Hand Finishing

PUR Binding is a form of perfect binding, where the pages and cover are glued together at the spine and the other three sides of the book are trimmed as needed to give them clean “perfect” edges. Polyurethane Reactive (PUR) is the most durable book binding glue available.

Comb Binding is a cost-effective printing and binding method, consisting of a colour plastic ‘comb’ attached to the spine of a document, with the option of an acetate front sheet and card back to complete the presentation.

Anti-Scuff lamination prevents any unwanted scuffs and marks from showing up on laminated surfaces where this has been the finish of choice.

Fully automatic punch machines up to 630mm. Capable of punching 1⁄4″ to 1 1⁄2″ inch thickness. CFS has machines capable of 80,000+ punched sheets p/h.

If it needs counting or tabbing, you can’t count paper better or more accurately than on a Vaccumatic machine. It’s fast, accurate, and is a 100% reliable print finishing kit for counting.

With two fully automatic collators, running 24/7 and able to handle a wide range of cover and text materials, we offer huge collation capacity to quickly and accurately collate your printed jobs. We can offer a wide variety of applications from 1⁄4” to 1” including note pads, exercise books, diaries, school planners, advertising brochures as well as a wide variety of calendars.

CFS can spiral bind any document, any size, from A6 to A3, starting from a minimum quantity of just 100. Durable and flexible, plastic spiral binding is available in a wide range of colours to perfectly match your document.

Soft Touch is a laminated finish that creates a luxurious, high quality feel to the surface of any printed sheet. Ideally suited for the packaging of luxury goods, as it provides an instant “up market” feel to any product with great scuff resistance.

Textured lamination offers an interesting alternative to more traditional grained and textured paper stocks. Our textured films can be applied to both sides of a printed sheet if required or just to one side only, leaving the reverse free from texture or show through. Textures Available: Sand, Linen, Leather, Brush Strokes.

This classy and elegant finish captures the luxurious quality of Matt lamination whilst adding a sophisticated sheen to create a truly unique finish. Popular for brochures, business cards, high-end flyers and carrier bags.

Popular quality all over finish to various printed items, to give a smooth texture, professional finish and also forming a protective coating. Typically used on corporate brochures, book covers and luxury packaging. This finish is often used in conjunction with Spot UV to create a lasting impression.

At CFS, our direct mail services are accurate, cost effective and delivered on time to ensure that you get the best results. The industry has changed somewhat in the last 20 years, online businesses are now using direct mail to drive traffic through to their websites to supplement their marketing campaigns, introducing new products and services to existing and prospective clients with offline and online direct response marketing techniques being used in tandem to maximize revenue and marketing exposure.

There are many ways to contact prospective and existing customers from envelopes, postcards, one-piece mailers to polywrapped packs. CFS we offer a unique combination of people, processes and equipment so we can either produce these packs on our enclosing machines, for the more complex packs that cannot be machine enclosed – our team of experienced hand finishers will enclose them for you, maintaining accuracy and quality through the duration of the job.

Target driven direct mail means sending the right message to your target market every time. Direct mail is physical, personal and a direct method to market your prospect and customers doorstep, it’s an effective, efficient method to increase your ROI.

We can laser personalise labels and letters, inkjet mailers and envelopes of any given quantity and size giving you the flexibility to choose how you would like to utilize of services.

With Direct Mail, you should always be testing new ideas, letter copy and offers – using variable print technology can enhance your 1 to 1 marketing communications. You can use different images and variable text throughout your print to deliver target specific direct mail campaigns making each DM piece unique. Variable document printing also allows you to personalise large litho print runs.

Your database is your greatest asset it holds all prior sales history, customer behavior, interest and habits.

We can:

• Provide a free Data Health Check
• Data Management
• Data Cleansing
• Data Preparation

We can manage your database by profiling and cleaning your data by removing deceased, gone-aways, and those who have moved and changed their addresses. By maintaining and cleansing your data, you will receive fewer – return to sender mail, therefore saving you time and money in the process, keeping your house in good order.

Even the cleanest databases can present challenges. Machine recognition issues, the different standards required by different postal operators, utilising Mailsort to achieve the most attractive postage rates – partnering with CFS ensures all of these criteria are met.