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You’re confused? Don’t worry, you’re not alone, even the VAT officers find printing confusing. VAT on print can be a minefield but here at The Printing House (Print Buying Direct) we don’t make the rules regarding VAT, but if you’re unsure, then give one of our print professionals a call today (0870 950 8444), as …

Although many designers still work manually, most illustrations, photographs and graphics are created and edited using digital tools. Software such as Photoshop or Illustrator, digital capture with a scanner or digital camera, all allow us to create and manipulate graphics digitally. However, there are many ways of publishing graphics so digital images need to be …

Ever since we started to handle colour images on mainstream computers, colour management of some sort has been a necessary evil. Although one would think it ought to be getting easier by now, there is still room for improvement. The rising number of digital devices in the workflow means that we are dealing with devices …

Adobe’s Portable Document Format, was never designed for high-end graphics art production. Back in the early nineties, when it was first introduced, it was intended for cross platform office document sharing. But the graphic arts industry embraced PDF as a means of transporting content files from point to point, and PDF’s role as the foundation …

For all the rationalisation, mergers and acquisitions that have taken place, the demand for print has largely remained in line with GDP (Gross Domestic Product). As GDP has risen, so has the volume of print but how the printing pie has been cut up and the number of mouths getting what could be considered a …