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  1. An Urgent Printing Service in London

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    Do you have an urgent printing job that simply MUST be turned around super-fast? If so, Southside Print can help. Subject to timing and workload, we offer:

    • A same day printing service in London;
    • Next day delivery for many locations* in the UK;
    • Next day print & dispatch, for arrival anywhere in the UK* in 2-3 days;
    • Plus our usual fast turnarounds for less urgent printing.

    Same Day Printing Service for London

    More often than not, we can turn around printing on the same day for local customers, particularly if we’re given advanced warning and artwork files are supplied according to pre-agreed timetables. If you’re in London, we can courier your printed jobs to you later on the same day, or they will be available to collect from our print shop near London Bridge and BoroughLondon SE1. Depending on the size of your printing job, the latest we’d usually need your artwork files and sign-off to proceed is 1pm, but obviously the earlier the better with timing being so short.

    Printing Needed Within Just Hours?

    If your print job is even more super-urgent, talk to us. Depending upon workloads and existing commitments, it may even be possible to turn around some jobs within just a few hours. While it’s not quite a while-you-wait service, it’s the next best thing.

    Next Day, 24-Hour Printing Service

    24-hour print turn around is also available for those jobs that simply must be with you the next working day, wherever you are in the UK. Our 24-hour print service will suit companies, organisations and individuals anywhere in the UK* as we can dispatch via overnight courier for next-day* delivery. It helps, of course, if we are forewarned so that we can clear the decks, ready for your job and to ensure that we have the right paper/volume ready. It works best when our clients hand over artwork files and/or give us sign-off to proceed no later than the times that we will have pre-agreed. Usually, the latest we’d need them is 1pm, but it does depend upon the size and complexity of the print job.

    Subject to availability. Some areas of the UK, for example more remote islands, may not be eligible for next day delivery via overnight courier, simply due to the limitations of the courier services themselves.

    Next Day Dispatch (2-3 Day Service)

    This is similar to the above, except the printing is dispatched the day after we receive the artwork and order to proceed, so will usually take a day longer to arrive with customers. We usually require artwork files and sign-off to proceed no later than 3pm on the first day.

    We are a Green Printer!

    Did you know that Southside Print is a very green printerWe’re even attaining ISO 14001 accreditation. There are not many eco-friendly printers around who will also be able to turn around printing super-fast, so bear us in mind next time you require urgent printing that’s also produced in a sustainable way, using recycled or eco-friendly materials and green processes.

    We Can Print Virtually Anything

    Whether you require printed brochures, bookletspostersannual reports, manuals, stationerybannersexhibition displaysmailersmenusnewsletters or anything else, we can almost certainly print it.

    Our digital printing is of the highest qualityThe Very Best Quality & Service

    Our quality and service levels are superb and you don’t even need to take our word for it — our full suite of 5 Star Trust Pilot ratings speak for themselves.

    Do You Need Urgent Printing?

    If you have an urgent printing requirement and are looking for a super-fast printer that’s also high quality, reliable, eco-friendly and competitively priced, please get in touch so that we can schedule your print job in.

  2. Printers in Borough, London SE1

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    Borough-Market-plaqueWe are printers in Borough, right in the heart of London SE1. Based in Tabard Street, Southside Print offers high quality printing to individuals, businesses, shops, charities and organisations across the Borough & SE1 region. So, whether you’re a resident who needs personal stationery, a cafe that needs printed menus, a pub that needs posters to promote gigs, an SE1 charity that needs fundraising literature, a shop that needs printed booklets or catalogues or one of the many businesses in the Borough that requires sales and marketing collateral, we can help. We’ll print everything for you at the highest quality, for a competitive price. What’s more, our turnaround times are hard to beat and we offer free local delivery and a click and collect service for those close by.

    Further afield?

    Perhaps you’re a little bit outside the Borough region. No problem! We print for companies and organisations everywhere in the UK and abroad and even have a web print shop where anyone in the world can order popular items like stationery, posters, brochures, leaflets and bound documents 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Simply choose your desired options, submit your payment and we’ll take care of the rest. And don’t forget that ‘click and collect’ service for local customers.

    What can we print?

    We can print pretty much anything you can think of! For example, brochurescataloguesletterheadsbusiness cardscompliments slipsNCR (multi-part) order padsmenuspostersdisplay graphics, exhibition panels, signsnewslettersannual reportsleaflets, flyersbooklets, brochureslabels, stickerswedding invites, postcards and a whole host of other printed items. In fact, if it’s produced by printing ink on paper, chances are we can supply it.

    The Borough

    Entrance-to-Borough-Market

    The Borough is an extremely cosmopolitan community, with a really good buzz about it. You have Borough Market right at its heart and there you can pick up anything from gifts to fruit, vegetables, street food from around the world, the finest delicacies and much more. Pubs, restaurants, cafes and other eateries abound and throughout the Borough you have a huge abundance of shops including independent traders and high street brands all competing for the attention of shoppers. All these businesses and traders need to be at the top of their game to attract passers by so it’s important that they get their message across in window displays, inside and on their printed promotional literature. Many of them also hand out flyers in the SE1 streets. We can help with all of that not only by producing the finest print, but also by making it look a million dollars in the first place, courtesy of our in-house graphic designers. That’s where we can make a real difference in your ROI (return on investment) to ensure that you communicate your service or product USPs (unique selling propositions) and key messages clearly to your prospects. That’s how you are most likely to turn them into paying customers. Supplying your own artwork? That’s OK too – we’ll simply check your artwork files and let you know if we spot any issues. We can also supply printed proofs, of course, so you can check how things look before committing to the full print run.

    The-Borough-SE1Are you a business owner in the Borough who needs the best local printer?

    Well, you have just found the best printer in the region, in our opinion and our great Google reviews seem to agree. Call us on 020 7378 6754 or send us a message here and we’ll be delighted to discuss your printing and/or design requirements, without obligation. You can request a print quotation online here or, if you’re ready to proceed, upload your artwork here and let us take care of the rest. We’re 2 minutes from Borough Tube and just a ten minute walk from London Bridge station. Find our location here if you would like to visit for a one-to-one chat – it would be great to meet you.

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    Image credits: All images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
    Main image: Borough High Street by IIya Kuzhekin.
    Blue plaque by Spudgun67.
    Grand entrance to Borough Market by Garry Knight.
    Shops in The Borough by Øyvind Holmstad.

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

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    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 6754email 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.