



The Stationery Subscription Box has suddenly catapulted into the stratosphere, largely due to our inherent love of stationery. Even though the digital age was supposed to have done away with dated pens and paper, the sales of stationery continue to increase year on year.
The advent of high-quality digital printing is making entry to the world of bespoke stationery printing exciting and affordable. Couple that with an easy route to market with ‘off-the-shelf’ e-commerce websites and the stationery boom has gone from a rumble to an explosion. And as far as we are concerned – it’s great!
A Local Printer uses Carbon Capture material for many of our products, which translates in to money donated to Woodland Trust to plant trees. With our paper merchant partners the combined donations are now in excess of £800,000 which equates to rather a lot of trees. 260,000 to be precise!
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.
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.
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.