1. Creative
Solutions
for You...
13040 Cerise Avenue
Hawthorne, CA 90250
Graphics. (310) 644-7999 Ext. 115
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2. Communication: The process of transmitting
BACKGROUND
ideas and emotions through symbols.
Presentation Media Incorporated is a closely held California
corporation founded in 1969. Our two divisions, Graphics Communication is the most important, yet undervalued,
and Photo Services, provide total media services to clients tool in an operation. Good communication will improve the
in Southern California. We also provide services throughout environment for any organization to make a more efficient
the US via internet and overnight air delivery. system and process. Poor communication will cause
unnecessary errors, more work than is needed, and hectic,
PMI's staff of 20 employees operates 24 hours a day, 7 unorganized, operations that lead to chaos.
days a week at our 44,000 square foot facility in
Hawthorne, California. PMI is dedicated to helping you visualize your
communication to create a more open environment where
success can prosper. Whether you need professionally
MISSION STATEMENT created annual reports, trade show displays, advertising
posters, or technical CAD drawings, PMI will give your
organization the edge to conveying your ideas.
We are a GRAPHIC SERVICE organization providing
Computer Generated Presentation and Technical Art,
Photographic Processing and Prints, and Digital Imaging
for Displays and Exhibitions on a corporate level. We cater
to corporate graphics needs to ensure professionalism and
the highest level of customer service.
• We pride ourselves in immediate response to our
CUSTOMERS' NEEDS.
• Our main asset is attracting and retaining the BEST
PEOPLE in our industry.
• We use state of the art equipment and constantly
update our inventory to provide the best quality
available.
• Our goal is 100% CUSTOMER SATISFACTION.
3. WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?
Unparalleled Service
PMI is one of the only graphics companies in the country
that offers 24-hour production and 12-hour turnaround.
Our facility operates around the clock to ensure timely
delivery of product without compromising the accuracy and
quality of the work. We also deliver jobs directly to you and
offer customized, onsite installation to create perfect
displays and provide a finishing touch. Whatever your
situation, PMI is committed to being a part of your
company's team.
Because PMI is committed to attracting and retaining the
best people in the industry, our clients are assured the
highest level of professionalism, quality, and reliability.
Our staff is willing to go the extra mile to achieve your
deadlines with a quality product.
PMI’s focused objective is to provide corporate clients the
extended graphical resources needed to meet increasing
demands. We provide complete media services so that
every project will be handled with consistency throughout
all facets and to take the headaches of coordination away
from you.
We also are strongly driven to provide the most advanced
and efficient methods of work flow. PMI utilizes the
internet and FTP, as well as more traditional methods, to
communicate and transfer work with our clients. This
enables quicker response to any need.
4. Graphic Design and CAD Services Department
The PMI graphics design team is an industry leader in
making creative, detailed illustrations to meet any need or
environment. Our graphic designers are thoroughly trained
in all of the software used in this field. We offer our
customers
• Logo designs that stand out
• Packaging design that increases sales
• Caricatures that make a fun environment
• Illustrations that depict more than a thousand words
• Many more creative products
Save time and money by letting our CAD designers do the
support work while you spend more time innovating and
planning. We create computer generated technical art in
such programs as
• Adobe Illustrator
• AutoCAD
• IsoDraw
• Other industry standard programs.
PMI’s design team makes our customers' ideas ready to
take to the next level with 2-D and 3-D electronic modeling.
We can also form solid models of your designs.
5. Exhibits and Displays Department Framing and Matting
Installation aids such as
Our ability to make any type of display needed makes PMI a
• Velcro
very unique graphics company. Our display department can
• Mounting Blocks
produce
• Adhesive back
• Magnets
• Posters
• Grommets
• Banners
• Signage
We have experience in the Visual Factory system to improve
• Trade Show Displays
manufacturing performance and offer electronic displays
• Back Lit Displays
and programming. We also create customized dry erase
• Vinyl Lettering
boards for communication situations. Our service includes
• Solid Modeling
pickup, delivery, and installation of your displays.
• Customized Dry Erase boards
• Wall Murals
• Much More
Our display features include:
Lamination
• Gloss
• Matte
• Semi Gloss
• Luster
• Graffiti
Mounting
• Foam Core
• Gator Board
• Colored Plastic
• Sheet Metal
• Formica
• Lexan
• Corrugated Plastic
• Other mounting materials
6. Publications / Reproduction Department
PMI's Reproduction and Technical Publications will give
your documents the most professional appearance and
content possible. We offer to create or enhance an existing
technical report, proposal, resume, or any other document
and create illustrations and graphs to add extra content.
• Brochures
• Pamphlets
• Annual Reports
• Bound Books
• Training Manuals
We create tools that will enable your organization to
increase your sales or provide mass communication. We
also offer digital photo editing / enlargement as well as
color copying.
