Dedicated to
The Craft of Packaging Graphics

 

We collaborate with printers and brand owners to deliver the right graphics at the right time.

Artwork to Prepress to Flexo Plates

 
 

The Right Graphics
at the Right Time

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

 

Focused on
Making a Difference

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

 

Helping Clients Grow by Creating Strategic Advantages

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

 

Managing Variables from Design to Print

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?

 

Markets Served & Applications

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 & paper goods, auto, industrial, agricultural…

Applications: Bags & sacks, cups & plates, disposables & non-wovens, flexible packaging, foil, folding cartons, giftwrap, labels, tags & decals, preprinted linerboard, security printing, tape, tissue, towel & napkins, mylar balloons, shrink wrap & shrink sleeves, printers, narrow-web, mid-web printers, wide-web printers, litho, coating plates…

Getting Started with
North American Graphics

 

The skilled prepress professionals at North American Graphics are dedicated to the craft of packaging graphics. As an extension of your team, we ensure graphics are built properly for brand owners expectations, are optimized for printer specifications, and delivered according to dynamic print production schedules.

From start to finish, we manage all the technical details to ensure success for any type of project - from small to large and from simple to complex.

 

Production Artwork: Designing for the End Result

  • 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

Prepress: Applying Print Science to Art

  • 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

Flexo Plates: Delivering Quality, Speed & Capacity

  • 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

 
 

Let’s Get Started

Need to bounce something off the wall or just get another perspective?

We’re happy to help - call or send an email.

586-486-1110 or jharper@nag-detroit.com