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A Canvas print Valentine picture

Repro Arts — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:16:14 +0000

You favourite picture, company message, or Point of Sale item. All can be reproduced in full colour at any size. Printed on to Canvas the end result is stunning. Looks up to date and is very fashionable.

That Valentine picture will look stunning and what a memory. This is a straight forward process copying a digital image in full colour on to canvas. The canvas is the pulled tight over a wooden frame. Creating a painted effect.

This is great for one off requirements. Now when larger quantities are needed this process can be printed on to a plastic sheet with a canvas emboss. The sheets can be cut and routed out. Enabling the sheets to be folded producing the print and frame. Goods can be transported flat and with a reduction in weight cost less to dispatch.

What is Variable wide format printing Why do you not use it

Repro Arts — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:40:09 +0000

Print buyers & designers still do not get wide format variable printing. What do they not understand about printing it. It is what retailers have wanted for years. Why are the buyers & designers not giving the end user what they want & need.

How often do you see an ill fitting window poster far to large or small for the window, or piece of Point of Sale that is too small for the area.

Variable wide format printing solves this & offers much much more. Variable wide format printing offers the use of full colour images with solid area or white text on clear. Each print can be produced to its own size or shape. If you have 100 stores each with 10 windows & each window is its own size. You require a poster to fit the full extent of each window. The 1,000 posters can all be printed at the same time with each poster being a different size to the other. Why would you settle for one size fits all when the campaign can fill all the windows at there unique sizes.

It does not finish there. Yes you want to keep your branding, your campaign theme & colour through out. Change the text no not the campaign text you want to keep that corporate. 100 stores in 100 City or towns make each store feel like home. Sale starts in Manchester / Sale in Norwich . If your company offers concessions in store this could read welcome to Hull or Hatfield.

Branded but individual. It is not just the text printing that can change it could also be a product or a store manager picture in full colour different on each poster.

Variable printing is not just rested to posters all types of Point of Sale can be produced this way all on a large array of materials. All other printing & finishing options are not affected.

So why is your company not taking up wide format printing variable solutions for Point of Sale

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Disaster recovery & Social Media go together

Repro Arts — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:48:01 +0000

Disaster recovery plan every tender every major company you business trades with will ask you do you have one in place. Do you yes. Yes is always the answer and you think you will never use it. What does it cover just the normal things if the building burns down or if the area is flooded. But that will never happen to your company will it.

As all of our customers know Repro Arts Screen & wide format printers have developed the date order system to offer a seamless printing experience. From your printing enquire email to the delivery of the printed items to your warehouse or store. It is all electronic via email & our print management information system. Our customers & our company could not survive with out it. Repro Arts web site has an FTP for print file up load. Our sales team have email on iPhone & iPad. They also have external links to log in to the print management information system.

The print enquire is entered in to the system that has all customer & branch details compiled, an estimate is prepared & emailed to the enquirer. The enquirer places their print order via email. Sending the art work via email, Dropbox or Yousendit or send a link to down load from there web site the print ready files for printing. An acknowledgment of order is emailed to the print buyer so that the specification ,price, delivery instructions & date are correct. The print buyer emails his approval of the print acknowledgment. A print work order is generated containing all the information to enable the production team to print & finish the order pack ready for dispatch. The print ready art work is ripped embedded in the work order & emailed to the print buyer for approval before printing can commence. The print buyer emails their approval of the art work. The production team produce the print order. At any stage of the process the print order can be tracked if the buyer requires a progress report. Once printed, finished & packed to the print buyers specification the buyer is sent an email containing the dispatch note with dispatch date web tracking number so that the goods can be tracked via the web while in transit. The printed goods are invoiced by email. Payment can be made for the printed goods via credit card on our web site or via BACS to our bank.

Disaster happened one morning Repro Arts lost touch with the world of printing losing their broadband connection. After tracing the cause of the problem & setting out to rectify this. The dust was knocked off the disaster recovery plan. We had a plan for every disaster encountered in the past fire, flood & strike & all between nothing for loss of broadband & email. What an over site as this is now key to our printing success & continued expansion.

Phones were not affected so we could work as normal just the broadband. Then it appeared our White Knight in shining armour. Our inbound sales team had been working on it for a year. It was shaping nicely & promoting our brand. It is keeping our customers & potential customers informed of advancements & achievements in our printing, graphics & display service.

