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1. Booklet Printing for Inspirational SE1 Charity

   1 November 2018 10:06 Leave a Comment

   Just up the road in Union Street SE1 is the headquarters of United St Saviour’s Charity (‘UStSC’), who recently commissioned Southside Print to produce two A5 landscape booklets. Both were printed in full colour on our digital presses here in Tabard Street. They were printed on 200gsm Lumi Silk paper, a high quality coated stock with a significant thickness to give the booklets substance and a feel of real quality. 100 were produced for one booklet and 500 for the other, suiting our digital printing service perfectly — those modest quantities simply would not have been economically viable using a traditional litho printing service.

   • The first booklet was a twelve page publication called “The Value of Small Grants”. It represented a review of the impact of grants issued in South London by both UStSC and Peter Minet Trust.
   • The second booklet was called “Where to look for grants and funding”. This was a guide to help groups in Southwark find funding for their local activities. The cover of each booklet can be seen above in the main image.
   • Southside Print also produced 1000 A5 leaflets, which promoted a community open day, along with some A4 leaflets (not shown).

   About United St Saviour’s Charity, SE1

   United St Saviour’s Charity is based in an attractive period building in Union Street SE1, just a short walk from London Bridge and Borough stations. They focus on uniting people and charitable organisations in north Southwark. Part of this includes the provision of two community grant programmes along with high quality sheltered housing for older people in the area.

   Grant Programmes

   Their open grant initiatives include the Community Investment Programme for large grants and the Community Engagement Programme for smaller grants. Both aim to strengthen communities in north Southwark, improve the lives of older residents in the area and level the playing field for those who may be experiencing social and economic disadvantage. North Southwark is very much ‘a tale of two Southwarks’ where one part of the population is benefiting from the recent growth and regeneration of the area while others simply struggle to make ends meet. In the last twelve months, the charity has invested £1 million into local projects and activities that are now helping to redress this imbalance.

   Sheltered Housing

   The sheltered housing element of UStSC’s work takes the form of two schemes; St Saviour’s Court, which provides 53 modern homes in Purley, and Hopton Gardens Almshouses, which provide twenty flats and Grade II period cottages in Hopton Street, SE1. Both schemes include 24 hour support services for the residents. To be eligible, applicants need to have worked in Southwark for at least 3 years before application, they must be 65 or older, have low income and capital and be able to live independently with help from carers if necessary.

   The charity is also planning a brand new modern almshouse in Southwark Park Road in Bermondsey. It is currently in preliminary talks with the developer Delancey and architects Witherford Watson Mann and their shared vision for the new building is one of stunning quality and beauty. As well as providing modern, independent sheltered housing for older residents with limited income, the aim is also to provide benefits to the wider community.

   Investment Properties

   As well as the sheltered housing, the charity owns several historic investment properties and land in the area. Rental income generated from these helps to fund the charity’s work. Properties include houses, shops and even some SE1 pubs; for example the Wheatsheaf and the Market Porter in Stoney Street, near Borough Market, and Simon the Tanner pub in Long Lane.

   You can contact United St Saviour’s Charity at St Saviour’s House, 39-41 Union Street, London, SE1 1SD. For further information, telephone 020 7089 9014 or visit their website at www.ustsc.org.uk

   Your Digital Printer for Booklets, Brochures & More

   If, like UStSC, you’re looking for a reliable and affordable digital printer in South London and the SE1 region, please do consider asking us for a quote here at Southside Print. We pride ourselves on high quality, exceptionally fast turnarounds, unrivalled customer service and competitive pricing. Quotations are free and without pressure or obligation at Southside. You can even request a quote online (here). Our printing services include graphic design and artwork as well as digital and large format printing. We also have in-house digital foiling, lamination and encapsulation too, along with all the finishing options you could ever need (folding, creasing, collating, document binding, perforating etc.). So, whether you need a booklet, brochure, printed newsletter, direct mailer, some stationery or something larger like exhibition panels or pop-up banners, we can help. Call 020 7378 6754, email us here or follow any of the bold links in this article for further information.

