Artwork & Design Service
If you are unsure how to turn your ideas for printing into reality and require assistance with your design, our team of experienced designers are available to help. From your initial enquiry through to final production, Bretonside Copy can help you every step of the way!

We can accept artwork either as hard copy or digitally; stored on disk or sent via email. We also work with most popular software design packages including Adobe Creative Suite + PageMaker / CorelDraw / QuarkXpress / Freehand /  Publisher/Word/PowerPoint/Excel / Autodesk DWF Composer.

For digital plans, preferred formats are PDF, EPS, TIFF, PLT, DWG, DXF & DWF.

Note: If you are a CAD user, it is normally possible to save your work in one of the above formats. Please contact us for assistance if required.

Additionally, we can import these formats via either our networked PC’s or Apple Mac’s and send the file directly to our small format (colour / B&W) printers (A4, A3 & SRA3), wide format B/W plan printer or wide format colour printers, via our LAN. This flexibility enables us to cope easily with any late changes to your copy that you may wish to include, as our artwork design team is well used to such requests!

High Quality Colour Photography, Scanning, Printing & Copying

  • Shooting in RAW format with our Canon EOS350D using a 50mm high speed lens, we can faithfully capture the subtle nuances of virtually any Fine Art or Photographic original. 
  • Our large format KIP 2200 colour scanner produces high resolution, top quality full colour scans at true optical 600 dpi, thus enabling us to make faithful copies of your wide format, coloured or black & white originals. Furthermore, we can accurately reduce or enlarge from your original work
  • We can also scan your original work (<A0), and then save it to CDROM or email it to you
  • Original work can be supplied to us digitally (on disk or via our highly secure email server), or alternatively on paper, film or tracing
  • For B/W posters that really stand out, we can re-scale your originals and print them onto either White Bond paper or for even greater impact onto DAYGLO paper in a choice of either Pink, Yellow, Green or Orange…. Up to 841mm x 16 metres
  • Our networked Printers and Copiers produce professional, high quality A3 or A4 copies from as little as 2.5p per A4 side

Full Colour Laser Printing & Copying
Our state of the art colour printing & copying equipment can reproduce your work from all popular file formats or from hard copy originals up to A3+ size and 300gsm weight, with stunning colour matching capability with extremely fast turn around times.

Volume Production Mono Laser Printing & Copying
We can produce high quality mono prints or copies at speeds of up to 12000+ per hour, again with extremely fast turn-around times.

Large Format, Full Colour Printing
With the recent addition of an Epson Stylus Pro 9880 (44" print width) and a Canon IPF9000 (60" print width) joining our tried and tested Hewlett Packard 5500, we now have one of the largest capacities  for the production of wide format ink jet printing in the South West. This capacity enables us to produce on-site and with very fast turn-around times, the following full colour graphics:

    • Giclee Fine Art Prints with faithful reproduction of originals (in oil, water or acrylics), onto a variety of fine art papers or canvas. Using acid free papers our Epson Stylus Pro 9880 can produce fine art prints that can be classified as attaining the renowned Giclee standard. This standard is widely recognised as the benchmark for Fine Art printing and in fact many would claim there is no better machine currently available for the production of Limited Edition Fine Art Prints
    • Photographic reproductions and enlargements to a quality standard to satisfy the most demanding of professional photographers and enthusiastic amateurs alike
    • Attention Grabbing  Economic Banners printed onto Polypropylene for added outdoor durability
    • Stunningly Vibrant Advertising Posters on a wide range of media some of which can withstand up to 5 years in an outdoor environment
    • Superb Window Display Graphics which can be re-positioned or removed without leaving adhesive residues
    • Durable Exhibition Display & Signage Graphics using UV pigment based inks with a maximum printing width of 59” (1500mm) the ability to “tile” your graphics enables us to produce display graphics that can be spread as long as you require
    • Photographic Prints with originals ideally shot in RAW format and supplied to us digitally on disk or via email, we can enlarge and print up to 1500mm (59"), without any noticeable loss of definition. Your photographs can be printed onto a range of papers including a 180gsm matte, a 179gsm semi-gloss, a 195gsm or 210 gsm high gloss or a 270gsm premium satin paper

For all wide format printing, we can accept work prepared in all Microsoft programs and most popular desktop publishing and design packages. In addition, we can accept graphics in most leading software formats including PDF, JPEG, EPS, TIFF and PostScript.

Proofing Service
Before producing your print job, we will ask you to approve a sample proof copy. 
Then, after making any adjustments that you may require, we will request your signed go-ahead. This process helps us to avoid any errors pre-production.

Print Board Mounting & Laminating (<41"/1040mm width)
Our SEAL 44 Ultra and Tullis Russell “JetMounter” board mounting, laminating and encapsulating machines, allows us to  provide a full finishing service to your printed images up to 41" / 1040mm.

Board Mounting
With a wide choice of substrate materials on which to mount your prints including: white display board, foam centred board and semi-rigid Forex PVC board(for outdoor use), you can now have your posters & prints prepared for framing.
Laminating
With a variety of over-laminating materials to select from including: matte, satin, gloss and ultra-gloss, you can now have your prints protected from scuffing and UV light damage. Additionally, the use of a fine or coarse linen texture effect laminate can add a pseudo “Fine Art” appearance to your prints.

