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Plant Tour -
Timsco Inc.
Keith Prichard, General Manager
Temple Hills, Maryland
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Timsco offers screen printed and digitally imaged banners, posters and point-of-purchase advertising displays for a diverse clientele. The company also provides quality roll labels, decals and nameplates. Timsco’s customers include retail chains, banks, government institutions and mass transit authorities. The company is one of the largest screen printing and digital imaging plants in the Mid-Atlantic region, with a 40,000-square-foot facility that houses state-of-the-art equipment. The company’s mission is to provide a vehicle for its customers to market their image, products or events through graphics with professionalism.
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| Timsco’s digital workflow area includes a UV digital flatbed and roll-to-roll printers from FUJIFILM, Seiko and Mutoh. |
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| Mesh is stretched and set using a recently acquired Sonoma stretch bar system from M&R Companies. |
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| General Manager Keith Prichard shows recent work done on Timsco’s UV digital flatbed printer. |
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| Timsco reclaims many of its screens for new images, using the latest environmentally conscious products available on the market. |
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| Even though the company uses digital image-setting equipment in its pre-press department, it has one of the few remaining large-format cameras by Borrowdale Corp. The camera's size required the physical space be altered to fit its present location. The floor was jackhammered, and new walls had to be constructed. |
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Timsco provided one of the first maps for Washington’s metro system. The company received SGIA’s Golden Squeegee Award for the production of a backlit station and neighborhood maps. |
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| Jonathan Walker, a 27-year company veteran, inspects films before sending them to the next workstation. |
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| General Manager, Keith Prichard shows off Timsco’s trade show exhibit display holder. |
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| Press operator, Misael handles the production of a banner request using one of the company’s semi-automatic, wide-format screen printing presses. |
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| Timsco’s finishing department die cuts, hems, sews, grommets, laminates and provides other services for imaged prints. |
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| Interior signage is screen printed and sent through a UV flash unit in Timsco’s screen print production area. |
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