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The Essential Exhibition Checklist

When attending a trade show, exhibition or conference, you only have a matter of minutes to attract your potential buyers attention. So the decision as to which display stand to purchase is so important to your business, and to the success of your exhibition. Ensuring that your exhibition presence creates an appealing and professional first […]

Photo Restoration

We are now offering Photo Restoration as a service at SM1 Print Studio. Restore your photographic memories, with our fantastic image correction tools, which brightens faces, remove lines and repairs tears and stains. In a digital age, we know how important it is to preserve and print the memories you have and with new technology, […]

8 Tips Before Submitting Files For Colour Printing

Designing your company’s business cards, postcards, flyers and brochures may not be very difficult. We realise that many of our customers have a good idea of what they want their design to look like, and can also write some compelling text. The problem is most online design software will not provide any guidance on how […]

Supplying Artwork

Feeling creative? Do you want to supply your artwork? We always recommend sending an Adobe Print-Ready PDF… however please read our guidance below to ensure your artwork is printed as expected. File Formats We usually recommend that artwork is supplied as a high-resolution Adobe Print-Ready PDF file. Using the PDF (or Portable Document Format) to […]

11 Tips on Designing Effective Brand Guidelines

We all spend thousands of pounds on our corporate identity or brand, each year and yet most companies have no system in place to control what is produced. A Brand Guideline is a document that explains to any person involved in the creative process what you as the client, want to achieve. It is your […]

Re-branding Tips

Re-branding your business can be a complex process. SM1 Print Studio recently went through this process and can completely understand the challenge it represents. However, simple steps can give your business a refreshing look, feel and identity that can make the company more customer-focused, competitive, or simply more reinvigorated. Based on our experience, please find […]

Website Design and Structure

When looking to design a website, one of the key areas often ignored is ‘structure’. Often customers at SM1 Print Studio have spent time identifying market sectors and have an idea of style, colour and theme, however, they haven’t considered how the website should be structured or what content should be written. In addition, some […]

The Ultimate Design Brief

This brief article outlines how to write an effective design brief that will help us and you. At SM1 Print Studio we want to ensure that you achieve the design you require and that your project is successful. A Design Brief is vital to communicate your understanding of the project to the designer. It doesn’t […]

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