2. Brochure Printing in London Bridge, SE1

   16 March 2018 10:23 Leave a Comment

   Brochures are a priceless marketing tool for just about any business or organisation. Akin to a mini shop window or store front they will work hard to silently market your product or service to your target market, especially if written, designed and printed well. That’s helped still further if they also include professionally generated photographs or illustrations to showcase your products or services in the best possible light. With a well executed brochure, all your key sales and marketing information will be available anywhere, all distilled down in a handy, portable format. Unlike a physical store, they can be perused at your prospect’s leisure, whether mailed in the post, distributed from dispensers, left at coffee tables and receptions or handed out face-to-face.

   Brochure Formats

   Typical brochure formats include:

   • standard ‘saddle-stitched’ brochures;
   • wiro-bound brochures;
   • perfect bound brochures;
   • hybrid brochures e.g. that may have extra fold-out sections;
   • brochures that double up as folders, for example with pockets for inserts at the front or back.

   

   Shapes & Sizes

   Most brochures are based upon the ‘A’ sized paper sizes, for example A4, A5 and A6 etc. Such sizes can be presented in portrait or landscape mode, although portrait format tends to be most common as it’s more cost-effective to produce due to the way it uses standard stock sizes (less waste).

   Aside from the standard ‘A’ sizes, there are also a few other brochure shapes that are quite effective, including:

   • Square brochures (typical sizes include 210mm square and 148.5mm square) — these have a certain charm about them;
   • 6-page format (like a wide gate fold);
   • ‘DL’ sized mini brochures (most often portrait in format, being H210mm x W99mm, which is easily accomplished simply by folding an A4 sheet into three).

   Each of these sizes and formats will give your brochure a different feel which will, in turn, affect that all important first impression — important because your brand, product and service are all at stake. If your brochure looks poorly conceived and underwhelming, that is inevitably how your product, brand or service will also be perceived, so it’s important to take everything into consideration and to get it right.

   Brochure Finishes

   Lamination

   Laminating the cover of your brochure will add a high quality, tactile feel to it as well as giving the brochure extra protection and some resistance to water. Lamination options include matt laminate, gloss laminate and ‘soft touch’ laminate. Matt lamination gives brochures a lovely soft feel and slightly mutes the contrast of images and colours. Soft-touch lamination is very similar in appearance but has a softer, almost slightly rubbery feel to the touch. Gloss lamination adds a rich shine to your brochures and really lifts the printed imagery — colours tend to look more punchy and are more saturated — however the final choice of which lamination style to use comes down to personal preference as well as suitability to the design and colour scheme that’s featured in your particular brochure.

   Southside Print has in-house lamination facilities, so do ask us more about the various options available. We can show you samples so that you can see the differences yourself, perhaps before finalising the specification of your own brochure.

   Coated paper surfaces

   Of course, you could forget lamination completely (particularly if you’re wishing to save as much money as possible) and instead rely on the paper surface to do the work in respect of the surface finish. We can print on matt coated paper, gloss coated paper (not as glossy as lamination but it does have a definite sheen) and silk coated stocks. Silk coated paper is a nice halfway house between matt and gloss, having a pleasant, high quality feel about it.

   Uncoated paper surfaces

   Alternatively, brochures can be printed on uncoated papers or card weights and these look more muted, with lower contrast, but can give the finished brochure a nice contemporary look and feel. It all depends upon what the brochure is for and what kind of design your brochure features. While B2B brochures might typically use gloss, silk or matt coated papers, B2C organisations that want a more natural, ‘outdoorsy’ or earthy feel might go with uncoated paper stocks (or certainly stocks that look like they’re uncoated — technically speaking, a completely hidden coating can actually benefit the print quality and colours as it stops the ink being sucked up into the uncoated fibres, which might otherwise look too flat in terms of contrast and detail).

