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American Reprographics Company (NYSE: ARC) is the largest reprographics company in the United States, providing business-to-business document management services to the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. It also provides these services to companies in other industries that require sophisticated document management services. The company provides its core services through a proprietary suite of reprographics technology products, a nationwide network of locally-branded reprographics service centers, and facilities management programs at customers' locations throughout the country.
Founded in 1988 as a single reprographics firm in Southern California by S. "Mohan" Chandramohan (now Chairman of the Board), the company has grown into a national corporation with 2006 revenues of $591 million.
Corporate headquarters are co-located in Walnut Creek, California.
SERVICES
Business services for document management.
Managed Print Services
Architectural & Engineering
Color Printing
On Site Services
Digital Services
Premier Accounts
Digital Publishing
Document Logistics
Cloud Printing
Print is typically an overlooked part of a company's bottom line, but research shows that between 1% – 3% of a company's annual revenue is spent on print and imaging related activities.
So finding the right company to help you manage, control, and reduce print costs is important.
ARC looks at print from the perspective of what's right for each customer, large or small.
We believe efficient MPS is not about selling more hardware. Or more software. Or more toner. Or outsourcing services. Or maintenance contracts. It's about offering a real-world solution, backed by local expert service. It's about reducing the overall cost of print for our customers. It's about getting the right equipment in place to allow our customers to focus on their work, and not on administering print hardware and supplies. It's about making our customers more efficient by relieving them of the hidden and costly support of print.
ARC, with hundreds of locations around the world and relationships with major vendors like HP, Canon, OCE, KIP, Ricoh, Xerox, Konica Minolta and others, has the expertise and independence to offer you the hardware, support and service that no other competitor can match.
Our expert consultants first aim at helping our customers understand what's their overall cost of print by performing a print audit. From there, a strategy is developed to optimize a print infrastructure AND reduce overall cost of print.
ARC Premier Accounts: One contract. One management team. One contact. One invoice. One company.
ARC Premier Accounts connects the local expertise and capacity of hundreds of locations around the world through a standardized technology infrastructure to deliver a single, consistent level of client service, often under a single contract.
The ARC Premier Accounts Advantage:
Save money by consolidating reprographics services.
Increase revenue by focusing more internal resources on billable hours.
Boost efficiency by reducing administrative overhead.
Improve Productivity by speeding distribution and enhancing reprographic quality.
OnSite Services can help you create a customized print center at your location without steep up-front capital costs.
Exercise administrative control with OneView™, a customized portal to track your work and costs throughout the ARC network.
Digital document management, small format copying, archiving, on site services, equipment leasing, cloud printing, and sustainable reprography.
ARC provides a wide range of services for architects, engineers, contractors, design professionals, and document managers. From software files or originals, we can produce your documents on a wide variety of output media in virtually any size, delivering to you flexibility and cost control.
If you'd like more information, please fill out this form and an ARC representative will contact you shortly.
ARC is a leading provider of digital imaging services to design professionals and document managers in nearly every industry.
And there’s much more we can do for you with our Digital Services
Do away with paper storage systems with PlanWell™ online planrooms.
Make your bidding process easier, faster and more competitive by providing digital access to viewable and downloadable bid documents via PlanWell BidCaster™.
Order reprographics services and supplies, upload documents to planrooms or for production, and more with PlanWell EWO™ an easy-to-use and efficient web-based ordering tool.
All of our online services feature robust security features and password protection, address books, online order tracking, and automatic transmittal generation.
Other Digital Services include:
Imaging/Scanning
Document capture and indexing services.
Small-Format Scanning
Digitize letter or legal size documents.
Large-Format Scanning
Engineering drawings can be scanned and delivered via FTP or saved to a variety of electronic and storage media.
Data Entry
Manual data entry from image or paper.
Digital Shipping
Create here, print there anywhere in the world.
Document Conversion
PDF Conversion includes hypertext links, bookmarks and thumbnails, delivered on any digital media; Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts image content to editable text, saving it in a word processing format such as Microsoft Word.
CAD Conversion (Auto-vectorization)
Save redraw time by converting drawings to raster images, then to CAD vectors to produce files in DXF, AutoCAD-DWG or Microstation-DGN file formats.
Document Management Services
Migrate your paper documents to electronic files and create an easily accessible, searchable, viewable structure – enabling you to manage your documents logically and efficiently.
Color Printing and Services
We help you communicate with color.
