The days of manually trimming one edge at a time to create full bleed books and booklets is about to end. We're expecting delivery of a three knife trimmer later this month! I have a feeling our phone will be ringing a bit more... with some of these calls being from other local printers. There … [Read more...] about Coming soon: Three Knife Trimmer
New Equipment: Triumph 5560 Programmable Cutter
We don't announce every new piece of equipment we buy, but this particular acquisition is too neat to put into service without at least mentioning it in a blog post and highlighting how it improves our workflow and the quality of our finished products. Over the holidays we were happy to welcome … [Read more...] about New Equipment: Triumph 5560 Programmable Cutter
Same Day Business Cards
I heard you guys are fast, but can you do same day business cards? Yes, we can do same day business cards. This is actually a fairly common request. So why do you need cards so fast? Maybe you just started a new business. Perhaps you just found out there is a big networking event tonight. … [Read more...] about Same Day Business Cards
Same Day Perfect Binding
We used to send batches of books out to be perfect bound by a vendor in the Maryland suburbs. Outsourcing the binding added at least 2 days to our turnaround times. It's hard to be "fast" when you have to depend on third parties, and the delay actually ended up costing us a bunch of potential … [Read more...] about Same Day Perfect Binding
A few things about business card printing
We get a lot of calls about business card design and printing. Since the same issues and questions come up all the time, we thought we'd outline some of the more common ones. Here are some things you will find helpful when it comes time to get business cards designed and/or printed, as well as … [Read more...] about A few things about business card printing
Differences between coil and comb binding
Because we offer both methods and they kind of look alike, customers often ask us about the differences between coil (also known as "spiral") and comb binding. There are a couple of important ones. Hopefully this post will help you decide which binding method to use for your project. Coil and … [Read more...] about Differences between coil and comb binding
Tip: how to set up for bleeds
We've covered this issue before (read more here), but it's nice to rehash things every once in while as not everybody knows how to search our blog for prior posts and tips. First, let's go over what a bleed is. Bleed is a term that refers to printing that goes beyond the edge of the sheet. It's … [Read more...] about Tip: how to set up for bleeds
Coil binding just got easy
For the first 22 years, coil binding was tough here. We could only punch about 20 pages at a time (not including covers), so any book that was more than a few pages thick would take several punches. And of course a 500 page book (with 250 sheets) took an eternity. That all changed when we picked … [Read more...] about Coil binding just got easy