We want to be your Graphics House
Photo Visions has been serving the San Diego area and beyond with professionalism in both execution and quality of final product since 1980. Our work has appeared worldwide. Private label production for products sold in Japan, trusted with trade-show graphics shown both locally, Washington DC, and overseas for some of the largest companies in the United States.
Specializing in large format printing, trade-show graphics, product/box design, PDF forms, ad production for magazine & web, web services, and small product photography.
Proficient in a variety of software (illustrator, photoshop, indesign, coda, css edit, acrobat pro, etc), we use what it takes to get the job done.
In-house capabilities: 60" wide inkjet, lamination & mounting capabilities up to 48" wide on gatorboard, ultraboard, sintra, and roll-able materials. Plus our arsenal of computers. Operating systems we work with include Mac OSX for most of our design work and web, windows for certain web-based applications that just work better under windows, and last but not least our Ubuntu Linux systems for enhanced localhost web-based testing before going live with a site/idea on the internet.
We are here to help you look your best!
Photo Visions started in 1980 originally as a pre-press facility and a producer of 35mm slides & overheads for presentation.
Back in those days we began with a dip and dunk E-6 processor, 20x24 Acti Process camera, Agfa litho processor, vacuum frame, light tables, stripping punches, and the real workhouse for over 20 years our trusty Forox 35mm camera. For those unfamiliar with a Forox camera, picture this; a 10x12 foot room, 12 foot ceiling height for the column, approx. 1000 lbs, pin registered, and used 400 ft bulk loads of 35mm film. Not your typical 35mm point & shoot.
As we grew we made a brief foray in digital slide production in 1983 with a Xerox computer that used 8" floppy disks, a phone modem to send the digital info to xerox headquarters where they imaged the information to 35mm film and mailed back slides. This was the first digital slide production in San Diego! It was one hard sell in those days, art directors loved there art boards and just either didn't trust the "new" way or felt threatened. Maybe a little of both looking back. We ended out lease with Xerox after 6 months.
More history coming...