Printing - Lithographic & Digital Print

Oates Design is dedicated to producing a wide range of printed material from stationery, flyers, posters, business cards, and full colour brochures to promotional items. And many more! We pride ourselves on a quick turn around and realistic prices.
We offer full colour litho print at affordable prices. For all your printing needs, please contact us

Our product range:

Business Cards, Booklets, Leaflets, Folders, Posters, Mailers, Postcards, Invitations, Menus, Stickers, Stationery, Greeting Cards, Brochures

Lithographic or Digital?

Lithographic (Litho or Offset printing) is the most common form of high-volume commercial printing, due to advantages in quality and efficiency in high-volume jobs. While modern digital presses (Xerox Digital Presses, for example) are getting closer to the cost/benefit of litho for high-quality work, they have not yet been able to compete with the sheer volume of product that a litho press can produce.

A good example of litho printing would be letterheads with a quantity over 2,000. Multi page Brochures 16, 32, 48 pages from 1000 copies upwards.

Digital Printing is generally used for short print runs, and or for the customization of print media. If you are routinely ordering low-quantity stationery, then digital might be the way forward as this should save you money. With digital print, personalising each copy (Variable Data Printing) is easy and cost effective as there are no printing plates used in the process unlike litho. The personalisation could be a complex combination of different text and images. An example might be a postcard advertising a car with an offer personalised to fit the recipient's profile.

Digital printing in large volumes only occurs when VDP personalisation is the most important aspect in the project, so think mail order catalogues with customer specific offers and special enhancements to entice new customers to buy.

Otherwise think 1 off copy for the new 100 page book so that the boss can approve it before it goes to the Litho Printer for a much bigger print run.