Mad Deal of the Week! (3)

Right - we're getting serious now here at Lighthouse Printing in Cardiff! This week's deal is as follows:

10,000 A5 fliers

printed in glorious, vibrant full colour on classy 130gsm gloss art paper for the scarcely credible price of £99!

All you need to do is to send your print-ready .pdf file and contact details over on the 'quick-quote' page of our website (quoting MD003) and we'll send you the full details of turnaround time etc....... If you don't have artwork we'll be happy to do that for you for a modest extra charge. If you need prices for other quantities just let us know. If you'd prefer to phone to discuss, just give us a call on 029 2034 4899

Offer ends at 5pm on Friday 29th Nov. (Ask for MD003)

Mad Deal of the Week! (2)

Impress your friends with your own personalised Xmas cards, printed in full colour inside and out, with a dead posh gloss laminate on the outside. Be creative! - put a photo, drawing, painting, cartoon - anything you like on the front and a nice festive message of your choice inside.

50 cards for the never-to-be-repeated price of only £49 + VAT.

All you need to do is to send your print-ready .pdf file and contact details over on the 'quick-quote' page of our website (quoting MD002) and we'll send you the full details of turnaround time etc....... If you don't have artwork we'll be happy to do that for you for a modest extra charge. If you need prices for other quantities just let us know. If you'd prefer to phone to discuss, just give us a call on 029 2034 4899

Offer ends at 5pm on Friday 29th Nov. (Ask for MD002)

Daft Deal of the Week!

Daft Deal of the Week!

For a mere £49 + vat, Lighthouse Printing will produce for you not 100, not 250, not even 500 but 1,000 yes - 1,000 beautiful full colour letterheads.

All you need to do is to send your print-ready .pdf file and contact details over on the 'quick-quote' page of our website and we'll send you the full details of turnaround time etc...... but remember this offer won't last forever.....

Amazing new printing process......

At Lighthouse Printing we have just come across an amazing new printing process that's just been launched. I can't say too much at the moment because it's all under wraps but the samples I've seen are breathtaking..... It can be used on all sorts of products - business cards, leaflets, folders, boxes, booklets etc. We're hoping to have samples available and a price list to order from our website at the beginning of January.

Calendars

It's not too late to order your 2011 calendars. Check out our special webpage to see the full range...

Jon & Fay

Stop Press -Lighthouse Printing nominated for Award!

We've just had a call from 'Matt' from 'Sales Promotion Magazine'. Apparently Lighthouse Printing www.lighthouseprinting.co.uk have been nominated for a 'Cog Award'. www.cogs-awards.co.uk

Can't pretend to have heard of the Awards but apparently there has been a lot of Tweeting about them..... We've had an invitation to the ceremony in London so we'll have to dig out the tuxedo and ball gown (Fay's in the tuxedo....).

Good Luck City!

Many thanks to my badminton buddy Huw who has come up trumps with a ticket for me for the all-important Cardiff City vs. Leicester game tomorrow night. City just need a draw to go through to the the multi-million pound final which would win them the glittering prize of Premiership football. It reminded me of the maddest print enquiry I had from a fanatical Cardiff City fan.....

The bloke in question was Will, who owned a very successful pub on the outskirts of Cardiff and being a crazy Bluebirds fan, had a deep-rooted hatred of neighbours Swansea City.

Will rang me one day and the conversation went something like this...

"Jon, can you print a target for me?".

"What sort of target?"

"A big one, about three feet across"

"Why, are you taking up archery?"

"No - I want it to go at the bottom of a bird-cage. I've got a parrot in the pub and I want a three foot wide target printed, with a Swansea City crest in the middle of it to go at the bottom of his cage. Every time the parrot poos on the Swansea crest all the regulars will have to give him a peanut."

You see - it's not all letterheads and wedding invitations here at Lighthouse Printing... www.lighthouseprinting.co.uk

Fay conquers the mighty ocean.....

Anyone who thinks that all Fay can do is run Heidelburg printing press for Lighthouse Printing www.lighthouseprinting.co.uk will see how wrong they are when they see this video... Fay is also an intrepid sailor who can face any challenge the seas put in her way. As you'll see, however mighty the waves, Fay will fearlessly power her way through...

(The video was shot in Broughton Bay, Gower.)

