WHAT WE DO – Products

Brochures and Leaflets – Creative brochures and leaflets to promote your business with usually lots of ink! Combining quality and service, our in house capabilities ensures it’s right and on time … every time!

● Promotional Brochures ● Annual reports ● Technical Manuals ● Mailers ●
● Postcards ● Flyers ● Inserts ● Menus ●

Stickers and Self Clings

For indoor & outdoor use: our stickers are fantastic, screen or digitally printed any quantity can be cost effectively produced. Year after year we print millions offering flexible quantities and flexible substrates

● Car window stickers & clings ● Wheeled Bin stickers ● Hazard & Warning stickers ●
● POS retail window stickers and kits ● Product display stickers ●

Presentation Folders and Inserts

Inspiring folders and inserts for delegates, employees or customers. Creating interesting and useful, folders, folder/brochures, binders and wallets with or without inserts. The flexibility within our capabilities allows you the greatest choice, with the knowledge that you are in safe hands.

● Cardboard & paper ● Polypropylene ● Interlocking ● Glue pocket ● Ring binder ●
● Press stud fastening ● Velcro fastening ●

Posters

From big and bold to small and personal. Any quantity and almost any size! Our capabilities show no bounds when it comes down to printing vibrant and dazzling posters in all shapes and sizes!

● Promotional & Advertising ● Exhibitions and Events ● Backlit ● Pop-up ●
● Billboard ● Covings ● Large Format ●

Click here for Inca Spyder price list

Leaflet Dispensers, Leaflets & Strut Cards

Practical yet impacting and useful a point of sale promotion. Produced either bespoke to you or using one of our existing cutting formes dependant on your budget, and litho or digital printed dependant upon the quantity the choice is yours, we can even print the leaflets to go in it!

● Twist & Lock ● Single or double strut ●

Stationery and Personalisation

Creative and professional stationery and direct mail personalised and to you customers. Our group can offer design and printing that can add vibrancy to your company’s marketing proposition. Cost effective stationery which interpret and communicate your company’s ideas to create powerful messages relevant in today’s market

● Branding & Logos ● Letterheads ● Business Cards ● Digital print ●
● Litho Print ● Screen Print ● Paper ● Plastics ●

Scratch Cards

Promotions for existing or new products we manufacture in house – all processes within our control. Try something new, we’ll advise you all the way, what have you got to lose? Everyone’s a winner – or not the choice is yours.

● Full colour ● silver or gold latex ● Quantities from 250 ● Digital print ● Litho Print ●

Display Units & Dump Bins

Bespoke construction from concept through to completion our service will ensure high impacting final products meeting the expectations of all involved. If you are unsure of what would be suitable please call us for free and thought provoking advice

● Free standing display units (FSDU’s) ● Counter Top Displays ● Standees ● Cubes ● Dump bins ●

WHAT WE DO – Trade: Supporting the Print Industry

Litho Trade Finishing – Flexible, Reliable and Quick

Wellan Studios have been offering litho trade finishing for more than 2 decades, investment in the SPS Vitessa XP allows speed – up to 4000 sheets per hour, accuracy and a maximum sheet size 1050mm x750mm.

As a trade finisher we offer support, reliability and prices that give us a competitive edge.

● Spot UV Varnishing ● Scratch off ● Remoist Gumming ●

● max size 1050mm x 750mm ● min size SRA4 ●

Click here for litho trade finishing price list

WHAT WE DO – Industry Sectors

Retail – Eye catching campaigns for the High Street

Promotions that stand out in the most competitive markets. We combine quality with expertise, allowing the successful execution of an entire campaign.

● Hanging boards • Posters • Displays • Standees • Window Kits • Stickers

Newspaper Group – Promotion Through Newsagents

Communicating strong brands through traditional outlets, our service is proven to work well for the newspaper industry, making the most of your promotional budgets.

• Bills • Dump bins • Poster Holders • Display Boards • Window Kits •

● Posters & Leaflets • Wobblers • Shelf strips • Newsletters • Brochures ●

For Indoor and Outdoor Promotions – Cost Effective Consumer Campaigns

Display your services and products with professional high quality promotions. Efficient and effective we work with the private and public sectors supporting consumer advertising. We print digitally for very short runs or screen printed for higher quantities.
Bring your work to life.

