Our Desk Pads are printed on 120gsm white cartridge paper (a.k.a. 120gsm uncoated white offset) in full colour. There are 50 leaves per pad and the pads can be glued at the head (i.e. the top), the foot (i.e. the bottom) or on either side. The pads are glued onto a 1.2mm thick backing board.
Desk Pad Sizes
Our standard sizes are:
- 105mm x 148mm (A6)
- 148mm x 210mm (A5)
- 210mm x 297mm (A4)
- 297mm x 420 (A3)
- 420mm x 594mm (A2)
Litho and Digital Printing
If you only require a small quantity of Desk Pads, Digital Printing is cheaper than Litho Printing – as the quantity increases, Litho Printing becomes much cheaper than Digital Printing. Digital Printing also allows you to have different artwork on every copy. Prices are displayed for both options in the price calculator. The right hand column is for Digital Printing.
Production times for printing Deskpads
The following choices of turnaround times are available.
Express turnaround – your Desk Pad printing order will be despatched in five working days.
Express Plus turnaround – your Deskpad printing order will be despatched in three working days.
Economy turnaround – your Desk Pad printing order will be despatched in ten working days.
The despatch time is shown in the Product Description.
For a day to be treated as the first working day, we require your printing order and payment along with print quality artwork before 10am. Alternatively, for an additional charge, you can delay the printing order, payment and print quality artwork cut-off time to 3.30pm.
Artwork and PDF requirements for Postcards
- We operate a PDF workflow, so please supply your artwork as a Press Quality PDF. If you prefer, we can create a PDF for you, in which case we will email a proof to you for approval. There is an additional charge for this PDF creation service of £20 plus VAT.
- If any print reaches the edge of your finished job, please add 3mm bleed to all sides of your artwork.
- We need a "quiet area" to ensure nothing important is too near to the edge of the finished item; so please leave a 5mm inner margin for anything other than backgrounds.
- Supply files to us in CMYK or Pantone spot colour, not RGB please.
- Image resolution should be 300dpi or more.
- Please embed fonts or convert all of your text to shapes.
If you would like to download a PDF template, you can do so from the Templates page which is also accessible via the top menu bar.