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Everything you need to know about Digital Printing – part 17 – Final Part to this Blog – 28th July 2009

At drupa 2000 manroland introduced the only DI web offset press to date, called the Dicoweb. This used seamless stainless steel plates that fitted onto sleeve cylinders that could be interchanged with different diameter sets to vey the print cut off length. Plates were imaged on the press by a thermal laser transfer system and could be re-imaged after use by scrubbing them clean and starting again.
Dicoweb was a vey advanced concept but not a commercial success, with only a handful ever installed in commercial print sites in Germany and Switzerland, all officially as test machines. It didn’t appear at drupa 2004 and by 2008 the project appeared to be at the end.

The future
Looking ahead over the next two decades, it is an easy prediction that digital printing will continue to advance in all sectors. What is not so clear is how soon and how much it will start to replace today’s dominant conventional processes.
This issue is not so much the imaging technology, although the trade off between speed, quality and consumables costs (particularly digital ink and toners) are particularly important when comparing costs and capabilities with conventional print. Inkjet is advancing rapidly and may well become the dominant digital technology, although toner systems are also still rapidly increasing in speed and quality so there many always are an important process too.
Far more important tan the specific technologies will be the awareness and acceptance of the advantages of digital by print buyers and specifiers such as designers, advertising agencies and publishers. The message needs to be driven home by print service providers that personalised variable data print means less waste and greater response; that digital labels and packages can help bring products to market faster while coping with ever changing labelling regulations; and that on-demand books mean that long runs and expensive warehousing isn’t needed.
The environmental issues are important too: digital printing doesn’t need film or plates or associated chemistry, while the short run, just in time aspects of the process mean less wasted paper and lower requirements for transport and heated storage.
As one digital print manufacturing executive said, ‘We can predict where digital will be in 20 years time. What we can’t say is where it will be in 20 months time!’.
New Look Website for The Printing House Website – 15th July 2009

We’ve been working hard over recent months to try create a new look and new content for our flagship brand The Printing House Website – bsed in Crewe, Cheshire, one of the UK’s leading colour printers. When you find some time, please take a look and feed back to us. Some of the new content includes A Guide to Preparing Print Ready Artwork and information about our Large Format and banner printing service.

We’re a bit sad and are so excited by our new site that we’ve now rebranded Print Buying Direct, Golf Club Centenary Books and School Prospectus Made Easy – let us have some feedback, hopefully you agree they look much cleaner now.

Keep watching all our sites as we are continually adding new content.

To be continued…

See part one of this blog on digital printing here. Also – what does the future hold for printing – part 1

All about the new Printing House Website

Order your Appointment Cards online at Print Buying Direct – prices from £13.50 for 100 cards printed in full colour. At print buying direct we are market leaders in the printing of appointment cards and can produce them for doctors, hairdressers, dentists, physio, beauty salons, nail technicians, garages, massage therapists – for anything really. Just visit our Appointment Cards web page for more information.

Our business cards are some of the best in the business – printed in full colour on our £200,000 state of the art digital press – you’ll be proud to hand out business cards that we produce for you. Our business card prices are also very cost effective – 100 full colour business cards for only £10!

Don’t forget we’re still running our Letterheads promotion – 2000 full colour letterheads (headed paper) for £125 delivered! We’ve been producing letterheads since 1991 for hundreds of customs as diverse as Bentley and Royal Mail.

See Part 12 of this blog on Print finishing, See also our Blog on Spot UV Varnishing

Print Buying Direct and School Prospectus Made Easy are both brands of parent company – The Printing House Ltd of Crewe, Cheshire, UK. Keep visiting both websites for details of our latest offers and promotions. For more information School Prospectus including School Prospectus Design or School Prospectus Printing (we also specialise in college prospectus) see our www.schoolprospectus.info website

Have a look at our Newsletters webpage for help and assistance with writing and designing your newsletter. It deals with, company newsletters, college newsletters, school newsletters and employee newsletters in particluar. Our blog often focuses on newsletters and we have a page which specifically helps with newsletters as a marketing tool.

