Boxing legend Barry McGuigan

We had a pleasant surprise today when boxing legend Barry McGuigan walked through the door, a really nice guy who told a great boxing story about the time when he knocked a fellow boxers gumshield out and it flew into the audience about 30 feet back never to be seen, until that is about 5 years later when he was signing autographs and a guy walked up to him and said remember this? he was the guy who caught it in the audience so Barry duly signed it. Barry pictured above with our very own Darren.

London Olympics 2012

We are expecting an increase in print orders relating to London 2012 from marketing departments and events companies that we deal with due to our proximity to the Olympic stadium, just for the record we are only 2 miles from the site of the games, we also have the added advantage that 5 of our staff drive to and from work passing the Olympic stadium every day so deliveries can be flexible.

Colour Poster Printing

We recently printed some colour posters for a client in the charitable sector at short notice they gave us a nice email reference:

  
Thank you very much for printing and delivering our urgent order. Everything is perfect and even better than we expected! As always KopyKat proved to be the best and the most reliable company!

We have had a relationship with this particular client since 1987 so it is rewarding to see that we are still meeting their needs 25 years on.

Twitter Facebook SEO

You can follow Kopykat on twitter @kopykatprint we mainly tweet about print with the odd football tweet about Liverpool Football Club being from Anfield I cannot resist it, you will also find us on facebook.com/kopykatprint, on our Facebook page we have tried to give some tips that might help you with your print jobs,  if you want to find out more about tweeting visit http://goo.gl/hFuln which gives some tips about what might work to build up followers, you will also find some good articles on search engine optimisation on the same link

Happy New Year

May we take this opportunity to wish all our clients a Happy New Year, lets hope the economy picks up duirng the Olympic year, it would be nice to think it will but I am sure there will be bumpy times ahead, at least we will have the olympics to take our minds off it, hopefully there will be a splurge of olympic printing related jobs to come in given that we are only 2 miles away. Stay positive!

Booklets

We thought we would outline some of the various finishes for booklet making.

Saddle stitching A method that binds one or more printed sections together it uses two wire staples (stitches) on the spine.

Perfect binding Generally Perfect binding is used when the document to be bound is too thick to saddle stitch it has a spine which is ground to give a key, hot melt adhesive is used to hold the pages together.

PUR Binding Very similar to perfect binding but the glue used is stronger than hot melt, the spine does not deteriorate with age.

Loop stitching is used for items that need to be put in a ring binder it can be done ith 2 wires or 4, the loops are on the spine of the printed booklet.

Wiro binding A series of holes are punched and a continuous wire is inserted into the holes on the binding edge, commonly used for handouts, price lists, training manuals and financial type reports.


Other finishes include comb binding mainly used for internal office documents, corner stitching normally a collated document with a staple in the top left hand corner, stab stitching which is often used on for NCR pads, Invoice pads and often hidden by a tape on the spine, finally for some documents you can actually use binding screws, holes would be drilled and the binding screws inserted this has the added advantage of being able to update a brochure quite easily by inserting or taking out a page, normally only suitable for smaller print runs.