• Correx Boards • Corrugated Displays • Dump bins • Leaflets & Brochures • Backlit Posters •

● Coving Vinyls and Posters • Stickers, self clings and decals ●

For Public Services – Promotions Across the Public Sector

Covering the police, fire, NHS and local authorities, public awareness and communication is paramount. Our experience spans years of servicing these sectors successfully, with competitiveness and quality combined.

• Wheeled Bin Stickers • Employee Handbooks • Posters • Display • Window Stickers •

● Street & Lamp post Signage • Leaflets & brochures • Annual Reports ●

How We Do It

Our procedures are the key to efficiencies and ensure we remain a ‘lean manufacturer’. And the process starts with estimating,

Click here accurate quoting – link to estimate template

Each and every quote we produce has a unique reference number, we work hard to meet the challenges of the industry and maintain our competitiveness and will actively follow up quotes for feedback, your assistance is always much appreciated.

Following your selection of us as a quality print supplier please email your order to orders@abcoltd.co.uk and no matter how many amendments and changes have been supplied it is important that you quote the correct unique quotation number on your purchase order, along with confirmation of quantity and a delivery date, if you have a particularly challenging delivery date please call your sales contact or production to discuss personally your requirements.

Here at AB Co – Wellan Studios will do all we can to assist, however if we have committed to other customers you can always be assured of an honest appraisal and we will not make promises that we cannot delivery on. Customers trust is very important to us.

As you are happy with the quote and our delivery time, issuing a purchase order to us will always be acknowledged with an email, confirming the job, quantity and processes selected, please read this carefully.

Click here – link to order acknowledgement example

Studio– For Litho & Digital

Print ready artwork can supplied in Quark, In Design or as high resolution print ready pdf’s. Emailing to repro@abcostudio.co.uk or via a link or uploading to FTP is the quick and easy method of receipt, please be sure to identify your files with a reference known to us, this allows our studio to then check and paginate the brochures, leaflets, posters, scratch cards, folders and dispensers. Ensuring the artwork meets our requirements for quality and that designs will complete effectively. All print jobs must be proofed to customer and we offer three options.

1. Calibrated proof, utilising the state of the art Epson 7600 European Standard Calibrated System with colour accuracy. This system is calibrated to the Komori Lithrone presses and has a built-in quality measure ……
2. In addition for paginated brochures and leaflets customers will always be supplied with a low resolution mock-up for your final approval
3. Speed is often key to production and for ease of approving ripped pdf proof’s can be supplied by email <5MB or for larger files via our or your FTP site (please supply username and password details were applicable)

Gaining your written approval is critical, and we accept email at davew@abcoltd.co.uk or fax on 01924 477353. Your job will not progress without this.

Using a computer to plate system (CTP) the printing plates are produced on a Lotum V400 plate setter before progressing to print on one of our LS526 lithrone 5 colour presses.

- For Screen

Print ready artwork can be supplied in Quark, Freehand MX,In Design or Creative Suite 2. Emailing jamesk@abcoltd.co.uk or via a link or uploading to FTP is the quick and easy method of receipt, please be sure to identify your files with a reference known to us, this allows our studio to then check and prepare for print, window stickers/clings, posters, display boards, free standing display units, wobblers and bin stickers. Ensuring the artwork meets our requirements for quality and that designs will complete effectively. All print jobs must be proofed to customer and we email pdf proofs for all jobs unless you specific otherwise

Gaining your written approval is critical please respond to the person who sent the proof and note your job will not progress without this.

We’ve attended the last two conferences and sponsored the booklet printing at Think Vis 3 – and we’re keen to not only help Dom and the team out again, but to show you what we can do for you in relation to printing.

We can tell you that this time round, there will be another booklet – but the rest of the print, it’s going to be a suprise. If you really want to know what we’ll be producing, then you’ll have to get yourself down to the conference. There are a few tickets left, so don’t hang around – get over to the Think Visibility site and book them today.