Social Media we were able to contact & inform companies print buyers of the loss of email facilities keeping in touch up dating them for the duration that lasted for ten days. Yes we had a disaster recovery plan & we did not even know it. Thank you Twitter, FaceBook, Linkedin, Ipatter Gmail & Google to mention a few. It could not have done it with out you. Repro Arts are back on track large format & screen printing our friends on social Media have grown all orders were dispatched on time. See us on Social Media http://on.fb.me/r9AXJl contact our inbound sales team for your company printing requirements.

Large format fullcolour printing

Repro Arts — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:47:01 +0000

Large format printing 2.5M wide (8’4”) any length x 50 mm deep
From your print ready file or our studio created art work files. Large format printing can be produced to your size requirements. Offering outstanding image quality, printing reel to reel or direct to sheets of printable media. Quick turn round of your printing requirements. Our flat bed printer lets us load print media while printing & collecting finished print order.
Printing multiple sheets of ridged material at any one time. This creates an efficient work flow because print media can be loaded & finished jobs collected while the press is still printing.
This proposes to enhance printing requirements. Offering single sided printing in full colour on white media, Twin sided printing in full colour with the option of same image each side or an image change for the second side. Or verbal printing with personalised prints thought the print run. Clear sheets can be printed with a white image, text or reverse printed in full colour with spot white or backed with a solid white. This also offers a print option of white under coat or white over coat on to clear or coloured printable media.
Printing is not just black & white but it can be if you would like.
As a print service provider this has given us the opportunity to target new applications with quality printing results on a broad range of print media both ridged & flexible. With the ability to print on to almost every type of print media. Such print media as corrugated polypropylene .
Providing print for internal use or durable for external use.
Our large format finishing is just as complex.
If this is to in-depth for you just ask if we can print your requirement. Most print requirement are produced with out being this technical

Variable data wide format printing what is it

Repro Arts — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:30:17 +0000

Variable wide format printing what is it
Large format printing has changed so much over the past few years. Most print buyers, Retailers & Companies have not realised the change in options of print. Working with old concepts they produce print campaign after print campaign that mirror one another with only a change of wording.
Variable wide format printing in full colour changes this. Everyone knows the value of a Brand. Now the printed Brand message can be taken further. The Brad image can be printed with variable data. This can be in the form of a local message. An image of each store manager. The local venue or message.
The data can change from one print to the next while carrying the same format with the corporate Branding.
Prints can have a local phone number, national or free phone numbers printed as variable data. Creating a national Brand with a local feel.
Printed campaigns can now be produced to promote the Brand in vibrant full colour giving high visual awareness on a National level with that local or personal quality.
Is it time to look at your printing requirements & shape them up for the twenty first century. Produce print with punch & shape that will get your message across to your coustomers.

Printing QR Codes will promote your Company

Repro Arts — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:01:03 +0000

Is you Company missing out not having a QR code printed.

Do you have a member of staff who will work 24-7 for free. This is what a printed QR code can do for your company. This simple code printed on all your out door advertising can increase you ROI. Once printed the code is your company gate way it will promote and offer your service or product. How people with a smart phone can down load a free QR code reader this is used to scan your code. What it does reads your code & takes your customers direct to your web site. A static code once scanned will deliver the customers to your web site, however improvements have now been made that offer far more flexibility. It is now possible with new soft wear to change what is viewed. Not only you web site but video or promotions on your web site. The code can be scanned & you could show a video of a new product next time it is used it can be a special price offer. Retail can benefit get people to scan the code bring the phone in to the store to claim a discount. Larger stores can add the code to Point of Sale this could be used to bring people in to the store to scan the code to claim a free cup of coffee when the store is slow & to promote future events when the store is busy.

Were should you display you new QR code. This should be printed on to any thing that your customers has access to. Window graphics, Banners. Point of Sale & Vehicle graphics. Printing you QR code does not have to be boring it no longer has to be black to work. Your code can be customised to your logo & printed in any colour or combination of colours. Take a look at our Face book page. Promotional printing can now offer you a whole lot more for your money with the inclusion of a QR code.

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Wide format printing produces Soft Signage & Wall coverings

Repro Arts — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:51:46 +0000

Soft signage or creative wall coverings you can have them all. Wide format printing has made it all possible. Only now are material manufactures catching up to the digital printers that have become part of our arsenal of printing equipment. If it can not be Screen printed, large format is the next option. Printing of Banners, Fabrics, Canvas, Wall coverings & Repositionable Materials in full colour reel to reel or in large or irregular shape panels creates no problem for our large format printers.

