Creating and Selling Your Own Christmas Cards - We Can Help
Selling your own greeting cards must be one of the most satisfying ways of making some extra cash to splash at Christmas. Greeting card printing is popular all year round, but at this time of year the take up rate goes sky high! There are so many different routes available to market and sell your cards too; via online shops for those of you who are very organised, at school fetes, church and town fairs for others. And let's not forget that boot fairs and local shops and businesses are also good avenues to pursue.
Designing and printing your own greeting cards has never been easier and is the perfect ‘starter’ product with which to enter the retail market place. With mobile phones now taking photographs at a resolution good enough to print from, inspiration really is all around you and just waiting for you to snap it up. Add easy online design and editing tools to the mix and you have everything you need at your fingertips to create your first set of printed greeting cards.
Metallic Inks Makes Our Wrapping Paper Printing Priceless
We generally associate gold and silver wrapping paper with the festive season but, like puppies, it’s not just for Christmas.
The first beauty of metallic wrapping paper is that it brings instant glamour to anything – whether it is wrapped presents, drawer lining, scrapbooking or in a frame as a poster (you should try this – add a piece of wrapping paper to a lovely frame with a pre-cut mount for an instantly chic picture!) The second beauty of metallic wrapping paper is that it costs less than our normal wrapping paper!
As the UK’s first ever online eco-printer we have been blazing a trail for environmentally friendly printing since 2006, offering a comprehensive range of products available on recycled papers and printed with vegetable oil based inks and eco-friendly toners. And whilst these days almost all inks are vegetable oil based and almost all paper pulp is sourced from sustainable crop grown forests we continue to promote and champion eco-friendly printing because doing no harm to our planet is what we believe in.
Our New Printed Notebooks Are Running Out The Door!
We've added a new product to our printed notebook range with a square spine finish. This means that we can print 60, 80, and 120-page notebooks in-house and at a very competitive price. Our answer to perfect-bound notebooks is a perfectly new product.
Square spine notebooks benefit from a ‘flattened’ finish, which is ideal for books made with heavier papers or 60+ pages. Smaller stitched books, such as our A6 size, also benefit from the squared spine which allows them to open easier than standard wire stapling when using more than 40 pages.
People are the engine for our business and without them we would stall, which is why we like to look after them and keep them topped up with tea and biscuits! Come and meet them.
We first introduced our kraft printed products way back in 2014, and since then we have continued to increase our range of new and exciting products. And in many ways the kraft products now available on our website are thanks to the customers who have contacted us with their specific enquiries – such as kraft notebooks, kraft wedding invitations and kraft folders.
Exhibitions are growing in popularity and are becoming more cost effective in terms of outlay versus return as preparing for your exhibition becomes more affordable.
Attending an exhibition is your chance to showcase you, your business, products or services. You are already on to a winner as the people attending the exhibition are there because they are interested in what you are selling. It is an opportunity for them to gather information and seek out suppliers that can provide them with what they require.
Introducing our Exciting New Digital Press and All That it Brings
Say hello to Ricoh – our new and very impressive digital press. And we can’t wait to introduce you to this all singing and dancing piece of kit. With our new Ricoh in residence our small order and digital printed products will be entering a new realm – not to mention all of the other possibilities that it brings.
When we first launched A Local Printer we commissioned an online game about printing which essentially allowed users on our site to virtually print a range of products. They had the option to choose from different types of materials, select the weights of paper, decide if their printed project was to be printed litho or digitally and what the colour make up was. It was a bit of fun designed to help our customers understand a bit more about the printing process – after all, when we launched our website in 2006 we were one of only a handful of printing websites and printing was a largely unknown process to most of our early customers. (Don't ask me what the relevance of being chased by a rabbit is, I have no idea!)
Today that has all changed and printing is widely understood and ordered confidently online or as a bespoke job.
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Exhibitions are growing in popularity and are becoming more cost effective in terms of outlay versus return as preparing for your exhibition becomes more affordable.
Say hello to Ricoh – our new and very impressive digital press. And we can’t wait to introduce you to this all singing and dancing piece of kit. With our new Ricoh in residence our small order and digital printed products will be entering a new realm – not to mention all of the other possibilities that it brings.
When we first launched A Local Printer we commissioned an online game about printing which essentially allowed users on our site to virtually print a range of products. They had the option to choose from different types of materials, select the weights of paper, decide if their printed project was to be printed litho or digitally and what the colour make up was. It was a bit of fun designed to help our customers understand a bit more about the printing process – after all, when we launched our website in 2006 we were one of only a handful of printing websites and printing was a largely unknown process to most of our early customers. (Don't ask me what the relevance of being chased by a rabbit is, I have no idea!)
