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"This was a tricky brief and I had no idea where to get this done, but once speaking with Whitney Woods and seeing the samples they provided, I was reassured that they are the experts in this field.
With easy to use templates and guidance throughout from a very helpful team, the job was delivered ahead of time and to the great satisfaction of the client. Brilliant job and many thanks!"
Richard Crossley,
Intermedia
"Pop up solutions are always well received and generally produce a much higher response from the recipient than other marketing mailers"
David Antrobus, MD
David Antrobus Marketing Ltd
"Whitney Woods provide an innovative range of high impact mailing devices that inspire creativity and demand the recipient’s attention."
Jon Hollins, Director
Freshwater Creative
Hand Finishing
HAND FINISHING AND EYELETTING – PRINT FINISHING SERVICES SINCE 1992
Whitney Woods was established in February 1992 as a hand-enclosing direct mail business but the hand skills required by that service were soon put to wider use when we started to supply the print industry with eyeletting and hand finishingservices in the spring of that year.
Having been established during one recession and survived, we have just had our 17th anniversary and we are holding our own through the current downturn. This sets us apart from many hand-finishing businesses who are often bullied into working for next to nothing and as a consequence they cut corners, work with inexperienced cheap labour and eventually cock-up and are forced out of business. We have insisted on being paid a fair rate for a job well done and done on time. This hasn’t always endeared us to certain print companies but we are still here when so many other long-established hand finishers and eyeletting businesses are not. We have a reputation for being thorough, supplying good work and a very reliable service.
EYELETTING SERVICES COVER A LOT OF FUNCTIONS
The only machines in our factory are paper drills and eyeletting machines, so apart from drilling and eyeletting, every job is done totally by hand. Even the eyeletting machines are hand-operated and are best-suited to the assembly of information discs, parking discs and wheel charts. We actually produce millions of discs like this each year – all on hand-operated bench top machines. We can handle orders of 250 to over 250,000. We also eyelet tags, swing tickets and luggage labels and there are many rather unusual eyeletting application, too. Eyelets are occasionally used as a binding tool; they are used to capture elastic in some applications and at other times they might be purely decorative. Whatever the eyeletting application, Whitney Woods is happy to look at the job.
HAND FINISHING COVERS HAND COLLATING, HAND INSERTING, HOT MELT GLUING AND MORE
When we talk about hand finishing there are a number of functions that could apply to the term. We still do a lot of hand collations prior to drilling and inserting into ring binders. We do a lot of hand gluing, from spot gluing to making up pockets in capacity folders to hot melt gluing cartons and so on. We do a lot of hand inserting such as making up information packs,handling direct mail and putting loose inserts into wallets etc. To see the full range of services on offer we recommend that you visit our dedicated hand-finishing website.