   Foil blocking

   Foil blocking your brochures, perhaps only for small details like a logo or title on the cover, can add a real feel of quality. Available in metallic colours of gold, silver, gunmetal, copper and many others, metallic foil really sets your brochures apart from the competition.

   Examples

   Click the thumbnail images (right) to see a few examples of brochures that we’ve recently produced for customers right across London and the UK. Most are printed in full colour with some being litho printed and others being digitally printed. You can also spot several examples of the various binding methods that we mention above, including saddle-stitched binding, wiro binding and perfect binding. Take a look.

   Brochure printing in London Bridge, Borough and SE1

   If you require any brochure or booklet printing or design, call Southside Print on 020 7378 6754, send us a message here, request a quotation here or upload your finished artwork here — we’ll be more than happy to make your brochure printing look every bit the part, without costing the Earth. With our high quality digital and litho printing, in-house lamination facilities and state-of-the-art printing presses, you’ll get the very best quality, competitive pricing and the fastest turnaround times available in London SE1. Give us a try — quotations and advice are totally free!

3. Perfect Binding & Printing for Power To Change

   18 October 2017 13:44 Leave a Comment

   Southside Print has recently been working on some high quality printing for Power To Change, who we’ll come onto in a moment. Production included 60 page annual reports, a series of Research Institute Reports in booklet form and a publication called Uncharted Investment in Charities, Social Enterprises and Community Businesses. All of the printing was in perfect bound format, which is like a soft-bound book, using our digital press for high quality, fast turnaround production. The paper used for internal pages was Arcoset 170gsm white stock while that used for covers was white Splendorgel stock with a thicker 340gsm weight. The client supplied their own design and artwork. All in all the publications looked highly professional, nicely designed and well produced.

   About Power To Change

   Power to Change describes itself as “an independent charitable trust that supports and develops community businesses in England“. It is a ten year initiative, originally funded by The Big Lottery Fund, which aims to accelerate the growth and impact of “community business”. In so doing, they can make a positive economic impact on communities, delivering social, economic and environmental benefits into the future. This in turn will lead to greater cohesion and potential for success for the communities involved.

   What exactly is a community business? A community business comes in many forms includingshops, farms, pubs, even call centres plus many other types of business. What’s common to all of them is that they are run by local communities, for the benefit of local communities. Often they also become a focal point or hub, for example a local shop that may have been saved by the community business, affordable housing within a deprived or isolated area or a local place to eat, drink and/or trade goods. Power to Change supports these community businesses through empowerment, innovation, grants and other types of funding.

   Power to Change’s London office is at The Clarence Centre, 6 St George’s Circus, London SE1 6FE. Visit www.powertochange.org.uk for further details or call 020 3857 7270.

   Printing & Document Binding Services in London SE1

   Southside Print would be happy to help with any of your printing or document binding requirements. We offer fast turnaround, high quality digital printing, litho printing for those needing spot colours and very large printing volumes, large format printing for posters, in-store graphics and exhibition graphics and many different kinds of document binding including perfect binding, comb binding, wiro binding and more. Click the bold links for more information or call us on 020 7378 6754 and we’ll be happy to discuss any printing and design requirements, without obligation. Alternatively, you can get a free printing or design quote here or upload your artwork files here. Southside Print is based in Tabard Street in London SE1, just a short walk from Borough tube and London Bridge station.

4. Looking for Graphic Designers in London Bridge, SE1 & Borough?

   22 February 2017 14:01 Leave a Comment

   If you’re looking for graphic designers in London Bridge, Borough or the SE1 area of South London, we have a great solution for you. Otherwise, if you’re searching without some kind of personal recommendation, you can end up in a bit of a maze. Ideally, you need someone talented, creative, affordable and trustworthy for your creative design project and also someone who knows their trade from a technical standpoint. Better still, a designer with great customer testimonials and ratings is worth their weight in gold. After all, what use is a great design if rookie artwork mistakes lead to poor or unexpected printing results?

