Please note that any day we are closed does not count towards the turnaround time of any product. Our turnaround times indicate the number of working days and not consecutive calendar days. Please contact us if you are in any doubt about when you can receive your items either side of the holidays.

Up until now we have offered 4c/0c and 4c/1c coat flyers with a 1 day turnaround and 4c/4c with a 2 day turnaround. From now on they will all be the same 2 day turnaround.

We understand however that many of our customers have come to rely upon the 1 day turnaround coat product and so we are rolling out a new Express Flyers product to offer the same 1 day option as before.

The Express Flyers product will cost marginally more than the new 2 day standard turnaround product but will mean you can still get your flyers that extra bit faster if necessary. The Express Flyers product will be limited to coat paper (70kg, 90kg, 110kg and 135kg weights) and either 4c/0c or 4c/1c.

Metallic ink cards

Until now, adding a gold or silver ink to your printing has required a custom quote and a special custom print run. Due to popular demand however we have now created a metallic ink card product!

By printing similar orders together in one print run we are able to keep the costs down and pass on the savings to you. Add a metallic gold or silver ink to your artwork today!
*Limited to 220kg matt coat/180kg coat papers at business card size or A6 size.

Read more about creating artwork for metallic ink cards here

Metallic foil cards

For an even shinier, metallic look than a printed ink, why not try a metallic foil card? The foil is not printed onto your artwork, but hot stamped onto it once the initial printing has been completed. A special die is created from your design and this is then pushed onto the surface of the paper with a thin layer of metallic gold or silver foil in between. The results are simply gorgeous! Perfect for that glitzy greeting card look.
Read more about creating artwork for metallic foil cards here

Load the swatches

The first thing to do is load a silver and gold ink swatch into the Illustrator color swatch palette. To make your life easier, simply download the swatches here and then load them into your document by selecting the swatch file (gold-silver.ase) from your desktop. Use the contextual menu from the Swatch palette > Open Swatch Library > Other Library… [select the file to load].

About the inks

We print using the DIC621 for the silver ink and our own unique special blend Mojoprint Gold for the gold ink. You may define the gold ink using DIC620 if you don’t use our swatches, but please understand that we will use our own gold ink to print regardless and that may differ in hue to the DIC620 color chart. For purists that must have DIC620 as the gold color, please contact us for a quote.

Select and color the objects

With your swatches now in place, you simply need to select the objects you wish to print in silver or gold (you must select one or the other and not define both in the same artwork) and click on the swatch to color those objects. Now, when we output your artwork to plates a 5th plate will be created for the metallic ink objects in your data since the color has been defined using a SPOT color.

Careful of 100% black

If your design uses a black element on top of the silver or gold, be sure to color it using a rich black (C30, M30, Y30, K100) and not just K 100%. K100% is automatically overprint (to improve text legibility) and if overprint onto your silver or gold it the finished prints may not turn out as expected.
Read more about Rich Black here.

If use 100% K black on top of your silver or gold ink, the black will overprint.

Avoid this by defining the black as a rich black.

We are now offering this custom finish as a new product, Metallic foil cards, available in business card and A6 postcard size — perfect for your own festive creations!

Here we will show you how to prepare your data for metallic foiling.

It is important to understand that the foil is stamped to the design *after* the printing process and not during or before. With that being the case, we need to create two separate files: Our design file (that gets printed) and our die file (that gets stamped), both with identical crop and bleed marks so that it all lines up.

A representation of how the finished product might look and the two files used to create it

Design your card as per any normal job, making sure you have a 3mm bleed and are using either one of our templates or have set up the crop and bleed marks correctly.

While the design that will be printed can be any kind of data you like (bitmap or vector) the design to be stamped *must* be Adobe Illustrator vector data.

Define the area to be foiled using black (100% K), and only solid fills and no strokes or gradients. If you have used strokes you will need to outline them. Be careful not to use text below 6pt in size and stay clear from very fine or detailed patterns since they will most likely not foil well, if at all.

Once you are happy with the design, save it with the name ‘design’. Then group and cut all the 100% K elements from it (the areas to be foiled), re-save so that your ‘design’ file now only has the printed design in it.

Then delete all the remaining elements and paste in place (shift + command v) the 100% K black foil design elements. This will ensure they paste back exactly where you cut them from. Now save the file with a new name ‘die’ or ‘foil’ etc.

You should be left with two files, one that has the black foil elements, and one that has the design to be printed.

Order your cards, submit your two data files and simply let us know if you would like gold or silver foil. Happy foiling.

In an attempt to ease congestion during the busy morning period and ensure a smooth production flow at the factory we are asking our customers to please submit their orders (and data) before 10am. We are adjusting our office hours to provide email and phone support from the earlier time of 9am.

If your job is time critical and simply *must* go into that given day’s run, rather than scramble at 9:59am we urge you to submit your order the night before since in many cases there may be an issue with the data that needs to be fixed before your file can be accepted as print-ready.

A new warning message will be included into the order process to remind you of the new deadline before submitting your order online.

We thank you for your understanding.

The exact date of the changeover is dependent on stocks of our current paper but rest assured that we will not print half of your order on current stock and half on the new stock!

What you do need to be prepared for however is that printing the same data this week and again in a month’s time may result in you having flyers on two different stocks. While barely noticeable to most, the discerning paper connoisseur may detect the paper whiteness discrepancy and notice that the whiter paper has resulted in slightly different colors than the original print run on our current stock.

This change effects all products printed on 70kg, 90kg, 110kg and 135kg coat papers.