MEA Creative Projects
MEA Creative Projects
Welcome to the MEA Creative Projects Team online homepage for print and MEA stock orders. Creative Projects provides design, variable data pre-print setup, full printing and bindery services, and mail or delivery services to the MEA/MESSA/MEA-FS staff, as well as to outside Non-Profit organizations (upon invitation).
Services Available:
- High-speed B&W digital copies up to 144 impressions per minute;
- High-speed color digital copies up to 130 impressions per minute;
- Size formats up to 13" x 19" for high speed printing.
- 3 feet by 20 feet wide-format printing (banners/posters)
- Scan to e-mail or PDF;
- Graphic design;
- Variable data pre-print setup;
- Full bindery services (collating, stapling, booklet-making, drilling, cutting, scoring, perforating, inserting, addressing, laminating, button-making, etc.
Only staff have access to this print order application for work-related jobs. All personal jobs need to be sent to the Creative Projects Associate Manager, Gus Schowengerdt, gschowengerdt@mea.org for submission and labor will be charged.
MEA Creative Projects will not produce any material that is copyrighted unless there is a certified letter of approval to accompany the material.
HOURS OF OPERATION, LOCATION AND CONTACTS:
Standard Hours:
7:30am - 4:00pm (M-F except holidays)
Location:
MEA, 1216 Kendale Blvd, E Lansing, MI 48823
Contacts:
Gus Schowengerdt, Associate Manager - 517-337-5439
Rob Vitu, Coordinator - 800-292-1934, x5484
Printing and Design Services
Following are the various categories of print jobs and services we can provide to our clients:
- Simple Print - jobs that are submitted as print-ready and only need a staple or hole-punch.
- Design Only - design jobs for electronic or promo use and will not be printed.
- Bindery Only - no design, print or mailing needed.
- Booklets - those that are stapled or tape-bound.
- Books/Binders/Tabs - Books that are sent out for spiral-binding or binder/cover/spine/tab jobs.
- Business Cards - classic linen or silk photo cards.
- Brochures - 2-sided, folded marketing pieces.
- Certificates
- Conference Announcements
- Contracts
- Election Postcards (specifically for elections)
- Envelope orders
- Event Programs
- Flat Cards (i.e. palm cards, bookmarks, tickets, non-standard business cards, etc.)
- Flyers - 1- or 2-sided flat sheets
- Folded Cards or Invitations (includes table tent cards)
- Forms - Single sheet or 2, 3, or 4 part Carbonless
- Letterhead/Stationery outsourced
- Letters - printing on letterhead or print-ready art
- Member Cards
- Name Badges
- Newsletters/Reports
- Pads - Referral, FYI, Notepads
- Paper Stock Only
- Postcards (unlike flat cards, these are mailed)
- Posters/Signs (1-sided, large - up to 13x19; includes directional, rally, other; can be mounted on foam board/easel backs)
- Raffle Tickets
- Stickers/Labels - a variety of sizes, indoor use only
- Wide-format printing (banners, signs, posters)
- Weingarten and MESSA cards
- Addressing/Messaging
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