Secondary Operations

Promo Products has developed innovative and unique solutions to a wide variety of imprinting challenges. We take our customers’ creative concepts and make them a reality. Our staff has the experience, expertise, and ingenuity to meet your challenge. If we don’t have a printing process to meet your specifications, we will develop one.

In-House Graphics - Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Several Graphic Platforms, Up-to-date Computers, DVD-RW (DVD Burners), High-Resolution scanner, High-Resolution printers give the best results and chance for success.

Promo Products produces its own detailed sharp film negatives and positives.
If you’re not sure what kind of imaging is best for your project, just give us a call at: (800) 349-0058.

In-House Plate Making – Promo Products has all the right tools and inventory to turn your artwork into a ready-to-use Screen or general ink printing plate in minutes! We use Photopolymer Plates for short to medium production runs. On long production runs, primarily Stainless Steel Plates are used.

In-House Tooling - One of the key elements to high-quality, efficient printing is a craftsman-built fixture (nesting tool). Promo Products has both the craftsmen and the facility to design and build fixtures that are efficient built to last.

In-House Silk Screening Developing - We have the ability to develop our own silk screens for customers in house, and go straight into printing.

Assembly & Packaging – We are able to perform simple product assembly and Packaging.

Specialized Labeling - We offer the ability to create, and label specific products.

Controlled Environment Room

Our Controlled Environment Room is an environment, typically used in printing, manufacturing, or research and development, that it has a low level of environmental contaminant particles, such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles, and chemical vapors. More accurately, our controlled environment room has a controlled level of contamination that is specified by the number of particles per cubic meter at a specified particle size.

To give perspective, the ambient air outside in a typical urban environment contains 35,000,000 particles per cubic meter in the size range .05 Micrometer and larger in diameter. Our Controlled Environment Room, while not ISO certified, allows no particles in that size range and is equivalent to a Class 10,000 clean room.
Controlled Environments can be very large. Although our entire manufacturing facility is contained within a Controlled Environment with factory floors covering thousands of square feet, our Controlled Environment Room and Preparation area is slightly larger than 1,000 square feet. It is used extensively in medical printing, but also biotechnology and medical sciences; as well as other fields that are very sensitive to environmental contamination.

The air entering our Controlled Environment Room from outside is filtered to exclude dust, and the air is constantly recirculated through high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters to remove both externally and internally generated contaminants.  Staff enter and leave through a predefined preparatory area, and wear protective clothing such as hats, face masks, gloves, bootys, and lab coats or smocks.  Equipment inside the Controlled Environment Room is designed to generate minimal air contamination. Even specialized mops and buckets exist for the internal cleaning cycles. Controlled Environment Room printing presses are also designed to produce a minimum of particles and to be easy to clean.

Common materials such as paper, cardboard, wood, and fabrics made from natural fibers are excluded; however, alternatives are made available. Controlled Environment Rooms are not sterile (i.e., free of uncontrolled microbes); however extreme attention is given to removing airborne particles. Particle levels are routinely tested using a particle counter.  Our Controlled Environment Room is kept at a positive pressure so that if there are any leaks, the air leaks out of the chamber, instead of allowing any unfiltered air to come in.

Our facility’s huge HVAC systems control the humidity to levels, such that extra equipment (“ionizers”), are not necessary to prevent electrostatic discharge (ESD) problems in the Controlled Environment.

Our printing and secondary manufacturing facility does not qualify as a classified Clean Room, but still uses the same Controlled Environment Room practices.  All of our employees in the entire building work hard to maintain the cleanliness requirements.

Airflow principles:

Airflow pattern for “Turbulent Controlled Environment Room”

Our Controlled Environment Room maintains particulate-free air through the use of HEPA filters employing turbulent airflow principles. Stainless steel or other non-shed materials are used to construct airflow filters and hoods to prevent excess particles entering the air. Turbulent, or non-unidirectional, air flow uses air flow hoods and non-specific velocity filters to keep air in a Controlled Environment Room in constant motion, although not all in the same direction. The rough air seeks to trap particles that may be in the air and drive them towards the floor and flexible flap doors, where they are expelled and leave the Controlled Environment Room environment.  The CE Room is much like an inflated pre-filtered balloon that only let’s air out, not in.  

Our Quality - Quality Control processes ensure consistent quality, up to or better than the standards set by our customer. Since it’s beginning, Promo Products has been encouraging a strong team attitude through communication, cooperation, and recognition. We came to the realization long ago that “great ideas come from everyone”. We take pride in the talents and abilities of every employee, and they in turn take pride in the quality of their work.

Decorating Services Offered -By offering a variety of decorating applications, Promo Products is able to match the proper decorating process with your project. Factors that determine the proper decorating application for your project are shape of part or print area volume, image size, image location, number of colors per image, type of substrate, and end use of product, such as a medical application.