The Print Quote Blog | Design and Print help and advice from London Litho Printing Company

Section Printing

26 March 2010

You may often hear your printer talking about “sections” – but what does this actually mean? Simply, all printing presses run sheets of paper that are larger than the finished items you are printing, and onto this single sheet (1x section) he will fit up 2, 4, 6, 8 etc pages of your finished brochure. [...]

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How to Set Up Print Finishes in an Adobe® InDesign® File

3 March 2010

In my previous blog post, The use of Print Finishes with Design, I showcased a few different examples how print finishes can spice up a print design. In this follow-up post I will discuss the more technical side of print finishes; how to add a print finish to an Adobe® InDesign® file. I realise that [...]

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Creating an interactive page flip (SWF) from Indesign CS4

1 February 2010

Creating an interactive page flip web e-brochure using Indesign CS4 This blog is to show how you can export your indesign paged brochure/document into an interactive e-brochure to use on the web. Firstly you create your standard Indesign document with pages, then you click export. In the dialog box select “swf” as the save as file [...]

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The use of Print Finishes with Design

26 January 2010

The great thing about print is, it can result in items that can serve as something useful. A few examples, such as a folder (to hold useful documents), (desk)calendar, stationery as a quick way to pass on your details. It is great to hold a beautiful finished off brochure with high quality photos in your [...]

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Paper for print

18 January 2010

Paper and price comparison Paper, it might not seem that important but when it comes to printing 5,000 or 10,000 32pp or 64pp + 4pp cover A4 brochures there are some things really worth considering. Over the last couple of months I made it a point to check what responses we were receiving on questions [...]

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What Is Trapping And How Is It Used In Print?

11 January 2010

What is trapping? Trapping is a pre-press technique used to compensate for registration errors in lithographic printing and is the process of adding a slight overlap between adjacent areas of color to avoid gaps caused by misalignent. A litho press requires each colour separation to be laid down one at a time over the next [...]

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Can Quality and Service Compete With Price in Today’s World?

18 December 2009

Let’s be honest, across almost all industries there is always someone who’ll “do it cheaper” and in print we’re no different. Where we do differ though is that we’re selling both a product and a service, so when comparing estimates be wary that things aren’t always “like for like” as they would be when buying [...]

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How important is high quality print – Part 2

27 November 2009

In my previous blog ‘How important is high quality printing’ I focused mainly on the printing aspect and how important paper stock is to your item, say an A4 brochure, as well as the impact of any additional finishes and the importance of colour consistency. Although these are all extremely important factors for quality brochure [...]

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What is bleed and how is it used in print?

13 November 2009

This is one of the most common questions we answer at Printhouse. Bleed is a specific area (usually 3mm) added to each outside edge of a page as an aid for the finisher to be able to trim the final document correctly. For example, a document at A4 size, being 210mm x 297mm will measure [...]

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British Music Experience CD Case Design Won Second Prize!

10 November 2009

I was delighted to hear the news that one of my designs at Printhouse Corporation for British Music Experience CD case won second prize in the PaperCo’s 2009 MCS (Maine, Chromomat, Satimat) competition. A year before Britain’s new interactive museum of popular music opened, I was asked to design CD style promotional pack for the [...]