Chakra Communications Inc., Create to Communicate


		Chakra Create to Communicate Chakra’s management strategy is derived conceptually from the wheel, where we look outward towards our customer rather than upwards as in a conventional hierarchal sense. The responsibility of every employee within the Chakra circle is to support and service our customer service and sales team who are in contact with our customers everyday. Prepress Chakra Designs for Success At Chakra, we believe that the foundation of design excellence begins with a thorough understanding of client expectations and requirements. Chakra’s skilled creative team helps you communicate effectively with your target audience by conveying your message in a concise, creative, and cutting edge manner. Whether your needs are as simple as an online brochure promoting your company, or as complex as a multi–page print and online product catalog with related signage, Chakra’s resources and expertise will provide your company with a clear, competitive advantage. Holistic Approach Provides Full Circle of Solutions Chakra’s team applies a holistic approach to your communication needs by understanding your requirements and vision, carefully considering every aspect of your individual project and overall communication needs, and offering comprehensive solutions. Our creative team meticulously manages every project by examining your requirements and vision and offering results–oriented designs tailored to your company, audience, and message. Our creative staff is skilled in a variety of media modalities, including print, web, presentations, signage, and recognition products, allowing us to provide one comprehensive approach to all of your communication needs. Interactive Process Creates Proven Results Chakra’s team takes the time to understand you, your business, goals, and customers. We maximize your return on investment by utilizing our experience and expertise to create recommendations directly focused to your needs and fulfilled by our skilled and detail–oriented team. Our process is simple, yet effective: Understand who the audience is. Identify the action you want to motivate the audience to take. Recommend media alternatives for maximum impact. Use the creative process to meet these goals. Combine the creative process with a state–of–the–art technology and production platform to conveniently and successfully manage your project under one roof. Chakra’s design team can make your next project a success. Download PDF Prepress Chakra Communications Offers Prepress Solutions Good prepress is the key to good print quality. Chakra Communications is ready to be your prepress partner. Whether performing prepress for a project that will print overseas, or for a job on our own presses, we examine the entire project, anticipate every variable, and provide excellent reproduction quality. In a world where so much of print production is automated, Chakra provides personal attention and a skilled approach to develop each project to the highest possible quality. Perfectly Prepared Prepress Chakra’s rich award–winning history with prepress is the differences between a mediocre project and an excellent one. Whether you are looking for functional services such as copydot scanning or contract digital dot–based proofing, or high quality scanning and color retouching, Chakra’s prepress experts combine skill and experience with cutting edge technology to provide results which will far exceed your expectations. Choose Chakra Re–evaluate your print projects and determine whether they are getting the attention necessary to maximize print quality. Chakra is the right solution for you. The Advantages of Choosing Chakra We are a Buffalo, NY based company, with a history of award–winning prepress, high quality image capture, copy dot scanning, color retouching and color correction, typesetting, layout and design, digital dot–based contract proofing, CtP ready files, film, and plates. Chakra offers press characterization and finger printing service, regardless of the printing location, including overseas. Our expanded services include archiving, digital asset management, text–to–html, and xml conversions, in addition to high quality prepress. We offer low–cost, high quality, ink–on–paper, short–run, on–demand printing for marketing and promotional projects, including BLADs, F&Gs, and Bound Galleys. Chakra provides high levels of customer service and problem–resolution, along with on–time delivery and fast correction cycles. We are experienced in handling valuable award–winning artwork, including personal pick–up and delivery. Do business in the U.S. with Chakra and reap the advantages of fast response and high quality without sacrificing on price. There are no language or time zone barriers and no high freight costs. Download PDF Print Chakra Offers Print Solutions Chakra provides graphic communications services with a holistic approach to creating, producing, and delivering your message with excellence, innovation, and a consistent high level of quality. We are a committed solutions provider with whom you can entrust all of your projects. Chakra is big enough to handle the most formidable projects, but small enough to never forget the importance of each customer and project. We make it easy for you to do business with us through our commitment to technology, flexibility, responsiveness, and involvement that makes us an extension of your business. Start to Finish with Chakra Chakra’s approach to your printed piece goes beyond laying down ink on paper. We pride ourselves on our ability to understand your objectives, collaborate in project planning (including assistance with design and prepress), paper selection, printing options, and bindery planning. Add to this our fulfillment, mailing, and shipping services, and Chakra will ensure that your final product exceeds your expectations and arrives at its final destination on time. Technical Advances Mean Better Service As part of Chakra’s commitment to providing on–demand solutions, we have recently added a direct imaging press to our technology platform. Combined with our web–to–print, digital asset management, collateral management, and fulfillment solutions, our customers can now take advantage of an on–demand, high–quality, short–run, ink–on–paper print solution. Solutions for Every Situation In addition to high quality commercial printing, Chakra also offers: High screen ruling and stochastic printing. Hexachrome printing. Printing on synthetics. Short–run, ink–on–paper, high quality, on–demand printing. Very large format ink–jet printing on a wide variety of substrates including canvas, tyvek, silk, vinyl, and back–lit substrates. Short–run, toner–based printing. At Chakra, we combine excellent customer service with state–of–the–art technology to offer holistic solutions for your ink–on–paper requirements. Allow us to convert your concepts to communication products and efficiently manage your project step by step through completion. Web Chakra Website Design Offers Development and Support Chakra’s skilled Internet