FREE PAPER!!

We're having a bit of a sort-out in the printing room and there are various packs of paper which we'll probably never use even if we print to the end of the next Millennium....

Tinted, watermarked paper was very popular a few years ago for business stationery but no-one seems to choose it these now .... It's 'which shade of white do you want' these days although you do get the odd mad creative type who goes for 'ivory' or 'cream'..... The upshot is that we've got a few reams of nice quality tinted paper which someone might like to have. Obviously we'd prefer to give it to charities, schools or other suitable causes but if you want it - its yours! Just get in touch with Lighthouse Printing www.lighthouseprinting.co.uk

Good luck to our customer David Cowley who our more cultured readers will know is cellist with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. We've helped David put together artwork for his new CD "English and Welsh music for Oboe and Piano" and it's just been released. Hope it does well David!

waterproof paper

We have recently produced a job on waterproof paper! It was a booklet giving information to rough sleepers who will obviously sometimes be keeping the book in pretty tough conditions. It's produced on a material called Yupo. It looks and feels just like paper but in fact it's plastic. As well as being waterproof it's very difficult to rip. We'd like to use the stuff more because it such an amazing material - they use it a lot for labelling chemical and oil containers and its fantastic for maps! If you want the technical spec' ...... "this film is formed while creating microvoids by stretching it biaxially" - so now you know! If you want to produce instructions for deep sea divers or a comic you can read whilst surfing - just get in touch with Lighthouse Printing www.lighthouseprinting.co.uk

Mystery Reviewer!

Who are you - Mystery Reviewer?

Today my son Joe was talking me through some of the murky secrets of Google page rankings when I checked to see where our website www.lighthouseprinting.co.uk comes in Google if you search for 'printing, cardiff'. I could see that it was on the first page, which was nice but then I noticed a review of our business which said this:

"These are 2 of the nicest people you will ever meet.The "nice" are usually not successful in running a business.But there are a few who are the exception.I remember them starting out on two big adventures.Running a business and being married.And it has been a succes in both. At the very least you should have a chat to them.They will not baffle you if you are a 1st timer but they will not patronise you either.Straight talking, no bullshit, honest people who deseve all the sucess they have achieved.‎"

Now I know what's going through your mind.... "you wrote that yourself!" .... but I promise you I didn't, and we didn't tell anyone else to write it either!! I'd love to know who the reviewer was. Reveal yourself and we'll give you some free printing! (unless it was you Mum?).

finding a pic...

Just uploaded a profile photo. It was quite difficult to choose one. I could have found taken some work based photos with the two of us giving cheesy smiles besides the press or a computer but no-one really wants to look at those. So then I started looking back at holiday shots but they don't seem quite right either. In fact we don't seem to have many of the two of us taken together and most of the ones I did find, I look horrible and Fay looks good. I finally spotted one in which I don't look like a character from Wayne's World but it isn't one of Fay's best. I'm hoping she never finds out I've used it but if the photo suddenly disappears and another one appears with Fay looking nice and me in bandages, then you'll know what's happened.

Lighthouse www.lighthouseprinting.co.uk are nice and busy at the moment so I'd better get back to the white hot frontier of print-production........

my first effort....

mmmm... have never blogged before.... I used to feel like this when I sat down to write an English essay in school, facing what seemed like an acre of white paper.....

The difference is that when I wrote my English essays, the only person to read it was Mr Johnson, my English teacher. This blog will be read by squillions of people the world over.... (possibly...).

Yes, things have changed a bit since we printed our first few jobs at Lighthouse Printing, around twenty five years ago. We specialised in wedding stationery in those days and Fay used to typeset whole Orders of Service with three or four hymns using a small hand-operated letter press. It was a glorified John Bull printing kit really, which used tiny type made of lead. We now know that lead isn't very good for the brain - which explains a lot....

Talking of business - we are now offering free matt lamination on our full colour business cards. Laminating can be gloss or matt and it protects the printed surface of your business card when it's thrust into your customer's wallet or purse along with sets of keys, coins of the realm and decomposing Werther's Originals. It also makes your customer think you must be a real hotshot business person to have money to splash about on laminated cards.

Thanks to Mike from Bakers Dozen and Jan H-T for your jobs this morning ... I'd better start some work or you'll never get them......