About Us

Who We Are

Photo of MackayMitchell Photopak crew in a Portrait Pak

As a Division of the MackayMitchell Envelope Company, MackayMitchell Photopak is the largest supplier of Photo Envelopes in North America. We specialize in, and are dedicated to, the Photo Industry. MackayMitchell has been serving Photofinishers for over 25 years and in 2002 purchased the Photopackaging Division of Mailwell Envelope and now operates a production plant in Portland, OR in addition to their Minneapolis, MN and Mt. Pleasant, IA facilities. MackayMitchell Photopak is privately owned by Scott Mitchell and Harvey Mackay.

Where We Are

Production Plants
Minneapolis, MN
Mt. Pleasant, IA
Portland, OR
Sales Offices
Minneapolis, MN
Chicago, IL
Rochester, NY
Kansas City, KS
Portland, OR

Production Capabilities

  • (14) Honsel counter envelope converters
  • (1) Didde 6-color litho web press
  • (1) Didde 8-color litho web press
  • (2) Sanden 6-color litho web press with UV drying
  • (6) RO high speed folders
  • (8) RA high speed folders
  • (3) 102 high speed folders
  • (2) 241 Jumbo web press/converters
  • (14) Jet envelope imprinters
  • (2) Video Jet ink jet printers
  • (1) Ga-Vehren finishing & feeder table

Prepress Capabilities

  • (2) AWS Nexus Prepress Workflow System
  • (2) Esko-Graphics Spark Cyrel Digital Imager
  • (2) Purup 80/20 imagesetter
  • (1) Purup 70/40 RIP
  • (3) Macintosh G5
  • (3) Macintosh G4
  • (1) Macintosh Xserve
  • (1) Macintosh XRaid with 3TB of Storage
  • (1) Sony AIT BackupSystem w/Retrospect
  • (1) HP OfficeJet 9500n Color Laser
  • (1) HP DesignJet 800 Plotter
  • (2) DuPont Cromalin b2 Contract Proofer
  • (1) Epson Expression flatbed scanner
  • (3) Datamax DMX-2912 Postcheck Verifiers
  • (2) PSC Imager 8000 barcode verifiers

Software

  • Adobe Acrobat 7.0
  • Adobe Photoshop CS2
  • Adobe InDesign CS2
  • Barcode Pro
  • Printbar Utilities (bar codes)
  • Adobe Illustrator CS2
  • Adobe Streamline
  • Macromedia Freehand MX
  • QuarkXpress 6.5
  • Macintosh OS 9.xx and OS X
  • Adobe Pagemaker
  • Adobe FontFolio
  • Bar Code Systems

Our e-mail address in the prepress department is "prep@mackaymitchell.com". Feel free enclose or attach files at any time.

All large graphic files (over 2mb) should be sent to our FTP site. Please call for instructions accessing this service.

If you have any questions, please call Dan Hedstrom at 612-378-3485 regarding this or any of our digital capabilities.