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  • Your print choices size, pages, paper, binding
  • How many copies, and the date you need them by
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Creative Industry Printing

Ex Why Zed is the ideal print partner for your design agency, studio and self-initiated project. We are accessible, knowledgable and deliver a wide range of high-quality print to impress you and your clients.
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Need help? Chat with Harriet and Mike on hello@exwhyzed.com or 01206 766647

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From idea to doorstep, in four steps

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Tell us your project

The 30 second quote form, or the instant calculator for 1 to 20 copies. Your price lands the same day.

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Send whatever you’ve got

Rough or ready. A real person checks your file and offers clear advice on making it ready to print. Free and fast.

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Approve your proof

Your preview to sign off before we print the run. Until approval you can still make changes to the artwork.

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Printed in Colchester, UK

Stapled booklets with you in 3 days, perfect bound books in 5 and hardbacks in 7 days. Free UK tracked delivery.

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…or just ring Mike & Harriet on 01206 766647. Real people, no chatbots, and we love the tricky questions.
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Not ready yet? Everything you need to plan your Project is below.

Inspiration first, then the nuts and bolts: paper, size, binding and page count. The quote form stays one tap away the whole time.

Impressive print at fair prices

We want to become a reliable cog in your supply mechanism. That could mean brochure printing for a client or a studio project of your own. Send us your artwork, we’ll preflight it for no extra charge, then print it and deliver with no fuss allowing you to concentrate on running the creative aspects of your business.

We are proud that a large percentage of our business comes from repeat orders and happy client referals without the need for expensive advertising campaigns. In turn this helps us keep our prices down which ultimately helps make your projects more commercially viable. Win win!

The film beside this copy flips through Expected, a perfect bound fashion book we made for a Northumbria University graduate. Gloss lamination on the silk cover sits over heavy uncoated pages, so the photography makes a glossy first impression and feels softer once you open it. The Expected case study covers the spec choices and the file fixes we made before printing.

THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING

Enjoy looking through our showcase of recent creative print projects.

TAKING NIKE AIR TO PRINT
Paq Works x Offspring x Nike Air Max x Ex Why Zed

What’s your favourite pair of Nike Air Max?! Maybe the 97s with the horizontal ripples or the originals with the oversize soles and visible air pocket? Ours are 95s in an orange and grey colourway.

Offspring x Air Max zine, expertly designed by @paq.works is a glorious love letter to all sneaker freaks complete with camoflage dust jacket and folded poster.

Enjoy plenty of insight and some groundbreaking new takes on this iconic series from @offspringhq

Project Options

Place Your Project: Formats, Paper, Size and Binding

Every project comes down to binding, paper and artwork. Watch all three in a row and you’ll brief us like a pro in under ten minutes.

1 · Which Binding?

Stapled, perfect bound (glued, like a paperback) or hardback? Your page count has already decided, and one picture shows the whole rule.

Read the full Binding Styles guide →

2 · Which Paper?

Silk, gloss or uncoated: what each looks and feels like, plus the insider hack that saves you money.

Read the full Paper Choices guide →

3 · Artwork Made Easy

Bleed, page sizes, cover files and the 3 common mistakes. Then we check (or rebuild) your file for FREE.

Read the full Artwork Hub guide →
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BENEFITS OF OUR PRINTING

When printing with Ex Why Zed you get all of the following as standard

Want to chat about your ideas?
Call Harriet or Mike on 01206 766647, email hello@exwhyzed.com, or send your spec and we'll price it today.
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Still have questions?

If you were "just wondering", well just wonder no more, here are the answers!
How much does it cost?
What paper can I print onto?

We have three basic choices for paper type:

• Silk, Gloss, Matt or Uncoated finish
• 90-170gsm for inside pages
 (90gsm is super thin like newsprint, 120/130gsm is what we print 99% of our booklets onto, 160/170gsm is a bulky paper that will feel glorious when your reader is flicking through)
• 250-350gsm for a thicker card cover
We print the majority of our booklets inside pages onto either 115gsm uncoated or 130gsm silk. This is thick enough that images dont show through too much and feels quality.
• If you’d like an extremely thick cover then go for a 350gsm stock.

Still not sure? Grab yourself one of our free printed sample packs to help you decide because we realise that choosing paper over the internet is like reading braille with gloves on. Just ping us an email with your address and we’ll know where to send it to.

Do you print onto GF Smith?

Yes. They have a range of 200+ papers covering all manner of colour, texture and imagination.  Do get in touch with them direct on samples@gfsmith.com for a sample pack.

What sizes do you print?

Our maximum portrait size is A3 which is an impressive 420mm high x 297mm wide.  The maximum square size is 297x297mm.  The maximum landscape size A4 so 210mm high x 297mm wide.

Not familiar with paper sizes?
Here they all are plus some of our favourites from other publications you might have enjoyed.

Do you do paper sample packs?

Yes, ping us your details on our sample pack form and we'll get one in the post asap.

While we’ve done our best on our paper choices page to make one sheet of white paper look different to another sheet of white paper, there’s nothing better than seeing them in reality so you can stroke, sniff and examine them in close up.

What programme should I use to set up my artwork?

Adobe Indesign is the industry standard for page layout. It is easy to learn and fast to use. They also have a one week free trial on adobe.com

Photoshop, as you know, is super powerful for image manipulation but Indesign is a lot easier for working with multiple pages and crop marks.  Additionally, any text rendered in Photoshop tends to print slightly out of focus but from Indesign it will be crisp and perfect.

Free alternatives to Indesign which I have heard our customers mention are Affinity Publisher and Canva, but we haven't tried either yet.

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