By offering a wide range of color document options and finishing services, we help you make an impact. Small- and large-format, single-sheet, bound books, retail signage, customized wall papers, banners and more.
We do it all - quickly, professionally, on time, and on budget.
With our Digital Publishing services, you can produce everything from multiple sets of bound reports with inserts and color-coded tabs, to simple handouts for a marketing project. We offer the highest speed black & white reproduction, and can accept hard copy originals or digital files. We can even digitize your hard-copy originals. Just need a copy? We can do that too!
Whether it’s a presentation piece with color photos and graphs, or hundreds of cumbersome manuals for distribution, you can rely on our experienced staff to make your digital publishing project a success – quickly and professionally, on time and on budget.
We do it all, from short runs to high-volume output. We can also reproduce all of your small-format documents.
Count on us for:
Printing from digital files – either one file, or combining many different files and formats
Copying from originals
Scanning
Collating and Inserting
Creating and Inserting Tabs
Folding & Trimming
Binding solutions
Types of services:
Small-Format Digital Printing
“Print-on-demand” digital publishing
Variable Data Printing
Custom Tabs
Graphic Design/Desktop Publishing
CD-R Mastering / Duplication
Finishing & Binding
Fulfillment & Shipping Services
Other options and services include:
Coil, saddle stitch, GBC, VeloBind and tape binding
Custom covers
Cutting & padding
Three-hole punch
Chicago screw post
Collate and staple in corner
Fasteners, folders and covers
Assembly, kit creation and fulfillment
Folding, scoring and perforation
Laminated covers
ARC is a leading provider of environmentally friendly services and products to help our customers leave a lighter footprint on the planet.
Our Environmental Promise is to:
Reduce consumption of resource-intensive goods
Help customers learn about green reprography
Partner with our vendors to make reprographic practices environmentally sound, and
Build awareness of green products and services and help customers lessen their environmental impact.
Our practical, right-now suggestions:
Reduce by going digital! Digital plans and documents keep paper out of the waste stream. It also increases the document workflow efficiency. Print closest to the documents’ final destination and cut down on the carbon emissions shipping creates.
Reuse by converting waste paper into useful products. Don’t buy imported, virgin-paper pads when you can reuse your old paper. Turn them into wire-bound note pads.
Recycle by selecting green paper and media. On your next project:
Look for recycled-content office products from environmentally-innovative companies. Ask us about binders, folders and other recyclable materials.
Eco-Board is environmentally superior to foam core or foam board. Cornstarch-based Eco-Board is made from recycled-content materials and is 100% biodegradable.
Show them you’re Green! Use our recycled products and we’ll provide you a certificate to prove it.
Let us pick up and recycle your old plans when we drop new ones off, and
Let us help you start and maintain a meaningful in-house recycling program.
Our huge delivery fleet and thousands of employees will make sure it gets there!
We’re ready to pick up your job for production and deliver it across town or across the country. Our company is part of an extensive nationwide network with hundreds of locations, a huge fleet of delivery vehicles, and thousands of reprographics professionals nationwide – all for the asking.
Local Delivery Services
We offer fast radio-dispatched courier services for local pickups and deliveries.
Shipping Services
Our staff can help you with all your packing, shipping and tracking needs.
We can:
Pack and ship for standard or express delivery via FedEx, DHL, UPS or other courier services to any destination, anywhere in the world.
Print, pack and ship on the same day.
Track your packages worldwide.
Coordinate split deliveries and promptly return originals back to you.
Handle all paperwork – you don’t have to fill out shipping forms and labels.
Manage and distribute the simplest or most complex bid-sets and addenda.
Print Closest to Your Destination International Printing
You’re in Austin; your client is in Boston? No problem! We offer digital distribution services to any shop within our global network, including locations in the U.S., Canada, China, the Middle East, Australia, and India. Transmit your documents digitally for fast and efficient local print service, and reduce your carbon footprint while you’re at it. Remember, Digital is Green!
With ARC you can print almost anywhere you need with the same quality, service and accuracy you’ve come to expect from us.
Printing closest to where the documents are needed saves time, shipping costs, and environmental resources. Avoid the costly print-pack-drive-fly-drive-pay cycle needed to print and ship your files where they need to go and digitally ship your files with ARC. Then print locally.
