Elzette Roelofse

Complete your New Years Resolution with a New Marketing Folder

24 January 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 [...]

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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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Aftershock London 18 Page Concertina Brochure

28 September 2011

Concertina brochures have been a trend for while. If you have beautiful photography and after full visual impact, then this is the way to go. Getting Technical Sam Luck’s blog post, How to set up a 6pp DL leaflet for print is a great reference to two methods of setting up a DL brochure/leaflet. The one [...]

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Custom Size Printed Brochures in Blue

2 August 2011

Probably the most popular and perhaps average brochure is the A4 size. If it is practical I like to go for an alternative, which result to visually more exciting brochure and a happy client. In this blog post I will showcase two different design, but both with a blue theme. Litho Printed Brochure with Spot [...]

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Margins, Borders and Bleed – size does matter!

7 June 2011

With any product that has been through a design process and manufactured, the end result is more than meets the eye. To make the execution successful the initiation need to be correct. Print Design Steps All printed products have a few steps to go through, from start to finish. In the first phase, after a [...]

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Take your Table of Content and PDF to the next level with Adobe® InDesign®

26 April 2011

At Printhouse Corporation, books and a company’s annual report are among the favourite things to design and print. Books and annual reports usually consists of a large volume of pages. Hence the large volume of pages, a table of contents is a normality for these kind of projects. The table of contents can also relate [...]

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Take the frustration out of text changes in large print projects

22 February 2011

Around this time of the year, with the end of the financial year around the corner, Printhouse Corporation print especially a lot of annual reports. The average annual report has a page count of forty to eighty pages.  That is quite a lot of text and information. Other projects, such company and promotional brochures and [...]

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£7.3 Million Printed Book in Michael Tollemache’s Xmas Stocking

21 December 2010

An interesting story caught my attention 2 weeks ago. Since it is a print phenomenal, I am sharing the story on Printhouse Blog for those who have missed it! On 7 December 2010 the first (rare) edition of The Birds of America, illustrated work by the renowned ornithologist and artist, John James Audubon (1785-1851), was [...]

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Is the vector you see, the vector your printer get?

26 October 2010

In the world of print design, vector graphics are used all the time. The most common use is a company logo. If you are thinking of getting a logo designed or in process of getting a logo designed, the logo designer will (or is suppose to) supply the final design/artwork in a few usable file [...]

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Tabbed, Wire Bind A5 Conference Brochure

14 September 2010

The Legal Services Research Centre approached PrintHouse to design and print their conference brochure that was held this summer 2010 in Cambridge. They supplied all the text and images from Cambridge to choose from, to include in the conference brochure. The metal wire bind was an obvious choice. The advantages of wire binding is the [...]

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