Direct Mail Printing

Direct Mail is one of the best ways of presenting a marketing message or promotiing a specific product or service to a predetermined number of customers. You can focus a campaign on a certain area or product and send out as few or as many mailings as you require to test the market or guage demand.

You supply the data and the artwork, and we perform a range of services to suit your budget and message.

We offer a comprehensive range of data creation and cleansing services. Whether its Doctors in Dagenham or Plumbers in Plumpstead we will ensure our service avoids wasted resource and complies with legislation.

We can carry out automatic data cleaning or contact people to verify details if required. In every case the goal is to minimise the amount of ineffective mail and maximise return on your investment.

• Database building
• MPS checked (Mail Preference Service)
• De-duplication
• Data checking
• List Creation and Provision
• Verification and Qualification
• Data entry

Laser, Inkjet & Digital Print Personalisation

We can personalise your promotion in a numner of ways ranging from the simple addition of addresses on envelopes to laser printing personalised letters and even embedding a customers name in a picture.

Postal Service

By pre-sorting mail, we are able to offer substantial reductions in postage.

The level of discount available will depend on a number of variables, such as data quality, numbers and weight of the mailshot as well as the geographical area for circulation.

A choice of postal companies is also available, from the Royal Mail to TNT which ensures competitive pricing.

We are able to consider all these factors to ensure you get the best price and result.

Artwork

Here's a brief summary for checking your artwork

• Please allow 3mm bleed on all sides of your artwork.
• Allow a 5mm inner margin for the important text and pictures
• If possible, convert RGB Colours to CMYK within your artwork files.
• Our workflow is based on PDF format. Ideally you should send your files to us in this format. Other formats require us to create a Print Quality PDF at further cost

PDF Pre-requisites

• 300dpi resolution image files
• Text either embedded or converted to paths
• Transparencies need to be flattened
• More details on how to prepare a print ready PDF on Creating Print Ready PDF files in Technical Instructions.