Know what you are ordering.
Everything we wish every customer knew before they chose a paper, a finish or a size. Written by the people who print it, in plain words, with the numbers.
Paper
Pounds, gsm and points; text and cover; coated and uncoated; grain; our stocks; which paper for what.
Read the guide ›Finishes
Laminates, foil, embossing, spot gloss, die cutting, scoring: what each does to the sheet and what it is for.
Read the guide ›Folds and binding
Every fold with its panels, and every binding with the page counts it suits, how to count pages, and how to set up the file.
Read the guide ›Sizes and envelopes
The standard sizes and why they exist, the envelope for each card, and the postal rules that decide what a piece costs to mail.
Read the guide ›How printing works
A digital shop, explained: how the press prints and how its color is measured, what offset and letterpress are and when a job wants them, wide format, what a run's price is made of, and how a job moves through the shop.
Read the guide ›Artwork
How to set up a file for the press: formats, bleed and safe area, resolution, color, type, booklets, a checklist.
Read the guide ›Canva
How to set up a design in Canva so it prints the way it looks: the size, the bleed, the download settings, or sharing it with us to export.
Read the guide ›Questions
Ordering, files and proofs, paper, turnaround and delivery, paying, and what happens when something is wrong.
Read the guide ›Rather just ask?
Tell us what you are making and we will choose the paper, the finish and the size with you, and say why.