Alcohol Free
The use of alcohol in litho printing has been common practise for more than 30 years, it stabilises the water/ink balance and makes printing more forgiving, however, alcohol is a volatile organic compound (VOC) which reacts vigorously with oxygen in the air and in high concentrations can cause illness in print colleagues as well as a risk of fire/explosion – in a nutshell its not very environmentally friendly. That’s why 2 years ago we took the decision to go ALCOHOL FREE, on our new Komori LS526, as we believed it was the right thing to do for our working environment and it something that minimises the impact on the bigger picture. Alcohol free needs everyone to engage, printers and minders need high levels of maintenance and good hygiene. This will reduce costs and result in brighter, cleaner colours with better contrasts improving quality, which is good for everyone.

FSC Sourced Paper
Forest Stewardship Council is an internationally recognised standard, working to protect the worlds forests and indigenous people that inhabit them. Paper and all wood products can be FSC certified. The key to FSC is a ‘Chain of Custody’ – in other words the traceability of the paper from its origin through to the paper mill, merchant and on to the printer.Using a certified printer like ourselves, you are able to use the tick tree logo on certified stocks for printed matter, communicating your support of the important green issues.

Vegetable Based Inks
Some of the pigment used in conventional printing inks contain harmful metallic substances, these can include lead and mercury. The ink itself is petroleum based and needs alcohol-based solvents, as well as alcohol being an VOC so is petroleum and therefore combined they evaporate emitting health and environment hazards. To us the solution was easy, replace conventional inks with vegetable-based inks and reduce the VOC’s dramatically. Petroleum-based inks emit 25 to 40% VOC when dry and vegetable-based inks are as low as 2 to 3%, creating an essentially nonhazardous substance which better still is derived from renewable energy.

Introducing each of the processes has made a difference and we will continue to look for new areas to improve.

One thing people always seem to leave until the last minute though is Christmas Cards.  Christmas cards for business in particular.  And yet to a business, especially in these economically challenging times, it’s essential.  Essential to get your name in front of your customer and not with just with a pre-printed, off the shelf card.  The benefits are obvious, you will be  maintaining relationships with key customers / suppliers, demonstrating how much their custom / help is appreciated.  By putting your logo and personalised message on the card, you are getting brand awareness and the personal touch that you lose when buying off the shelf cards.

ABWellan have a selection of pre-designed cards, if you don’t have time to design one yourself.  Just let us know what message you would like, which logo you would like on the card, if you want a unique message for each of your customers / suppliers.

Each card is a 4pp A5, folded on the long edge.  The orientation of the card can be landscape or portrait, but the fold will always be on the 210mm edge.  We can supply you with envelopes at cost – they won’t be printed, but they will be quality envelopes, 120gsm – not cheap & flimsy.  The cards will be printed 4 colour process to throughout, on a 300gsm Silk with a High Gloss Varnish to the outer (if you want it).

So how much is this going to cost?  Well, depending on how many you would like, whether you need envelopes and delivery – the costs are as follows :

I’m sure you will agree, the prices are extremely cheap – but rest assured the quality won’t be.  If you would like further details or require something we haven’t mentioned, please give our sales team a call on 01924 473481 and they will be happy to discuss your requirements.

A few examples of the images we have are as follows

These are a few samples, but you are more than welcome to supply your own image and message.

The print industry however, has a set of names for folded leaflets and that is what we are going to list here.  Why?  Mainly to help people get the correct quote – if we are told that something is roll folded and it comes in as a concertina folded leaflet, it could casue the price to change – especially if the leaflet is on a board.

So here goes :-

The Parallel Folded Leaflet

The Concertina Folded Leaflet

The Letter Folded Leaflet

The Double Parallel Folded Leaflet

The Gatefolded Leaflet

The Double Gatefolded Leaflet

The Right Angle Folded Leaflet

The Roll Folded Leaflet

So, they need a photo – good job I brought mine with me.  All outside this afternoon and under the ABWellan banner, Everybody Smile, Cheeeeessssseeee – Snap.

ABWellan - 1st Pic

There’s always one who can’t smile.  Cheer up Karen

Anyway, the 2nd photo – Everybody Smile, Cheeeeessssseeee – Snap.

ABWellan 2nd Pic

Everybody smiled but Toby forgot to get the AB Banner in.

