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Someone once told us they were called corflute signs because the core resembled a flute. But that’s silly because it’s clearly more like a harmonica. Either way, corflute or cor-harmonica, they’re a practical and cost effective way to advertise.

Staying true to the Mudgee region’s love for wine, Print Storm has become one of Australia’s wine label printing specialists. Cheers to that.

Envelopes. Sure they aren’t the most interesting thing in the world, but the fact is we need them. People use them every day. They pick them up, they look at them and they open them. This is why we think they’re a pretty important piece of customisable stationery for any business, big or tiny!

Spot UV business cards are on the high end of premium quality business cards. To explain the look simply, a Spot UV finish is the glossy effect you get when you use it to print text or graphics onto silky matte cards.

That's something to write home about.

When it comes to printing spiral bound projects, Print Storm makes it easy and affordable for customers in Mudgee, Sydney and Australia wide. We print and create high quality spiral bound books, booklets and documents for both commercial and private use. Spiral binding or Wiro-binding is ideal for presentations, notebooks, recipe books, manuals and other reference documents. The binding is durable and it’s an extremely practical and professional way to keep important pages together.

We’re very proud over here at Print Storm to showcase a website we recently designed and developed for one of Mudgee’s leading beauty salons, Ultimate Care.

More and more Dubbo businesses are switching to Print Storm to handle all their graphic and print work. The increase has allowed us to plan for 3 trips per week to make deliveries. Stuart Bromley in our Sales department puts it down to: "Getting the job out on time and at an attractive price, distance doesn't matter out west but turnaround time does to our clients". Read more about Dubbo Printing.

I had a primary school teacher who taught us that the way to remember the spelling of these similarly pronounced but very differently meaning words was that stationery had an ‘er’ in it like paper and stationary had an ‘ar’ in it like car (presumably a parked one!).

Take a look at our television ad on YouTube!

In May 2012, our Managing Director, Paul Cavalier, visited Drupa, the largest printing expo in the world, hosted in Dusseldorf, Germany. While there, Paul checked out the latest in print equipment and software, making some important purchasing decisions for Print Storm for the next 12-18 months.

Your business brand, logo, name, presence, whatever you want to call it, is perhaps the single most important and fundamental component of your business. We often come across clients that aren’t interested in paying for professional designs and would rather spend the money on something else. Some companies take matters in to their own hands and play around making their own logos using a “graphics” package, or Microsoft Word or Microsoft Publisher. Creating a logo that makes an impact is absolutely vital, but that’s just the beginning. The biggest, most successful companies in the world dedicate whole teams to maintaining a consistent image and the results are evident. Ultimately, the choice is up to you, but here’s why it’s good to get some help along the way, even if you’d prefer to save some money.