TOP TIP: Add that feel of quality to your company brochure by first applying Matt Lamination then a Spot UV Varnish. The UV Varnishing actually ‘lifts’ your pictures to give them a glossy impact.

Our Digital Brochures (turn page technology) are really taking off now – get your brochure put online from only £15 per page.

One of the mainstays at Print Buying Direct is Leaflets. We are experts at Leaflet Design or Leaflet Printing Check out our Banner Stands (pop up banners) only £99. Design service available.

Everything you need to know about Digital Printing – part 15
Monochrome digital
While digital colour production print really is only a couple of decades old, monochrome production models stretch to the late 1970s, with the introduction of Xerox’s ground breaking 9700 laser printer. This offered 120 A4 sheets per minute, which is quite respectable even today, although its 300 dpi and simplex only operations have long been outclassed. The 1980s saw monochrome laser printers rapidly progress from massive and hugely expensive specialised devices suited to air conditioned data centres, to affordable ‘desktop’ models suited to individuals or small workgroups. The A4 canon LBP-SX was a ground breaking desktop model that became better known as the basis of the widely used HP Laserjet II and, more significantly for the print and design sector, as the Apple LaserWriter, the first printer to use a PostScript RIP.
At the other end of production scale, high speed reel fed toner printers were being developed for transaction printing. Delphax, Nipson and IBM have been particular players in this market, joined recently by Xerox, which introduced a high speed reel fed engine, followed by a colour version, in 2007. These are among the fastest digital printers on the market. Thought the new breed of fast inkjets can match them.
Fast monochrome digital printers were soon adopted by book printers by short run titles, initially for scientific and academic textbooks. The short run or even single copy on-demand aspect is now being taken up for more and more general paperback books, where they can be used to keep slow selling older titles in print or bring out of print titles back with no need for long runs and expensive warehousing. They are also leading to something of a boom in self-publishing, where authors can use online services such as Luli.com to bypass traditional publishing companies and sell their own titles directly through a website linked to an on-demand print service.
Developers are also now using the latest high speed technologies to produce sheetfed monochrome machines with higher speeds than colour equivalents, and with improving halftone quality previously a weak point.
At drupa 08, Xerox introduced its fastest sheetfed Nuvera so far, the 288, with a top speed of 288 pages per minute. This has two 144 page per minute engines in line for single pass duplex printing. In 2009, Kodak will claim the crown for the fastest monochrome cut sheet printer, with the 300 pager per minute. Digimaster EX300 again made from tow 150 pager per minute engines in line.
Oce currently has the fastest monochrome single engine machine, the VarioPrint 6250 model, for 250 A4 pages per minute and a monthly duty cycle up to eight million per month. This uses twin print units arranged either side of the sheet. Konica Minolta’s bizhub pro 2500p is based on this engine too.

New Look Website for The Printing House Website – 15th July 2009

We’ve been working hard over recent months to try create a new look and new content for our flagship brand The Printing House Website. When you find some time, please take a look and feed back to us. Some of the new content includes A Guide to Preparing Print Ready Artwork and information about our Large Format and banner printing service.

We’re a bit sad and are so excited by our new site that we’re now rebranding Print Buying Direct, Golf Club Centenary Books and School Prospectus Made Easy – so keep an eye out – we’ll email when its available on line.

Keep watching all our sites as we are continually adding new content.

To be continued…

See part one of this blog on digital printing here. Also – what does the future hold for printing – part 1

All about the new Printing House Website

Order your Appointment Cards online at Print Buying Direct – prices from £13.50 for 100 cards printed in full colour. At print buying direct we are market leaders in the printing of appointment cards and can produce them for doctors, hairdressers, dentists, physio, beauty salons, nail technicians, garages, massage therapists – for anything really. Just visit our Appointment Cards web page for more information.

Our business cards are some of the best in the business – printed in full colour on our £200,000 state of the art digital press – you’ll be proud to hand out business cards that we produce for you. Our business card prices are also very cost effective – 100 full colour business cards for only £10!

Don’t forget we’re still running our Letterheads promotion – 2000 full colour letterheads (headed paper) for £125 delivered! We’ve been producing letterheads since 1991 for hundreds of customs as diverse as Bentley and Royal Mail.

