Passing a Job on Press
Or Press Passing as it’s known. It’s the method of checking a job while it’s being printed. We do this to ensure tight control to the job in hand – usually only done for large runs or brand specific/complicated pieces, either ourselves or the customer would check the following things.
What your Mum never told you about Proofing & Printing
So you’ve placed your job with a printer, you’ve given them your file and you’re ready for the next step – you’ll most likely want to get a proof sorted for your artwork – so you are sure what you’re having printed is exactly the way you want it
What are Colour Bars…?
So following on from the registration post I thought I’d sort some info on what the other items on a printed sheet are. Today we’ll look at what colour bars are and what they’re used for…
Registration
So just a quick post today on what the term Registration means in the world of print – loads of funny markings on a sheet .
What IS all the difference between prices…?
So you’ve been searching for the best quote you can find (naughty naughty, you shouldn’t be doing this… read here why!). You’ve got all these prices in from different printers and wondered why they’re so varied…! Well lets use a car analogy to try to help ease the explanation. A car is a car right? […]
Print Management vs Print Companies
While it’s often the case in business that you want to cut out the middle man where you can, it just isn’t the case when you have a lot of expensive machinery that needs to be running constantly! The majority of printers know that print management businesses will keep their presses in operation even if […]
Such a Creep…
… If the title had you wondering, then don’t worry – this Blog post is all about a print term called ‘creep’ or push out or shingling or even feathering. If you’re not sure what creep is then i’ll try and explain that first. Imaging you’re printing a stitched brochure – a reasonable amount of […]
Full Colour Printing (CMYK)
You may be surprised to find out that when any photos or pictures are printed they’re printed out of 4 inks. CMYK. C for Cyan M for Magenta Y for Yellow K for Key or Black CMYK is the standard print terms for professional print, most of the time it’s referred to just as four […]
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. […]
Fancy a trim?
Trimming is the process of cutting a document down to its finished size. Commerical printing presses cannot print to the very edge of a sheet of paper so in order to achieve this effect, your design is usually printed onto a larger piece of paper. The excess unprinted border is trimmed off after printing using […]
