Roller Banners

Some great new Roller Banners we’ve just produced for a customer of ours – these are 800 x 2000mm  210gsm Polyester Hybrid UV Cure printed, 90% stop-light. Great for mobile applications or more permanent applications – these are for craft shows.   Roller Banners are a great way to exhibit your business or goods They’re […]

Photo Book Gift

It’s nice once and a while to get a completely bespoke piece of print. This book was created as a leaving gift for someone. Working with Spinnaker Direct we produced a 32pp Hardback Leaving book with pictures and notes from colleagues and friends. The book was also needed in a very sharp turnaround – so […]

Pantone Numbers

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The Pantone Matching System is a standardised colour reproduction system. By Standardising the colours, different ink manufacturers in different locations can all refer to the Pantone System to make sure the colours match without direct contact with one another. One such use is standardising colours in the CMYK process. The CMYK process is a method of printing color by using […]

Print Freedom

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What is Print Freedom I hear you shout! Well, Print Freedom is what everybody has the ability to achieve and can lead to some serious time savings if done correctly. Think back to the last time you ordered some print – did you spend a while looking around online to find the cheapest site or a site that didn’t […]

Customer Spotlight – The Art of Wood

This month we look at Northampton-based The Art of Wood. The Art of Wood prides itself on providing a unique service, tailoring fitted and freestanding furniture to your bespoke specifications. With more than a decade of experience working for the country’s leading furniture makers we design, make and fit top quality products at the highest […]

Customer Spotlight

Customer Spotlight

In the coming months we’re launching a Customer Spotlight area of our website. This great new page will have some great stories from our customers. It will also give you a more in depth look into what they do… how they do it and who they are. It will have some great pictures and what they’ve had produced by us for use in their […]

Pantone Colours

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The Pantone system also allows for many ‘special’ colours to be produced such as metallics and fluorescents. While most of the Pantone system colours are beyond the printed CMYK gamut, it was only in 2001 that Pantone began providing translations of their existing system with screen-based colours. (Screen-based colours use the RGB—red, green, blue—system to create various colours.) […]

The Power of the Printed Word – Newsletters

Printed Newsletters

“The single most effective tool you can use to build PROPER Relationships with your customers.” Nigel Botterill If you currently send out email marketing or similar. Is there anything stopping you having a hard copy of what you send & posting that out as well? You could use the e-marketing to supplement the printed edition & provide even more information to your customers! A printed […]

Print Freedom

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What is Print Freedom I hear you shout! Well, Print Freedom is what everybody has the ability to achieve and can lead to some serious time savings if done correctly. Think back to the last time you ordered some print – did you spend a while looking around online to find the cheapest site or a site that didn’t look too […]

What is Bleed?

This is the most common area of artwork that is missed when supplying files.So we’ll take a quick look at what it is and why you need to add it to your artwork.If you’re creating a flyer for instance and you have a background colour or photograph that you want filling the complete flyer – […]