   Introducing our own in-house graphic designers

   The good news is that, at Southside Print London Bridge, our in-house graphic designers tick every box. And, what’s more, as designers working within a printing company, they really know how to design in order to get the very best from each print job. So, whether you need a design for a business card, brochure, booklet, catalogue, newsletter, direct mail piece or something larger like a poster or exhibition display, our graphics team knows how to make it look eye-catching and well-designed. So, your service, product, event or marketing message will be communicated in just the right way — and will look totally professional. As an added bonus, you’ll usually find that our in-house graphic designers are generally cheaper to commission than standalone design consultancy designers too. That’s because we’re commercial printers and, as such, tend to already keep them fairly busy with day-to-day work for our print clients, for example, assisting with artwork production, updates and client alterations. So, in a way, our printing services and print profits subsidise our graphic design services — and you can benefit from that. And, of course, should you need printing too, their design and artwork will be set up in just the right way for maximum quality on our presses, hand in hand with maximum economy.

   “Re the new flyers you did last month….. people have commented on how good they look! Thank you!!”
   ^{Tranquility Pilates Centre}

   Graphic Design for London Bridge, Borough, SE1 & South London

   Southside Print London Bridge is based in Tabard Street in London’s SE1 region. So, we’re literally a stone’s throw from Borough High Street tube and just a few minutes’ walk from London Bridge Station and The Shard. We have many clients in the area who come back time and time again for both our graphic design and commercial printing skills. Take a look at our news blog for many examples.

   “So grateful for the very quick and excellent job you have just completed, as usual great service.”
   ^{Danny Merrison, Angel Human Resources Ltd, London SE1 1SZ.}

   Our graphic designers can help you with:

   • Graphic design and finished artwork, to your brief, from scratch;
   • Conversion of customer-supplied designs to high resolution print-ready artwork;
   • Design for stationery including business cards, letterheads, compliments slips, invoice sheets, order pads etc;
   • Graphics and design for sales & marketing literature;
   • Design of large format displays including banners & exhibition graphics;
   • Graphics for packaging and point-of-sale material;
   • Logo and corporate identity design;
   • Sourcing and/or supply of professional illustrations and photography;
   • Graphics for just about any printed item;
   • And graphic design for pretty much anything you can think of!

   At time of writing, Southside Print London Bridge has been rated with a full 5 stars by customers on Google reviews, in EVERY case. Our thanks go to all those customers for taking the time and trouble to leave such lovely reviews — we really appreciate it.

   Contact us for more information, quotations, etc.

   If you’d like to try out our graphic designers for your next creative project, call 020 7378 6754, email us using the enquiry form here, or request a free quotation here and we’d be delighted to help.

5. Lounge Hair & Beauty Salon: Sales & Marketing Literature

   30 November 2015 17:51 Leave a Comment

   London Bridge recently undertook some stunning graphic design, artwork and printing work for The Lounge Hair & Beauty Salon in London’s SE16. Work included:

   • Double-sided business cards which were litho printed in full colour onto 450gsm silk coated card then finished with a matt lamination.
   • Price lists which were digitally printed in full colour onto a 250gsm silk coated stock and scored for folding.
   • A6 leaflets which were digitally printed in full colour onto a 250gsm silk stock and finished with a matt lamination.
   • Large format posters which were printed onto a 190gsm photo satin stock and encapsulated with a matt finish.

   

   In-house Design & Printing Services

   All design and artwork was produced by Southside Print London Bridge’s Matt Potter. Customers of Southside Print London Bridge benefit from in-house, high quality graphic design and artwork services as well as digital print services, a litho printing service and even large format printing facilities. So we can produced design and printing whether it’s for a business card at one end of the scale, large display graphics and exhibition systems at the other … or anything in between including, of course, brochures, leaflets, catalogues, newsletters, stationery and so on. We should also mention that photocopying & duplication is another popular service which is available from Southside Print’s SE1 branch.