See Part 12 of this blog on Print finishing, See also our Blog on Spot UV Varnishing

Print Buying Direct and School Prospectus Made Easy are both brands of parent company – The Printing House Ltd of Crewe, Cheshire, UK. Keep visiting both websites for details of our latest offers and promotions. For more information School Prospectus including School Prospectus Design or School Prospectus Printing (we also specialise in college prospectus) see our www.schoolprospectus.info website

Have a look at our Newsletters webpage for help and assistance with writing and designing your newsletter. It deals with, company newsletters, college newsletters, school newsletters and employee newsletters in particluar. Our blog often focuses on newsletters and we have a page which specifically helps with newsletters as a marketing tool.

TOP TIP: Add that feel of quality to your company brochure by first applying Matt Lamination then a Spot UV Varnish. The UV Varnishing actually ‘lifts’ your pictures to give them a glossy impact.

Our Digital Brochures (turn page technology) are really taking off now – get your brochure put online from only £15 per page.

One of the mainstays at Print Buying Direct is Leaflets. We are experts at Leaflet Design or Leaflet Printing Check out our Banner Stands (pop up banners) only £99. Design service available.

The markets tomorrow – What does the future hold for printing? – Part 2 – 23rd June 2009

See part 1 of this blog on printing here

Driving the changes
When considering the future of printed products it is useful to consider the opinion of the final user, rather than the opinion of a buyer or supplier. Like all consumers, they will be swayed by advertising (even if they claim that they are immune to it). Real people do not buy or interact with print per se, they react with products that have been printed. So, a reader will buy a Harry Potter story or a textbook for a course; their newspaper or magazine of choice; be provided with a chequebook and debit card by their bank; receive a mailing with an offer or information. They are largely unaware of the printing processes; they react to the content and if an alternative to print provides benefit end users will take advantage of that benefit, no matter what print suppliers try to do. In 2008, print is not seen as ‘sexy and modern’ by many new consumers and buyers who have grown up with the Internet, mobile phones, texting and instant messaging. It is important to remember that the important function is the content, not the media. Print is seen by too many real people as a destroyer of tress. It is important for suppliers and industry bodies to attack this perception, but the change of attitude by end consumers is causing the changes in print products that will be significantly different in 2018. This will be enable technology changes, particularly:
• IT- systems will be much faster and cheaper and it will be easier to communicate. Moore’s Law states that the power of processors doubles every 18 months and this is actually accelerating. There are other IT laws. Mead’s Law says every 18 months the price of transistors will halve, true since 1950. Gilder’s Law suggests the total volume of data transferred is tripling every year and Metcalfe’s Law says the value of the resulting network is proportional to the square of the number of users, who are growing strongly.
• The Internet- often forgotten is the new generation of people coming into marketing and buying positions. The Internet generation is here; they do not necessarily rely or think of print as their key media.
• Globalisation- the good news is much of Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia will have largely developed but there will still be low cost countries, (Pakistan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines) to offer low cost printing.
• Environmental pressure – this will grow and printers will have to demonstrate their carbon footprint.

To be continued…

Order your Appointment Cards online at Print Buying Direct – prices from £13.50 for 100 cards printed in full colour. At print buying direct we are market leaders in the printing of appointment cards and can produce them for doctors, hairdressers, dentists, physio, beauty salons, nail technicians, garages, massage therapists – for anything really. Just visit our Appointment Cards web page for more information.

Don’t forget we’re still running our Letterheads promotion – 2000 full colour letterheads (headed paper) for £125 delivered! We’ve been producing letterheads since 1991 for hundreds of customs as diverse as Bentley and Royal Mail.

See Part 12 of this blog on Print finishing, See also our Blog on Spot UV Varnishing

Print Buying Direct and School Prospectus Made Easy are both brands of parent company – The Printing House Ltd of Crewe, Cheshire, UK. Keep visiting both websites for details of our latest offers and promotions. For more information School Prospectus including School Prospectus Design or School Prospectus Printing (we also specialise in college prospectus) see our www.schoolprospectus.info website

Have a look at our Newsletters webpage for help and assistance with writing and designing your newsletter. It deals with, company newsletters, college newsletters, school newsletters and employee newsletters in particluar. Our blog often focuses on newsletters and we have a page which specifically helps with newsletters as a marketing tool.

