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 […]
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 […]
Pantone Colours
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
“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 – […]
Pantone Colour of the year 2012
The Official Pantone colour of 2012 has been announced as Tangerine Tango. The 2011 color of the year, PANTONE 18-2120 Honeysuckle, encouraged us to face everyday troubles with verve and vigor. Tangerine Tango, a spirited reddish orange, continues to provide the energy boost we need to recharge and move forward. “Sophisticated but at the same […]
