Our Company
About Our Company
Since 1986, IGS has been at the forefront of publishing technology. We were among the first to compose in pages, to proof in exact fonts, to provide electronic editing, and to offer the competitive pricing model now customary in the global market. We continue to provide what book publishers need today.
Care for our customers, one project at a time, inspires and unites the people at IGS. We embrace the new technologies that innovate book-production.
All the employees at International Graphic Services are Americans producing work in the United States.
More Than 35 Years of Typesetting Books
1986 – IGS opens its doors for business.
1987 – Incorporates as "International Graphic Services."
1989 –IGS retools its operation, moving to the Sun Workstation with Miles 33 book-pagination software running in the UNIX environment. The company was the first book typesetter to go direct to pages, by passing paste-up entirely. IGS creates a file tagging system, as is now standard with XML
1990 –IGS purchases the Kurzweil OCR machine and begins offering optical character reading of documents. The company introduces the per-page pricing model now customary in the book typesetting market.
1992 – IGS developed the code to allow for proofing in exact font.
1993 – IGS upgrades its Miles 33 book- pagination system to support postscript files.
1996 – QuarkXPress is added to the services provided.
2001 – IGS offers the option of producing jobs in InDesign for its customers.
2004 – IGS upgrades its hardware to the new Blade technology.
2006 – Upgraded its system to include Unicode, thereby allowing the company to work in a fully integrated
XML workflow environment.
2009 – Offers PDF to InDesign conversion along with many other conversion options.
2010 – IGS offers eBook production.
2015 – IGS switched its Sun Workstation hardware to HP Server hardware.
2016 – IGS changes its Solaris/UNIX operating system to Linux.
2019 – IGS developed a dedication module, within the Miles 33 book-pagination system, to produce ePub files.