TOP TIP: Add that feel of quality to your company brochure by first applying Matt Lamination then a Spot UV Varnish. The UV Varnishing actually ‘lifts’ your pictures to give them a glossy impact.

Our Digital Brochures (turn page technology) are really taking off now – get your brochure put online from only £15 per page.

One of the mainstays at Print Buying Direct is Leaflets. We are experts at Leaflet Design & Leaflet Printing.

Print Finishing – part 15 – 19th June 2009
JDF is an XML based file format for an electronic job ticket. A JDF file contains all the job information that might normally be included on a written form sent in with a print job or details supplied by e-mail, phone or fax. It travels with a job from its inception through pre-press, press and post press to provide all the required details at each stage. This ensures proper handling and helps eliminate errors and miscommunication. Information stored can be varied and might include client contact data, fonts and images and additional files, paper size, colour profiles, types of proofs requested, imposition, RIP settings, paper stock, and folding instructions, as well as where to send the completed print jobs.
A JDF file can be generated and added to at various stages of production when using JDF enabled products. It is designed to streamline information exchanged between different applications and systems sp machines manufactured by different producers can all talk to each other to create seamless workflow solutions. One of the key attractions is that JDF can bridge the communication gap between production and Management Information Systems (MIS). This ability enables up to the minute job and device tracking as well as detailed pre and post calculation of jobs.
But, the take up has not been as good as was hoped and is most likely to happen when a printing operation has a clear investment strategy in place. Only when an operation sets its sights on establishing a post press department or steadily reviewing every stage in the process, is JDG likely to be high on the list of requirements. Most printers will add kit as and when the need arises so will not benefit initially from the ‘future proof’ systems. It is only when every machine is compatible that the pros can be realised.
For some processes it is more useful than others, for example, complex guillotining jobs where setting up will eat into valuable production time. Whereas for more simple jobs, or where systems offer a high level of automation or he ability to store jobs in memory that in turn greatly reduces set up times, JDF is less likely to have a measurable impact.
But, the payback opportunities can include reductions in manning and materials costs, increased productivity and added value to the finished product. Because there are so many variations in the type of finish, the workflow access to more real life, real time data can provide hard facts to determine what does and does not make money and where real bottlenecks lie.
Printers are looking to future proof, but full functionality will only come when every system offers the capability. Most manufacturers say this reality is not far off now and once in place the forward thinking printers will reap the rewards laving their competition counting the cost.

To be continued…

Order your Appointment Cards online at Print Buying Direct – prices from £13.50 for 100 cards printed in full colour. At print buying direct we are market leaders in the printing of appointment cards and can produce them for doctors, hairdressers, dentists, physio, beauty salons, nail technicians, garages, massage therapists – for anything really. Just visit our Appointment Cards web page for more information.

Don’t forget we’re still running our Letterheads promotion – 2000 full colour letterheads (headed paper) for £125 delivered! We’ve been producing letterheads since 1991 for hundreds of customs as diverse as Bentley and Royal Mail.

See Part 12 of this blog on Print finishing, See also our Blog on Spot UV Varnishing

Print Buying Direct and School Prospectus Made Easy are both brands of parent company – The Printing House Ltd of Crewe, Cheshire, UK. Keep visiting both websites for details of our latest offers and promotions. For more information School Prospectus including School Prospectus Design or School Prospectus Printing (we also specialise in college prospectus) see our www.schoolprospectus.info website

Have a look at our Newsletters webpage for help and assistance with writing and designing your newsletter. It deals with, company newsletters, college newsletters, school newsletters and employee newsletters in particluar. Our blog often focuses on newsletters and we have a page which specifically helps with newsletters as a marketing tool.

TOP TIP: Add that feel of quality to your company brochure by first applying Matt Lamination then a Spot UV Varnish. The UV Varnishing actually ‘lifts’ your pictures to give them a glossy impact.

