Belfast International Airport #RoutesEurope Project

 

Our brief for this project was to showcase the best of Northern Ireland and provide a warm welcome to the delegates as they arrived at the airport.

With this in mind, our design team took the brand and used some of our most loved landmarks to show the delegates what Northern Ireland has to offer.

We then produced a range of products for the welcoming area in the airport – exhibition stands, banners, wall graphics, printed flooring, signage and pillar wraps.

Our team did a fantastic job bringing everything together from concept to completion. Click through the gallery below to see our favourite parts of this project.

 

 

Visit Minprint at Digital Tourism next week!

Are you heading to Digital Tourism at Titanic Belfast on Thursday 24th November? Make sure to come see us, we’ll be there from 8am!

We’re excited to connect with everyone from the hospitality and tourism industry at the event – we can’t wait to show you how we can help your business!

We’ll be showcasing our T3 display stands and digital signage, as well as chatting about all your marketing needs. We’ll have printed samples, cross media demos and gift packs for all who come and see us too!

Click here to register – Don’t forget to use discount code “MIN” for 10% off your tickets!

 

Minprint’s Display Department is Expanding!

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“Minprint Holdings Limited has received Invest NI Selective Financial Assistance in support of its investment and growth plans. Part financed by the Investment for Growth and Jobs Programme for Northern Ireland 2014-2020, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. This project aims to assist the company in expanding its current manufacturing capability.

The company has identified growth opportunities which can be met through the purchase of a super wide format LED UV printer to give it additional capability by producing high quality display products not currently achievable with current hardware. The printer will allow the company to print on a variety of substrates (including textile) at various thickness, to produce a range of wide format graphics including floor and wall graphics that can be used across a variety of sectors.”

We are very excited to announce that we are opening a second premises, and our signage, exhibition and display department is expanding as we merge with Alpine Signs Ltd!

It’s been two years since we bought our first large format flatbed printer, and a year since we bought our flatbed cutter. Since then, we have seen a massive increase in the demand for signage, exhibition and display, which is why we felt it was the right time to expand this department.

Our new 8000 sq. ft. premises is on Prince Regent Road, just a few minutes away from our current premises on Castlereagh Road. Our current signage, exhibition and display team will be merging with the team from Comber-based Alpine Signs, one of NI’s best sign makers and vehicle branding experts.

This merger will allow us to expand our large format print capabilities and enable us to create a higher standard of bespoke display, signage, vehicle branding and exhibition items to meet growing demand from our customers.

The new premises will give us the space to install some amazing pieces of equipment to grow our production capacity. (check out the video below of our 3.2m roll to roll printer being installed!)

We will also have the space for a showroom area where we will have a range of our exhibition, signage and display items on show! The space will also allow us to spread our wings towards large scale corporate signage which is very exciting!

Our 3D designer Joseph and our graphic designer Neill are also moving to the new premises with the large format team. They will be on hand to provide photorealistic 3D visualisations and designs for displays, exhibitions and signage. This gives us a unique ability to show our customers their products in-situ before we even start printing!

The team is working very hard to get everything set up, as you can see from the photos we have made a lot of progress in the last week alone! The team will be moving next week, so we hope to be up and running in the next few weeks and we plan to be at full production capacity before Christmas!

Find out more about our exhibition and display products at http://minprint.co.uk/exhibitiondisplay/, and if you are interested in seeing what we can do for you, give us a call on 02890705205 or email sales@minprint.co.uk and we would be happy to give you a grand tour of our new second home!

Oakfield Park – Job of the Month

 

This month’s featured job was quite a challenge, and we loved every minute of it!

Oakfield Park is a five phase property development on Jordanstown Road, just outside Belfast. We were tasked with creating and developing a brand identity for the development, devising online and offline marketing strategies, designing 3D CGI renders of the properties, and designing and printing the marketing material.

Our design team took this job and ran with it, creating a stunning brand identity and brand toolkit for the client. They also designed some beautiful marketing material for print and display, including the following:

  • Development overview brochure
  • Phase One homes specificaton brochure
  • Bespoke brochure folders
  • Promotional flyers
  • Postcards
  • Roll up banners
  • Site signage
  • Outdoor advertising campaign (billboard and Adshel)

Our cross media team also pulled out all the stops and created the following:

  • Design and build of a ‘sneak peek’ website for the development
  • Design and build of a full website for the Phase One release
  • Purchaser management online system
  • Email marketing system
  • Digital and social media marketing
  • Aeriel photos and videos using our DJI Phantom 3 drone

With so many elements to work with, it was key that we had a clear marketing strategy to help tie everything together, so our marketing experts devised a marketing timeline using a staggered approach to encourage maximum visibility both online and offline.

