Selective varnish adds a fifth colour!

Selective varnish adds a fifth colour! Do you usually use selective varnishing to highlight logos, titles or visuals? Do you know that the latest trend is to create a pattern, by selective application of the varnish? We are delighted to be able to offer you this very elegant and modern graphic design and rendition. This creative technique is applicable to any medium, from book covers to magazines to flyers. No design is problematic, just provide Pulsio with a standard file and we will create the effect for you. Check our price: it’s free and it only takes seconds! Online Quote [...]

Gilding for the win!

In printing, gilding brings elegance and a unique feel by putting a light impression of gold onto paper. It adds a play of light to a business card, reinforces the high-end feel of a brochure, adds distinction to the cover of a book, adds refinement to an invitation, provokes a reaction when on a leaflet... It’s a finish that adds a high-value effect when integrated into the overall graphic design. From the point of view of artistic creation, two approaches are possible: Treat gilding as a graphic element in its own right. Use it to highlight certain letters, titles, motifs, [...]

SILK FOIL: innovative gilding and 7 reasons to prefer it to the “classic” type

As with an objet d’art, gilding enhances the value of a book and improves its visibility in bookstores. It is one of the most upscale finishes available. Until recently, the only way to carry out this process was hot stamping, which consists of depositing a metal film on the cover using a block with all the gilding elements to be stamped, a heat source that can reach 200° C and an enormous pressure that can be as much as a ton! Depending on the number of elements to be gilded, the process can be performed in several passes on the [...]

Your creative ideas with Pulsio Print: Essential steps to make your book shine in a bookstore

How can you make a thousand-year-old text shine by presenting it to the public in an appropriate form? It’s an opportunity to create a unique object, but how then to choose suitable paper, cloth binding, endpapers, boards and a dust jacket to add value to a book which is at once spiritual, literary and scientific? Here we present the design of the “Adamantine songs”: texts written in India towards the end of the first millennium. Spiritual in nature, they are accompanied by a scientific commentary. The challenge in preparing such a book is to reveal through manufacturing choices all the [...]

Add value to your books with personalised slipcases!

We are delighted to be able to offer you customised cases for your books, in whatever size or shape you would like. An experienced designer will help you with the design for £35 / hour. We’ll need specific details from you such as the exact dimensions of the books that the slipcase should contain, as well as whether you would prefer artboard or cardboard covered with paper or leather, whether you want single or double thickness for the board, plus information about the delivery – whether fully assembled or sent separately. Steven Spielberg Check our price: it’s free and it [...]