Folding & Creasing
Often overlooked – an area of your print job that should always be considered is your finishing. The small details can sometimes make (or break) your printed marketing. Here we’re going to take a quick look at why & when to crease, along with some standard folds. There’s many ways your print can be folded. […]
Lamination
Laminate is a very thin sheet of clear plastic which is applied to one or both sides of a sheet of paper. It provides protection from handling and prevents ink from smudging or coming off on the hands. Lamination is commonly used on the outer covers of premium brochures, corporate folders & premium business cards. Lamination […]
What Does Your Business Card Say About You?
I want each of you now to reach into your back pocket – or your bag and pull out your business card. Take a look at it as if you were handed this at an event by someone else. What are your immediate thoughts? What does it say about you, not just in the […]
Pantone Numbers – How they can help your brand
Last month we talked about the Pantone System, a standardised colour reproduction system used by almost every printer to help create specific colours. When you think of large brands, brands that incorporate colour into their identity – it’s more than likely they’ll use a specific set of number to represent those colours. Take for example Ladbrokes – they have a […]
Digital Texture Printing
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could feel your print as well as see it. Well with advances in digital printing – it’s now possible for that exact thing. Lets say you were printing a picture of an Orange, there’d be no reason why you couldn’t incorporate the texture of an orange peel into your artwork so you […]
Print Freedom
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
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 […]
The Power of the Printed Word – 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 […]
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 – […]
