First Northern Production Workshop an outstanding success!

In January we hosted the first ever Northern Production Workshop, in collaboration with the GCA. We opened our doors to new and developing publishers to share an insight into the printing processes used to take their ideas from screen to retail ready greeting cards.

The workshop started with an overview of the greeting card market and opportunities, before covering processes in digital and litho production. Ahead of lunch we went on to a factory tour to see printing and finishing in action, this was a great opportunity for the designers to get to grips with the advantages and constraints of each process.

After a networking lunch the workshop moved on to cover preparing designs for prints, sharing best practise, templates and guides to support the designers in placing any future print work.

As the day wrapped up, our studio and production directors were on hand to answer any questions from the designers.

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We have been blown away by the positive response from the Northern Production Workshop attendees:

“It was the best day, I left feeling so so motivated and excited and with so much information I didn’t know I didn’t know!” Libby, Lib’s Cards

“I learnt so much from you all. I totally understand why you are leaders in your field.’ Nicky, Nicky Brier Designs

Tony Lorriman, Managing Director at Loxleys shared his thoughts on how the workshop went “Our business revolves around greeting card production and we have hundreds of years experience within our team – it’s always great to talk production with designers and publishers, pass on our knowledge and help with product development; our Northern Production Workshop was  the first time we’ve hosted such an event on site at Loxleys and we loved it – the reaction of the attendees on the day and the positive comments we have subsequently received made the event worthwhile and I’m really looking forward to doing it again”

Thank you to the wonderful designers who came along to our first workshop, it was brilliant to get to know you and learn about your experiences in the industry,

We’d like to share a special thanks to G.F.Smith, Gould, Fedrigoni, Enveco and Foil co and Kurz who provided samples for us to share with workshop attendees on the day.

After the success of the first Northern Production Workshop we are looking forward to hosting more events in the future. If you would like to be kept up to date with workshops please email to register your interest: Enquiries@loxleys.co.uk