7. Digital Mini Prints
Photographic Services Department
We can print direct from your digital files to all the popular
sizes and formats. Our Fuji Frontier utilizes a laser
The photographic department offers a wide array of
printing head that yields the highest resolution and quality
services that encompass all the aspects of a traditional
available. This system can also scan original negatives
wet lab as well as any digital output. We can utilize a
and transparencies up to medium format and print direct
variety of customer furnished originals including negatives,
from these captures while compensating for any under or
transparencies, artwork, and photos. For digital imaging,
over exposed film at the same time.
we can scan and create designs or print directly from your
files to a selection of output sources. A full finishing
• All print sizes up to 10 x 15
department is on board to compliment all your visual
• Glossy, matte or lustre finish
display requirements.
• Thumbnail prints
• CD of scanned film
Film Services
PMI offers a variety of services in this arena to serve all
Photographic Murals
your needs. We utilize hanger type film processors that are
Large display prints are always an eye-catching visual
monitored daily for optimum chemical balance and
treat. We can produce your blow-ups from any media input
consistency. All our lab film and chemistry is Kodak.
whether film or digital. They can be printed to
photographic paper and mounted on a variety of materials
• Film processing E-6, C-41, B&W
or made to display film designed for backlit illumination.
• Slide duping and copying
(See Exhibits and Displays deparment page for details)
• Film duping
• Copy negatives and transparencies
• Color and Black & White image
• Studio capture of original art and photos
• Paper
• Digital film output 35mm thru 8 x 10
• Duraflex
• Scanning and retouching
• Duratrans
Custom Prints
Top quality photographic prints are made from negatives or
transparencies to your specifications. These prints are
hand enlarged, burned, dodged, and spotted as necessary
to optimize the overall effect of your images.
• Custom color prints
• Custom Black & White prints/panalure
• Glossy or matte surface
• Sized to your specifications
8. Multimedia Department
If pictures can tell a thousand words, then how much is
conveyed by animation?
PMI is dedicated to providing state of the art digital
services to its customers. We create or edit digital
presentations to increase the impact of communication.
We offer a variety of storage media such as
CD
DVD
Compact Flash
SMART media
USB storage
so that your presentation can go with you wherever you go.
Our web designers can give you a professional website that
will increase sales and offer communication at the click of
a button. PMI also creates vivid animations using
Macromedia Flash technology to provide another dimension
to graphic design.
Let our multimedia department service your needs with the
highest level of technology.
17. • Technical Art
• Diagrams
• Animation
• Gantt Charts
• Custom charts and graphs
Have an Upcoming Proposal?
We Can Help!
• Poster boards
• Flip Charts
• 3D modeling
• Tabletop displays
• Binders and Books
• Flyers and Brochures
• Engineering Drawing Reproduction
• CD duplication
The Value:
• We allow you to work on content all day by letting us develop appearance overnight.
For Quality and Affordable because PMI can produce your presentation
• Refine your presentation until the 11th hour
materials overnight.
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FAST.
• In many cases, appearance the difference
losing the deal. Our mission is to Make our Clients LOOK GOOD and FEEL GREAT.
The Outcome:
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18. Proposal and Presentation Services
The Situation:
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a professional appearance. PMI offers many beneficial services and uses unique assets to
put together the highest level of professionalism OVERNIGHT. Let PMI help you WIN.
The Tools:
Our trademarked “Midnight Express – Overnight without Overtime” encompasses the
following services:
• PowerPoint and Word formatting
• Illustrations
• Technical Art
• Diagrams
• Animation
• Gantt Charts
• Custom charts and graphs
• Poster boards
• Flip Charts
For Quality and Affordable
• 3D modeling
• Tabletop displays
Presentations that you need FAST.
• Binders and Books
• Flyers and Brochures
• Engineering Drawing Reproduction
• CD duplication
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Have an UpcomingallProposal? appearance overnight.
• We allow you to work on content day by letting us develop
We Can Help!
• Refine your presentation until the 11th hour because PMI can produce your presentation
materials overnight.
• In many cases, appearance is the difference between being awarded the contract and
losing the deal. Our mission is to Make our Clients LOOK GOOD and FEEL GREAT.
The Outcome:
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• Diagrams
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The Value:
• We allow you to work on content all day by letting us develop appearance overnight.
• Refine your presentation until the 11th hour because PMI can produce your presentation
materials overnight.
• In many cases, appearance is the difference between being awarded the contract and
losing the deal. Our mission is to Make our Clients LOOK GOOD and FEEL GREAT.
