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Quality Business Stationery / Flyers & Leaflets
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Top quality, high definition, state of the art printing since 1992

Business Cards

Affordable, luxury cards

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    Flyers & Leaflets

    Top Quality Materials

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      Folded Leaflets

      Superb quality assured

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        Stationery

        Regular Stationery Items

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          Printed Envelopes

          Pre-designed or upload yours

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            continuous stationery forms

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            Pads or loose sets

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              Business stationery - Roller banners

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              From £32 – incl. stand

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                Business stationery - digital booklets

                Digital Booklets

                A5 or A4 finished sizes

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                  Business stationery - Labels & stickers

                  Labels / Stickers

                  Regular or shaped

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                    Business Stationery

                    Stationery such as printed envelopes, business cards (see ‘Select A Product’ in menu above for various types and specialist effects), letterheads, continuous stationery, labels, colour brochures, digital printing etc. for delivery throughout the UK & Europe.

                    All materials used are top quality and all print jobs are produced on state of the art equipment.

                    With a highly experienced design team in-house we can get your ideas swiftly and cost-effectively into print.

                    Continuous Stationery / Business Forms

                    Continuous Stationery & Business Forms (multi-part sets) are one of our specialist products. We can take your ideas and produce pixel perfect forms that will work beautifully with your dot matrix printer.

                    We can suggest ways of keeping down costs such as printing the parts that get stored in your filing cabinet in 1 colour only and leaving your brand colours only on the customer part.

                    More info here: Continuous Stationery

                    Spot & Process Colour Printing

                    We understand the importance of colour consistency across your business stationery and marketing materials.

                    If the accuracy of your company brand colours are important to you, then please consider having your stationery produced in spot colour.

                    We can also offer advice on the various print and finishing processes such as lithographic (spot and 4 colour process), and digital (documents, manuals etc.)

                    A full explanation of the differences between spot and 4 colour process (CMYK) is explained in layman terms here: Spot & 4 Colour Process Explained

                    Articles & Tutorials

                    Searching around the site you will find many print-related articles and tutorials covering subjects such as ‘Making the transition from web design to print design’, ‘The differences between spot and process colours’, ‘How to design a business card/letterhead/folded leaflet’ etc., and much more.

                    We have also put together a bunch of fun Adobe Photoshop© Tutorials to get your artistic juices flowing.

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                    Bleeds explained

                    Basically, a bleed is artwork that goes over the edge of the printed sheet.

                    If your design needs to have a bleed then it’s important to allow 3mm overlap (see image A below). As the letterhead will be printed on oversize material (SRA4), this gives the guillotine operator a chance to cut into the artwork and produce a good finished letterhead. (see image B below).

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                    Why do we need a bleed?

                    If the artwork ended at the edge of the sheet and the guillotine cut was only 0.5mm out, then we could end up with an unsightly thin white strip down one edge of the sheet, which is not ideal.

                    Also, if there is a large stack of paper on the press, with the best will in the world there will be the odd sheet that doesn’t get fed through the press 100% accurately so if a bleed hasn’t been put in place this could cause issues.

                    Extending the artwork over the edge of the sheet allows for a little leeway when it comes to the time for trimming.

                    If you’ve set your workspace for A4 and intend to use bleeds then, depending on what software package you are using you may need to set the workspace to oversize A4 (SRA4), which measures 225mm x 320mm.

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