Once a month, we at the Parklander magazine hope to provide Broward and Palm Beach county residences with fresh and informative perspectives. We could not do this without many local partners, and we want to share the process with you.
Thanks to local businesses who advertise in our magazine,
our editorial staff is able to provide articles and columns of local interest. Our graphics department melds editorial and ads in what we hope to be an attractive presentation with an ever-watchful eye to our printer’s deadline.
For those not familiar with the ‘offset printing’ process, our magazine design is first etched onto aluminum plates representing cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
Our printing partner uses Akiyama presses with environmentally-friendly, vegetable-oil-based ink. The presses use aluminum plates with tiny holes to indicate where the ink should be deposited. Since oil and water don’t mix, water keeps the ink where it belongs, producing the vibrant colors you see in our magazine each month.
After giant sheets of paper are printed with magazine pages, they are bound with glue. Excess paper is cut off to create individual books and all excess paper is recycled.
After the magazines are completed, they are bundled, wrapped, and delivered to a United States Postal Service center for weighing to determine the postage before being sent out to individual post offices associated with local zip codes.
Pallets of magazines are separated into mail routes by clerks and sorted to individual homes by mail carriers.
Neil Rickette, who runs the Coral Springs Post Office on Atlantic Avenue, explained the magazines are distributed by clerks to the individual mail carriers for each of the city and rural routes. The carriers sort them to individual houses before delivering them to your mailbox.
Many thanks to our local printer and the post office for their work producing and delivering the Parklander to you. They are key to keeping our community connected during these challenging times.
By Li Pan