About Us
Pacific Western Sales was founded in 1979. A company dedicated to selling and promoting Packaging products solely through a wholesale distributor network.
Today, this Southern California based company is housed in a 70,000 sq. foot modern building in Brea, California, employing a total of seventy-two associates to service our customer's needs.
Taking on the challenges of today's very competitive marketplace, Pacific Western Sales has positioned itself to not only offer some of the most competitive prices, in the industry, but unsurpassed service and loyalty to our distributor customer base. From our In-House Post Printing, Hot Stamping Department to our complete stock product inventory, the largest on the West Coast.
We employ, on staff in-house, four Graphic Artists who are standing by to accept your creative ideas or complete artwork. Just E-mail. In 2004, Pacific Western Sales acquired the Cater Line, a manufacturer of calendar and day planners.
Company History of the Cater Line:
The Cater Line has over 35 years of printing experience, The Cater Line opened its U.S. Operations in 1999. Since then each printed product has continued to bear the dedication and pride of the entire team here at The Cater Line. Our involvement in the annual calendar project for domestic and other overseas companies is a flagship of our success. Our fame in the printing industry has well surpassed three decades and our growth continues as we pursue improved production quality, advancement in technical knowledge, increased product lines and services. In addition to providing quality shopping bags, calendars and planners, we are also involved in designing and printing brochures and catalogs. At The Cater Line quality, reliability, and efficiency is our commitment to our customers.
Our Factories:
• Lithographic factory: publications, catalogs, posters, albums, stickers, leaflets
• Calendar factory: customized calendars, month-page calendars, year-page calendar cards, desk calendars, notebooks
• Paper product factory: shopping bags, photo albums, greeting cards, business cards, hot-stamp, flexo-print
Our Designs:
From concept to high-tech and complex design to printing, The Cater Line is capable of turning your imagination into materials that will help you build your business.
Graphic Art Equipment:
• Macintosh network stations (Apple G4), equipped with CD Rom, photo electric driver, hi-resolution scanner, color and b&w laser printers, large format digital printer.
• Desktop artistic layout software includes: Quark Xpress, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Pagemaker, Macromedia Freehand, Painter, Microsoft Word, and supplementary software.
Our Printing:
Professional production coordinators supervise every project to ensure completion on schedule. Our dedicated staff ensures the optimum quality of its products.
Equipment:
• W.G. Heidelberg 6-color Speedmaster 28"x40" press with online water cooler and all digital CPC1.03 computerized press controller.
• W.G. Heidelberg 4-color 19"x25 1/2" press all digital CPC1.03 computerized press controller.
• Interchange Magnetic Field Digital Laser Scanner: 22"x27" and 30"x40"
• Stahl 30"x40" fence type page folding machine at the 2nd and 3rd stages.
• W.G. computer automated calendar binder, automated single and double-line calendar binder.
• W.G. Polor 115eMC PLC paper cutting machine.
• W.G. Heidelburg 2-color 28"x40" press, with all digital CPC1.03 computerized press controller.
• 10 Franklin Hot Stamp Machine
• 6 Lisette Flexo-Printing Machine
• 2 Ribbon Hot Stamp Machine
• 3 Silk Screen Machine
Mission Statement
We strive to achieve customer loyalty while increasing our presence and market position. This endeavor is undertaken with
a commitment to "GO THE EXTRA MILE" in producing high quality products and ensuring our customers' satisfaction.
Quality Products & Friendly Service Since 1979