development and design team helps you communicate online more effectively with your customers, vendors, and employees by conveying your message in a concise, creative, and cutting edge manner. Whether your needs are as simple as an online brochure promoting your company, or as complex as an online order fulfillment vehicle, Chakra’s resources and expertise will provide your company’s website with a clear, competitive advantage in the Internet marketplace. Chakra’s Internet Services Team Provides a Skilled Approach Chakra provides a holistic approach by considering all aspects of your website and greater communication needs, examining your requirements and vision, and offering comprehensive solutions. Chakra’s experienced team can provide all the services and support your company needs, with project planning, design, development, implementation, marketing, and maintenance of your site. Our abilities include: Incorporating elements of your existing promotional materials into your website to enhance your current marketing campaign and create a cohesive message. Custom website development based on a comprehensive review of your target audience and the response you wish to motivate from visitors. Upgrade of your overall design with elements that bring it to life and create impact. Additional functionality and structure to make your site a more useful and productive resource for your visitors and your company. Advanced features including Flash, video, and audio components for quick–loading and smooth playback on the Web. Content management tools to allow you to easily update your website’s content as often as needed, without having to know HTML coding. Chakra’s Websites Get Results Chakra’s team takes the time to understand you, your business, goals, and customers. We maximize your return on investment by utilizing our experience and expertise to create recommendations narrowly focused to your needs and fulfilled by our cutting edge and detail oriented team. Our process is simple, yet effective: Understand who your audience is. Identify the action you want to motivate the audience to take. Build a responsive website to meet these goals. Continuously monitor results. Chakra combines exciting, creative, and visitor friendly designs with robust, advanced programming to create an effective Internet presence which meets your needs today and can grow to meet your needs in the future. A website should not be a static environment, but a dynamic one that changes with your clients and your business. Choose Chakra as your partner to effectively communicate your message on the Internet. Download PDF Digital Delivery Chakra Offers On–Demand Services Today’s dynamic business environment demands that companies manage communication requirements effectively. Businesses need to increase customer acquisition and retention, enhance brand recognition, reduce costs, differentiate themselves from the competition, and extend market reach. Chakra’s On-Demand services provide solutions for all of these needs. Wide Array of Options Chakra provides flexible, efficient, simple, and productive on–demand communication solutions which allow businesses to buy, manage, and distribute communications. Chakra’s transactional platform, digital output and delivery, and Internet technologies allow businesses to communicate quickly, simply, and efficiently with their consumers. Chakra’s expertise includes: On–demand print capabilities HTML email distribution systems Content Management Systems (CMS) for websites and e–newsletters Digital asset management Web–to–print solutions Internet–based collateral management and distribution services Digital signage Direct Imaging Delivers Direct Message Chakra’s direct imaging technologies provide personalized, current, and on–target communication with an audience. Direct imaging allows you to purchase high quality, full color brochures at reasonable prices, in the quantities you need today. Because you no longer need to order large quantities, this system allows for more frequent updates and reduces the high costs of obsolescence, freight, and inventory management. Combined with the variable publishing capabilities of Chakra’s transactional platform, this is a powerful and quick way to reach your target audience. Chakra’s cutting edge technology allows you to cut costs and improve profitability, while achieving your marketing goals. Manage Content with Chakra Chakra’s content management solutions allow you to keep your website content up–to–date and create and distribute e–newsletters with targeted distribution from the comfort of your desktop. Chakra’s digital asset management system provides: Secure storage of digital files. Extensive search capabilities. On–demand repurposing of fi les for print, multimedia, and Internet use. Ease of use from the comfort of your desktop, from anywhere in the world, anytime of day or night. Call Chakra today for all of your urgent communication requirements. We will bring a refreshing change to the way you buy, manage, and distribute communications. Download PDF Recognition Recognize Success with Chakra Communications Employees who feel appreciated perform better. Chakra Communications’ specially developed custom employee recognition fulfillment services will reward and praise your employees’ achievements, adding to the individual’s self–esteem and increasing the value of your organization. Rewards Get Results Chakra Communications’ custom fulfillment service allows global companies to extend their recognition program worldwide, yet retain the personal touch of a custom award. The benefits of the Chakra reward program include: Immediate, tangible positive feedback for employees Sustained company–wide motivation Increased connection with employees A workplace that builds on success Improved employee morale and self–esteem Personalize Your Praise Recognition awards are produced quickly and economically and can be custom designed to reflect your organization or program objectives, and personalized with the employee’s name, accomplishment, date, and the manager’s or executive’s signature. Using Chakra’s recognition program, allows you to present employees with professional, polished awards, by using one of our templates or creating a customized award. Chakra produces high quality awards from start to finish, including graphics, printing, mounting, framing, and seals. A personalized, non–monetary award displayed in the employee’s work environment provides a lasting reminder to the employee and peers of the accomplishment achieved. This constant visual reminder of achievement and company gratitude is often more highly prized by employees than even significant monetary gifts. Choose Chakra Chakra’s recognition program offers: Custom, personalized designs and attractive, colorful, professional awards Design experts ready to work with you and provide a variety of options including design, mounting, framing, and seals Global reach and ease of implementation Manageable costs and a higher return on your recognition dollar Recognition solutions for all levels of your organization