Embossing & Debossing

Debossing is the process of stamping an image into paper. Embossing is the reverse (creating a raised image from behind). You can either 'blind' emboss/deboss into an unprinted area for a subtle effect or emboss/deboss into a printed or foiled area for more impact.

Thermography

Thermography is a heat and powder process applied to lithographic printing in order to raise the text and/or images for a 3D effect. It's commonly used on traditional invitations and Christmas Cards.

Gilt Edging

Gilt edging is the process of adding foil to the edge of a product such as (and not limited to) invitations. Foils are available in a variety of finishes, including gloss, matt and satin. Along with standard gold and silver, you can choose from many other metallic colours. Some foils do have restricted uses, so please check with us first.

Painted Edges

Imagine your business cards, books or invitations with coloured edges to match the design! This expert technique sounds simple but the finished result is truly exceptional. Edge painting can be done in practically any colour (including metalic and flourecent) and can be mixed to match specific pantones. 

Die Cutting

To put it simply, die cutting is the process of cutting non-square shapes from sheets of paper using a cutting forme.

The cutting forme is made by lasering the shape's template into plywood. A metal cutting rule is then bent to the same shape and inserted into the laser cut groove. This creates a stable cutting tool that we can affix to our flatbed crossland die cutting machine. 

Die cutting gives your printed materials crisp creases and clean cuts.

Use die cutting to create bespoke invitations, clever marketing, unique business cards, tags, wallets, envelopes, folders, labels.. the list is endless.

Duplex Bonding

Duplexing, Triplexing or even Quadruplexing is the action of gluing multiple sheets of paper together. This is often used to create extra thick products such as high end invitations, however it can also be used to create eye catching designs with various colour stocks and/or textures. See examples of this below.

Perfect Binding

Perfect Binding is often used where books have too many pages to saddle stitch and gives similar results to a traditional paperback book.

The makeup of a Perfect Bound book usually consist of two sections; text pages known as the Book Block, combined with a cover made of a heavier stock. The two sections are then glued together at the spine using the Perfect Binding Machine and the Hot Melt glue that the machine applies.

Saddle Stitching or FST

A folded, stitched & trimmed (FST) booklet is also referred to as a saddle stitched booklet. These are booklets printed as paired pages, collated in sets and stapled (stitched) on the spine.

Fold, stitch & trim booklets are quickly becoming the most common binding method for short-run printed books. This is mainly due to cost and time efficiencies. It also consumes fewer resources than other methods of binding which ultimately gives the product a greener feel.

Wire Binding

Wire binding is a popular commercial book binding method. With this binding method, we insert punched pages onto a "C" shaped spine and then use a wire closer to squeeze the spine until it is round. Documents that are bound with wire binding will open completely flat on a desk and allow for 360 degree rotation of bound pages.