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ABOUT US
PrintGuard, Inc. was founded in 1998 by President
Daniel Rizika, a graduate of MIT and the United States Military Academy at West
Point. Dan founded the company to design and manufacture niche products
using his past expertise in the Glass Bead Film Technology. Dan
worked with Printers and discovered printers were losing money from both machine
downtime and poor printing yield that results from wet ink smearing or marking
on the freshly inked paper as it moves from one printing station to the
next. The first product developed and sold was
PrintGuard®, a clear glass bead film that exhibited a perfect
monolayer of glass beads adhered to a tough and durable polyester film.
Within a year of introducing this product, we developed an ink repellent coating
that when applied as a top coating over our PrintGuard Product, dramatically
improved the anti-marking performance on press. We trademarked this
product Orange Hide® and manufacture these sheets for all presses and
further convert this product into PrintGuardPlus® jackets
specifically for Heidelberg presses. PrintGuard, Inc. has patented their
technology (US Patent nos. 6,811,863 and 7,270,873 and others patents pending)
which has become Standard for the Printing Industry.
PrintGuard’s 30,000 square foot plant is located in Millbury,
Massachusetts USA. PrintGuard is the largest and only manufacturer of
Glass Bead Anti-Marking products that is vertically integrated - we design,
apply the glass beads to film, apply all coatings, laminate, slit, sheet, and
have a complete assembly line with industrial rivet machines and sewing machines
to make custom cylinder jackets for Heidelberg presses. We are a global
company and PrintGuard Products are purchased world-wide by printers through our
network of distributors in USA, Canada, South America, Europe, Africa, Middle
East, China, India, and Australia.
To better serve our customers who prefer
lower cost alternatives, we are now offering the Original Wavy OrangeNet and the
Stripe-less OrangeNet and Orange Base Jackets. Orange nets are manufactured to
the highest standards in roll form and we custom cut them to your specific press
size.
Our commitment remains to manufacture premium anti-marking
products that optimally serve the Printing Industry. We design all
PrintGuard® products in our own laboratory and produce, test, and
refine them to exacting parameters before they are qualified for production and
shipment. We maintain a close relationship with printers and pressmen
through daily communication and new product testing. If you are a pressman
or mechanic and have a new marking problem, call us and we will design a new
product for you to test!
The PrintGuard logo means
Increased Printer Profitability. Printers who use PrintGuard make more
money printing; this is real value added that PrintGuard guarantees.
PrintGuard’s strength is our total focus on creating solutions to printers’
marking problems and since one company performs all the operations (designs,
manufactures, converts, and distributes) we can control, prioritize, and
ensure the highest product quality, and customer service anywhere in the world.
Our global dealer network ensures worldwide technical support of our products
and we maintain the largest inventory in the world to ensure your press is never
down for backorder reasons.