Time for Dave and the Repro to get to work.  Transpose the happy smiley photo onto the one with the banner and the job’s a good ‘un.  then it’s time to email it off to Real Radio and everything is sorted.

But Dave just can’t help himself can he !!

Here is the result of his mischief

Mischief

Now after looking at the photo (the one with Toby everywhere), some of the staff look like other people.

Now as a little competition, we would like you to let us know who people now look like.  The entry that makes us laugh most will receive £50.00 off their next order.

If you don’t know peoples names, here they are, from left to right

Jim, Terry, Dave, Mick, Lisa, Alan, Simon, Jonathan, Karl, Karen, Ann, Julie

Closing date is 23rd of October 2009.

Have Fun

So, here we are, a quick guide to “Working Out The Weight”

The Formula – (Dimension X / 1000) x (Dimension Y / 1000) x grammage x leaves

Example – A4 Leaflet on 150gsm

• Dimension X = 210mm (210 / 1000 = 0.210)
• Dimension Y = 297mm (297 / 1000 = 0.297)
• Grammage = 150
• Leaves = 1

So the formula looks something like this :-

0.210 x 0.297 x 150 x 1 = 9.3555 (or 9.36grams)

There will be a negligable addidtion to this for things like ink or laminates, so if you were to say the leaflet would weigh no more than 9.50grams – you would be fine with this.

Next up we have a brochure.

Example – 40pp A5 self cover brochure on a 170gsm

The clarification is that the outside front cover is page 1, the inside front cover is page 2, the inside back cover is page 39 and the outside back cover is page 40.

• Dimension X = 148 (148 / 1000 = 0.148)
• Dimension Y = 210 (210 / 1000 = 0.210)
• Grammage = 170
• Leaves = 20 (the leaves value is equal to half of the pages value – page 1 and 2 are effectively the same, as are 3 & 4, etc)

So the formula looks something like this :-

0.148 x 0.210 x 170 x 20 = 105.672 (105.67)

Safe to say that the weight of each brochure would be no more than 107 grams

And now we have a final example of a

24 pp A4 Brochure with 250gsm cover and 150gsm text

We’ll split this down into 2 sections – the cover and the text

COVER

• Dimension X = 210 (210 / 1000 = 0.210)
• Dimension Y = 297 (297 / 1000 = 0.297)
• Grammage = 250
• Leaves = 2

0.210 x 0.297 x 250 x 2 = 31.185 (31.19)

and

THE TEXT

• Dimension X = 210 (210 / 1000 = 0.210)
• Dimension Y = 297 (297 / 1000 = 0.297)
• Grammage = 150
• Leaves = 10

0.210 x 0.297 x 150 x 10 = 93.555 (93.56)

So the Cover weighs 31.19 grams and the Text weighs 93.56 grams, giving us a total of 124.75 grams.

Safe to say that the weight of each brochure would be no more than 127 grams

And that’s it, if you have any questions, please add a comment to the bottom of the post and I’ll try and answer it as quickly as possible.

Over what is described as an hard and undulating course with local landmarks such as Black Carr Woods and of course the Fox + Grapes part of its charm , a record entry from all over the country enjoyed clement conditions far removed from the Barbecue Summer promised earlier in the year by the weatherman , this much to the relief of Finishing Manger Wayne Ferguson and Lead Printer Paul Worthy who both scorched round the course in under an astonishing 1 Hour to gain the Annual Team Award for AB Co Ltd in the process collecting a trophy , a case of wine and vouchers . We are not sure what the vouchers are for yet but will find out on September 24 at the award ceremony where AB will present their cheque in addition to the sum of nearly £1000 raised by Paul Worthy himself in sponsorship.

Little runners at the Pudesy 10K

Not just a young mans race either

The roads in Pudsey full of runners

Not just road running either!

Pictures courtesy of Pudsey Pacers

If you would like to know more, please contact Lisa Prismall, who will be more than happy to discuss your green print requirements – and don’t forget to look out for our Green Eshot on your email.  If you haven’t received it, you can check it out here

We’ve just sent out our latest mailshot – click here for the full mailshot.

If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to call Lisa on 01924 473481 or email lisap@abcoltd.co.uk