DESIGN PRINT MAIL
WE MAKE IT EASIER
We’re friendly, straightforward and knowledgeable.
Streamlining your marketing efforts with our one-stop offering will save you time, money and resources. There’s no need to set up and manage multiple suppliers, because we’re all part of one family-run business. Established in 1985, Bishops Printers opened The Graphic Design House in 2005, and The Mailing People in 2012. One account manager is all it takes to look after everything for you.
You’ll find us in Farlington, just outside the seafront city of Portsmouth, where our close proximity to each other is ideal for time critical projects and tight turnarounds. Combining exceptional client service and creative talents, with reliability and cutting-edge technology, we ensure that every full stop, deadline or promise is delivered. click here to watch our complete service video
REMARKABLE DESIGN
Delivering original, impactful designs, quickly and reliably takes an agile skillset. With our unique heritage and expertise, The Graphic Design House creates integrated materials and campaigns that work as well in print as they do online.
Collaboration with your stakeholders and our 8-strong team of experienced designers is quick and easy using our online proofing tool, Ziflow. It really is a game-changer.
Flexible and effortless proofing & reviewing
The Graphic Design House’s creative strength lies, in part, in the breadth and depth of our client base. Famous venues, football clubs, theatres of all shapes and sizes, colleges and leading independent schools, plus a wide range of charities and commercial organisations. It keeps us excited, curious and engaged, and that’s reflected in our work.
Often working alongside in-house designers to provide a flexible and expert resource, our team applies their creative talents to everything from digital and printed collateral to branding and campaigns.
Whatever your budget, whether you need a fresh creative eye or a flexible and expert resource to work alongside your in-house designers, we’re here to help.
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Broomwood School Rebrand
Portsmouth FC 125th Anniversary Book
OUR SERVICES
• Branding
• Campaigns
• Video & animation
• HTML email design
• Email signatures
• Digital flip books
• Digital advertising
• Design for print
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Unexpected Experience Campaign
PRINT. PERFECTED
Print’s ability to be memorable, build trust and create an emotional connection is why organisations find it easier to build a brand using print.
If you’re involved in organising printed materials you’ll know it can be a bit of a headache. It doesn’t have to be. With fast turnarounds, reliable quality and all the print advice you need, we make it easy.
A top 100 UK printer, 70% of our customers are trade print professionals who trust us with their reputations. In a year we can print 288 million sheets of paper, produce 63 million saddle stitched books and 5.4 million perfect bound books. You’re in safe hands.
No order is too small. We’ll happily use our digital machines to produce orders that can only be rivalled in colour quality by our top of the range litho presses. We aim to pick up the phone within 3 rings, always answer emails, and deliver a straightforward, friendly service. 98% of our customers say they would recommend us.
For a reliable, easy solution to quality digital and litho print at competitive prices, get in touch.
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OUR SERVICES
• Leaflets
• Flyers
• Presentation folders
• Magazines
• Brochures & booklets
• Catalogues
• Binding
• Print Finishing
MAIL AND MORE D
irect mail is all about connection. It’s a people thing. It’s also about pulling together lots of different and sometimes quite complicated elements to a deadline. We’re really good at simplifying the complex and making everything much easier for you.
Think of us as a friendly and expert extension to your team. It can be daunting embarking on a first direct mail project, or switching between providers, so we invite you to explore our 5-star Google reviews. People genuinely seem to enjoy working with us!
We mail around 350 thousand items a week using all the main service providers. We’re members of Royal Mail’s Strategic Mail partnership, created to raise standards in the mailing industry, and are really good at saving our clients money.
From simple mailshots to bulk mail, from high-speed machine folding, collation and enclosing to bespoke hand finishing and fulfilment. From complex variable image and data campaigns to daily fulfilment, data cleansing and international postage, you’ll find everything you need for a successful direct mail campaign at The Mailing People.
OUR SERVICES
• Low-cost postage
• Personalisation
• High speed machine enclosing
• Bepoke hand fulfilment
• Full colour envelope printing
• Partially addressed mail, door drops, mailshots, self-mailers, naked mailers
• Data cleansing & enrichment
• JicMail / Mailsort® / Advertising Mail / Business Mail / Publishing Mail
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
“Using The Graphic Design House to fulfil all our marketing needs is a nobrainer! Not only do they produce some really creative designs…their customer service is also first class. Having the ability to speak to one person who can then co-ordinate design, print, fulfilment and distribution is just so valuable when we’re only a small inhouse team and usually operating on tight timeframes.”
Emma Lightowler Hull Truck Theatre
“I have been a customer of Bishops Printers for some time now, and I am continually impressed by their exceptional service and product quality. In the numerous orders I have placed, mistakes have been incredibly rare, and on the few occasions where there was a minor issue they addressed it swiftly and effectively. I know I can trust them with time sensitive projects without worry. I look forward to continuing our partnership.”
Diane Allard 288 Group
“Great service from start to finish. Job involved both print and mailing - print was high quality and mailing arrived well ahead of our deadline. Our account manager Rachel was superb, kept on top of all the details and kept us in the loop throughout - will 100% use again!”
Tristan Jones Combined Academic Publishers
SUSTAINABLE THINKING W
hile paper is one of the most recycled products on the planet, printing on recycled paper isn’t always an option. With commercial budgets squeezed from all angles, the extra cost of using recycled paper (typically 40%), may put it beyond your reach. If sustainability is important to your brand values, you might like to consider more affordable options.
• Carbon balanced paper
You pay to offset the carbon emissions generated in the production of the paper you use. We can arrange this for you with the help of our paper suppliers and the World Land Trust
• Carbon offsetting
You can pay to offset all the carbon emissions generated in the production of your printed materials, from paper to the finished product. Again, this is achieved through the World Land Trust and arranged by us.
• Advertise your support of sustainable forestry
Because we’re certified under the Forest Stewardship Council and only use FSC® certified paper, we can trace all our paper back to sustainably managed forests. By adding our registered FSC® logo (license code C141094) to your printed materials, you’re able to continue that chain of evidence.
• Avoiding waste
An easy way to reduce the environmental impact of your marketing activities is to avoid printing and mailing more than you need. By taking advantage of The Mailing People’s free data audit service, you can test the quality of your data, without obligation. Often, the cost of cleaning your data is significantly less than the savings you make on the cost of your print, fulfilment and postage.
As a group, we are all mindful of our environmental impact. All waste materials are recycled. Aluminium plates, metal ink tins, and plastic ink cartridges, the ink itself, paper, cardboard, plastic wrapping and wooden pallets.
OTHER STEPS WE HAVE TAKEN INCLUDE:
Installation of 1,500 solar panels on our 85,000 square foot roof, reducing our use of fossil fuels and our carbon footprint by offsetting 2,842 tonnes of CO2 per year.
Our house paper stock does not use chlorine in the bleaching process and is produced in European mills meeting the highest environmental standards.
Investment in optional Inpress Control technology to reduce our make-ready paper waste by one third .
We use vegetable based lithographic printing inks.
Whenever possible, we use paper-based packaging instead of plastics.
We have begun transitioning our hybrid delivery fleet of 10 vehicles to a fully electric fleet, and have installed 4 fast charging points onsite. 12% of direct delivery addresses are currently serviced by electric vehicles.
ISO 14001 certification in Environmental Management Systems. We believe that responsible, ethical and professional business practice should be central to all our operations and day-to-day activities.
OUR ACCREDITATIONS
We don’t believe design, print or mailing should cost the Earth. If you feel the same way and value affordable, high quality design, print and mailing, we hope you’ll get in touch.
