Notes From
The Press Floor
Machine-buying advice, engraving techniques, print pricing wisdom and branding ideas — written by the people who run the machines.
Campaign printing is not ordinary printing with a tighter date. The order of operations is different, and getting it wrong wastes the whole budget.
Printing Tips
Nobody reorders because the printing was wrong. They reorder because forty of the shirts do not fit, and that was decided weeks before print
Printing Tips
The method decides the price, the durability and the minimum order — and most buyers are never told there is a choice at all.
Branding & Design
Two quotes, both “per metre”, one twice the other. Usually neither is wrong — they are measuring and including different t
Branding & Design
Written from the things people arrive without. Print it, work down it, and the morning of the show becomes boring — which is the goal.
Branding & Design
The banner is almost never the problem. What fails is the thing holding it to the ground, and it fails in three predictable ways.
Branding & Design
Four banners, four different jobs. Buying the wrong one is the commonest and most avoidable waste in event branding.
Business Guides
The machines are the easy part of the budget. Here is what the whole setup costs, including the things nobody puts in the starter-kit photo.
Business Guides
Almost every fault we are called to is one of three things, all of which the owner could have caught in five minutes a week.
Business Guides
Everybody quotes the revenue and nobody quotes the hours. Here is a real run costed all the way through, including the parts that are not fu
Business Guides
The single most expensive misunderstanding in this trade is assuming one laser does everything. Here is which does what, and why.
Business Guides
The specification sheet is the least useful document in the transaction. These are the questions that actually decide whether the machine ea
Laser Engraving
Nobody wakes up wanting laser engraving. They want the chairs numbered, the cattle tagged, or the parcels sealed — and the same machin
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