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The big question… Why?

In an age where buzzwords and rhetoric spin around endlessly. Falsities around being kind to the environment by using electronic communications bluff their way into everyday life. Why does print or physical marketing matter?

We exist to provide the following

  • • enable successful businesses/organizations to engage with effective physical touchpoints
  • • assist SMEs / charities to deliver effective physical branding to enforce their presence in their primary customer touchpoints
  • • enable more accountable communications with known carbon footprint materials

What drives us… in a physical world, where being seen is a significant challenge. The reality of physical provides a great opportunity to help SMEs and third-sector organizations to create reality, and retention whilst resonating with an audience in a meaningful way.

The power of print, aka physical marketing, lies in the ability to connect. Connections are created through, the impact of the message; evoking the senses, visual and touch. Print through its lesser utilization due to mass market digital communications being cheap and overused, means print holds a unique power of trust, and reality, there at the moment, with no distractions. When coupled with creativity in a proper design, and well-written content, it has leverage in a very different way. Add in personalized or localized to make the message even more relevant to the recipient, and the engagement level increases further.

As a multi-disciplinary print provider, we don’t just print on paper, but everything through to large format items like banners and signage, through to garments and apparel. Delivering a wide range of physical items ready to take your brand. Delivery of this range of items, allows us to support our customers more fully in delivering their message, even just reminding people of who they are. Of course, this can be subliminal, working in the background.

We don’t live in silos, unlike some graphic communication providers. We know and understand the power of connecting digital communications with print. We don’t profess to be experts in digital communications, however, understand what you can do. Hence why you won’t find us selling websites, social media support or other digital products. At the heart of what we do is the power of physical media through print. We understand the paper, and the nuisances of print finishing, which allows us to better specify strong campaigns and items in print.

Don’t think we are not connected, we do understand marketing basics, we have professionals in other disciplines we love to work with. We will ask, what is your call to action? How do you want to measure or quantify parts of marketing tools? How are you distributing or connecting with people who might be your ideal audience? These aren’t hostile questions, purely us making sure you have thought through a customer journey, where are you wanting them to go next and why.

As for being accountable, we can identify sources of paper, substrates, garment stock and pretty much everything that flows through our print studio. From the shortest journeys of Kendal to Preston and us in Halifax, or paper manufactured in Portugal. With toner which is compostable, latex large format ink. We are well aware of every item we use in our processes. We’d like to challenge you to think of the carbon used in digital communications- you’ll struggle to fully identify every element or resource used.

Above all, we care about what we do, try to be properly responsible, and have some ethics along the way. Perhaps we are an exception to life in modern business society, we aim to be credible, through being responsible. We work best when in partnership with our customers, helping them to achieve whilst delivering progressive development for all involved. Making us part of the bigger community, valued and adding value where we can.

Blue Monday, can it be a better Monday?

Blue Monday (16th January 2023) might be a grotty Monday in January but thinking about it beforehand might just get you feeling more zingy and ready to go. Stuart outlines his thinking on ways to beat blue Monday.

1.         Physical activity. 

Might be the hardest time of year to get out and do something, but I have a goal in April, which needs some attention to make it one to be proud of. It might only be the Blackpool 10k – but training now makes the result even more worth it in the end.

2.         Set a realistic resolution. 

I’ve had some goals for a while, personal to me. Some are business related and some are personal, yes, the above might be one of them. However, looking at the steps on the journey, and looking at the measures towards them is so important. You might not hit where you want to be, however, what progress have you made, how is quantifiable the small wins are also important.

3.         Get creative.

Different people have different forms of creativity, do something which takes you away, zone out, and concentrate on something different, whether for business or pleasure. And share it with someone! The art of making someone else smile from something you’ve done is very rewarding.

4.         Eat well. 

You are what you eat. Yes, we’ve just had a season of self-indulgence. However, eating well doesn’t have to be a sacrifice. If you need top tips on this speak to Lisa Kempster – she always makes me smile, Lisa’s nuggets of wisdom when it comes to food are a real eye-opener.

5.         Make the most of natural light.

For me, it’s time out walking the dog. Probably the best thing that I and my partner did, he brightens us up every day. Even the wet drizzly ones, yes, we all hate going out in the rain – even Finn our Cockerpoo – clearly doesn’t like getting wet!

6.         Change your environment.

Small changes can make a big difference. The view from your desk or workplace. Our print studio looks out over the Hebble valley, and this made a big difference to us, looking at trees rather than Kirklees College where we were in Huddersfield. Watching the seasons is very magical.

7.         Consider a SAD lamp.

As a trained photographer, I am well aware of natural light, it’s something many people take for granted. Light affects us in many different ways, moods, as we all feed differently off the light. I know I am more vibrant in the spring. So if you do suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder – consider a light source which has the right colour tones in it for you.

8.         Spend time with others.

I know I am so lucky to have a small inner circle who really does make a difference for me. I hope I do for them.

Why do we not have published pricing on this website?

Numerous reasons, firstly we focus on doing and producing work, not perpetually updating web content. We are a small boutique artisan print house; thus, we don’t have the administrative time to process all the updates we’d need to. However, these are the current significant factors why…

  • In a post-Covid world our supply chains are highly volatile and not fully settling down, including paper mills and merchants seeing external pressures placing challenges on the operation of their businesses.
  • We all know that the cost of power and fuel has rocketed, this doesn’t just affect us, but also all our suppliers and their supply chains – eg paper mentioned above. In the last 2 years, we have seen our power costs rise by about 65%.
  • The recent Ukraine war and other global issues have continued to place pressures on costs, yes like you, we feel the cost of living too.
  • We truly treat your print project as a bespoke project. It’s in the clue how we operate a “small boutique artisan print house” totally focussed on your needs, ensuring you get what you need out of your project. Thus bespoke.
  • Currently, we have over 100 different paper specifications in our racking, a multitude of large format materials and a wealth of garments we pull on to produce your physical marketing collateral. So, if you work out the permutations of the variables we offer, it’s pretty incredible. They don’t all work on the same costing formulas, hence why we work bespoke.

We always endeavour to be savvy wherever possible, and occasionally source materials through alternative channels to get better rates, like you we endeavour to be careful and responsible.

Above all, how we work is “traditional” being small, artisan, and boutique, however, you chose to describe us. Being traditional, we still use technology to our advantage, we don’t pipeline your job, we actually look at and work on your job. Unlike some of the online-only offerings that just process your print project and pop out the other end.

We’ve always described ourselves in our pricing policy as honest, if it incurs time, then it needs to be applied to the job alongside materials, machine time/costs and human resources. Equally said, if we can serve you effectively through small changes in how we operate, like doing a local drop-off, we will. We will assess the best routes for delivery, whether it is by courier or post.

Ultimately as a niche print service provider, we engage, to deliver our best to meet your needs.



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