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In Tandem Design, Inc. was founded in December of 1988, and incorporated in September of 1989, by Harry L. Shaw and Miki Lieberman as a computer-based graphic services company. We are and always have been a pure PostScript® environment, including and supporting both Macintosh® and MS-DOS® platforms (with an extreme bias in favor of Macintosh®).
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- History of the Company
- Products and Services
- Management and Staff
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Miki Lieberman, a fine artist and graphic designer, and Harry L. Shaw, an engineer, realized in 1988 that the graphic arts industry was fast becoming computer-dependent. They also realized that there would be a need to join the creative world with the technical world in order to efficiently produce print-media projects in a computer environment. The company name reflects this need for technology and art to work in tandem. Harry had been living in Kansas City, MO., working for Hallmark Cards, Inc. Miki moved to Kansas City to learn the use of computers for graphic design. They realized that to start the business in earnest, they would need a client base. Miki had one in Baltimore, so Harry and Miki moved back to Baltimore to start In Tandem Design.
Initially, the company was located within a printing company in Timonium (a northern suburb of Baltimore). After two years we needed more space, and there was a realization that being located within a printing company caused some friction with other clients, some of whom were also printers. In January of 1991 In Tandem Design, Inc. was relocated to its current location, 8422 Bellona Lane, Suite 101; Towson, MD. 21204-2056 (Towson is a northern suburb of Baltimore).
All Elements on the Page, Plate-Ready Negatives Out
At the time iTD was founded, most imagesetters were being used to image RC paper, and most Macintosh® computers were being used to complete only part of the typography, design and production functions required for a print-media project. RC paper output was pasted-up, just as traditional typesetting had been. Tints and halftones were being stripped in by the printers. At that time process color was out of the question.
We realized that the equipment had the potential of doing it all. We began with the intent of "all elements on the page, plate-ready negatives out." It was two years before desktop scanners got to the point that they could do adequate halftones and marginal color scanning. It was another two years before repro-quality scanners were being designed for scanning directly into the PostScript® environment for computer assembly and imaging. We upgraded scanning ability as it improved for the environment. We have had repro-quality scanning since 1993, and have not moved outside the PostScript® environment.
We have, however, moved away from imaging film. The world has changed to digital printing as well as digital pre-press.
Diamond Screening®
Stochastic Screening became available in 1993. In Tandem Design, Inc. got beta versions of software and was instrumental in solving the calibration problems that initially plagued the use of stochastic screening. Harry was once the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Diamond Screening of the Technical Committee of the Lintoype-Hell Users Group of North America (of the world of the solar system of the universe ...).
Many of the jobs for which we controlled composition and imaged negatives for printing were done with Diamond Screening. Of course, with our Digital Offset Press, we do short-run color and variable-data printing in-house, without going to negatives. Modern computer to plate systems for traditional lithography can image stochastic screening. Many desktop printers and wide formt printers use stochastic screening.
New Frontiers: Digital Printing and Variable Data.
We added Digital Offset Printing capabilities with an HP Indigo printing press in 2001 and have upgraded since then. Unlike dry toner digital printers, the Indigo uses liquid inks. This allows for more accurate color reproduction. Our current press has seven color stations which allow for CMYK plus Violet and Orange for six-color process. This allows for more accurate screen builds of certain colors, notably blues like reflex blue. We also use white ink for printing on clear, metallic, pearlescent, and other specialty substrates.
Digital printing allows for variable data. We can do simple variable text, such as printing addresses on postcards as they are being printed. We can also vary images, entire paragraphs of text, and customize mailers so that each recipient gets a personalized message.
We added wide format ink jet printers for banners and posters. We produce thousands of scientific posters for medical conventions. We also do indoor and outdoor banners for meetings and events, panels for show booths, and mock ups of cartons and other packaging.
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In Tandem Design continues to expand its product offerings based on the relationships and similarities in methods used to create them, rather than on traditional industry demarcation. Components of what a client needs in a printed catalogue can be used on their World Wide Web page. Logos and photographs can be written to CD-ROM for archiving or for distribution throughout an organization or to other locations with unique print-media requirements. Finished documents can be made into Acrobat® documents for distribution internally or on the Internet. Databases can be married with page-layouts for variable data printing on our Digital Offset Press. The common thread is electronic (and specifically, PostScript®) graphic arts.
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In Tandem Design, Inc. is owned and managed by Harry L. Shaw, the President and Treasurer, and Miki Lieberman, the Vice President and Secretary.
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Trademarks and Copyright
Some or all of the following trademarks are referenced in this and/or other documents associated with the In Tandem Design, Inc. World Wide Web site.
PostScript®,Acrobat®, PageMaker®, and Adobe® are registered trademarks of Adobe® Systems, Inc..
Diamond Screening®, Linotype®, Hell®, and Linotype-Hell® are registered trademarks of Linotype-Hell AG and/or its subsidiaries.
Iris® is a registered trademark of Iris Graphics, Inc. a Scitex Company.
Apple® and Macintosh® are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc..
Quark® and QuarkXPress are registered trademarks of Quark, Inc.
Pantone® is a registered trademark of Pantone, Inc.
MS-DOS®, Windows NT(TM) and Windows(TM) are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
OS/2® and OS/2 Warp® are registered trademarks of Internationsl Business Machines Corporation.
Cromacheck® and Du Pont® are registered trademarks of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc.
All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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