A History of Excellence

At headshotbox, our experience in printing headshots extends almost 40 years. Our parent company, Charlie Chan Printing, has been providing high-end commercial printing services to Fortune 100 companies since 1969.

As a result, we know what it takes to get a client’s job done perfectly and on-time.

In addition, we have all the latest equipment to make your headshots or comp cards print out at the highest level of quality. In 2007, we acquired the press consistently ranked as the highest-end digital press on the market, the HP Indigo 5500. This half-million dollar investment was followed by the purchase of a high-speed UV coater and barcode-automated slitter in 2008 to enable us to provide our clients with the best headshots and comp cards on the market.

Your headshots will be printed on 12 pt c1s gloss cardstock and will be UV coated. Your comp cards will be printed on extremely thick 14 pt c2s gloss cardstock.

To protect your products, we shrinkwrap each order and carefully inspect and package your prints with bubblewrap. (Our boss’ 3-year-old daughter can’t get enough of that stuff!)

While our web-based ordering system and production system is highly automated, we strongly believe in the necessary human touch with each and every order.

When you submit your order for printing, we will check each image before proceeding to production, in order to verify that contrast, brightness and color are all optimized to give you the best look possible.

Furthermore, behind the scenes, a project manager will be assigned to make sure your job is printed correctly and on time.

At headshotbox, we take environmental sustainability seriously. Our new digital press dramatically decreases the environmental impact of printing by virtually eliminating paper waste. In traditional production environments, running 100 headshots off an offset press might result in over 300 wasted headshots. That’s a lot of paper! And that is why many of our competitors offer 300 or 500 headshots at only a small increase over the price for 100. With our digital press, it is not uncommon to print only 52 sheets of paper 2-up to get the final count of 104 headshots. This has a huge effect on decreasing the amount of paper consumed to get the printing that you need.

In addition to this, our production environment is highly optimized to be green. We use soy-based inks on most of our presses, we have an additional waterless and chemistry-free self-plating press, we do not use film in our production environment, and we recycle everything possible, including plate material, paper and boxes.

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We hope you’re impressed with the extent to which we’ve built up our production environment to suit your headshot and comp card needs. Please feel free to e-mail us or call us should you have any production questions not answered by the descriptions above!

All the best,

The headshotbox Team