The Press Room · 一鸣
A sheet travels
six units. Follow it.
The floor, told in order — prepress and colour science, the six-colour pass, die cutting, hot stamping, folding and finishing, then quality and delivery. Every capability we run, in the sequence a job runs it.
01 Prepress & colour
Unit 01 — Cyan
Colour is decided long before a drop of ink.
Every job is built to a measured target, not a screen guess. Files are trapped and imposed, proofs are read under a controlled D50 light, and an X-Rite spectrophotometer takes the colour off the sheet as a number — so the proof, the press and the reorder all agree.
Design-to-sheet: what you approve is what the units are set to hit.
02 The pass
Unit 02 — Magenta
Four colours make a picture. Six make it true.
Two Mitsubishi six-colour presses and one five-colour press run Pantone Hexachrome — the familiar CMYK, plus a dedicated orange and green unit. Those two inks widen the gamut into the places four colours give up: clean skin tones, honest pastels, and brand solids hit on the nose without a special mix.
The result reads richer because more of the visible spectrum is actually on the sheet — not simulated by dots fighting each other.
Six units in line · the sheet takes every colour in one pass
- C Cyan
- M Magenta
- Y Yellow
- K Key
- O Orange
- G Green
O & G — the two that widen the gamut
03 Die cutting
Unit 03 — Yellow
The box is the die.
Structure is drawn as a die-line, cut into a steel-rule die board, and struck on a Bobst or Tsair Shuenn flatbed. Every crease, tuck and locking tab is engineered so the flat sheet folds into a form that holds its shape and its contents.
A carton is paper engineering. The cut is where it earns that.
04 Hot stamping
Unit 04 — Key
Gold, struck under heat.
A brass die is heated, foil is drawn between it and the board, and pressure lays a mirror-bright metallic exactly where the artwork calls for it. No ink sits this proud of the sheet — hot stamping is the line a premium box is judged on.
Gold, silver, holographic and coloured foils; matte or high-gloss.
05 Folding & finishing
Unit 05 — Orange
Folded to a hair, cut dead square.
Four folder-gluing machines fold and seam cartons at speed, laying glue clean and square so a box snaps up true on the packing line. Two Polar guillotines square the stock and trim the finished work to a set edge.
Score & fold
Creases from the die let the board fold without cracking the print.
Glue & seam
Side seams laid straight and clean, so the carton erects square on the line.
Guillotine
Stock squared and finished work trimmed to a set, repeatable edge.
06 Quality & logistics
Unit 06 — Green
Checked, boxed, and on the road.
Sheets are inspected against the approved standard before anything is packed, under a system certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. Finished work ships from the Johor factory to the Singapore office and out to you — factory-direct, one accountable route.
Shrink-wrapped pallets · factory-direct to Singapore
Inspected
Sheets read against the approved standard — colour, register and finish — before packing.
Certified
ISO 9001 for quality management, ISO 14001 for environmental management.
Delivered
Singapore office and Johor factory on one route — factory pricing, local service.
From our own camera · Masai, Johor
The floor, as shot.
Fourteen frames straight off the floor, in the order a job runs — colour checked and cut, the die shop, laminating and gluing, then loaded out. Nothing staged.
01 · The press
02 · Checked, then cut
03 · The die shop
04 · Laminate, fold, glue
05 · Glued, packed, loaded
Kept right, kept running
The plate on the line reads Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Tokyo — 1986. Presses stay in service this long when they are kept in register and run by people who know them by sound. That is the floor your job goes to.