Our Digital Brochures (turn page technology) are really taking off now – get your brochure put online from only £15 per page.

Print Finishing – part 14 – 19th June 2009

JDF
The focus of post press research and design has largely been on the need to handle digital print, comply with more stringent health and safety legislation and automation measures designed to improve ease and speed of each operation. Every individual area has been improved resulting in collective savings of faster productivity, reduced bottlenecks, cuts in staffing levels and cost savings of producing everything in-house, when the whole department is considered.
However some manufacturers have been working on ways of improving operation throughout the whole department via the benefits of JDF functionally. Although a common feature of the pressroom, networking has yet to be fully introduced in the bindery despite many systems now being supplied with the capability.
Exponents say the benefits of a JDF bindery include a smoother, faster operation offering up to the minute information and answers that can help with expert budget management, clearer billing and more effective job planning. With improved communication and greater knowledge printers can then enjoy increased throughput and time and money savings. To achieve this all the equipment used in the finishing process needs to be connected for the information to be truly useful and that currently is a major stumbling block.
Already an expected way of working throughout pre-press and on the pressroom floor, Job Definition Format (JDF) promises much for the bindery. Supporters point to accurate costing, real time production feedback, better scheduling, more realistic and timely invoicing, reduced waste and greater flexibility. The attraction of these times and money saving benefits are why printers are increasingly researching the potential benefits of introducing this connectability throughout their operations.

To be continued…

Order your Appointment Cards online at Print Buying Direct – prices from £13.50 for 100 cards printed in full colour. At print buying direct we are market leaders in the printing of appointment cards and can produce them for doctors, hairdressers, dentists, physio, beauty salons, nail technicians, garages, massage therapists – for anything really. Just visit our Appointment Cards web page for more information.

Don’t forget we’re still running our Letterheads promotion – 2000 full colour letterheads (headed paper) for £125 delivered! We’ve been producing letterheads since 1991 for hundreds of customs as diverse as Bentley and Royal Mail.

See Part 12 of this blog on Print finishing, See also our Blog on Spot UV Varnishing

Print Buying Direct and School Prospectus Made Easy are both brands of parent company – The Printing House Ltd of Crewe, Cheshire, UK. Keep visiting both websites for details of our latest offers and promotions. For more information School Prospectus including School Prospectus Design or School Prospectus Printing (we also specialise in college prospectus) see our www.schoolprospectus.info website

Have a look at our Newsletters webpage for help and assistance with writing and designing your newsletter. It deals with, company newsletters, college newsletters, school newsletters and employee newsletters in particluar. Our blog often focuses on newsletters and we have a page which specifically helps with newsletters as a marketing tool.

TOP TIP: Add that feel of quality to your company brochure by first applying Matt Lamination then a Spot UV Varnish. The UV Varnishing actually ‘lifts’ your pictures to give them a glossy impact.

Our Digital Brochures (turn page technology) are really taking off now – get your brochure put online from only £15 per page.

Finishing – part 9 – Lamination – 11th June 2009
Lamination and encapsulation
Large and expensive machines requiring highly skilled operators ensured this was one of the last finishing processes to join in house binderies. Trade finishers were able to hold onto this process for longer than any other discipline because of the prohibitive cost of the machines and the skills required ensuring top quality results.
However, the popularity of digital print also pushed this service into the spotlight. With the increase in demand for short run, fast turnaround products, printers are being required to work faster and smarter with lamination increasingly being used to protect the final product. Not only is it used to prevent ink that is not totally dry from scuffing and thereby allow work to be delivered in shorter timeframes, it also gives it a high quality finish. But there were some initial problems. Manufacturers had to tackle the issue of digital inks or fusing oils reacting adversely to the film. Focused research and development has resulted in systems that can now be used for both litho and digital work.
There are two main methods of laminating- wet and thermal. The former sees a wet adhesive applied at the point of lamination. These machines tend to require a larger footprint to ensure the sheet is totally dry before being stacked. This also dictates the speed of the machine. The second is thermal where the lamination drum is heated up using oil, water or electricity. The laminate film incorporates a dry adhesive on one side. With a smaller footprint, a key attraction with the latter option is the fact that the pressure on space in the bindery is reduced. Despite the bigger capital outlay, larger trade laminators tend to use water based processes while wet laminating allows films with special textures to be used.