If your job is just a few sets and you’d expect them back in a few hours from our shop, you can expect them in a few hours anywhere else we print. Big job? Eight hours of printing? You can expect the same thing in New York (or Chicago, or Beijing, or Dubai…) Need it faster? Just ask and we’ll check for special arrangements on the other end.
Founded in 1988 as a single reprographics firm in Southern California by S. "Mohan" Chandramohan (now Chairman of the Board), the company has grown into a national corporation with 2006 revenues of $591 million.
Corporate headquarters are co-located in Walnut Creek, California.
SERVICES
Business services for document management.
Managed Print Services
Architectural & Engineering
Color Printing
On Site Services
Digital Services
Premier Accounts
Digital Publishing
Document Logistics
Cloud Printing
Print is typically an overlooked part of a company's bottom line, but research shows that between 1% – 3% of a company's annual revenue is spent on print and imaging related activities.
So finding the right company to help you manage, control, and reduce print costs is important.
ARC looks at print from the perspective of what's right for each customer, large or small.
We believe efficient MPS is not about selling more hardware. Or more software. Or more toner. Or outsourcing services. Or maintenance contracts. It's about offering a real-world solution, backed by local expert service. It's about reducing the overall cost of print for our customers. It's about getting the right equipment in place to allow our customers to focus on their work, and not on administering print hardware and supplies. It's about making our customers more efficient by relieving them of the hidden and costly support of print.
ARC, with hundreds of locations around the world and relationships with major vendors like HP, Canon, OCE, KIP, Ricoh, Xerox, Konica Minolta and others, has the expertise and independence to offer you the hardware, support and service that no other competitor can match.
Our expert consultants first aim at helping our customers understand what's their overall cost of print by performing a print audit. From there, a strategy is developed to optimize a print infrastructure AND reduce overall cost of print.
ARC Premier Accounts: One contract. One management team. One contact. One invoice. One company.
ARC Premier Accounts connects the local expertise and capacity of hundreds of locations around the world through a standardized technology infrastructure to deliver a single, consistent level of client service, often under a single contract.
The ARC Premier Accounts Advantage:
Save money by consolidating reprographics services.
Increase revenue by focusing more internal resources on billable hours.
Boost efficiency by reducing administrative overhead.
Improve Productivity by speeding distribution and enhancing reprographic quality.
OnSite Services can help you create a customized print center at your location without steep up-front capital costs.
Exercise administrative control with OneView™, a customized portal to track your work and costs throughout the ARC network.
Digital document management, small format copying, archiving, on site services, equipment leasing, cloud printing, and sustainable reprography.
ARC provides a wide range of services for architects, engineers, contractors, design professionals, and document managers. From software files or originals, we can produce your documents on a wide variety of output media in virtually any size, delivering to you flexibility and cost control.
If you'd like more information, please fill out this form and an ARC representative will contact you shortly.
ARC is a leading provider of digital imaging services to design professionals and document managers in nearly every industry.
And there’s much more we can do for you with our Digital Services
Do away with paper storage systems with PlanWell™ online planrooms.
Make your bidding process easier, faster and more competitive by providing digital access to viewable and downloadable bid documents via PlanWell BidCaster™.
Order reprographics services and supplies, upload documents to planrooms or for production, and more with PlanWell EWO™ an easy-to-use and efficient web-based ordering tool.
All of our online services feature robust security features and password protection, address books, online order tracking, and automatic transmittal generation.
Other Digital Services include:
Imaging/Scanning
Document capture and indexing services.
Small-Format Scanning
Digitize letter or legal size documents.
Large-Format Scanning
Engineering drawings can be scanned and delivered via FTP or saved to a variety of electronic and storage media.
Data Entry
Manual data entry from image or paper.
Digital Shipping
Create here, print there anywhere in the world.
Document Conversion
PDF Conversion includes hypertext links, bookmarks and thumbnails, delivered on any digital media; Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts image content to editable text, saving it in a word processing format such as Microsoft Word.
CAD Conversion (Auto-vectorization)
Save redraw time by converting drawings to raster images, then to CAD vectors to produce files in DXF, AutoCAD-DWG or Microstation-DGN file formats.
Document Management Services
Migrate your paper documents to electronic files and create an easily accessible, searchable, viewable structure – enabling you to manage your documents logically and efficiently.
Color Printing and Services
We help you communicate with color.
By offering a wide range of color document options and finishing services, we help you make an impact. Small- and large-format, single-sheet, bound books, retail signage, customized wall papers, banners and more.
