Team offer not only Litho and digital print they also have in-house facilities for finishing including special finishes such as foiling, embossing, die cutting, spot varnish and laminates. They recently bought a local packaging company who offer high end boxes, files and other packaging which fits hand in glove with the print side of the business.
I think the most eye opening part of the day is whilst they have state of the art litho and digital presses a lot of the processes still rely on the human hand. Processes such as making up brochures and books were all done by a tam by hand, using double sided sticky tape! The die cutting, embossing and foiling is carried out on old Heidelberg presses in a small print shop ran by operators.
The other 'eye' opener was that the latest Hewlett Packard digital printers offer more than CMYK, you can get spot colours!
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As I forgot to take my camera on the day I have used some of Joe Warburton and Sophie Wilson's photos of the day.
The prepress print work flow schdule planned two weeks ahead for each machine.
A Cyan plate being prepared for the Litho press.
Paper is fed onto the Litho on pallets
Cyan inks on the Litho
This job on the Litho press was on hold awaiting the clients OK. One of the photos of a Christmas pudding was being absorbed into its black background. It is attention to detail like this that obviously has helped Team's success.
The digital ink controls for the Lithopress
Gullotining
A FOLDING MACHINE
This is a use screen printing press which they actually use for spot varnishes and laminating rather than screen printing as such.
All made up by hand!
A die cut template
An example of Foiling
The specialist packaging on offer
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