Wall coverings can have individual design in stead of standard design. What an opening for interior designers, or switched on painter & decorators. This is an opportunity to supply a unique printed package. This printed media can spill over in to areas like DIY experts, shop fitting & Exhibition stand builders who can now offer personalised wallpaper that is fundamentally easy to use. With PVC free digital nonwoven wallpapers from ERFURT, it is now possible to approach wall design with wallpapers from a purely creative standpoint, free any environmental concerns. ERFURT Digital nonwoven is hot roll pressed from pure non woven material which hugely increases the durability of it surface. The wall covering printed in vibrant full colour looks stunning. Can be hung using conventional nonwoven adhesive, either by the wall pasting technique or with a pasting machine. Smooth, textured and adhesive backed papers are available When it comes to redecorating ERFURT Digital nonwoven can be simply stripped dry from the wall.

The soft signage revolution is gathering pace and we offer a range of printed materials with a unique look and feel. Large stunning graphics or small logo repeats can produce exciting interiors and fabric displays. Your vision is the limit our printing and finishing is the start.

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Self Adhesive Stickers what do you use yours for

Repro Arts — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:44:59 +0000

What do we at Repro Arts know about stickers.

Printing a sticker. What you need to tell us, so that our experience can be used to your advantage. What is this sticker to be used for. Where is it going to be applied. The type of surface, will this be hot or cold. What is the function of the sticker, informative, warning, decorative, security or promotional. Once you have given us some information on your sticker requirements Repro Arts can start to offer a specification for material & printing of the sticker you require.

There is not one material or adhesive that suites that is why you will be offered a wide range of materials from top brands like Avery, 3M & promotional films like self cling PVC.

Printing methods for stickers are also as varied as materials can be digitally printed in full colour, Screen printed in full colour or spot pantone colours to match your Branding. Printing on to the vinyl film can be on the surface, under surface, reverse , or even twin sided. Stickers can have sequential numbers or be customised with individual names stores or locations.

The sticker can be enhanced by printing gloss, matt, colour or build up varnish. Or lamination can be applied in matt , gloss or crystal this can offer protection or cut down reflection.

Stickers can be trimmed to size, have radius corners, be die cut to shape, have easy peel tabs or slit backing so it easy to remove the backing for application. With to option of computer for large format & one offs. Stickers can also be kiss cut & left in sheets. Have pre space tape to the face to protect them during application.

What ever the requirement for your sticker or decal you can be sure that you will be offered a specification that will meet the application

It may be hot but Christmas Point of Sale is hotter

Repro Arts — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:50:03 +0000

Are you in Retail one store or more stores. Now is the ideal time to think about that Christmas campaign. Get that grey matter on the move. Do not leave it until the last minute. This year be on top of it.

It will pay to be organised. It will give you more time to do all the things you said you should have done last year. Your stores will have that prefrontal look. This will pay off because a well planed campaign increases the foot fall in your stores. Increased foot fall leads to a higher spend per visit.

There are some great ideas this year floor graphics & ceiling graphics use once.

Hanging cards, Window graphics. Large banners, Bollard signs. What an array of special inks to be printed from glitter to Gold. Yes they all have a shelf life so you can store and re use the following year. Just do not put a date on your Point of Sale campaign. Next year you can freshen up your store with some additional prints.

You could also arrange your January SALE Point of Sale campaign to be delivered in December now that is forward planning.

All Point of Sale can be printed by wide format printing or Screen printing or both. Printing can be finished with die cutting, hand finishing or Large format printing can be profile cut. Point of Sale and printing can be collated in to Store packs & dispatched Nation wide via our partner UPS.

Large format 3D printing

Repro Arts — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:12:12 +0000

Do Print Buyer know how exciting things are in the wide format world. With so many changes happening in the industry in both production & materials. Large format printing is changing the print industry day on day. This week Repro Arts have been testing 3D printing. This has shown another dimension to print. With the right design stunning results can be produced.

Printing Large format in CMYK on to this new material gives complete depth to the image. Products can now be printed to look as if they are standing in front of you in a 3D format. The design need to be produced to give a maximum effect when printed. This is an ideal printed product for internal Point of Sale. It can also be incorporated in to free standing displays or large built in displays in retail outlets.

Graphics can be produced signal sided or twin sided. With the same or different images on each side. Prints can be trimmed to fit within a pre determined area or cut to shape. This product offers endless opportunities for retail promotion. Like to know more talk to us now.