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Print is the most tangible and exacting discipline within design. It faces so many variables including size, paper, litho, digital, twin wire, stitched, wiro and perfect bound. Whenever there are a thousand different possibilities there are just as many opportunities for mistakes to happen. This is where LEWIS can help. With our experience we turn these possibilities into your perfect solution.
Getting the basics right
The print world can be a minefield. From the designs, the specification can be established and from the specification the repro, schedule and most importantly, the cost can be agreed. Sounds simple? Yes, it is, when you work with approved suppliers who provide a top quality job at the right price on time. By financing and quality controlling the process from inception to completion LEWIS can minimise the risks of printing.
Machine passing
Why do we insist on machine passing? Because machine passing is the culmination of a great deal of investment by all parties and we prefer not to leave anything to chance. So what can possibly go wrong in this era of ISO and quality assurance? Paper, ink, and colour are processes open to compromise and potential inconsistency. By machine passing, we take the responsibility for ensuring that the clients’ final printed pieces are faultless.
Print: Digital
It might be the new kid on the block, but with personalisation, short run, just-in-time full colour technology, it is now opening up new areas of high quality, targetable marketing. Even better, with just in time print call off, the days of storing boxes of dating brochures in the cupboard can be a thing of the past. Perfect for print runs of 1-1000.
Print: Litho
The process of putting ink on paper might be the same but everything up to that point has changed fundamentally over the last 10 years. Gone are Cromalins and film with everything now direct to plate and onto the pass. Accuracy and quality is now much improved and faster making litho the perfect solution for single through to full colour printing where quantities of 500 plus are required.
Print: Web
Essentially the same process as litho but with the paper fed from a roll or ‘web’ instead of individual sheets making the process much faster and perfect for print quantities greater than 20,000 units.
Print: Screen
A completely different approach to apply ink to a surface – perfect for textiles like t-shirts. The ink which is usually opaque is squeezed through a screen directly onto the substrate, one colour at a time. This makes the process best suited to one-offs or limited runs.