To be continued…

Order your Appointment Cards online at Print Buying Direct – prices from £13.50 for 100 cards printed in full colour. At print buying direct we are market leaders in the printing of appointment cards and can produce them for doctors, hairdressers, dentists, physio, beauty salons, nail technicians, garages, massage therapists – for anything really. Just visit our Appointment Cards web page for more information.

Don’t forget we’re still running our Letterheads promotion – 2000 full colour letterheads (headed paper) for £125 delivered! We’ve been producing letterheads since 1991 for hundreds of customs as diverse as Bentley and Royal Mail.

See Part one of this blog on print finishing , See Part one of the Blog on Variable Data Printing – also part one of Publication Printing

Print Buying Direct and School Prospectus Made Easy are both brands of parent company – The Printing House Ltd of Crewe, Cheshire, UK. Keep visiting both websites for details of our latest offers and promotions. For more information School Prospectus including School Prospectus Design or School Prospectus Printing (we also specialise in college prospectus) see our www.schoolprospectus.info website

Have a look at our Newsletters webpage for help and assistance with writing and designing your newsletter. It deals with, company newsletters, college newsletters, school newsletters and employee newsletters in particluar. Our blog often focuses on newsletters and we have a page which specifically helps with newsletters as a marketing tool.

TOP TIP: Add that feel of quality to your company brochure by first applying Matt Lamination then a Spot UV Varnish. The UV Varnishing actually ‘lifts’ your pictures to give them a glossy impact.

Our Digital Brochures (turn page technology) are really taking off now – get your brochure put online from only £15 per page.

I thought I had best put together a quick blog on one of our unsung heros – Appointment Cards, for hairdressers, dentists, physio, beauty, nail technicians – for anything really.

The appointment cards we print are to the highest standard – printed on our Digital Printing Press – Despatched to anywhere in the UK within about 4 days.

Either design your own cards online using our templates – or upload your finished artwork to our website as a pdf file. Visit our dedicated appointment card web page for more details.

To be continued…

Order your Appointment Cards online at Print Buying Direct – prices from £13.50 for 100 cards printed in full colour

Don’t forget we’re still running our Letterheads promotion – 2000 full colour letterheads (headed paper) for £125 delivered!

See Part one of this blog on finishing , See Part one of the Blog on Variable Data Printing – also part one of Publication Printing

Print Buying Direct and School Prospectus Made Easy are both brands of parent company – The Printing House Ltd of Crewe, Cheshire, UK. Keep visiting both websites for details of our latest offers and promotions.

Have a look at our Newsletters webpage for help and assistance with writing and designing your newsletter. It deals with, company newsletters, college newsletters, school newsletters and employee newsletters in particluar. Our blog often focuses on newsletters and we have a page which specifically helps with newsletters as a marketing tool.

TOP TIP: Add that feel of quality to your company brochure by first applying Matt Lamination then a Spot UV Varnish. The UV Varnishing actually ‘lifts’ your pictures to give them a glossy impact.

For only £125 (plus VAT) for 2000 A4 full colour letterheads

Produced with the same care and attention that we always use. Because this offer is so popular we can benefit from the economies of scale and pass the savings on to you.

Every company needs Letterheads (headed paper), if designed and presented correctly, they can help reflect a
professional image.

• Full Colour letterheads
• 100gsm Fully Laser guaranteed paper
• Printed one side only
• Price includes delivery to one UK address

Prices are based on a print ready pdf being supplied.

Graphic Design Service available

If you need design please allow an additional £25 (plus VAT)

For more information or to place your order

Call 0870 950 8444

fill in our online form or email info@printbuyingdirect.co.uk Thanks for taking the time to check out our promotion. Please remember that this is for a short period only.

Our online Letterheads & Continuation Sheets are produced on High Quality 100gsm White Laser Guaranteed Letterhead Paper.

