Design for print

Why we prefer high resolution PDF’s for print

30 August 2011

What files should I supply to my printer? We are often asked by our clients and designers how and in what format to supply files. In almost all cases, we usually ask for press ready PDF’s. There are many reasons for this. You may want to take a look at what a press ready PDF [...]

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Shop a Brochure

16 August 2011

After all is done & dusted and your brochure (or any other creation) is printed and delivered, you may want to put it out there for everyone to admire. One quick method is to reach for your mobile phone, do a quick snapshot and upload to Facebook. Sure thing, but let’s assume we want to do something [...]

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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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How to make a cutter guide

12 July 2011

If your print job requires extra finishing, such as a folder with a pocket, packaging or a die cut business card, you may be asked to supply the printer with a cutter guide. It is important that this is set up properly in order that the final job is cut and folded correctly. There are [...]

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The fine art of publishing

5 July 2011

One of the things I most like about working at PrintHouse Corporation is the fact that a fairly sizeable proportion of the jobs we do are different in some ways to anything we have done before. This means that each job can pose us different questions – usually, but not always, in the technical sense [...]

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Capital Presentation

28 June 2011

Here at PrintHouse we’ve been helping various financial institutions to produce quality printed materials for a long time now. Companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers, Standard & Poor’s, Lloyd’s of London and many more Square Mile’s residents were assisted by us in creation of a range of brochures, leaflets, annual reports, stationery and other items to great results. Merchant [...]

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It’s Complicated

21 June 2011

Love is (so they say anyhow!), but getting your Annual Report designed and printed needn’t be any such thing as we’ve just proved once again. Commissioned by public service giants Amey back in November, PrintHouse were tasked with producing, from start to finish, an Annual Report the company would be proud of …but without any [...]

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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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What is the difference between dpi and ppi?

3 May 2011

This is an important question when it comes to print; dpi or dots per inch is an older and general term that has been used sometimes incorrectly to apply to many things relating to digital images and printing. More recently, the term ppi or pixels per inch has become popular due to the description being [...]

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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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