We do it all - quickly, professionally, on time, and on budget.
With our Digital Publishing services, you can produce everything from multiple sets of bound reports with inserts and color-coded tabs, to simple handouts for a marketing project. We offer the highest speed black & white reproduction, and can accept hard copy originals or digital files. We can even digitize your hard-copy originals. Just need a copy? We can do that too!
Whether it’s a presentation piece with color photos and graphs, or hundreds of cumbersome manuals for distribution, you can rely on our experienced staff to make your digital publishing project a success – quickly and professionally, on time and on budget.
We do it all, from short runs to high-volume output. We can also reproduce all of your small-format documents.
Count on us for:
Printing from digital files – either one file, or combining many different files and formats
Copying from originals
Scanning
Collating and Inserting
Creating and Inserting Tabs
Folding & Trimming
Binding solutions
Types of services:
Small-Format Digital Printing
“Print-on-demand” digital publishing
Variable Data Printing
Custom Tabs
Graphic Design/Desktop Publishing
CD-R Mastering / Duplication
Finishing & Binding
Fulfillment & Shipping Services
Other options and services include:
Coil, saddle stitch, GBC, VeloBind and tape binding
Custom covers
Cutting & padding
Three-hole punch
Chicago screw post
Collate and staple in corner
Fasteners, folders and covers
Assembly, kit creation and fulfillment
Folding, scoring and perforation
Laminated covers
ARC is a leading provider of environmentally friendly services and products to help our customers leave a lighter footprint on the planet.
Our Environmental Promise is to:
Reduce consumption of resource-intensive goods
Help customers learn about green reprography
Partner with our vendors to make reprographic practices environmentally sound, and
Build awareness of green products and services and help customers lessen their environmental impact.
Our practical, right-now suggestions:
Reduce by going digital! Digital plans and documents keep paper out of the waste stream. It also increases the document workflow efficiency. Print closest to the documents’ final destination and cut down on the carbon emissions shipping creates.
Reuse by converting waste paper into useful products. Don’t buy imported, virgin-paper pads when you can reuse your old paper. Turn them into wire-bound note pads.
Recycle by selecting green paper and media. On your next project:
Look for recycled-content office products from environmentally-innovative companies. Ask us about binders, folders and other recyclable materials.
Eco-Board is environmentally superior to foam core or foam board. Cornstarch-based Eco-Board is made from recycled-content materials and is 100% biodegradable.
Show them you’re Green! Use our recycled products and we’ll provide you a certificate to prove it.
Let us pick up and recycle your old plans when we drop new ones off, and
Let us help you start and maintain a meaningful in-house recycling program.
Our huge delivery fleet and thousands of employees will make sure it gets there!
We’re ready to pick up your job for production and deliver it across town or across the country. Our company is part of an extensive nationwide network with hundreds of locations, a huge fleet of delivery vehicles, and thousands of reprographics professionals nationwide – all for the asking.
Local Delivery Services
We offer fast radio-dispatched courier services for local pickups and deliveries.
Shipping Services
Our staff can help you with all your packing, shipping and tracking needs.
We can:
Pack and ship for standard or express delivery via FedEx, DHL, UPS or other courier services to any destination, anywhere in the world.
Print, pack and ship on the same day.
Track your packages worldwide.
Coordinate split deliveries and promptly return originals back to you.
Handle all paperwork – you don’t have to fill out shipping forms and labels.
Manage and distribute the simplest or most complex bid-sets and addenda.
Print Closest to Your Destination International Printing
You’re in Austin; your client is in Boston? No problem! We offer digital distribution services to any shop within our global network, including locations in the U.S., Canada, China, the Middle East, Australia, and India. Transmit your documents digitally for fast and efficient local print service, and reduce your carbon footprint while you’re at it. Remember, Digital is Green!
With ARC you can print almost anywhere you need with the same quality, service and accuracy you’ve come to expect from us.
Printing closest to where the documents are needed saves time, shipping costs, and environmental resources. Avoid the costly print-pack-drive-fly-drive-pay cycle needed to print and ship your files where they need to go and digitally ship your files with ARC. Then print locally.
If your job is just a few sets and you’d expect them back in a few hours from our shop, you can expect them in a few hours anywhere else we print. Big job? Eight hours of printing? You can expect the same thing in New York (or Chicago, or Beijing, or Dubai…) Need it faster? Just ask and we’ll check for special arrangements on the other end.