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Climate change is a serious problem and it is not going to go away unless we all take steps to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (greenhouse gasses) released from the burning of fossil fuels. Going totally carbon neutral would be almost impossible to achieve, but seeking out and using carbon neutral products is a great way to start.  

What is the similarity between flyers and flags? They are both designed to get attention, they both communicate, generally they are both colourful and sometimes they are both made from paper!

Flyers are a tremendous and inexpensive way to create a buzz around a promotion, event or product. As a marketing tool your potential customers can see what you are advertising, and then have the ability to physically take that information away with them. Flyers can be targeted to a specific location or market segment – essential when return on your investment is key.

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!

The Pantone colour for 2018 is Ultra Violet, which just happens to be the science behind what makes neon colours fluoresce and glow with an appealing eye-catching brightness. If Ultra Violet is the colour for 2018, neon printing is set to be the breakthrough product of 2018.

Read on for more about the waves that neon is set to make.

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 and 80 page books in-house and at a very competitive price. Our answer to perfect bound notebooks is a perfectly new product.

The origins of Fairtrade is to help producers in developing countries achieve better trading opportunities at the same time as promoting sustainable farming.   Fairtrade Fortnight is an annual campaign to promote and increase awareness of Fairtrade products and the aims of the foundation. In the UK this this year it runs from 26th February to 11th March 2018. 

Your Big Day is booked, the suits and dress fittings are organised. But what about all of the wedding stationery? Well we can help with that, but you can help us too, by having an idea of what you would like your wedding stationery to look like. The we can do the rest.

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.