Sheridan Magazine Services: Capabilities

Sheridan Magazine Services is committed to exceeding your expectations. That's why we’ve empowered our press crews to make quality and productivity decisions, maximized equipment effectiveness through process measurement and control, and directed the management team to lead and facilitate continuous process improvements.

And our commitment has been bolstered by a history of aggressive investment by The Sheridan Group. Over just the past 24 months, TSG has made capital investments in Dartmouth Printing Company and United Litho totaling nearly $15 million.

We’ve offered a digital workflow since 1998, and today our entire customer base uses our highly reliable digital prepress system, which features PDF preflighting, page-independent ripping, a variety of remote-proofing options, stochastic screening capabilities and two thermal platesetters in each plant for system redundancy.

The digital prepress operations feed a total of seven presses in two facilities, including five four-color web presses, a brand-new black-only web press and a 6-unit sheetfed press. Innovative features on these presses include the ability to receive preset ink data, a gapless blanket design to reduce dot gain, semi-automatic plate loading to expedite make-readies, closed-loop color control and hybrid inks that are UV-cured in-line to deliver dry for immediate use in the bindery.

Binding and finishing capabilities include four high-speed saddle stitchers and three high-speed perfect binders, all with selective binding, blow-in and in-line mailing capabilities, and three Buhrs lines for polybagging, inkjetting inside or outside the polybag, labeling, selective feeding of up to four pockets, blowing in or outserting additional material, and shrink-wrapping bundles.

We also provide comprehensive mail list sorting and processing, on-site postal verification, co-mailing services, newsstand preparation and distribution, and subscription fulfillment services.

We continue to invest in technologies to make our manufacturing process more cost effective. More importantly, we actively monitor customers’ needs to help us identify technologies and service offerings that provide real value—over and above our ability to put ink on paper.