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Customer Service

  • Our corporate philosophy is that Long Term Customer Relationships are the key to the success and survival of the company.
  • Our Customer Service Representatives are cross-trained to better serve our customers’ needs.
  • We are capable of tracking all orders in live time throughout the order process.
  • We archive information daily.
  • Our CSR’s coordinate, track and facilitate all data for all orders processed.

Management System

  • Effective December 2008, Mercantile Press is pleased to announce the live deployment of their new EFI Pace MIS system.
  • EFI Pace is an integrated, cross-platform suite of highly customizable software modules that can be accessed from anywhere via standard Web browsers.
  • Data collection off the production floor in real time means customers can get instant, accurate job status, tracking and history information.

Pre-press Operations

  • From typesetting to plating we offer a full range of prepress options to fit your needs. Our well trained staff can walk you through any of your prepress needs.
  • Full service Mac and PC based electronic pre-press.
  • We offer both contract and imposition proofing.
  • State of the art hardware calibrated by a certified network administrator.
  • Computer to plate technology utilizing process-free plate technology.

Security/Disaster Recovery

Mercantile Press has a 3-part disaster recovery plan.

  • Artwork: All art files are incrementally backed up on a nightly basis; entire production server is backed up weekly and taken off-site; tape back-up is independent hardware from the server; MPI has redundant servers.
  • Data (Electronic and Physical): All data from job tracking system is backed up nightly; all office data is replicated to the production server and backed up nightly; all physical job jackets are stored for 3 years.
  • Manufacturing: MP has a written agreement with a friendly competitor, located less than one mile away to provide artwork, printing and bindery services in the event of a catastrophic failure at MP’s location.

Quality Control

  • We have an auditable ISO9002, cGMP compliant Quality Assurance System.
  • Member of the American Society for Quality.
  • We have established a comprehensive quality policy and quality manual based on the requirements of ISO 9002.
  • We utilize these guidelines as a way to develop, monitor, audit and improve our quality system.
  • Mercantile Press uses various measuring devices from bar code verification to sophisticated densitometers for measuring and maintaining ink densities for consistent color.
  • With input from our customers, we can systematically provide information showing conformity to their requirements.