of your computer documents to your own computer printer at home: assemble the document and send to print. Of course, our professional graphic artists and production staff "tweak" for quality before submitting a job to print and even continue to check the job in-progress. Still, the process is generally the same; it's that simple.

Why Is the Quality So Good?
Our digital presses do not require manual inking or changing of colors - it's all there, ready to go for any job. Our weekly church bulletin customers are not confined to using one predetermined color each week of the liturgical calendar, because we dont have to ink the presses to print a particular color - they print full color! Of course, should you desire to use the liturgical color as part of your cover, we certainly welcome you to choose that option; it's your choice.

Is our "glossy" look more expensive? Quite simply: no! The glossy appearance of our finished product is the result of the print process in which the dry ink is set, or "fused" onto the paper. It is not expensive glossy paper or an additional process; just the nature of the digital print technology.

"Traditional offset printing is in for some real competition as the price of digital print falls and longer digital print runs become more affordable."
-Ira Gold, Contributing Technology Editor, "What's New", Electronic Publishing Magazine, October 2001