Proofing

  • Epson Stylus Pro 7600 high quality digital proofer (A1 Size)
  • Epson Stylus colour 1520 ink jet printer (SRA3 size)
  • OKI C7350 colour laser print (SRA4 size)
  • Epson EPL9000 A3 black laser printer (A3 size)

Plate-making

  • Heidelberg pro-setter Computer-to-plate system, driven by Heidelberg meta-dimension rip on windows server
  • Raptor plate processor

Printing Department

  • Shinohara 52IV offset litho printing machine (2002) 4 colour B3
  • Heidelberg PM52-2 offset litho printing machine (2005) 2 colour B3 with numbering, perforating and creasing
  • Heidelberg Quickmaster offset litho printing machine (1998) 2 colour SRA3 with numbering and perforating

Finishing Department

  • Polar 76EM fully programmatic guillotine
  • Stahl T52.4 automatic folding machine
  • Horizon VAC-100 suction fed collating machine
  • Horizon SPF11 automatic booklet machine
  • Horizon SPF-8 booklet stapler
  • Comb-binding, drilling, wire-binding, stapling, eyeleting, binding and packing equipment

Barkers use only the best technology and presses to make sure that your project is produced to the highest standards.

Pre-press Department

Computers:

  • Apple Mac G5 (OSX)
  • Apple Mac G4 (OSX)
  • Apple Mac G4 (OS9)
  • Apple Powermac 7300 (OS 8)
  • Pentium PC (Windows Millennium)

Software (Mac)

  • Quark Express 7.02, 6.1 and 4.1
  • Adobe Photoshop CS, 6 and 5
  • Adobe Illustrator CS2, CS, 10, 9 and 5
  • Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Distiller/Reader
  • Adobe InDesign CS2, CS and 1.5
  • Freehand 8
  • Pagemaker 6.5
  • Word/Excell/Powerpoint

Software (PC)

  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Excell
  • Microsoft Powerpoint
  • Microsoft Publisher
  • Microsoft Photoshop
  • Corel Draw


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