Printing

Printing for the Exhibition:

• Information Plaques
• Kinterbury Creek
• Tony Whitehead Photographs
• School Pieces A3
• School Pieces A4
• Bonkers Bunting
• Love Barne Barton Flyer
• Love Barne Barton Poster
• Love Barne Barton Exhibition Guide
• Mantle Gardens Flyer
• Mantle Gardens Ticket

When creating the posters and flyers, there were initial problems getting access to external agencies logo’s as these were often lost in emails however we were able to sort these through large amount of negotiation through email. most of the group were able to upload documents through the drop box, however we still used emails to confirm final edits before printing.  Other issues that arose were the size of the prints from the photographs of the school pieces, this was then decided by the curatorial team to print these in various sizes.

With regards to printing and William Danby’s photobook, the curatorial team discussed with Gem and Kim that we felt it would be better for the budget and for the website interaction it would be best for the photographs from the booth to be posted online and exhibited in the Mantle Gardens archival exhibition. Gem and Kim allowed us free rein on deciding how we approached this. We decided the photographs would be available to view after the archival exhibition giving the community an incentive to visit the archival exhibition and the website.

It was important to us as the curatorial team to try and budget ourselves and cut costs wherever possible so in order to do this we rang various printing companies in Plymouth for quotes, including even using our own printers at Plymouth College of Art, Kall Kwik, the Printing Press etc.  We decided to use Bretonside Copy for the duration of our printing for the event as not only did they work out better value for money, they also allowed us discount for large amounts of prints, and student discount. Not only this but their service was very good, and they did help us with some minor tweaking on the flyers to help us achieve the quality desired, I can’t thank them enough for advising us on this free of charge. Not only were Bretonside helpful we (the curatorial team) and other external agencies were very pleased with the quality of the prints.

With regards to how we were able to get the budget to print the process was a little tricky, as we would have to ring up Kim whilst at the printers for her to pay over the phone over 3 times. This was due to us having to negoitate for Take A Part to pay it out of their business account and then invoice Edith Doove who was holding the Budget for Take A Part. This was due to us not being able to fund this and then refund through the budget.