Consider our coverage: coast-to-coast

As Canada’s only printer with a coast-to-coast solution, we can easily put any one or more of our facilities to work serving your needs. Compatible workflows and equipment allow for the seamless transfer of work between facilities in our print network. Multiple magazine printing facilities located in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba offer outstanding coverage plus the benefit of a shorter production cycle even if required to print in multiple regions.

With some of the world’s most sophisticated web, sheetfed and heatset presses, as well as advanced digital technologies, we can quickly and cost-efficiently handle any combination of long and short runs for all types of publishers. All plants are fully compatible and linked electronically for ease and consistency, providing our customers with redundancy, contingency and continuity assurance.

With customer knowledge, investment in new technologies and continuous improvement approaches, we deliver results, quality and savings to our customers for their future growth.

Transcontinental RBW Graphics

2049 Twentieth Street East
Owen Sound, Ontario, N4K 5R2
Telephone: 519 376-8330
Fax: 519 376-1164

Transcontinental RBW Graphics is our biggest magazine printing operation. Our operation features leading-edge prepress, press and finishing equipment.  From multiple bindery and stitching capabilities for fast turnaround of high volume projects to multiple offline finishing options, all are available in-house on high-end equipment. Another added benefit is that Canada Post picks up directly from the plant, meaning that no freight costs are charged to our customers for Canada Post delivery. To find out more, contact us directly.

Transcontinental Interweb

1603, de Montarville Blvd.
Boucherville, Quebec   J4B 5Y2
Telephone: 450 655-2801  
Fax: 450 641-3650 

Transcontinental Interweb specializes in the printing of short to medium-run magazines. Our extensive finishing department offers a host of custom services including gatefold capabilities on press, special cover finishes such as UV Chic varnish and spot UV, as well as die cutting, perforating and glueing – all executable inline. To find out more, contact us directly.

Transcontinental LGM – Coronet

737 Moray Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba   R3J 3S9
Telephone: 204 982-1717 
Toll Free: 1 800 665-3316
Fax: 204 889-9897

Transcontinental LGM – Coronet specializes in the printing of short to medium-run publications for Business 2 Business and Business 2 Consumer markets. With over 50 years of graphic arts management experience, we have developed an excellent reputation for working with independent niche publishers. Our flexibility and responsiveness to the special demands of their markets have proven a profitable benefit for all. To find out more, contact us directly.

Transcontinental Interglobe

150, 181st Street
Beauceville, Quebec   G5X 3P3
Telephone: 418 774-3367 
Toll Free: 1 800 463-8952
Fax: 418 774-3380

Transcontinental Interglobe is in a stand-alone category when it comes to the exceptional quality and diversity of its bindery department. No other printing facility in Canada offers such a comprehensive range of binding services. Including soft covers such as perfect bound, soft notch, sewn, otabind and gatefold options, as well as hard covers such as case bound, hard notch, with jacket and pullout, among others. To find out more, contact us directly.

Increase your ad revenues via innovative print technologies

Staying on top of innovative print technologies is critical for publishers who want to help advertisers reach their target audience in a faster, less expensive and more creative way. Let’s start with ways to punch up your cover and other revenue-generating ideas:

Synthetic cover papers

Synthetics like Yupo are 100% recyclable, waterproof and tree-free. Yupo holds ink with razor-sharp precision that stands out on the newsstand or in the mail stack. Synthetics also add value to source books and other special issues with a longer shelf life.

Flip-book cover

Engage the reader with a cover image that they can create – again and again.

Lenticular printing

Produces images with an illusion of depth or movement. Eye-catching ways to capture reader’s attention to content and ads.

Peel and reveal covers

The ability to peel away a portion of the cover to reveal a full-colour message provides additional highly valuable real estate to supplement the coveted inside front cover. It's also a clever way to incorporate interactivity while committing very little advertising space to the actual front cover. It's a “best of both worlds” scenario.

Special folds

Creative folds are effective and economical. Nothing pulls like cover ads, and research shows that special folds attract even greater attention. Gatefolds are the most popular and create a powerful cover spread. Double gatefolds, also called panoramic spreads, offer a spectacular foldout spanning both covers. They work extremely well as a centre spread, too.

Tip-ons

Especially in booklet, business card, coupons, credit cards or sachets form, tip-ons can communicate long or complicated messages. They can also be easily removed for future reference, and the advertiser may already have an existing piece to use.

Dot whacks and positionable notes

Dot whacks are available in many different colours, substrates and shapes (business card, coupons, credit cards, sachets, etc.). Positionable notes are great for capturing attention, while also providing a removable reminder for contact information or other messaging.

Bind-ins and blow-ins

Great for measuring ROI through coding. They also serve as a postal mailing device. Plus, the heavier paper provides stopping power by "breaking the book."

Use digital printing to target precise markets

We offer a full range of digital print solutions to meet any publishing or marketing need including:

• Static digital printing for reaching target audience economically
• Colour-variable data digital printing for customized text and images on each page
• Personalized messaging from contest codes to personalized URLs
• Selective binding system and new OCR systems for selected inserts.

All aimed at transforming a single magazine into a highly personalized, digitally targeted marketing device that will generate results for you and your advertisers.

Our Tech Tools Put You In Control.

Managing and tracking your magazine production just got a whole lot easier! With TC Transcontinental Printing, you can get your job uploaded, checked, approved and done faster right from the comfort of your office.

Our web-based, self-service tech tools are specially designed for multi-page projects. They provide job management, tracking and colour management that help drive efficiencies in today’s collaborative workflow environment.

Tech tools for magazine publishers.

Conceive, build, manage and monitor print projects – from concept to distribution – all from the convenience of your desktop. Our magazine production teams can customize workflow solutions to your specific needs. These solutions save time and resources while reducing errors by providing real-time visibility into your projects. Take a closer look.

Job Assistant

• A secure, web-based virtual proofing workflow built to serve teams of any size working remotely from any part of the world
• Review the same hi-res PDF that will go to press, assuring consistent colour and quality
• Trackable notes, comments, chats, approvals and history are centralized in one place
• Offers different levels of signing authority based on each team’s role.

Virtual Proofing Workflow

• As mentioned above, the same PDF reviewed in JA, once approved, will make its way to press with the same controls in place all the way through the production process
• Industry standard SWOP colour profiles for press are used to ensure colour accuracy, consistency and predictability from beginning to end
• Allows virtual soft proofing, rather than physical colour proofs, for accurate colour proofing when combined with a certified colour calibrated monitor.

Auto Colour & Automated Image Enhancement

• Takes advantage of sophisticated automation software to handle the bulk of standard general-purpose colour enhancements.
• Still leaves more complex colour correction to the image edit professionals where necessary
• Speeds up the turnaround time for edits to be completed due to batch processing, saving time and money. 

Virtual Press-Side Proofing

• As part of the JA workflow, when combined with a certified colour calibrated monitor, industry standard SWOP colour profiles are applied to files, and used for online proofing
• Allows operators to accurately proof colour on-screen
• Utilizes same profiles and colour controls that will be used press-side
• Eliminates proofing paper costs, time and courier charges.

Closed-Loop Colour & Automated Register Controls

• Presses at Transcontinental RBW Graphics are equipped with Closed-Loop Colour and Automated Register Controls, resulting in faster startups and automatically maintained target colour values throughout the press run
• Works seamlessly with Virtual Colour Proofing.