Personalised Note Pads - usefull for around the office or for giving to customers.

Who are TradePrintingUK?
We are part of the Xpress Printing Group and were established in 1992. Based in Mallusk, Newtownabbey we pride ourselves in offering only the highest level of service and production quality to both the trade and retail.

We fully appreciate that the work we do is usually for Re-sale within the trade and our design and production teams realise that we are another manufacturing arm for your business and have pride in doing so.

We are only interested in helping you to meet YOUR customer's deadlines by providing fast turnarounds and quality printing to yourselves.

Our reputation is one of integrity - We will NEVER contact your customer directly!

We use strong, double-walled, generic white boxes. For packaging heavier items up to 30Kg we double-pack for even better transit strength. Our mailing label is the only thing that will have a discreet return address (as PARCELFORCE require it obviously), but that will be easily removed once you receive it at your end. As far as your customer will be aware, their job was printed and produced BY YOU!

Artwork Templates
Free Artwork Templates are available in our Templates Section. You can download the one that suits and make changes to it yourself or we can do it for you. Let us know what template you would like to use along with the details you want on it and we'll provide you with the artwork. Useful for Invoice Books, Purchase Orders, Delivery Notes, Receipt Books, Work Dockets etc.

Re-Ordering jobs at a later date
We keep existing jobs in our archives and the digital artwork backed up onto DVD-R discs for at least 4 years, making Re-Ordering jobs much easier as far as colour matching, sequential numbering continuation etc.

Just phone us with a description of the previous job, quantity required and your details and we'll do the rest.

Terms and Conditions
Before ordering from TradePrintingUK.com you should read our Terms and Conditions.

Payment With Order
Due to our cheap printing prices, we only offer our services on a purely PAYMENT-WITH-ORDER* basis. Thus payment is required before production is started. Alternatively if you work on a ProForma-based invoice system whereby you've to raise an Purchase Order Number first before anything can proceed then we can work with you on that too. We can accept all types of regular UK Credit Card / Debit Cards (with exception to American Express), or you can use a BACS / CHAPS transfer, but that will require 3-4 additional working days' clearance. Business cheques will still require 6 working days for clearance before production begins. Our bank details are available on request from our Accounts dept.

*Printing.com franchises have a special arrangement in place. Please contact our Accounts dept for further details.

Credit / Debit Cards -- instant payment (you'll get up to 45 days credit with your Credit Card anyway) and production is initiated from day of payment.
Personal / Business Cheques -- 6 working days' clearance required before production proceeds
BACS transfer -- 3-4 working days' clearance required before production proceeds
CHAPS transfer -- 1-2 working days' clearance required before production proceeds
FPS transfer -- 1 working day clearance required.

Banks using FPS (at July 2008):
Abbey, Alliance and Leicester, Barclays, Citi, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks (National Australia Group), Co-operative Bank, HBOS, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Nationwide Building Society, Northern Bank (Danske Bank), Northern Rock, and Royal Bank of Scotland Group (including NatWest and Ulster Bank).

But can I not have a 30-day Account? I've good references.
Our larger customers with established 30-day Accounts spend from £5k+ a year turnover.

But remember -- If you use your Credit Card you'll automatically be gaining up to 45 days' credit from your Bank anyway, which is even better terms than we could offer you.

So why do you need a Note pad, Desk pad or Writing pad from TradePrintingUK.com?
One of the greatest giveaways known to man, they are an ideal promotional item as your customers will keep hold of them on their desk for a long time and will be a constant reminder of you and your company or organisation. With note pads, desk pads or writing pads you get to deliver them as presents to your customers, safe in the knowledge that every time they scribble something down, it will be your company name and contact details that are right there shouting back at them.

They are so versatile and multi-functional that it's absolutely no surprise to see them being used in many different ways. They're brilliant if you're looking for looking for a scribble pad, or as calendars at the end of a year. Use them to keep a record of appointments and phone calls. Give your customer something useful and worthwhile by incorporating a To Do list, add a crossword puzzle, a grid of Sudoku, use local numbers (don't forget your own!), a sketch pad, a ruler, a notebook, drawing area, legal pad, a conversion table or even just graph squares with your logo tinted into the background.

It is the ideal way to have your company's brand and contact details directly on your customers' desks. Don't scrimp on professional design either! They are collated in pads of 50 pages, glued at one edge (you tell us which one) and supplied with a manilla back. Our proprietary technology means that we can print your Note pads, desk pads and Writing Pads in small quantities and still offer you the best value anywhere. Historically, Note pad, Desk pad and Writing Pad printing and design have been a hands-on, laborious process for both the supplier and the customer. TradePrintingUK.com has fully-automated the manufacturing of printing. We incur lower costs, which mean our customers enjoy lower prices for higher quality Note pads, desk pads and Writing Pads.

What type of paper stock is available for the Note pads, Desk Pads or Writing Pads that TradePrintingUK.com produce?
We use one type of paper stock. One is 100gsm high-white Bond (Printspeed) for all our spot colour Pantone work with 1 and 2-colour jobs.

What file formats do you accept?
TradePrintingUK prefered file format is a high-resolution PDF

What is your canvas sizes for printed Note Pads, Desk Pads or Writing Pads?

I've been working in RGB on CorelDraw or other non-Photoshop software. Why do the colours in the job look differently on my monitor when you send me the pre-production proof?
The colour gamut that is produced by rays on light (in RGB) on your monitor is much much wider than is physically achievable with any printing inks, which use a much smaller gamut.

What Bleed do you use?
If you have an image, text or other artwork that extends right to the edge of the page, the final dimensions must extend off the page and beyond the final trimmed dimensions of the job.

For NCR jobs -- add 3mm to each side (See further notes in our 'Supplying Artwork' section).
For Spot Colour jobs, add 3mm to each side.
For CMYK jobs like Flyers & Stationery, please add 1.5mm bleed to each side.

I want to have a Silver or Gold-type colour. Do TradePrintingUK.com use those inks?
We don't print with either Pantone 877 Silver or Pantone 871 Gold metallic inks. But there are workarounds to achieve something similar. There'll be no metallic fleck though.

To achieve Imitation Silver - use a tint of Black around 25%. You could also try a linear blend from 25% - 50% Black.

To achieve ImitationGold (out of CMYK process), we use a great full colour mix in the relevant products of 29C, 42M, 69Y which achieves delightful results.

Any good design tips?

1) Try and keep any important text you have (like addresses, phone numbers etc. at least 5-10mm away from the trimmed edge. That will allow for guillotine tolerance from the top of the paper pile to the bottom.

2) Don't print with white borders on your artwork. It just looks bad and will never be symmetrically even no matter how carefully it is printed & guillotined.

3) Note that Photoshop's default Black & White (the diagonal black & white blocks on the main tool bar on the left) aren't actually that. The White in that swatch is actually "Page White" meaning 1C, 2M, 2Y. The Black is a 4-plate Black by default of 91C, 81M, 81Y, 91K. So make up your own "Pure White" -- 0C 0M 0Y 0K and add that Swatch to the Swatches palette; and two different Blacks -- "Pure Black" -- 0C 0M 0Y 100K, and "SuperBlack" (for large areas of flat Black colour) - 50C, 0M, 0Y, 100K.

4) For Photoshop -- work in either Grayscale mode exclusively to make individual mono plates, or in CMYK only (just in Magenta & Black plates/channels). Do not work in RGB! That is for website use only.

5) In Illustrator, make sure you Create Outlines before submitting any jobs, or creating PDFs etc.

6) Work at a resolution of 350dpi for all design work, that way any fine text weights or small sizes (4pt to 6pt) will print much more clearly.

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