Complete your New Years Resolution with a New Marketing Folder

by Elzette Roelofse on January 24, 2012

Moving swiftly into 2012, I am sure everyone is working hard keeping to their new years resolutions. On the business side of things I am sure plans have been made to attain new clients for business. Or perhaps a new startup is part of the plan for 2012.

Why not impress new clients with a branded marketing folder to organise all your marketing materials?

printed folder with spot UV

folder with foil block finishingTo make life easier for designers, I made folder templates for A4 documents, available to download. The templates are vector format in Adobe Illustrator and as a PDF. Both templates have one pocket and a business card slot for a business card of 85mm wide X 55mm high. If your business card is a different size, you can change it accordingly. Grab your folder templates for print here!

Printed A4 Folder .AI/.PDF Templates

Don’t have Adobe Illustrator or need a new marketing folder designed? Contact Printhouse Corporation to design your folder and of course Printhouse can look after the printing and finishing too!

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Charity Begins at … Work (Part 2) – “Stuff for Free”

by Andy Hunter on January 17, 2012

Having known Shaylesh Patel, the founder of Healthy Planet, for years through both work (initially via BNI Hammersmith) and on a personal level, I’m always keen to support his ventures where possible. As this latest one happens to be on the doorstep of PrintHouse Corporation, it would be rude not to get involved …

So I called over to the Vision Warehouse (in Kendal Avenue, Acton) on Friday morning, to be greeted by a BBC Breakfast camera crew, also a vast area being filled with a wide range of “stuff” i.e. unwanted gifts, books, furniture, games etc …

Stuff for FreePhoto credit John Brookes

Rather than going into much more detail here, if you click on www.stuffforfree.org.uk it will tell you far more about how/why it operates with specific dates for i) donating any unwanted goods and ii) picking up things that you would like to take away. In a nutshell, it provides a conduit for redistributing quality “stuff” to new homes with the environmental benefits of re-using existing materials, also making great use of the warehouse premises while vacant …

Shaylesh has this wonderful knack of coming up with “win-win” ideas that, in additional to benefiting all parties who get involved, supports green & healthy issues at grassroots level.

Stuff for FreePhoto credit John Brookes

At PrintHouse, we’ve been delighted to assist Healthy Planet with the printing of an eclectic mix of materials, ranging from standard leaflets, posters, labels and folders, through to bespoke bookmarks and luggage tags. As we’ve FSC environmental certification and are always keen to develop & promote this side of our operation, it’s a longstanding link that makes perfect sense, too.

If not already done so, I suggest you kickstart 2012 in a constructive, environmental way and get in touch with the team at Healthy Planet …

Useful Links

www.stuffforfree.org.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16518228
www.healthyplanet.org
www.bni-hammersmith.co.uk

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Effective Brand Packaging

10 January 2012

When choosing one product over another, the design of the packaging probably influences your decision far more than you realize.Effective packaging design breaks away from the standard rules and conventions that we are accustomed to, giving the product a unique edge to stand out from the rest. The packaging should appeal to your target market. [...]

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What is Creep?

3 January 2012

Creep is where the bulk of the paper in a saddle stitched booklet causes the inner pages to extend or creep further out than the outer pages when folded. The illustration shows an exaggerated view of how the inner pages of a saddle stitched booklet creep out and extend beyond the edge of the outer [...]

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Charity begins at…

20 December 2011

At this time of year our thoughts quite rightly go out to those who are a less fortunate than ourselves, with I hope most of us doing what we can to try and make a difference, no matter how small. At Xmas time we’ve traditionally printed vast numbers of cards, passing on a portion of [...]

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Photo Studio Setup & Workflow

13 December 2011

In previous post I’ve described the planning of a small product photography studio. Several weeks of decorating, installing and one burned drill later the studio space has been finished and fully equipped, so let’s see how it came out and how it is set up. Part 1: Planning, budget and design Part 2: Realisation, setup [...]

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Keep it Simple……Get if Fast.

6 December 2011

Want a printing estimate fast? Before I proceed, let me define fast:  normally 24 hours or less.  Everybody wants their estimate quick but others in 30 minutes or under.  Estimators do not like wild goose chases, nor do they like overly dense, ponderous, or exceedingly vague estimate requests.  As an estimator, nothing is more frustrating [...]

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Don’t get into a (hinge) flap about perfect binding

29 November 2011

We must have printed hundreds of jobs that are finished as “perfect bound” books. This means the text sections are folded, and “milled” (to produce a rough edge that glue will adhere to on the spine edge); then they are gathered one on top of the other, and a cover with a spine is wrapped [...]

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Out with the Old. In with the New. Get 2012 Calendar Ready!

22 November 2011

The end of 2011 is upon us. As a busy time of the year a lot of us are already making plans for the next year, 2012. Either way we all need a calendar at some point. Printhouse Corporation is popular for producing calendars and hopefully this post will help you prepare, may it be [...]

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Suite FA!!!

15 November 2011

In recent times we’ve been getting more and more involved with specialist large format productions – anything from clients looking to jazz up their offices and suites to others producing product to sell on.  This last week brought 2 such requests that we hope will be the start of something big… New kids on the [...]

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