The GST BOCES Print Shop currently serves 21 school districts and is committed to exceeding expectations by providing excellent customer service and raising standards.

What we do

We produce high-quality, cost-effective printed materials in the shortest turnaround time. In-house printing allows control over production to ensure a quality appearance.

Our GST BOCES Print Shop is available to service all school districts within the Greater Southern Tier region.

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Our Equipment

• 7 High-speed black copiers–options available:

  • - Networked computer-to-copier reproduction
    - In-line booklet makers for 5.5 x 8.5 or 8.5 x 11 books
    - 3-hole punching
    - Collating, folding, or stapling
    

• Networked full-color copies available

• Digital Plate Maker for computer-to-plate output.

• Four offset presses with second color T-heads.

• Risograph for low cost, small quantity orders of basic one-color ink printing (blue, red, green, maroon, black).

• Fenimore Vijuk Booklet Maker - Collates, staples, folds, face trims and single-hole punches.

• Challenge Paper Cutter - Digitally controlled programming.

• Pitney-Bowes Smart Mailer system with address printer. Pitney-Bowes tabbing machine.

• Comb Binding

• Coil Binding

• Hot melt glue padder.

Printing and Copying Masters

• For the best masters, please use a black laser printer. Use color printers only for color-copy masters.

• 600 dpi master output provides the best quality. Our camera cannot capture graphics that are 1200 dpi or higher.

• Minimum of 5/16 gripper space. Inside pages of a book or a newsletter use a consistent top and side margin along with uniform placement of page numbers.

• 20% screens or higher, because fewer can result in an image being lost or broken up.

• Registration Marks - color separations require at least 2 coordinating registration marks on each master (same size and placement).

• Photos and Graphics - whenever possible adjust your photos or graphics to a midtone value.

Here are some Helpful Guidelines for preparing your document.

Save time and make your publications look great. Contact the Community Information Service for professional writing, quality layout and expert design.

Mailing Services

We can mail the finished product directly to your target audience with our Pitney-Bowes SmartMailer system.

Bulk mailings must consist of a minimum of 200 pieces. Newsletters, calendars, letters, postcards, and booklets are prepared in accordance to U.S. Postal regulations (tabbed if required). Your mailing database merged with SmartMailer allows us to encode and sort carrier routes, thus offering our customers substantial savings on postal charges.

Contact the GST BOCES Regional Information Center to select your mailing database by district, school, student, grade, family or taxpayer.

We also assemble and prepare zip code saturation mailings using the most current USPS address information data.

Using our Printing Requisition

Don't worry...it's easy!

• We recommend that someone, other than the typist of the master, do the proofreading.

• Supply as much information as possible.

• Numerical amount in the quantity line.

• Specify actual date needed.

• Quantity of original masters - indicate page number on each.

• Specify paper size, color and paper type.

• For envelopes, specify regular or window, and #11, #10, #9, 6-3/4 or other.

• For NCR forms, specify how many parts per form and the quantity of sets.

• Specify desired ink color(s).

• For folding, please indicate quarter, half or tri-fold.

• Stapling, indicate 1 or 2 staples.

• Binding, indicate spiral combs or staples.

• Specify if you need perforation or scoring.

• Padding, indicate quantity of pads, sheets per pad and edge to pad (along left side or top of form).

• Contact GST BOCES Computer Services to order bulk mail databases.

• Normal timeline is 10 working days to produce your order. We will ship as soon as your job is finished.

• Please keep in mind that specialty papers may require an additional 3 to 5 days to be ordered from our supplier.

• We always try to accommodate any requests for rush orders.

• A letter of permission must be included to legally reproduce copyrighted items.

Download our Printing Request Form as a Fillable PDF

Contact us

GST BOCES Print Shop
3153 Lake Road
Horseheads, NY 14845
From Off Campus: (607) 734-4937
From On Campus: Ext. 1810
Fax: (607) 734-6341

Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Email the Print Shop at: ssctaps@gstboces.org