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WELL HELLO THERE! thanks for reaching out to printninja, your source for profoefsfssioetnparlinqtuinaglit!y international As a printing company, one of the many things we do is send out print samples to our customers. This is a critical step in the process and one that many people venturing into self- publishing for the first time will use as step number one.

We’ve been providing the best sample packets in the industry for years, but one of our challenges on a daily basis is to provide the best samples to match the unique specs our customers inquire about. That isn’t easy. All of our samples are extra copies of customer orders we print while a project is still in production (with permission of course). That means we’re a bit at the mercy of what projects are on press at the time and can’t always tailor sample packs to match each specific customer request. We solve part of this problem with our excellent paper sample guide! Our paper guide shows a great deal of the paper types and specialty options available. We also have a specialty options sample packet that goes into even further depth with even more customization options. Still, there are certain features that we have a hard time keeping in stock as samples. We also recently traveled to China together as a team to visit our Chinese coworkers and check out the factories where all of the production happens! We took a ton of pictures on that trip so we decided to design a sample book that includes all of those rare specifications along with photos

of our trip to give our customers a greater sense of the PrintNinja experience. We spared no expense here and jam-packed this sample with a multitude of wonderful extras. We wouldn’t normally recommend this many specialty options in one book (it tends to look a bit busy and over-produced, but for these specific purposes we think it’s justified). Luckily we have a talented team of designers on staff who put all these items together along with our unique story and have this handsome volume as the end result. Thanks so much for your interest and we hope this book inspires you to get your own project off the ground. -The PrintNinja team



This sample book contains the following specialty options and bindings: Binding Type Boardless Casebound Trim Size 6” x 6” Cover Finish Inside Paper Weight Soft-Touch Matte Lamination Inside Paper Finish 105lb Specialty Options Gloss Cover/Outer: - Soy-based Ink Printing - 1 Spot Color Interior: - Basic Embossing - 3-Panel Gatefold (18” W x 6” H unfolded), - Belly Band (#2 Felt Perforated on bound textured paper, 12pt edge. Off-white uncoated / Complex Red Foil - Folder pocket on Stamp) inside back cover (105lb Uncoated, 5.5” W x - Ribbon Bookmark 3” H) (#163 RED) - Soy-based Ink Printing - Red Gilded Edges - Shrinkwrap





US TEAM CHINA TEAM Jeff Daniel Chelsea Eason US Team Leader Shenzhen Team Prepress and Shipping and Purchasing Manager Logistics Manager Leader Justin Sam Jen Grace Account Manager Senior Prepress Prepress Manager Account Manager Manager Maggie Laura Frannie Thor Customer Service Customer Service Content Manager Web Designer

As part of our training, and to keep in contact with our vendors, we try to give every PrintNinja employee a chance to visit China and see where all of the fantastic products we print are brought to life.

It also gives us a chance to hang out with our Chinese colleagues who we usually only get to speak with in email exchanges.





\"Just a few days of communication with the US team made me realize that this is a dynamic and energetic team. The team members are all confident no matter what problems we encounter in the job, and try their best to solve it. That makes me feel great! Even though we are from different cultures, we are all have the same goals, that is promoting our professional and social capabilities, and then provide the best service to the customer.\"

We have an office in China with a small but dedicated and incredibly hospitable staff. Every time we visit they disrupt their busy schedules to drive us around Shenzhen and give us a tour of vendor facilities as well as see some of the sites.

- Sample library at the China office

- View from the office

\"The biggest surprise to me was the scale of Shenzhen. You could drive for 45 minutes and never stop seeing skyscrapers.\"

We get a chance to try a variety of new food and even get to try our hand in the game of Mahjong!

\"Team US are willing to try and learn new things, such as visiting factories that produce different products, trying many kinds of Chinese food and so on.\"







- An adorable dessert!

- Game of Mahjong (team China was way better than us)







This international partnership is at the heart of what we do with PrintNinja. We get a chance to visit the vendors we work with and to meet the families that own these companies. These are family-owned businesses just like you’d find in the US. They allow us to see our customers’ projects as they get manufactured. We also get a chance to talk about some of the issues that come up during production to see if we can solve those problems in person.

- One of our print vendors \"The workforce was smaller at the factories we visited than I anticipated. With the number of projects we print, I figured there had to have been hundreds of workers in the factories to produce what we need. It just proved to me that efficiency and skill are more valued than quantity when it comes to manufacturing!\"

- Employees hard at work creating box dies at our game vendor

- Employee calibrating the color for a print run at one of our print vendors

- Adding ink to custom engraved dice at our dice vendor

- Miniatures tools stacked up at our Miniatures vendor

Part of the fun is seeing the huge machines that put all of your projects together! It’s not just printing equipment, but collators, laminators, hot foil stamping machines, die cutters, trimming machines, embossing, and debossing processes...you get the idea. - CMYK ink tubes

- Sequential foil stamping machine

- Miniature die

- Tuck-box die

Jack, PrintNinja's Quality Control Manager works behind the scenes at our vendors checking orders every day. Having our own QC person is another incredible bonus in working with PrintNinja!

The vendors that PrintNinja uses are chosen because of the excellent quality that they provide. These same vendors produce work for other companies that make books for prominent authors and large publishing houses. By working with PrintNinja your order will gain the same leverage that comes along with the ordering power of our large collective volume. What does that mean for you? It means that if something goes wrong, you have the protection of the PrintNinja account size to make sure every project meets our standards. It means that we can demand high quality materials and practices.





Another big chunk of the trip involves a crash course in printing and manufacturing. During the training process at PrintNinja, everyone is taught the theory of how everything works. From how offset printing works, to how cards are trimmed down from a press sheet.



\"Knowing about the offset printing process and seeing it firsthand are two very different things. I had knowledge about how offset printing operations worked prior to our trip, but seeing the intricacies of the machines and the people working them really gave me a deeper insight into how all the parts work together to create a greater whole. It is awesome seeing the projects that our customers worked hard to build, and seeing those projects in the works is so satisfying. It made it real for me.\"

When you see everything in person it brings clarity to the process as a whole. Understanding that a giant stack of printed press sheets needs to be processed through several complex machines before it can become a book helps us provide context when we talk to our customers about turnaround times.