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One the press today…. 3/1/13
Here is todays daily blog of the items we produced.
Not all the work we printed is listed as some is confidential, but it gives you an idea of the kind of things we do…
So here goes for today, 3 January 2013:
Print factory:
- January edition of a local magazine (this is a whole days work!)
- Business cards
- Canvas print on the large format machine
- Thank you cards on the digital press
- A1 folder mockup large format printer
Design studio:
- Updates to some blog posts for a clients website
- Proof multiple types of business cards
- Proof of carbonless (NCR) forms
- Proof a new letterhead
- New business card designs for a Thai restaurant
- New logo designs for a hire company
On the press today…. 2/1/13
I thought it might be fun to do a daily blog / update of a few of the items we produce every working day, to give you a little window into the life of a printing company. Not all the work we print will be listed as some is confidential, but it will give you an idea of the kind of things we do…
So here goes for today, 2 January 2013:
Print factory:
- Construction company letterheads onto 100% recycled paper
- Business cards onto 400gsm recycled board
- Spot colour business cards onto GF Smith textured material
- Vets vaccination record cards
- New year cards on the digital press
- A1 shop posters on the large format printer
Design studio:
- Updates to a website we designed and host
- Proof 5 types of business cards
- Proof a large presentation cheque
- Proof 3 sorts of carbonless (NCR) forms
- Proof a health & safety record book
- Colour match photographs for a calendar
- Initial designs for an email marketing campaign
Happy New Year
I’d like to wish you all a very Happy New Year and best wishes for health & happiness. I hope that 2013 brings you all that you desire.
Helping business (and plants) to grow!
If you are one of our hundreds of clients who only think of us for business stationery printing, then think again!
Take this little order as a perfect example. Glyndebourne is recognised globally as one of the great opera houses. Its productions travel worldwide, are performed live in other opera houses and screened in cinemas from New York to Tokyo. Yet it remains a very English institution. The opera house stands next to the country home of John Christie, who founded it in 1934. Now run by his grandson Gus, it is still very much a family concern.
The Old House has beautiful gardens and last year we printed some lovely packs of note cards depicting beautiful painted images of flowers and plants in the garden. This year we were tasked to print a set of seed cards that would be sold in the gift shop to keen green fingered visitors. Seeds were collected from 4 unusual plants grown in the garden and packed into small paper envelopes, these we in turn packed in cellophane bags containing a card, envelope and the seeds. Each pack was priced and bar coded ready for sale in the on-site gift shop.
You see, Blueprint do more than just standard business printing!
The Glyndebourne Festival presents six productions each year in a 1,200-seat opera house built in 1994. Glyndebourne on Tour, founded in 1968, takes three productions around the UK each autumn. Together, Festival and Tour present about 120 performances a year to an audience of around 150,000. For more information on Glyndebourne, please visit their website at: www.glyndebourne.com
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.
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!