This job encompassed almost every aspect of what we produce here at Minprint, and we are very proud of the results we have achieved so far. The project is still ongoing and we hope that we can continue to provide outstanding results for our client.

If you would like to find out more information about Oakfield Park, check out the website here, and follow the Facebook page here to keep up to date with the development.

 

August Job of the Month – Todds Leap Banners and Flags

This month, we produced some large format print for the Todds Leap, Ireland’s biggest and best Activity Centre, who recently celebrated their 25th year in business.

Banner flags (4m flag shown), are the perfect way to showcase your business on the big scale and were perfect for the main entrance to all visitors of Todds Leap.

However, their large mesh banner graphic, was the pinnacle of the job. Customers arriving by car will see this as the welcoming sign to the activity centre. This large format print gave an all round perspective of the sports and activities that can be done in the centre with all of the silhouettes.

 

After completing the job, our salesman Gary (pictured), was even given the opportunity to go round the centre and try out the zipline!

 

May Job of the Month

Our in house production never stops!

In a new twist in print production, we have expanded our capabilities into the world of small run packaging. One of our first jobs was the Go Get Print box production in which, some very lucky people received a promotional box highlighting our new Go Get Print service.

With the success of our campaign and positive feedback received on these boxes, our eyes turned to the next job and produced the Friends of the Cancer Centre Family Favourites recipe book – our selected May’s Job of the Month!

From start to finish, our Design, Print and Display persona, quite literally was put into practice for this great work. The design of the recipe book from our designers proved a hit and continued throughout the finished product. Our new packaging and display solution is the ultimate way to show off the recipe book.

Below is a small demonstration of our Go Get Print Welcome box. We now have the facility to virtualise your packaging requirements with a pre production 3D PDF, complete with the artwork of your product.

ISO Certification for Print Colour Management

iso_12546-2This month Minprint became one of only a handful of printers throughout the UK and Ireland to gain Print Colour Management ISO Certification 12647-2:2013.

We are proud of our achievement and believe it proves to our customers that they are in safe hands for quality full colour printing.

At Minprint although we are a Belfast based print company, we provide great service to clients across Northern Ireland and throughout the UK and Ireland. With an overnight delivery service and express production capabilities.

This Certification follows the installation of our brand new Heidelberg XL75 press which is a four colour plus coating perfecting press.

The B2 paper sheet size press is one os the most versatile feeders on the market which allows us to print on paper as light as 60 micron or as heavy as 800micron box board. This helps us provide a wide range of commercial print products from Brochures and Business cards to Booklets and Boxes.

Print quality is only half the battle, as we know from over 35 years experience, unless you have the right finishing equipment your jobs you can’t guarantee the end result. Fortunately with our continuous investment in the best technology on the market we can fold, stitch, cut, crease and laminate amongst many other processes all in house. All this ensures we have full control over your jobs from start to finish.

If you have a print job coming up and would like to discuss your requirements with one of our friendly helpful staff please call 028 90705205 or email us here and outline your enquiry for us to get in touch.

Alternatively you can click here to visit our new online ordering website Go Get Print to spec your job up and order now.

March Job of the Month

March proved to be a very busy month indeed in Minprint!

Our top pick of the jobs is one we designed and printed, the new Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council Visitor Guide 2015 prints, complete with the new branding of the super councils, Visitors Map A2 to A5 & an A5 116 paged book!

This friendly, colourful and easy to read guide, gives the perfect opportunity to display all the events and local things to do around the Lisburn and Castlereagh area – perfect for attracting all the tourism to the area! With a nice finish to the print, the Council were delighted with the end product.

Click on the gallery above to view some of the content.

 

February Job of the Month

We are proud to announce the February Job of the Month!

The Marine Institute came to us to develop their Cullen Fellowship Programme information guide – a new programme for opportunities in Post Graduate Reseach.

 

The Cullen Fellowship Programme provides research training opportunities for scientists in marine and related disciplines, leading to Masters and PhD degrees.

The Programme has been established by the Marine Institute in memory of Anne Cullen (1958 – 2013), who made a significant contribution to the work of the Marine Institute during her 35 years of service.

 

Our in house design team were able to comply with the Marine Institute’s needs for a clean, effective and simple design that would help promote the Cullen Fellowship Programme. The final design was printed on a nice gloss finish to give a nice lasting and professional feel for the booklet.

Minprint in the News

Minprint appeared in Print Week Online today, the article seen here and here tells the story about our new XL75 and platemaker.

With the implementation of Heidelberg’s ISO 12647-2 colour certification scheme we can ensure high quality in every print run.