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

bright whole ripe oranges on wooden table

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 […]

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

assorted fruits in baskets

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 […]

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 – […]