Print. Mail. Know More.
Political, nonprofit and commercial printing and direct mail powered by Plavidian Mailing Intelligence™: list cleanup and targeting, postal planning, optional camera verification and piece-level delivery visibility, all from one production floor in Vista, California.
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A free Plavidian account includes:
- Free mailing tools and the USPS Q&A (Expert)
- Plavidian Studio™: print-ready artwork in your browser NEW
- Online estimates and job creation
- Proof review and file exchange
- Postage summaries and postal reports
Or create a free account for the tools, Studio and job tracking.
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Trusted by
- San Diego County Democratic Party
- Congressman John Garamendi
- Congressman Mike Levin
- Todd Gloria for San Diego Mayor Campaign
- Field Team 6
- Association of Placentia-Linda Educators
- United Steelworkers (USW)
USPS Full-Service Certified · Vista, CA
The job control center in your Plavidian account: estimates, proofs, production and postal reports.
Plavidian Studio™: bleed, safe zone, permit and address area drawn for you, and the file is press-ready when you save.
From spreadsheet to mailbox, no handoffs
Data services
CASS, NCOA, dedupe, householding, and suppression on your list.
Variable-data print
Postcards, letters, self-mailers, and booklets, versioned per record.
Finishing & assembly
Folding, inserting, tabbing, and addressing, with camera verification as an add-on.
Mail preparation
Presort, tray and pallet prep, and Full-Service electronic documentation.
USPS entry & visibility
Acceptance and drop shipment, with scan-based tracking through Plavidian Insight™.
Cards, letters, flats, and more
Plavidian Studio™: design print-ready mail in your browser
The online designer sets up postcards, flyers, door hangers and self-mailers the way prepress would: bleed and safe zone drawn for you, the permit and address area placed by USPS rules, photos checked at 300 dpi and color in CMYK from the first click. When you save, a press-ready PDF goes straight onto your job.
- ✓ Fonts, shapes, lines, QR codes, photos and your own PDFs (crop marks removed, elements erasable)
- ✓ One-click permit & address area for letters and flats; die and fold guides for door hangers and folded pieces
- ✓ Templates assigned to your account, full-screen and 3D proofs, watermarked proof emails
- ✓ RGB and low-resolution warnings with one-click fixes before you save
One partner from artwork to USPS entry
Print, data and mail share one job record, so you always know what was printed, what was mailed and what it cost.
About Plavidian →Integrated print & mail
Printing, list processing, presort, permit indicia and drop-shipment planning run as one workflow, kept in your Plavidian account instead of email chains and lost versions.
Piece-level camera verification
It is an add-on. On jobs that carry it, the run is reconciled to your list, failed pieces are diverted for reprint, and the results are documented in your portal.
USPS Full-Service Certified
USPS-verified mail quality with electronic documentation, Seamless Acceptance, and eInduction.
Data, targeting & capacity
Voter and constituent data, district demographics, and seven-day production capacity to hit your dates.
From quote to mailbox in four steps
Pick a product or request a quote
No account needed
Request & start
Estimate or new job
Upload & approve
Artwork, list, proof
Print, mail, report
Postal reports included
Plavidian Workbench™
Validate addresses, estimate postage, find carrier routes and remove duplicates before anything prints. Every Plavidian account includes all 12 tools, Plavidian Studio™ and the free USPS Q&A (Expert).
Plavidian Studio™ NEW
Design print-ready postcards, flyers and mailers in your browser, with bleed, safe zone, permit and address area built in.
Plavidian Expert™
Ask anything about USPS standards: tabbing, folds, piece sizes, EDDM. Free, no account needed.
Mailing Blueprint™
Clean the list, price the postage, plan the drops by weight, and see where it lands.
In-Home Date Estimator
From the entry date to the in-home window.
Piece Size Tool
Letter or flat, before it changes your postage.
Permit Imprint Generator
A correct indicia, ready to place.
Weight Calculator
Know the weight before the postage.
Address List Cleanup
Turn a messy list into a mailable one.
Drop Shipment Plan
Piece counts by destination USPS facility, for drop-ship planning.
Artwork Prepress
Find print problems in your file before it prints, then fix them in place.
PDF Page Splitter
One PDF in, the pages you need out.
Mail Date Planner NEW
Pick the in-home date and see when artwork is actually due.
Mailing List Builder NEW
Household counts for a ZIP, a city, a drawn area or a district.
EDDM Route Builder NEW
Every USPS carrier route on a map, with its delivery counts and price.
Every tool plus Expert™, included with every free account.
Get the tools freeCamera verification, piece by piece
When you add camera verification to a job, it reads each piece as it runs and reconciles the run to your list, so you can show the right pieces were produced. The audit lands in your portal.
- Piece-level camera verification with automatic diverts, an add-on for letter-size mail
- The right list bound to the right job from intake
- Print and Camera Audit reports in your portal
We are not the cheapest printer. Every job carries the mail knowledge.
You can find a lower unit price online. What you usually cannot find with it is someone who will tell you that your piece is a quarter inch too tall for the rate you budgeted, that your list will lose eight percent to move update, or that entering at the destination facility instead of ours buys back four days and part of the postage. That judgment is applied to every job we take, including a single box of business cards.
On mail it is the difference that decides the budget. Postage is usually the largest line on a mailing, and it is set by decisions made before anything prints: the shape of the piece, the quality of the data, the presort it qualifies for, and where the mail enters the USPS network. Getting those right is worth more than a cheaper sheet of paper, and it is what we are for.
Direct mail & commercial printing, answered
The questions buyers ask us most about hiring a direct mail and commercial printing company.