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      <image:caption>The experts at North American Graphics help move your business forward. We combine technical expertise, experience and powerful tools to make your complex projects print with ease. Our integrated approach to building artwork, engineering prepress files and producing flexo plates drives print quality and consistency, improves speed-to-market, boosts productivity and helps control costs. Learn more: Artwork, prepress and flexo plates</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>We are a family owned graphics company committed to helping you achieve your goals and objectives. Our company focuses on values to help build relationships and long term partnerships. Communication is Critical: We work to make communication easy, instant and effective. Streamlining channels, we offer direct access to graphic specialists. Trust is Earned: Quality and service are paramount. We earn trust with every project big or small. Each experience is a building block of our long term partnership. Expertise is Shared: As an extension of your team, we bring the expertise and experience of our entire organization to add value to your project and your team. Learn more: Connect with our team</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Our background in a variety of markets and print applications enables our technical experts to anticipate challenges and identify solutions early in the process by drawing upon a vast array of experience. Markets: Cannabis, food, beverage, pet, beer, wine and spirits, pharma, healthcare, retail, party &amp; paper goods, auto, industrial, agricultural… Applications: Bags &amp; sacks, cups &amp; plates, disposables &amp; non-wovens, flexible packaging, foil, folding cartons, giftwrap, labels, tags &amp; decals, preprinted linerboard, security printing, tape, tissue, towel &amp; napkins, mylar balloons, shrink wrap &amp; shrink sleeves, printers, narrow-web, mid-web printers, wide-web printers, litho, coating plates…</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>With clients throughout North America, we have served the packaging and print industry since 1968. From the beginning, North American Graphics has continually reinvested in capabilities and technology to provide the best packaging graphics solutions in the industry. Blending small company service with large company perspective sets us apart from our competition. While working side by side on projects, we’re also working behind the scenes leveraging our packaging graphics specialization to create strategic advantages and growth opportunities for our clients. Learn more: About North American Graphics</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Crafting a strategic plan early in the process is critical to successful downstream execution. What are the possibilities? What is feasible? What are the risks? What are the best ways to achieve the end result? Make the unachievable achievable in print - through planning, experience and execution. Our team works with all types of designs from a wide variety of creative sources to streamline artwork commercialization and reproduction on press. The key is to identify and minimize variables impacting quality, speed-to-market and cost. Being proactive during artwork, prepress and plate making clears the path to exceed brand owner expectations and optimize print results. Contact us: Have a project you’d like to review?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ensuring artwork is ready for production and projects are completed on time utilizing a systematic, detailed approach to creative execution Taking client direction on conceptual design and applying it consistently across all graphic elements of a complex packaging dieline according to final mechanical specifications Ensuring consistency across all SKUs</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Blending art with science by leveraging technical experience and specialized technology to deliver optimal results in anticipation of the inherent variables within the printing process Building graphic elements, tints, traps, and type to compensate for press, ink and substrate variables Utilizing advanced prepress screening and proofing for flexo, litho, and gravure print processes Offering direct access to prepress operators to enhance planning, support and execution</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ensuring plates are capable of reproducing a design image with consistent performance on press Premium flexo plates from 1” x 1” to 50” x 80” for narrow to wide web presses (including spot coating plates too) All plates are precision cut to masks on Kongsberg cutting tables Duplicate equipment for redundancy ensuring no downtime</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Today, North American Graphics is owned and led by another family with significant graphics experience building upon the legacy of quality, long term client relationships and empowering team members. Please feel free to connect with our President - Jeff Harper. Senior management has deep experience working with printers, pharma / healthcare companies, and consumer packaged goods companies. Leveraging vast big company perspective to innovate and drive results, we are still focused on an unwavering commitment to superior service and quality on each and every project. Management experience includes: Global Artwork Commercialization for Top 5 Pharma &amp; Consumer Health Company (Packaging, POP/POS, Digital Media) Labeling Compliance Initiatives for Leading Retailers and Food &amp; Beverage Consumer Packaged Goods Companies</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Yes, this is the About Us page of our website, but it’s really about you. It’s about commitment to building client partnerships and delivering value. Every day, we are listening to and learning from our clients. Most importantly, we are taking action to continually improve our client’s experience working with our business. Here are a few examples of ways we are applying our core values and focus on clients needs: Leveraging emerging technology to become faster Making it easier to directly access experts Enhancing visibility to project status</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About Us - A Leader in Prepress &amp; Plate Making</image:title>
      <image:caption>North American Graphics has been a family owned and operated company since 1968. Commitment to partnerships has always been the key to success and longevity. As flexo printing has evolved, we have continually strengthened our capabilities and strategically added new technology to make an impact for our clients. Our best-in-class plate making technologies enable our clients to maximize the capabilities of a particular printing press. A History of Leading to Help Customers Grow First to offer photopolymer plates in SE Michigan First in U.S. to offer Kodak Flexcel NX 42” x 60” Plates First in U.S. to offer Kodak Flexcel NX 50” x 80” Plates</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About Us - Our Family of Prepress &amp; Packaging Experts</image:title>
      <image:caption>The key to building successful client partnerships is empowering our experts to act as an extension our client’s team. Our client’s success is our success. Our client’s priority is our priority. Our team’s 200+ years of experience is our client’s experience. Clients and employees come first. We are dedicated to the craft of packaging graphics and staying true to ourselves. When there is a gap, we quickly act to implement a solution. One size doesn’t fit all. We believe in using different workflows for different clients based on unique client needs. We care about the jobs we work on and answer the call with a smile. We appreciate the last project and are eager for the next project!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>We are a family owned company with lots of industry experience from large CPG’s to small single color printers. Looking to form new friendships within the industry is most welcomed. We happen to love the outdoors and enjoy spending time with our friends around the campfire. It’s a great way to get know each other better. We love it when conversations broaden our perspective and provide new ways of looking at the world. We bring a “campfire” approach to collaborative discussions about packaging graphics. We enjoy reviewing challenges, sharing expertise, brainstorming, and identifying solutions. Do you have a challenge? Want another perspective on an innovative idea? Want to see if we have encountered a situation you are facing? Let us help you navigate the complex waters of packaging for a successful outcome. Feel free to reach out for a “fireside” chat.</image:caption>
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