Have you noticed them? Once you do, you’ll start seeing them in more and more places – on products in shops, on newspaper pages, even on billboards. They’re called QR Codes (stands for Quick Response apparently) and they’re the MENSA version of the bar code, cleverer than you’re average country hick type of bar code […]
OK – slight exaggeration there, but we are making an effort. Like most industries we’re working hard on our eco credentials, both because it’s what customers want and because it’s the right thing to do, and an innovation making a big impact in our own little world is Waterless Offset Lithographic Printing. Now, that’s quite […]
We are all, without exception, a bunch of softies. I know I may receive abuse from certain members of the team for that unmanly remark, but remembering the comment I would ask that my feelings are duly considering before referring to me as Shirley and making me wear the dress (again). But it’s true, and […]
In commercial printing we use a technique called offset lithography. I won’t blind you with science (i.e. bore you to death) by describing the whole process (you can look at the picture and get the gist), but it’s offset because instead of the picture going straight from the template on to the paper to print […]
What’s the difference between a DJ and an ISA? One of them eventually matures and earns money! OK – it’s a bad gag, but therein lies a kernel of truth (are you impressed with the philosophical turn of phrase?). Also the DJs I know will laugh because they know it’s true. DJs become DJs precisely […]
OK – Trivia Time, and next time you’re ever asked “what’s the biggest job you’ve ever been asked to do?” you can at least say it was nothing like this. This is the Worlds biggest custom made rubber stamp, located in – you guessed it – the USA. Standing 28′ 10″ tall, 26′ wide and 49′ […]
As part of a leading UK printing business I have a great (and vested) interest in business cards. Some may call me an afficionado, others less complimentary names, but I’ve got nothing on this guy. Doc Kloepfer, a US citizen (who would have guessed?) has collected over 80,000 business cards. His own cards identify him as […]
Flyers are all over the place, as you probably know from the little mountain of them that the local curry houses seem capable of shoving through your letter box every week, but did you know there is in fact a reason they’re called “flyers”? Mc Donalds Menus Delivered to Afghan Courtesy of the US Air […]
Jules Cheret Ever Heard of Jules Cheret? Me either until a few days ago, but we actually have a lot to thank him for as he’s the guy generally considered to be the father of the modern poster. Just as what we think of as modern printing was getting going in the 1890s, lots of […]
Yep, you heard it here first, Santa is prepared for the worst. In the event of his untimely demise due to an unfortunate air traffic incident whilst delivering pressies in the Heathrow area, or some underhand business being perpetrated by an unruly element of the Elf community, Santa has laid the foundations of his succession. […]