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CUSTOMISE YOUR PACKAGING WITH PERSONALISATION: Promote your brand or offer a personalised gifting service when you choose from the UK’s largest collection of gift packaging overprinted with your company name or logo.

SO WHY PRINT? Overprinting our plain stock product is a cost-effective way of having your own branded packaging without the bespoke price tag.

HERE ARE MORE REASONS TO MAKE IT PERSONAL.

BUILD YOUR BRAND: Imagine your logo on everything from gift boxes and packing tape to ribbon and tote bags. Create your own suite of branded packaging without the bespoke prices.

OFFER CORPORATE GIFTING: Wow clients and target local businesses with promotional gifts and personalised staff incentives.

WHAT CAN I PRINT? The vast majority of off-the-shelf products can be overprinted with your logo. Choose your product, send us your artwork and we’ll do the rest.

HOW IT WORKS: From concept through to delivery our team of experts are here to manage your print job every step of the way. 

WHAT CAN I PRINT? The vast majority of off-the-shelf products can be overprinted with your logo. Choose your product, send us your artwork and we’ll do the rest.

HOW IT WORKS: From concept through to delivery our team of experts are here to manage your print job every step of the way.

START DREAMING: Browse our huge range of gift packaging to find the perfect size, colour, style and material option for your project. Then imagine your logo on it. And if you get stuck there is our handy guide to personalisation do's and don'ts below.

REQUEST A QUOTE: When you’re ready, click the personalised button on the product you like. You’ll find a list of pricing and a chance to request a quote. Or call us 01270 668335 and we’ll chat through your options.

OVER TO US: Over the next 7-10 days, our team of experts will get to work on your print job from our state of the art facilities ensuring you get the perfect outcome in time and on budget.

QUALITY & ASSURANCE: The standard of our print is as important to us as it is to you, so here’s where we check and check again before packing your packaging up and sending it out to you.

ET VOILA!: Your new personalised packaging is ready to go public and you have powerful promotional tools at your fingertips. Let us know how we did so we can improve our service.

PERSONALISATION DOS & DON'TS: The quality of print on your new personalised packaging is as important to us as it is to you and the key to quality output begins with quality artwork. We will never advise you to proceed if your artwork isn't suitable. If you're in doubt, give our sales team a call on 01270 668335. We're here to help!

• Create your artwork with the resolution at 300dpi at 100% print size - the larger and clearer your file is, the better the end result when printed.
• Unfortunately, we're unable to accept film, mechanical artwork or laser printouts as artwork.
• Our sales team will always provide you with the dimensions of the print area.
• Supply all artwork (including text) as finished vector artwork whereby all text is converted to outlines.
• All bitmap images used in artwork will be live traced, and then re-submitted for approval.
• All colours used should be supplied using Pantone's where applicable.

GRADIENTS: printing means we apply flat (Pantone) colours. Images with graduations and drop shadows do not render well.

WHITE INK: Minimise the use of white or pale colours – these print less sharply and tend to pick up dirt.

PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES: Photographic images or full-colour process can only be done using transfers. It’s expensive and only works on cotton. Avoid them if possible.

FILLING IN: Take care when reversing print out of a big block of colour - Letters tend to fill in.

INK COVERAGE: Ink coverage greater than 50% of your print area will incur additional costs. Simplifying your design can keep costs down.

BE BOLD: Simple designs have more impact than complicated, fussy prints.

REGISTRATION: When screen printing, each colour you use requires a separate screen to be created that corresponds with that colour. The more colours you print, the more likely you are to have registration problems. Tolerance is 1-2mm so exact registration for one colour with another may not work as well. We advise sticking to a single colour but are able to run a maximum of 3.

MUTED COLOURS: Muted oranges, lime and greys on natural jute don’t work very well – they are too similar to the fabric shade. As a general rule, darkening a colour that’s too close to a jute colour looks better than lightening a colour (even though onscreen the lighter colour may look better).

Again, if you have any questions or get stuck, call us 01270 668335, we're here to help you achieve a quality packaging you'll be proud to have your name on.