Print Sales Department

Paper Sizes Exposed on Facebook

13 April 2012

You might have experienced that we at PrintHouse are a very sociable lot, but you might not realise we also actively maintain our on-line social life — our own Facebook page! And we’ve just added a really cool feature to our page, which alone should make you like us a lot (just click that “like” [...]

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The Finishing Post… Added Extras — Foiling

3 April 2012

Following up from my last blog on ‘finished style’ another area to cover on the post print finishing options is the various additional extras you can have to make your print stand out even more. Here is one of many that will follow. Foil blocking – shine out from the crowd Foil blocking is the [...]

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What’s the Difference

13 March 2012

By now pretty much all print buyers understand and accept the differences between conventional litho printing and its digital counterpart. In a nutshell the latter is ideally suited for the shorter run work that’s needed in a hurry, with the compromise generally being a little in the way of quality. As the producer, each “copy” [...]

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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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Seriously… Does this really MATTer?

20 September 2011

Okay, I’ve just got to try and clear this up once and for all.  This week I’ve already had to make three phone calls to prospective clients just to ensure that the paper they’ve asked for is actually the paper they want!  And it’s not that our customers are being silly… I keep hearing “I [...]

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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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BE INSPIRED

14 June 2011

Stuck for ideas? Why go anywhere else? Come on straight down to newly revamped Printhouse Samples Room. Have a browse through our great range of printed items to give you the spark you have been searching for. It’s an oasis of ideas. Peruse over the 1000 plus samples we have till your heart’s content. I’ll [...]

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How to Use Presentation Folders to Market Your Business

29 March 2011

More and more recently there has been an influx of presentation folders required. Whether it’s to promote your company, for an exhibition, or to show products, presentation folders seem to be the next best thing in the ultimate sales tool. In business it is necessary that you make a good impression to your target clients.  Hence, [...]

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Sending a Corporate Business Card

30 November 2010

Over recent years we had seen the trend moving towards an e-mailed Xmas greeting rather than the traditional sending of a personalised card, with businesses large and small citing “saving the environment” or “making a charitable donation on your behalf” as reason for so doing.  Yet criticisim from several quarters has certainly seen that trend [...]

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Sample it!

23 November 2010

Whenever I get a quote request, I look carefully at the specifications and think to myself ‘ What do I need to do to win this job?’ Besides getting the estimate across with the best possible price, I need to send some samples of our work and plain paper dummies’. To me showing samples of [...]

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