Print Finishing
Overview:
TradePrintHub understands its customers. We know how to target certain kinds of clientele. This can be accomplished through various different finishes. We offer consultancy all the way through the printing process and can give your prints the finishing touch.
Our Service:
Print Finishing is the term that is used for anything that happens to a job after the prints have been completed. We have cutting edge technology to fulfil all your finishing requirements.
Importance:
Print Finishing is of vital importance in the printing process. It is the closing of the sale, the stamp on the parcel, the laminated copy. It’s the closer of the sale and shows a product is finished production.
Benefits:
We at TradePrintHub, our consultancy experts can guide you through the last steps of the printing process. We have a wide range of finishing services at our disposal and will help you decide which finish is best for you.
Print Finishing Services:
Laminating
Lamination adds a layer of protection your prints.
Lamination improves sturdiness and water resistance.
We provide both Gloss and Matt Lamination.
With gloss, the shine finish gives images a sharper look and text can appear richer with more contrast. Gloss helps to grab attention with bright colours, richer blacks and a shine.
With Matt, colours on the print look duller but provide an elegant look that isn’t trying to grab attention be being ‘shiny’. It shows a level of sophistication and class.
Saddle Stitching
Saddle Stitching is one of the cheapest and most popular book binding methods. The folded sheets are first gathered together one inside the other. They are then stapled through the fold line with wire staples. Saddle stitching is most effecting on smaller books with 64 pages or less. Usually there are two staples used to stitch the book. If the book is larger, more than two staples may be required. Trade Print Hub have multiple muller martini stitching lines as well as digital booklet makers. This means that we always meet our clients deadline requirements.
Wiro-binding
Wiro or wire-binding is a popular commercial book binding method. With this method, Pages are punched with holes, usually 3 holes per inch. The punched pages are inserted into a ‘C’ shaped spine. A Wire closer is used to squeeze the spine until it is a circle shape. Documents that are bound like this are able to open 360 degrees.
Folder Gluing
The folder gluing process transforms flat material into a finished product. This is achieved by folding along pre-creased lines and applying adhesive that will hold the product together.
Die Cutting
Die Cutting is an important part of the finishing process. It is a flexible technology that can achieve various different shapes. The process involves bending and curving metal to a desired shape and placing it onto a kind of press that cuts the paper to the shape.
Blind Embossing
Blind embossing creates a raised area of print through the use of a die. It can create an image on the page that can be felt as well as seen.
Perforating
Perforation is a small hole in a thin material. Perforations are usually used to easily separate two sections of material. Raffle tickets are a prime example of perforation as they can be torn easily along the line.
Perforation can be achieve in a few different ways.
Perfect Binding:
Perfect binding is used for books with a larger page count.
Cut or Folded page sections are gathered and a glue is applied along the spine then a cover is stuck to the other side covering all the pages. The spine of a perfect back book is a flat/square back type.
Gain access to our either or high volume muller allegro perfect binding devices (Both PUR and Hot Melt) and along with our digital perfect binding machine for short run requirements.
Scoring
Scoring refers to the process of making a crease in the paper so it will fold easier. If you fold a card without a proper paper score, It is more likely to crack the card when folded.