Print Finishing & Binding Services
Our finishing department can help turn your printed or copied documents into high quality booklets, reports, user guides, manuals menus, dissertations & thesis etc.

With a wide choice of binding methods available, your print job will be superbly finished, providing your original copy with the high quality, professional finish it deserves. 

Perfect Binding
Our Perfect Binding service in particular, is likely to be of special interest to individual Authors and Writing Guilds who find that publishing their work in low quantities can often prove prohibitively expensive. We can perfect bind in quantities from single books to production runs of up to 3000.

    The addition of this new service means that Bretonside Copy is now able to:

    • offer a comprehensive Layout & Print Design service
    • produce your work (on a range of state of the art, high speed, Colour & Mono printers)
    • provide a professional “Paper Back” finish (rivaling large publishing houses that normally require print runs of 500 or more)

Calendar Binding
Our Calendar Binding Service includes the hanging hook and thumb-nail cut-out seen on most retailed calendars.

Dissertation & Thesis Hard Backed Binding & Foil Printing

In addition to our Booklet Making, Wire-O, Plastic Comb, Fastback and Perfect Binding services, we are now able to produce beautiful Hard Backed Bindings (up to 5.0cm / 2" thickness), printed with either gold or silver foil titles (front cover & spine).... Accepted by most Universities and Colleges for Dissertations and Thesis.

Numbering / Perforating / Folding / Guillotining /  Creasing / Drilling / Stapling
          Numbering : 
Up to 6 digits with a 4 x multi repeat function ... ideal for ticketing applications
          Perforating :
Highly accurate high speed micro-perforation
        Folding : Both friction and air suction feed (for gloss stocks) machines up to 20,000+ per hour / Up to A3+
          Guillotining :
Powered / Blade width <45cm / Pile Height <60mm
          Creasing :
Auto Matrix and Manual Bar Creasing and Auto Disk Creasing <20,000 per hour
          Drilling :
From 3mm to 13mm hole dia. + > 35mm back margin, + a 50mm pile height / any  hole pattern
        Stapling : Up to 24mm pile thickness    

Job Turn-Around

Our staff are well experienced in each production process which provides us with great flexibility in our ability to quickly turn jobs around with the shortest of notice.

Collection And Delivery Service
Quotes valued above £50 can be collected free of charge within the Plymouth City area.
Collections outside of Plymouth City can also be arranged. Please ask for pricing.

For all quotes valued above £50, delivery is free within the Plymouth City area.
Deliveries outside of Plymouth City can also be arranged. Please ask for pricing.

    Bretonside Print & Finishing Equipment


    Colour Printing Equipment:
             2 x Xerox Docucolor 240
             Konica Minolta BizHub C450
                     
    Mono Printing Equipment:
             Konica Minolta Bizhub PRO 920 (92 prints per minute)
             Konica Minolta Bizhub 600 (60 prints per minute)     
             KIP 6000 Wide Format, High Definition, Digital Plan Printer
    Other Equipment:
             KIP 2200 Wide Format Colour Scanner (24bit)
             Epson Stylus Pro 9880
             Canon iPF9000
             Hewlett Packard DesignJet 5500 (UV & Dye)
             SEAL 44 Ultra (A0) Encapsulator, Laminator & Print Mounter
             Moraine Hot Shoe Roll Encapsulator (A1)
             NEW GMP Surelampro 500 DPP laminator (SRA3 stream feed)
             Tullis Russell "Jet Mounter" (A1) Laminator & Print Mounter
             Duplo Folding Machine DF-520
             Ideal Babb Paper Guillotine
             Duplo DC8 Mini Collator (8 station's up to A3)
             Duplo Booklet Maker DBM-70
             Rapid Booklet Stapler 101
             Duplo “Graphic Wizard” Numberer / Perforator / Slitter
             Rotatrim Paper Trimmer (A0)
             Javelin Large Format Cutter (3 Metre length)
             Round Cornering / Thumb-Cut Punch
             NEW Duplo DC445 DuCreaser (350gsm 15 prog.creases + perforating) 
             Duplo Perfect Binder DB-200
             GBC MP2500ix Paper Hole Punch
             NEW GBC 3500 Pro Series A3 Pouch Encapsulator/Laminator
             Wire Binder
             Comb Binder
             Slide Binder
             Powis Parker Fx15 Fast-Back Binder
             Hard Backed Binder
             Foil Fast Printer
    Software Packages
    We can accept your work either as “Hard Copy” or in electronic format in a variety of software packages including:
             Adobe Creative Suite 1, 2 & 3 on MAC & 3 on PC 
                    (Photoshop / Illustrator / In-Design / Pagemaker)
             CorelDraw X3
             QuarkXpress 6.5
             AutoDesk DWF Composer (DWG/DXF/DWF files)
             Publisher 2007
             Word 2007
             PowerPoint 2007
             Excel 2007
             FreeHand

     

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