high quality business printing

Colour management and ISO 12647 in printing

19 August 2010

There are no two ways about it – colour management is a complicated area. How do designers and those working in the graphics industry ensure that the results they get are what they are expecting, when they are, variously, viewing designs on screen; as proofs (which can produced in a number of ways); and as [...]

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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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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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Choose Your Colour (Part 2): Litho vs. Digital Printing

25 August 2009

Litho Printing Litho printing (Offset printing) is also known as lithography or lithographic printing. Litho printing works on the basic principle that oil and water do not mix. A Little Bit of History about Litho Printing Alois Senefelder invented litho printing and called it ‘chemical printing’ before he patented it as lithography in 1799. A [...]

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Will high quality business printing survive and thrive in the internet age?

22 July 2009

It’s a question that has concerned the printing industry for years as the World Wide Web has grown from a small academic experiment to a global phenomenon which has quite literally revolutionised the way we now all communicate. How can traditional printing ever compete, thrive or even just survive when super-fast business communication takes place [...]

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