As always at www.PrintBuyingDirect.co.uk our Letterheads are of the highest quality, produced on a state of the art press. Because we are cost effective for small quantities as well as large, you never need to print more than you need. So you will never end up with any Letterheads containing details that are out of date.

Letterheads Specification

* Print: Printed in full colour on one or both sides
* Paper/Board: 100gsm Quality Laser Guaranteed Letterhead Paper
* Size: A4 (210mm x 297mm)
* Letterheads available on this offer ARE laser compatible.

We don’t just produce Letterheads – we can print pretty much anything!

e.g.Business Cards, Compliment Slips, Appointment Cards, Leaflets, Brochures, Promotional Desk Pads, Calendars and many more printed products.

For something truly special why not ask us about:

* Gold or Silver Foil Blocking – can be used to stunning effect with the right design
* Embossing – a more subtle effect for clean crisp Letterheads

See Part one, two and three of this blog – Printing – 20 years of change

See Part one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve and thirteen of – Pre-press – 20 years of change

See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6 of our blogs on Direct Mail and Transactional Print

School Prospectus Made Easy and Print Buying Direct are trading names of The Printing House Ltd. The Print Buying Direct brand was originally set up to protect the quality name of The Printing House of Crewe and Nantwich, Cheshire, Uk – recognised throught the North of England as a quality printers. Now Print Buying Direct has established itself over the last two years and has become a quality brand in its own right with very competitive prices nationally. We hope that School Prospectus Made Easy will follow in the same fashion and become a popular brand in its own right.

Print Buying Direct is one of the Uk’s leading suppliers of graphic design and print, based in the Crewe and Nantwich area of Cheshire (UK) but supplying all of the UK & Ireland. See our websites for more information on graphic design, brochures, business cards, appointment cards, leaflets, flyers, pamphlets, posters etc

Please feel free to browse our print buying website and use it as a useful tool – we are adding new pages and offers every week. So keep popping back, subscribe to our printing blog, email info@printbuyingdirect.co.uk or call call 0870 950 8444.

For more information please see our websites – especially our Printing Glossary – Printing A to Z – this makes a really useful guide for designers, printers, print buyers, college students etc.

Don’t forget The Printing House also specialise in Printing for Schools, especially School Prospectus, Secondary School Prospectus, College Prospectus, Primary School Prospectus & Sixth Form Prospectus. We have a vast range of experience design and print of primary, secondary, 6th form, college and universtity prospectus. Visit our School Prospectus Made Easy website to see examples of our work and more about our products. Our customer testimonials webpage is constantly being added to – please stop by and see our reviews.

Well, great news – we’re very busy and have maintained that over the last few weeks (while most of our competition are feeling the recession).

So as a thank you to our loyal customers we are promoting our most popular offer to date – Letterheads.

The deal we are offering is not for an inferior product, it is in fact our fastest moving product.

Please read on for our letterhead / headed paper specification;

• high quality bright white 100gsm laser guaranteed paper
• printed full colour one side on our state of the art litho presses
• trimmed and packed for safe delivery
• shipped to you on our overnight carrier

All this for only £125 – see our ‘letterheads’ web page for more information.

Don’t forget that our skilled graphic design team can create a design for your letterhead from a logo and text that you supply.

Call us on 0870 950 8444 for full details.

Print Buying Direct is a trading name of The Printing House of Crewe and Nantwich, Cheshire, UK

Output falls in the sector in the UK

The printing, paper and publishing sector has incurred a greater than average fall in the 3 months to November – compared with the previous 3 month period (source: UK Government Statistics).

Print, paper and publishing output fell 4.9% (UK average manufacturing decline of 3.3%). Paper, print and publishing make up 13% of the total UK manufacturing. Print wasn’t the worst sector affected, Transport equipment fell by nearly 6%, as did metal and metal products.

With this gloomy figure in mind, cheer yourself up and have a look at some of our great value credit crunch offers.

2000 A4 full colour letterheads (headed paper) – Only £125 (plus VAT)

Pull Up Banners (Banner Stands) only £99 (plus VAT & Carriage)

500 Full Colour Wallet Folders (Presentation Folders) – Only £273

See Print Buying Direct at The Printing House, Cheshire for more offers and information about printing.