The Outcome:
Your strategic relationship with
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22. Applications and Industries
AUTOMOTIVE CONCEPT MODELING PRESENTATION MODELS
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS EDUCATION ARCHITECTURE
THE WORLD’S FASTEST COLOR PRODUCES AFFORDABLE FOR ALL
CONSUMER PRODUCTS FUNCTIONAL TESTING MEDICAL
3D PRINTERS DRAMATIC RESULTS ENVIRONMENTS
3D printing is the world’s fastest Nothing communicates better than From materials to operational costs,
process of rapid prototyping - five color 3D models and product PMI delivers the lowest cost per
A World of Possibilities
to ten times faster than other prototypes - and PMI makes 3D printed model. PMI solutions use
solutions. That means that PMI can color printing accessible and reliable and affordable inkjet
output models in hours, not days. available to everyone. Color technology, resulting in a materials • Design Prototypes 3D print concept models, functional prototypes, and presentation
And unlike other 3D printing dramatically communicates usage cost that is a fraction of the models for evaluating and refining designs.
soultions, we can build multiple engineering product designs, vividly cost of other rapid prototyping
models at the same time, portrays architectural designs, technologies. And PMI 3D printers • Metal Castings Directly print molds, mold inserts, and patterns for metal casting.
dramatically increasing throughput. and brings animated characters to recycle all unused materials, so you
PMI’s high-speed solutions provide life. You can add highlights to models pay only for the actual materials • Architecture Create models of architectural designs and prototypes for the
a competitive advantage for a range with annotations like part numbers, used to produce a part. design of critical elements.
of applications, from demanding design comments, and logos to
commercial environments better evaluate product designs. And • Education Engage students by bringing digital concepts into the real world,
supporting entire engineering with PMI’s high-definition 3D printing turning their ideas into real-life 3D color models that they can
departments, to detailed modelling capabilities, you can produce actually hold in their hands.
for scaled displays. models having complex geometries
and small, detailed features. • Geospatial Easily convert GIS data into 3D landscape and cityscape models.
• Healthcare Rapidly produce 3D models to reduce operating time, enhance
“With the 3D printer, we can have a discussion in the morning, make a suggestion,
patient and physician communication, and improve patient outcomes.
break for lunch and see the results in the afternoon. No other tool can do this.”
Jane Smith • Entertainment and the Arts Create avatars and consumer figurines from 3D data generated by
Director, Concept Car Division
electronic games, animations, and youth-oriented software
General Motors Corporation
23. Visual Factory
Visual Factory is a system that improves
production efficiency, decreases safety incident
rates, increases quality standards, and supports Presentation Media Inc.
employee moral.
Increase
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Website: www.presentationmedia.com Improve
Quality
As QualPro’s 12 step process improvement
techniques indicates, the first action needed to
improve a process is to quot;create the environmentquot;.
For this reason, Visual Factory Management
begins with labeling and making signs to clearly
identify where things are and where they are
supposed to be. This will help employees align
their efforts with the goals of the organization in
order to maximize the effect of their efforts.
Presentation
Media
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24. Manufacturing
How much can my Visual)Factory)management
organization save? Visual factory systems evolved as “Providing your production lines with at-a glance information”
the natural progression of In-office Production Display Monthly and
Key Variables Tracking Yearly Production Data
Safety making the concepts of Six
Sigma, QualPro, and Problem
OSHA reports that 80% of all incidents claimed are due Solving Analysis a company-
to unsafe acts while 20% are due to unsafe conditions. wide, unified project. By
displaying trend charts,
The average safety incident costs employers $86,000
production data, defect rates,
which includes compensation, benefits, damage to
and specific goals throughout a
capital assets, lost productivity , legal expenses, and
facility, companies have found a
workers comp insurance rate increase. Give Safety Reminders to
more aligned environment where Encourage Safe Behavior
Therefore, visual communication acts as reminders for
every employee is focused on
employees to have safer behavior and will thus attack
the corporation’s goals. This
80% of incidents.
has given significant production
More important than money is life. Keeping employees output gains. By using a visual
safe is the #1 priority, and any investment in ensuring factory, one manufacturing
• Dry Erase Boards
facility has seen an efficiency improvement from 78%
safety is a good one.
• Banners
to 92% in an eleven month span, defect rate drops
• Posters
from 4.3% to 2.4% in 8 months time, and mean time
between stops rise from 2.7 hours to 6.2 hours. • Manuals
• Process Improvement Books
Go visual. If we had it to do over again, we would have accelerated “Employers vastly underestimate the actual costs of
• Electronic Displays
the implementation of our 7S visual factory management system. This work place incident. In almost every case, the cost of a
system has proven invaluable in establishing order within the facility safety program is far less than the cost of a work place
and providing the visual ability to reconcile reality against the PMI provides everything to create your
accident.”
theoretical world of the MRP system. As this plant goes forward, this from OSHA Magazine Visual Factory.
visual world will continue to be enhanced as a tool to simplify the
management of the overall operation. -- Kautex -- A Textron Co.,
Lavonia, Ga.
Make problems easily visible.
We use visual management
techniques extensively because they
surface problems quickly and
allow anyone to know how things
are going at all times. We use 5S
techniques because they reduce
opportunities for various types of
waste (defects, material
handling, motion) and create a
more pleasing environment for
our associates. -- General Cable
Corp. - Automotive Products,
Altoona, Pa.