Archive for June, 2010

The benefits of press passing

Friday, June 25th, 2010

It is often the case that much of what we print is produced without the client being present. However, one of the advantages of Calverts being based in inner London is that local clients can press-pass their work.

Printing plates will have been made by this stage so  it could be expensive to make sweeping changes to approved artwork but press-passing does offer a cost-effective opportunity to check colour reproduction on the actual paper stock.

Please be aware that colour can only be adjusted in tracks parallel to the direction in which the sheet comes off the press. So if you were to increase the cyan (for example) in a picture at the grip edge of the sheet then everything that follows behind that on the sheet will also be affected. It’s easier to see this on press than explain it here so why not give us a call, an email, or even a job to show you what we mean!

Press-passing decisions should be made quite quickly. The press is already running and costs will be based on uninterrupted print production

While we do try to give accurate time-slots for clients to press-pass their work occasionally there may be a little bit of a wait. We’ll try to entertain you as best we can but if you should get bored, hungry, or both then Eddies Café, just around the corner from us on Mare Street, comes highly recommended…

Eddies Cafe

Photo by Emily Webber www.londonshopfronts.com

London’s first wildflower station

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

We printed this poster for the lovely Friends of Homerton Station.

FOHS are hoping to commission a series of posters by Hackney-based artists, designers and photographers so please get in touch if you’d like to know more.

fohs


Get creative + print sustainably

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

From one piece of artwork Calverts produced these neat little notebooks.

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An A2 size abstract pattern was printed in three spot colours on sheets of 320gsm Cairn Natural 100% recycled board left over from a previously printed job – no need to purchase and transport paper.

The imposition – method in which individual pages are placed on a larger printed sheet – was such that up to eight unique cover designs could be achieved from a single artwork (minimising waste on the sheet by keeping to a trimmed size of A6, which is appropriate for an A2 untrimmed sheet). *Designers need to know about imposition, because along with a basic understanding of printing press formats, they can use imposition knowhow to cut both the financial and the environmental costs of paper and print.

The inner pages of the notebook were a selection of recycled papers which had been sitting on the shelf. These were left unprinted and  collated randomly throughout the notebook.

The plates used to print the notebook cover were produced on a processless CTP system dispensing with the need for chemical developer and water.

The inks used were vegetable oil based and biodegradable.

The printing process itself was powered by renewable energy, and by using recycled paper (made from post consumer waste which would otherwise have gone to landfill) 137kg of carbon was saved.

Get creative + print sustainably. Contact Calverts on 020 7739 1474
or email: info@calverts.coop