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Trade Thermographic Printing

Trade Thermographic Printing

We are Trade Thermographic printers, that means we do all our thermo printing in-house, and have been doing so for the past (cough-cough) 30+ years!

We deal with some very large printing companies and designers and then also with the smaller high street chains and store fronts that love to offer Thermography, but are just not set up for it. We can supply right across the UK as we use a very reputable courier firm.

We are happy to supply samples of our thermographic work, and we find this helps to sell it to customers, as once they see and feel the quality of the print, they are sold!

We can produce such an array of products using thermo print, from business cards, and all business stationery, to personal stationery like note paper and correspondence cards, and then the ever popular wedding stationery.

On our thick 350-400gsm weight boards that we use for business cards, wedding invitations etc we can print in up to 4 spot colours in thermography.

We also produce laser guaranteed thermo printing for letterheads and anything that is likely to go through a laser printer, which means the raised thermo print will cause no harm to the laser printer.

We tend to stick with using the Conqueror range of papers and boards, as these are universally known quality products, with lots of choice in colours, textures and weights and also matching envelopes.

 

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Designers Best Friend

Designers Best Friend

Designers love us – they can’t get enough of our raised print invitations, our ability to print on card up to 800gsm thick, the physical feel of thermo printing. The ability to offer their clients something a little different, these double-thickness invitation cards combined with great design and thermo is quite unique and memorable. Most of all though, they love our trade rates and the fast turn-around we offer, which enable us to be the conduit between them and their client.

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Raised letter printing can add dimension and texture to their printed stationery and folder projects – also known as thermography printing, to elevate the appearance of printed pieces. Sometimes confused with more expensive engraving, thermography is a special printing process with unique advantages. The process of thermography printing involves a powder that is added to the wet ink printed on paper stock. After removing the excess powder, the printed piece is heated and the powder and ink mixture dries to form a raised effect on paper.

Thermography can be combined with other printing processes, such as offset, foil embossing or lithography – all of which we do. It is typically used with one or two standard PMS colours, but is also available with full colour.  Raised printing produces the look and feel of a higher-end engraved product, but at a fraction of the cost.

For pieces that will be used in office printers or copies, like letterheading, we use “laser safe” thermography to ensure that raised ink does not melt under the heat of these devices. Thermofast’s thermography process is a special heat-resistant application designed to withstand the high temperatures of laser printers and copiers without melting, smearing or distorting colour.

As a note to graphic designers – thermography can be used only on one side of the paper. Raised printing shouldn’t be used over a fold or close to the edges of the paper, as the raised ink tends to fracture when folded.

To receive samples from us get in touch or drop us a line to discuss opening a trade account with Thermofast By the way, the relationship’s not just one-sided, we love designers too, we just don’t have the arty beard’s 😀

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Thermography explained…

Thermography explained…

Our production process can sometimes be a little baffling to people trying to understand the various print techniques, so we created a home movie of some business cards being printed at our factory – see here (link may take a few seconds to load on YouTube). Whilst it’s not possibly going to be shortlisted for the Golden Globe this year, it might show you how our presses ‘roll’ here in Sudbury, Suffolk.

Thermofast Sudbury

Thermographic Printing Explained

We can thermographically print on any card or paper stock, up to 400gsm standard or even using uber thick 700gsm by applying double weight card, this can also be used as a blunt instrument! We can use laser-printer proof inks also to guarantee no ‘peel off’ when using with desktop or digital printers.

Thermographic printing is a multi-stage process. First, a printed paper drops off the printing press onto a conveyor. The conveyor moves the sticky ink underneath the thermography powder which is shaken on top of the entire sheet. The powder attaches to the wet ink. The extra powder is then vacuumed up and stored for re-use. Next, the coated sheet passes through an oven with temperatures ranging from 900 to 1300 degrees Fahrenheit.

