Chicago-Area Custom Tab Manufacturing — Family-Owned Since 1978, Direct From the Plant
Family-owned. No brokers. No markups. Your tabs printed, cut, and Mylar-reinforced under one roof in 5 business days or less.
Anselmo Die & Index Co., Inc.
Family-Owned Since 1978 — Custom Tab Manufacturing Since 1993 — Schaumburg, IL
The Anselmo family has run this Schaumburg business since 1978 and has manufactured custom index tab dividers here since 1993. That’s more than three decades of specialized expertise — not diversified across rubber stamps or desk organizers, but focused entirely on the craft of precision tab manufacturing and print finishing.
Our Canon production digital press lines run short-run 13×19 sheet formats with sharp, high-resolution output. Our Scott automated tabbing systems, Seybold programmable cutter, and UV screen printing equipment are all operated by our own team — the same people who answer your calls and review your artwork files.
When you order from Anselmo, your deadline is our deadline. No third-party trade shops. No relay race with your files. One call, one plant, one accountable team with 30+ years of finished product behind them.
Many slick web storefronts look like large factories but are actually single-person operations working out of a home. Use this checklist to verify your supplier before risking your project's deadline.
| Sourcing Indicator | Virtual Storefront / Web Broker | True Physical Factory (Anselmo Die & Index) |
|---|---|---|
| Physical Infrastructure | Address points to a residential house, a generic corporate drop-box suite, or is hidden in the Terms of Service. No physical loading docks. | Located at 2235 Hammond Drive, Schaumburg, IL — an active industrial corridor with dedicated manufacturing square footage and deep commercial freight loading docks. |
| Years in Business | Domain registered recently. No verifiable production history. "Est." date absent or vague. | A family-owned company since 1978, die-cutting index tabs since 1993 — decades of verifiable production history in the Greater Chicago Area. |
| Product Focus | Sells thousands of generic office items like rubber stamps, envelopes, and desk organizers to appear large. | Focuses entirely on high-performance custom print finishing, specialized die-cutting, automated page collating, and tab manufacturing. |
| Ordering Interface | Uses a purely automated, generic e-commerce shopping cart. Cannot easily accommodate custom requests without system errors. | Driven by direct files, custom email submissions, or an active intake call with a physical estimator who verifies your artwork configuration. |
| Timeline Control | Acts as a middleman. They markup your price, email your file to an unverified third-party trade shop, and cannot stop or accelerate production lines. | Complete ownership of production schedules. Your project moves directly from our prepress Macs to our on-site press lines — same building, same team. |
You don't have to choose between the convenience of online ordering and the security of buying direct. Tabzoola.com is the consumer sales arm of Anselmo Die & Index — our own self-service online storefront, not a third-party broker. Every order placed on Tabzoola is printed, cut, and Mylar-reinforced on the very same Schaumburg plant floor described above.
Direct manufacturing, trade & bulk orders
Self-service online ordering for everyone
Two ways to order, one accountable manufacturer. Whether you call our estimators direct or design online at Tabzoola.com, your tabs never leave our family-owned plant — die-cutting index tabs since 1993.
A complete custom tab order built in about three minutes on Tabzoola — tab text, Mylar colors, live pricing, and the free PDF proof.
Select the structural style that matches your presentation or document requirements. We typeset your custom text in-house using an extensive professional font library.
Excellent for high-visibility manuals, employee onboarding folders, corporate identity portfolios, and emergency safety guidelines. Features crisp black text protected under a glossy, heat-bonded colored plastic shield.
Featured Layout: 7-Bank Red Mylar
The standard choice for multi-day educational workshops, training seminars, comprehensive classroom modules, and operation manuals. Clean, evenly spaced tab extensions allow users to move between sections effortlessly.
Featured Layout: 7-Bank Yellow Mylar
Provides a highly polished, elegant presentation format for corporate financial summaries, complex architectural proposals, and legal documentation. Offers clear plastic reinforcement without introducing distracting colors.
Featured Layout: 5-Bank Clear Premium
We don't restrict you to thin, flimsy office paper. Our on-site machinery fleet effortlessly handles a wide range of heavy commercial stocks — well beyond thin office paper.
| Machine Platform | On-Site Production Capacity | Project Advantages for the End User |
|---|---|---|
| Fully Automated Scott 10,000 Lines | High-Speed Automated Index Tabbing Systems | Delivers extreme speed, perfect tab alignment, and uniform inline collating for large-volume packet distributions. |
| Scott 1800 Hand Systems | Precision Guided Hand Laminators & Custom Cutters | Allows our operators to manually monitor and perfectly finish sensitive, delicate, or uniquely coated digital prints without scratching. |
| Scott Edge Reinforcers | Heat-Bonded Margin Plastic Binding Protection | Applies an invisible, tough plastic film along the three-hole punched border so sheets will never tear out of heavy three-ring binder rings. |
| 36" Seybold Paper Cutter | Programmable Micro-Processor Cutting Line | Ensures your press sheets are trimmed to mathematical square accuracy before die-cutting, protecting critical text alignment. |
| Canon Production Digital Presses | Short-Run Digital Print Layout Systems | Optimized specifically for quick-turn 13" × 19" sheet sizes with sharp, high-resolution variable text rendering. |
| UV Screen Printing Equipment | Specialty Inks with Instant Ultraviolet Light Drying | Bakes thick, intense, opaque inks instantly onto specialty stocks, plastic sheets, or poly-tabs for an indestructible finish. |
| Conventional Offset Press | Traditional Liquid Ink Long-Run Printing Line | Keeps unit costs exceptionally low for massive corporate print rollouts, legal archives, and commercial binder manuals. |
| Front-End Prepress Foundry | Mac mini M4 Workstations (InDesign 2026 / QuarkXPress) | Processes incoming design files instantly without layout shifts, cross-platform glitches, or hidden font errors. |
Common questions from buyers evaluating direct-manufacturer sourcing for custom index tab projects.
No credit card required — PDF proof before any charge
You don't need to struggle with file preparation parameters, margins, or sheet sizing. Give our estimators a call directly. Tell us how many tabs you need and your target text style — we'll handle the rest, just as we have since 1993.
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