litho printing

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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Machine Size – a pressing Issue

23 August 2011

At Printhouse, we’re fortunate (or perhaps it’s down to good advance planning) to have several presses under the same roof to cover pretty much any LITHO print requirement – the resulting client benefits include the ensuring of long term brand and colour consistency (as opposed to sending various jobs suited to different presses to five [...]

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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 many to print? Decisions, decisions…

8 March 2011

As part of my discussions relating to print projects there are a few questions that always crop up, one of which is “How many do you require?” Sometimes this may be totally fixed (working from a database to mail), but at other times it calls for a “guestimate” as to how many are likely to [...]

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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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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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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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Annual Report Printing in London

12 August 2010

Annual reports may be a legal requirement for some companies but they are also a fantastic way to impress the shareholders too. A beautifully designed and printed annual report not only enhances a company’s brand but is an excellent means of advertising its accomplishments and future goals. Here at printhouse, we produce a number of [...]

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High quality book print

21 April 2010

When I was first contacted by David Tregunna from IAP Fine Art in early January 2010 I was genuinely excited about the prospect of working on the project outlined, this being a book on the life and work of renowned British artist Chris Gollon. The book is written by leading art historian Tamsin Pickeral, published [...]

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