Today, state-of-the-art computer systems have replaced hot metal type with the result that changes can be made instantly throughout complicated documents. The typesetting systems used by financial printers are extremely sophisticated computer programs with features that simplify the creation of complex financial tables often seen in Prospectuses, Annual Reports and regulatory filings. They are also designed so that many different typesetters can be working on the same document at once to speed the process.

The result of all this technology is the dramatically reduced time it takes to create and modify these financial documents allowing companies to take advantage of narrow windows of opportunity in the stock market.

Commercial printers are good at doing many things that financial printers generally do not do. For example, they produce magazines, four and six-color brochures, etc. However, financial printers bring many things to the table that commercial printers do not. First, their expertise in producing complex financial documents. Second, financial printers maintain extensive typesetting and proofreading staffs and work 24 hours a day allowing massive changes to be turned around in much less time than commercial printers can achieve. Third, financial printers are set up to produce finished products on schedules that would drive a commercial printer to drink.

At American Financial Printers we are often faced with a request given at 10:00 P.M. to have 15,000 prospectuses consisting of from 72 to 300 pages printed and delivered to Wall Street by early the next morning. And that sums up the distinction between financial and commercial printers. The ability to typeset, print, bind, and distribute complex documents on virtually unheard of schedules.

At some point during the process, usually right before a document is to be filed with the SEC, all these players come together in our conference rooms to hammer out the final details of the documents. This meeting, called an in-house, often lasts through the night with the attorneys requesting last minute changes in the document to respond to comments of the SEC or changes in the nature of the deal. It is in these conferences that the experience and personal attention of a company like American Financial Printers makes a truly noticeable difference.

In addition, American Financial Printers was a cofounder of FPNet, an international association of regional financial printers with offices in all the major U.S. financial centers as well as financial centers around the world. Through use of sophisticated file transfer technology we can conduct remote conferences in multiple sites as well as make proof distributions wherever they are needed.

And, let's face it, your job, big or small, is more important to us than it would be to our national competitors who get a huge portion of their work from multibillion dollar clients. And when that national competitor is doing work for one of their multibillion dollar clients just when your project comes in, whose job do you think will get their attention first? At American Financial Printers, there is no question. You are what is most important to us. Your continuing business is what makes us grow and we will give you all of our attention and all of our efforts.