Laser-safe results in thermography combines a specially formulated powder with an ultraviolet light used to harden or cure the raised stationery so it won’t re-melt.This can take place on an in-line machine or the conveyor of the thermography machine combined with a retrofit unit. This is the most productive and cost effective procedure and produces a smoother finish on fine lines of type, almost resembling genuine copper plate engraving.

Our process allows up to four pantone colours to be applied in thermography, and gives your invitations a touch of class with the round corner gilt edged cards and the thermography together – you can be sure to create the right impression for your event with thermo-printed, hand finished gilt edged cards. We pride ourself on the quality of our work and your event deserves the best.

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Pantone & Warhol 2013 Calendars

Pantone 2013 warhol calendar

Had to share these images of two new 2013 Calendars from Design legends Pentagram – (the world’s largest independent design consultancy). Published by Abrams, both calendars come in wall and engagement editions that will brighten your workspace or home all year long. Pantone also famously forecasts an official “color” for this year—Emerald 17-5641 is the color of 2013—and the calendar similarly selects a color for each month, represented in the images as well as in playful taglines like “Tickled Pink” and “Mellow Yellow.” The grid of the wall calendar looks like a series of Pantone color chips, with the days of the month ranging through the shades of the featured color.

The Art of Andy Warhol calendar is one of Abrams’s most popular, and 2013 is the third year running Pentagram have designed the title. Authorised by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the calendar includes a mix of Pop artist’s unknown, rarely seen works with his more iconic images. This year’s edition centers on Warhol’s prints, with a focus on his more hedonistic, sensual subjects. The works have been chosen to thematically correspond with the months and their holidays: Skull appears with October, for instance; Pointsettias is December’s image.

Certainly beats our standard traditonal Thermofast Calendar; which normally has a plethora of skin tone shades in the form of partly dressed young ladies! If you’d like to see a thermo sample of the 2013 Pantone Colour of the Year, Emerald 17-5641, please email us with your address  at sales@thermofast.co.uk and we’ll get you some samples in the post. Our turn around for business cards can be a little as 2/3 days and cost from just £49.00 for 250 cards in single colour thermography.

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Thermography – a lost art?

Thermography – a lost art?

 

Quality is not an act, it is a habit… Thermographic printing is something of a lost art  – a practical and cheaper alternative to engraving (copperplate printing) but still versatile enough to let your design ideas be made into a finished, tactile and individual product. We work with many trade designers to produce high-end, bespoke print-work for their clients – and we can work directly with you also!

The standard thermographic personal letterhead standard size is A5 (148mm x 210mm) but we can print any size you require, normally thermographic personal letterheads are in black but we can print in any pantone colour that you wish to have, plus it’s laser printer safe, so you needn’t worry about the laser printer marking your beautiful stationery.

Our standard paper is always a good quality wove or laid paper such as 100 or 120 gsm Conqueror available in many shades and colours, we can obtain and print on any paper that you might require your thermo print on. We do hold a range of papers in stock with matching envelopes or alternatively you can supply your own material for us to print on.

If you wish, we can set up and supply your artwork for you to your specifications for your thermographic (raised) printing or alternatively you can supply artwork in a pdf format, “QuarkXpress” or “In Design” for us to use. See us on Twitter @thermofast for special offers through the new year call us on 01787 880268.

 

 

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Thermographic Raised Print A4 Letterheads x 500

Thermography is when the Letterhead is printed with raised thermo text,Can be done in any two colours on most materials and go through a laser printer Thermographic raised logos can be added.

 

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A5 Raised Printed Letterheads x 100

Manley used for private correspondence raised thermography printed in any colour on a wide range of stocks with matching Envelopes.


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Raised Thermographic Printing

Samples of raised thermographic printig please take a look at our website or give us a call if you need anymore information we are always happy to help.


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Letterheads With Thermography

Laser Guarenteed Letterheads to go through any laser printer, printed in any two colours or you can add Litho colours and many stocks of paper held in stock.

Please take a look at our website for more information or Call 01787 880268




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