Start with the finish

OThe journey to achieve a beautifully printed memorable item begins with the concept and design. Yet to arrive at this destination you must also consider the finish first. Ultimately no matter how well a job is printed or how vibrant the colours and images appear, it will no doubt be the finish that captivates your attention.

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Our luxury and bespoke finishing techniques include:

Bespoke brochure covers made up using materials such as leathers, fabrics and textured paper or board substrates.

Book binding methods of PUR binding, perfect binding, wire binding, case binding, Singer sewing and thread sewing.

Application of gold, silver, coloured and holographic foils.

Embossing, debossing and die cutting.

3 Dimensional ink application for raised and tactile printed images.

Spot UV varnishes and all over varnish finishes.

Digital gold inks for pure gold and CMYK metallic effects.

High build gloss UV to enhance images and logos.

Printable laminates range including coloured metallics, gold and silver soft touch, unique matts and anti-bacterial finishes.

These finishes can often be combined to produce truly beautiful and individual print.

Make print visual and tactile

Bowden and Sons create print that is colourful, clear and defined, print that is visually stimulating and engaging. But print needs to be so much more than just visual. Quality will be measured by how the item communicates with our tactile senses, through material choices, the mechanics of how it works, opens up or changes as pages are turned.

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Our luxury and bespoke finishing techniques include:

Bespoke brochure covers made up using materials such as leathers, fabrics and textured paper or board substrates.

Book binding methods of PUR binding, perfect binding, wire binding, case binding, Singer sewing and thread sewing.

Application of gold, silver, coloured and holographic foils.

Embossing, debossing and die cutting.

3 Dimensional ink application for raised and tactile printed images.

Spot UV varnishes and all over varnish finishes.

Digital gold inks for pure gold and CMYK metallic effects.

High build gloss UV to enhance images and logos.

Printable laminates range including coloured metallics, gold and silver soft touch, unique matts and anti-bacterial finishes.

These finishes can often be combined to produce truly beautiful and individual print.

Communicate brand quality

Bowden and Sons have developed a range of luxury print finishing techniques to enable brand quality to be communicated and represented though the printed item. Finishing techniques that we often combine to produce truly beautiful finished products that leave brand consumers feeling individually engaged and appreciated.

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Our luxury and bespoke finishing techniques include:

Bespoke brochure covers made up using materials such as leathers, fabrics and textured paper or board substrates.

Book binding methods of PUR binding, perfect binding, wire binding, case binding, Singer sewing and thread sewing.

Application of gold, silver, coloured and holographic foils.

Embossing, debossing and die cutting.

3 Dimensional ink application for raised and tactile printed images.

Spot UV varnishes and all over varnish finishes.

Digital gold inks for pure gold and CMYK metallic effects.

High build gloss UV to enhance images and logos.

Printable laminates range including coloured metallics, gold and silver soft touch, unique matts and anti-bacterial finishes.

These finishes can often be combined to produce truly beautiful and individual print.

Hand crafted

We live in a world that is forever obsessed by complete automation to offer us maximum efficiency of cost and time. Yet the majority of real luxury products are handmade, often by uniquely skilled craftsmen and women with a real appreciation of the materials they work with and the brands they represent. Bowden and Sons are proud that many of our luxury finishing techniques rely on highly skilled, hand crafted processes.

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Our luxury and bespoke finishing techniques include:

Bespoke brochure covers made up using materials such as leathers, fabrics and textured paper or board substrates.

Book binding methods of PUR binding, perfect binding, wire binding, case binding, Singer sewing and thread sewing.

Application of gold, silver, coloured and holographic foils.

Embossing, debossing and die cutting.

3 Dimensional ink application for raised and tactile printed images.

Spot UV varnishes and all over varnish finishes.

Digital gold inks for pure gold and CMYK metallic effects.

High build gloss UV to enhance images and logos.

Printable laminates range including coloured metallics, gold and silver soft touch, unique matts and anti-bacterial finishes.

These finishes can often be combined to produce truly beautiful and individual print.