   About The Lounge Salon

   The Lounge Hair & Beauty Salon specialises in a wide range of hair and beauty services in a warm and relaxing atmosphere. Staff listen carefully to clients’ requirements, offer expert advice and achieve the very best style, colour and outcome to suit each individual customer perfectly. The salon has a 5-Star rating in the Good Salon Guide, which is a real testament to the highly skilled and personable team, and is often featured in prestigious hair magazines. All services are under one roof and cater for both women and men. Customers are even offered a glass of wine which is a great way to relax and de-stress while the staff work their magic.

   The Lounge Hair & Beauty Salon, established in 2000, is located in Jamaica Road in the City of London close to Canary Wharf and is just a stone’s throw from Bermondsey tube station (Jubilee line). They have a private car park which caters exclusively for their clients and are on bus routes 1, 47, 188, 199, 255, 381, C10 and P12. Product ranges used within the salon include L’Oreal, Redken and Dermalogica among others. The salon is open 7 days a week, including late opening to 8pm from Tuesday to Friday inclusive, and on Sunday from 10.00am – 5.00pm.

   Special Hair & Beauty Offers for December!

   • Get a £10 Gift Voucher when you spend over £45 on hair and beauty services at the Salon between 1st and 31st December 2015. (To be redeemed Monday to Thursday only).
   • Also check out the salon’s regular special offers and packages on their blog.

   Lastly, with the party season fast approaching, why not book into the Salon for your PARTY HAIR!

   For further information

   The Lounge Hair & Beauty Salon
   200 Jamaica Rd, London SE16 4RT
   T: 020 7237 2624
   www.loungehairbeauty.co.uk

   Printing & Design Services, SE1

   Meanwhile, of course, for any design and printing related enquiries, Southside Print London Bridge welcomes your call on 020 7378 6754 or contact us here and we’d be delighted to supply a quotation for your next job, or chat through your requirements, without obligation.

6. Lamination, Encapsulation or U.V. Varnish?

   25 June 2015 14:51 Leave a Comment

   Have you ever seen a super-glossy brochure and wondered whether it’s gloss laminated … or perhaps gloss U.V. varnished? Even printing experts have trouble spotting the difference! To all intents and purposes, they look the same, but their production methods, costs and properties are very different.

   Lamination

   Lamination is a process whereby a thin, transparent, plastic film is bonded, under pressure, to the surface of your printed paper or card. The plastic film can have a variety of finishes including high gloss, soft-touch and matt.

   • Gloss lamination adds an incredible shine to documents and tends to enrich printed colours, also giving photos a greater depth due to the extra contrast they lend them.
   • Matt lamination gives printed documents a lower contrast and, as such, tends to give them a contemporary, lighter appearance along with a high quality look and feel.
   • Soft-touch lamination is similar in appearance to matt lamination but has a softer, more tactile feel to the touch. Some describe it as velvety, others suggest that it’s perhaps even a little rubbery in feel … but in a good way!

   Either way, once laminated, the printed sheets are cut and finished so that the edge of the printed sheet is an exact match to the edge of the bonded lamination, with no difference or overhang of either. Lamination can be applied to one side of the sheet, or both.

   Lamination gives the printed job additional protection against wear and tear. In fact, one way to be sure that a printed document is laminated is to try to tear it. If it’s nigh on impossible to tear, chances are it’s laminated. Lamination also gives documents protection against moisture, simply due to the presence of the plastic film that’s bonded to the surface.

   Lamination is suitable for even reasonably high quantities of printing because it’s a high speed, mostly automated process. It’s used for protection, to give printed documents a lovely finish and to give them a feeling of high quality.

