Catalogue Printing Masterclass. Getting the Colour you Need (Part 2 of our look at Colour Management) In colour management part 1, we looked at how it's tricky to accurately view printed colours and how, if faithful colour reproduction is important to your catalogue, you need to...
Magazine Printing Guide: A Great Way to Stand-out on the Shelf. Use Thermochromic Inks & Varnishes Publishers and marketers* are always looking for great ways to make their products stand out on the shelf, desk or coffee table (or wherever else they're put). Well, the creative...
There are lots of reasons why you might need your print to show exactly the right colours. It could be because you have to ensure your brand colours are correct. Or it might be because the colours of the products in your catalogue really need...
A Quick Printing Guide: Folding If you use print for marketing purposes, then a decent understanding of your folding options is useful for all kinds of reasons. Firstly, it gives you more options to design and layout your print in the most user-friendly way possible for...
Press Pass Top Tips: Print Buying Help and Advice If you're printing a project with a new, untried, printer or printing an item for the first time, it's likely that you'll want to be there when it's being printed, to make sure everything's going to plan....
UK Print Companies Beware - Scam email? One of our Print Consultants received the following email out of the blue today. As we do with internet enquiries when they come from an email address not linked to a company (in this case a Yahoo.com email address),...
Direct Mail Printers' Guide to QR Codes, Data Matrix Codes and Microsoft Tags What are they? Small printed codes added to print which customers with smartphones can scan and which redirects them, through their phone, to further content/information. This can be a website page, stocking information, pricing...
News: UK Printing Companies Capacity Squeeze Comes Early With the continued reduction in capacity in many sectors of the UK Print market, we're starting to see the annual capacity squeeze coming early across the UK. What is the Capacity Squeeze? For those of you who aren't aware, UK...
Checklist Showing the Difference Between Gravure and Web Offset Printing. We've looked at how to find a great web offset printer and also produced a 2 minute guide to web offset printing in the past. Both of which we hope you've found useful. So when I came across...
A Look at Print Management Companies UK Print Management Companies UK What do they do and how do they add value? There are a number of different types of businesses who call themselves Print Managers. But from many customer's perspectives (i.e. anyone print buying on a project by...
