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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Printing Restaurant Menus
Your starter, ladies and gentlemen: No two restaurants are the same; therefore, no two ‘dining experiences’ are. And therein lies the key to achieving successful restaurant menu design and print: aim to capture the dining experience your restaurant uniquely provides, … Continue reading
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Funny Friday: Ryanair Printing Error
Truly a printing mistake or great PR? We aren’t sure. Ryanair confirmed that due to a printing error with its €2 scratchcard game, three passengers on one flight from Milan to Madrid each won a free car worth over €13,000. … Continue reading
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What’s On? (Ideas for pubs to market themselves in summer)
It’s official. The days of pub entertainment consisting only of dominoes, bingo and darts are long gone. Now, there are more ways for pubs to entertain their regulars and pull in new customers (of all ages) in summer than ever … Continue reading
Printing School Prospectuses (Child’s play it ain’t!)
Do first impressions really count? Well, they definitely do when it comes to school prospectuses. The size and the shape of your prospectus, the front cover photograph, the layout, the colour use, the ethos conveyed, the paper’s texture between finger … Continue reading
Funny Friday: Lost in Translation II
We do love to titter when we hear about signs or menus that are oh-so-nearly-right but with minor mistakes made in translation, leaving major errors in syntax. These are the highlights from an amusing list that was compiled from airline … Continue reading
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Our ordering process – automated printing with the ‘personal touch’
Solopress is a really ‘techie’ printing company with powerful and well-organized systems that allow us to provide a first-class printing service with ultra-fast turnarounds. However, whilst we continue to invest in new technology to give us the edge on speed, … Continue reading
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Funny Friday: BBC
Even the BBC has the odd lapse: here getting the name of our most famous river well, not even misspelt – just wrong.
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Solopress buys new machinery – blink and you’ll miss it!
If there’s one thing that we at Solopress LOVE, it’s a gadget. Not that we’re really all that geeky, you understand; but the new machinery we’ve recently invested in (to compensate our ever-expanding customer network) ticks every box when it … Continue reading
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Printing flyers for gyms – how does it all ‘work out’?
During the credit crunch, gym memberships were usually sacrificed in favour of things like Sky Boxes (or other ‘essentials’) as people everywhere decided where to economise. It’s no surprise then that gyms, leisure centres, health clubs and spas, etc., now … Continue reading
Funny Friday: Our Strange Lingo
When the English tongue we speak. Why is break not rhymed with freak? Will you tell me why it’s true We say sew but likewise few? And the maker of the verse, Cannot rhyme his horse with worse? Beard is … Continue reading
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