   Encapsulation

   Encapsulation is similar to lamination but the plastic film tends to be significantly thicker and is applied to both sides of the printed sheet. Uniquely with encapsulation, the plastic covering protrudes a few millimetres beyond the edge of the underlying printed sheet and indeed the plastic on the front and the plastic on the back bond to each other where they meet. This forms a tough ‘frame’ of thicker plastic around the edge of the printed sheet.

   As with lamination, encapsulation protects the printed sheet from wear and tear and from moisture, however even more so than lamination due to the greater thickness of the plastic and the edges of the sheet also being protected by a double thickness of heat-bonded plastic.

   Encapsulation is usually used for one-off or low quantity printing because it’s relatively expensive and time-consuming compared to lamination. It’s ideally suited to printed items that perhaps need to be displayed, manhandled regularly or used in environments that might otherwise lead to the printed item becoming dog-eared or spoiled by water ingress. Menus would be a good example.

   U.V. Varnish

   U.V. varnish is almost always encountered in a high gloss finish. However, it is also available in matt finish although that’s rarely seen. To even a trained eye, an overall gloss U.V. varnish looks almost identical to gloss lamination, giving the printed document a high gloss sheen that enriches the saturation of printed colours and gives photographs a deeper contrast and ‘punch’. However, the U.V. varnishing process is remarkably different to that of lamination. Unlike with lamination, the gloss sheen is actually printed to the surface of the paper and this then passes under a heat lamp to set it into its robust, high gloss finish.

   Unlike lamination, documents that have been U.V. varnished can be torn quite easily. This is the main way to tell gloss U.V. varnished documents apart from those that have been gloss laminated.

   However, because it’s printed with a liquid varnish, there is another major advantage to U.V. varnishing. That’s the fact that it can be used to ‘spot print’ the varnish. You could U.V. varnish only the logo and photos in a document while leaving the remainder of the background unvarnished, for example. That’s simply not possible with lamination or encapsulation because, with both of those, the finish has to cover every millimetre of the sheet. That’s a huge difference and is another easy way to tell whether something is spot U.V. varnished or gloss laminated.

   For extremely high volumes of printing, overall U.V. varnish can work out cheaper than lamination. For this reason, you will often find that glossy magazines are actually U.V. varnished rather than being gloss laminated. It’s also worth noting that, because there is no plastic film used, U.V. varnished documents and magazines are easier to recycle than those that have been laminated.

   Machine Varnish

   Then there’s matt, silk or gloss machine varnish (of the non-U.V. kind) although those options are only possible on a litho printing presses. Machine varnishes tend to be much more subtle than lamination, encapsulation and U.V. varnish. For example gloss machine varnish is nowhere near as glossy as gloss lamination, encapsulation or U.V. varnish, so is easy to tell apart from them.  As you can see in the middle example on the main image, gloss machine varnish gives printed documents more of a ‘sheen’ in reality (not a high gloss). It is used less and less these days, not least due to the recent proliferation and vast improvements in the quality of digital printing.

   Not Sure Which to Use?

   With so many options available it can be confusing knowing which process is going to be the most suitable and affordable for a particular print job. We can help, though! Southside Print has the know-how and equipment to produce pretty much any finish you like and we can let you know when one process will be more suitable than another. Cost comes into it too, of course, because some processes are more suitable for low print runs and others are more suitable for high volume work. We can advise which process will give you the optimum balance for a high quality look and feel as well as representing good value for money. Call us on 020 7378 6754, email us us message here or, alternatively, request a quotation here and we’ll come back to you by return. Our quotes are free and without pressure or obligation. As well as printing and production, we also offer a design and artwork service, by the way. Click the bold links for more details.

   Your South East London Printer

   Southside Print is based in the heart of SE1 close to London Bridge station and Borough tube. We are based on Tabard Street and have a walk-in design & print shop as well as an online print shop where you can order from a selection of popular print items from the comfort of your home or office – or even when on the move – 24/7, 365 days a year.