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Magazine Madness
Ever wondered how a magazine looks before it looks like a finished magazine ready to read?
- It starts life as huge flat printed sheets
- Then gets trimmed down to approximately the correct size of a double page spread
- Then gets gathered together in the collating machine
- Which feeds it into the stitcher unit (stapling machine to you and me!)
- Which feeds it into the fold & trim unit which folds it into a finished magazine shape and trims off all the edges to give you the perfect finished magazine.
See, it’s simple when you know how and have a huge machine called a stitch, fold & trim line!
A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
This famous slogan was created by Clarissa Baldwin, Chief Executive of The Dogs trust, in 1978 but is still as relevant today.
This little order contains 8 beautiful images taken by a local photographer of her littler of Golden Lab puppies, how could anyone resist buying one for charity?
We created the artwork and printed them onto a super silky 350 gram card to create a nice quality Christmas Card.
A business card is like a ticket for the lottery
My printing press operator said today “a business card is like a ticket for the lottery…. for a prize that you don’t know about” and i thought how true!
How many cards do you give out not knowing what might come of them? I attend many networking events and being a printer, have no limit to the number of cards I can produce, so I go through thousands per year.
It only takes 1 well designed and professionally printed business card to reach your ideal client, how much business will that business card bring you, £5,000, £50,000, £500,000?
We design and print over 200,000 business cards per month – just goes to show how much business my customers are doing and with prices from just £49 you can’t afford not to!
Tomlinscote School Young Chamber Of Commerce
An exciting new opportunity has recently arrived for students from Tomlinscote School to influence the future of the school, through the Young Chamber Of Commerce.
The idea behind the Young Chamber is to encourage young entrepreneurship by linking education with the local business community. It is a junior version of the Chamber of Commerce, a membership organisation that represents businesses within the national community.
Tomlinscote is currently the first and only Young Chamber in the whole of Surrey, which presents a thrilling chance for publicity for the events it is planning. Carol Jury, Projects Manager at the Surrey Chamber of Commerce, is helping the students to set up the new Chamber by putting them in contact with her business network.
I met 2 of the students at a networking event and am very pleased to be working with such a forward think operation, a great development idea to get the youngsters thinking like business owners.
We are working together to produce a cook book, the proofs are on the presses today!
Golfing Mad, 540,000 holes to be precise!
Today we have gone golfing mad. The presses are busy with 30,000 golf club score cards for a local club.
Three different 18 hole loops x 10,000 of each, that’s a lot of golf – 540,000 holes to be precise, that would cost me a lot in lost balls as I always get through a couple per round!
How comic books have seen off their arch-enemies
The unique nature of the printed comic sector’s consumers is helping to protect it from the challenges of rising production costs, the internet and digital devices. Quite simply, fans want to display the books on their shelves
Thanks to the large collector community of ‘pannapictagraphists’, comic books once looked set to be one of the last bastions of ink on paper.
But, as with many other printed forms, over the past decade, the internet and digital tablet devices have eaten into the market share of comic books, causing many publishers and comic shops to disappear. Over the same period, the number of pannapictagraphists has dwindled, with fewer now making the Wednesday morning pilgrimage to their local comic shop (the day new issues arrive).
It sounds like a depressing state of affairs, but is all this Doctor Doom and gloom misplaced? After all, last week, over four days, more than 130,000 people were expected to go through the doors of the annual Comic-Con in San Diego, one of the biggest comic showcases. And, in recent months, comic publishers have employed controversial tactics that have helped to revive flagging sales of ‘floppy’ comics, with even grander initiatives planned for later in the year. So, is the death of the printed comic nigh or is this merely another twist in the form’s evolution?
For the full article see here: http://www.printweek.com/Printing/article/1082547/how-comic-books-seen-off-arch-enemies/
Star Wars Pixel Posters…
A series of pixel posters from the Star Wars universe from the very talented Michael B. Myers Jr.
See more of his work here: http://www.drawsgood.com/9923/147085/gallery/star-wars-pixel-posters
Anyone For Paper Eyelashes?
These paper eyelashes were inspired by the art of Chinese paper cutting and are quite something.
The things we do for fashion can be extraordinary, and sometimes damaging to the environment and our health. But for once here is an interesting fashion statement that promotes the environment, rather than harming it.
Stained Glass Windows Go Modern With Pantone Color Swatches
Architect Armin Blasbichler’s house in Italy is an adult’s playground, with doors inside doors inside doors (just like in Willy Wonka); doors on ceilings and Pantone color swatches arranged as a particularly-colorful stained glass window.
As you can see in the gallery, the exterior of the three century-old house has been decorated with musls, or log stacks, which are apparently very popular in South Tyrol where Blasbichler’s home is situated. Check out the gallery for an enviable glance at a very modern home set amongst the Dolomites.
See the complete article here: http://gizmodo.com/5824764/stained-glass-windows-go-modern-with-pantone-color-swatches/gallery/
Large Format printed images used in an RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden
A first in garden design awaits the expected 150,000+ visitors to this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show (24th – 28th May) with the integration of stunning, large format printed images to create a unique urban garden at the show. The images, the work of contemporary landscape photographer, David Anthony Hall are incorporated into the external landscape – Thompsons Plein Air Gallery Garden (Stand PW42 Pavilion Way) – being created by Thompson’s Galleries to showcase Hall’s work and to demonstrate the harmonious link between art and the creative outdoor space.
Measuring up to 3m x 1.5m, the panoramic images have been produced on a Canon imagePROGRAF iPF9100 large format printer by Canon UK’s distributor, Surrey based Velmex Distribution. Printed on 260gsm photo gloss paper and then face mounted on to Perspex (i.e. sandwiched between a piece of Perspex and Dibond or an aluminium backing sheet) and wall hung for the display at Chelsea, the images, according to gallery owner, Sue Thompson, ‘show how art can be an integral part of the structure of a garden.’
A Canon user from image capture to printed output, Hall shoots his images on a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III and uses a panoramic technique to capture a multitude of shots that go into the one final image, which he later weaves together in his digital darkroom. The sheer scale of his work makes it ideal for wide format printing and, for Hall, the high end Canon imagePROGRAF devices are the printers that showcase his images to best effect. Hall comments: “By integrating my images into the concept garden, I’m hoping to challenge convention and stimulate a debate around the placement of art outdoors. I also want to show how it can brighten up difficult outdoor spaces, including courtyard gardens, by adding depth, colour and a focal point to these areas.
At the end of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, David Anthony Hall will donate all the proceeds from the sale of Bluebells Woods, a focal work in the garden, to the Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS), a London based ambulance service for critically ill children.
