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A cut above the rest… Did you plant your sunflower seeds? If you received our summer sunflower mailing you should have been rewarded with glorious sunflowers that have brought your garden to life. So we thought you’d enjoy a momento of your summer achievements with a souvenir sunflower coaster which is hopefully taking pride of place on your desk. These…

Grow, Share and Win! Our scorcher of a summer (so-far) means that your sunflowers may have already reached their peak, in fact we’ve already had some entries for our Let’s Grow Together Sunflower competition. So if your sunflowers have already reached for the sky and are in full bloom don’t forget to measure the height of your tallest, take a…

Summer File Copy Fun! With beach huts, seagulls and flamingos our summer coasters celebrate the very best of the seaside,  bringing a little ray of sunshine on those days when you’re stuck in the office. You’ll find them in your file copies throught the summer, our gift to you just to say Thank You for choosing Fine Print…

Be Creative With Your Print We’ve had a ball creating our World Cup customer giveaways, we’ve shaped things up a bit this year and quite literally sprung into action. These giveaways have been expertly designed, printed and packaged by the Fine Print team and showcase some simple printing techniques that could be adapted to be a game changer for your…

Fine Print expertly bring the seaside inside at BIO2018 We print a lot of graphic displays for events, conferences and point-of-sale (POS) but it’s not everyday that we get the opportunity to create a Fine Print display; but that’s exactly what we did for our stand at Business in Oxford 2018 (BIO2018). Our aim was to make our stand memorable,…

 Fine Print are delighted to have printed and installed graphic display exhibition materials for the Kwibuka Rwanda exhibition (meaning ‘Remember Rwanda’) at the world-renowned Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford… …

Have you received your sunflower seeds via our beautiful personalised sunflower mailer? Now is the perfect time to plant your seeds, watch them grow, then share your photos with us and the tallest flowers will win £25 gardening vouchers … …

Enjoy putting pen to paper this spring and brighten someone’s day by sending them one of our quirky self-sealing notecards.  Blank inside for your own message, you’ll find one of these fun cards inside your file copies right now… …

Okay, so not the most exciting of reasons but a great one nevertheless. One of the best things about print is that it isn’t electronic! Apart from the fact that we all stare at screens way too much these days, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) and, more specifically, PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations - soon to be replaced by ePrivacy) are making it much harder to communicate electronically without the specific 'opt-in' of your audience.  Print, being non-electronic, means it does not require a specific opt-in agreement from your recipient, you do still need to give your recipients an opt-out option, and manage that process well to avoid breach. More importantly, you will also need to show there is a ‘legitimate interest’ in sending your recipient whatever (hopefully beautiful) piece of print you are planning to send them. So what is a ‘legitimate interest’? We’ll point you to more authoritative links at the bottom of this article but, if you have spent time and money designing and printing a beautiful and relevant mailer to send to a perfectly targeted database, you probably have a ‘legitimate interest’. Our experience is that few organisations intentionally post out pointless, untargeted and irrelevant...