Customer Spotlight – M Weatherley & Son
This month we’re taking a look at Northampton based M Weatherley & Son. M. Weatherley & Sons are a small, family run firm with over 40 years experience providing high quality work for customers. Their aim is to provide you with the type of service that they’d be delighted with in their own homes. Their team […]
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? […]
Do YOU do cheap?…
… It still surprises me that ‘cheap’ is a term most businesses aspire to when they describe themselves. In research and reading throughout my day – I’m constantly reading about business owners who put lines such as ‘if you want cheap web design, come to us’ or how about ‘cheap print’? In business. If you […]
Customer Spotlight – Jo Blackwell Photography
This month we’re taking a look at Jo Blackwell Photography.Based in Northampton, Jo Blackwell is a storyteller. If you will allow her at some stage it would be an honour for her to tell your story in beautiful, contemporary portraiture and fun, candid imagery that can be cherished for generations. Whether it’s Weddings, Children or […]
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 […]
