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Catalog Publishing

Webcom simplifies the process, of designing and manufacturing your catalog – for print, CD-ROM or web.

Webcom delivers solutions that meet your print, CD or on-line requirements. We can even provide a secure web interface that lets you manage your content anytime, anywhere.

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Webcom's Online Page Turner (OPT) will transform your printed catalog into a fully interactive electronic version, with life-like page turning that preserves the familiar feel your customers are used to. This online version will serve as a quick and economical complement to your print catalog. You will reduce the workload with an OPT that leverages the investments you have already made.

Bring the medium to life with superior features such as:

• Powerful searches, crystal-clear images, versatile zoom levels and printing capabilities
• Quick and easy navigation to locate the right product or category with an optional link to your e-commerce site
• Revenue-generating capabilities through banner advertising
• Other practical features including cross-reference links, support for multiple languages and user tracking reports

By delivering catalog content via traditional print or cross-media channels - we have become a leading, single-source provider of catalog solutions.

• We understand your business
• We speak your language
• We deliver the solutions you need:
  • In-house design and complete in-house catalog production
  • Tight control of production schedules
  • Product and pricing updates
  • Project costs that are managed to plan
  • Cross-media publishing for print, CD and web
  • Digital Content Management (DCM)
  
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  • Catalog content development and design
  • Catalogs for associations and buying groups
  • Flyer development program
  • E-Commerce site development and hosting
  • Management of multiple versions or imprints
  • Database management
  • Smooth workflow and quick turnarounds
  • Under-one-roof cost savings
  • Prepress services: FTP file transmission and all-digital Computer-to-Plate prepress
  • The right presses for the job: 1-colour to 4-colour web offset for long runs and digital printing for short runs and customization
  • Saddle stitching, perfect and lay-flat Otabind binding for user-friendly catalogs
  • In-line CD binding means CDs are bound into the catalog during binding saving you time and money
  • Finishing services: 3- & 5-hole drilling, shrinkwrapping, packaging
  • Warehousing and distribution

We are able to provide effective solutions to your challenges by creatively applying the knowledge gained from more than 30 years of catalog production experience. U.S. customers have proven that their dollar will go further by manufacturing their catalogs at Webcom's plant in Canada.

Dedicated Production Team

The Commercial Catalog Division is dedicated to providing innovative solutions to general line distributors and manufacturers. This team will keep tight control of your project from start to finish.

Service Commitment

We take responsibility for the entire job from the earliest planning stages, including database management, through to delivery to your customers. Every service needed to complete your job is under one roof.

The All-Digital Advantage

Webcom was among the very first North American printers to offer Catalog customers the benefits of all-digital prepress. Our Computer-to-Plate systems allow for the elimination of camera-ready art and the labour intensive film stage from production, resulting in substantial cost and time savings. This is particularly important to Catalog projects where large page counts and tight turnarounds are the norm.

The benefits of going digital are considerable:

• Your files can be sent to our password-protected FTP site from anywhere in the world.
• Our filmless Computer-to-Plate system cuts costs and turnaround time while improving quality.
• Digital colour proofs assure that your covers will be printed exactly as you expect without the cost of film.
• All projects are digitally archived for fast and economical updates and reprints.

Printed Catalogs

Webcom offers a data asset management service which will take your difficult-to-manage database files, format them and provide completely paginated PostScript files which allow you to take full advantage of the benefits of CTP prepress.

Our integrated manufacturing facility utilizes high-speed, web offset presses to produce a wide range of popular trim sizes for Catalogs including;

• 4" x 8" and 4" x 9" for pocket sized Catalogs
• 6" x 9" and 8-1/2" x 11" for full sized Business-to-Business Catalogs

We have specialized capabilities for working with high page count Catalogs including very light weight paper stocks (even as low as 20 lb). This allows catalogs to be thinner for easier use while cutting distribution costs.

Digital Product Development

Increasingly, our Catalog customers are looking to digital alternatives to complement the printed catalog for marketing their products. Interactive, CD-ROM's allow more creative product promotion while Internet applications allow instant information, price updating and on-line purchasing of your products. Webcom's New Product Development Group can help you achieve your marketing goals by developing the electronic applications that will sell your products more effectively.

Worldwide Distribution

Our job doesn't end when your catalog is printed. Our experience with established brokers allows us to manage your worldwide distribution quickly and cost effectively, including duty, tariff and shipping costs.

For More Information

Please call us toll free at 1-800-665-9322 e-mail us at webcom@webcomlink.com.