About us

The Production Process:
First proof:
Approving your job:
Pre-press and print methods:
Finishing:
Dispatch:
We take pride in our work:
Values:
We respect the environment and our community:

About us:

The Production House is New Zealand's largest online print store. With over 1000 products and quantity options we ensure you get the right product for the right price.

Production happens from multiple sites utilising real-time production based software to help keep track of all jobs. This ensures a high quality finish through specialisation of each production method and redundancy backup for key products to ensure timely delivery of your goods. Back to Top

The Production Process:

Once you've placed your order, it is processed and qued for a designer / mac operator to begin working on. Using a range of software tools, we will design, create, update or operate on the digital file and either supply you with a proof or (if it is a reorder) action it for printing. Over 100,000 high quality cards are printed each week and shipped overnight around New Zealand. Back to Top

First proof:

The first proof is often a starting point and we will happily amend, adjust or revise the design, as advised by you. Back to Top

Approving your job:

Once approved, your job is then prioritised for printing or sending to you (if only design work is required). Back to Top

Pre-press and print methods:

We employ new generation pre-press and print methods, using some of the latest technology to give you bright, vibrant, colorful print jobs.

By utilising A2 and A3 4-colour offset as well as digital presses we can produce the right product, at the right price. Back to Top

Finishing:

Once printed, your job may pass through one or more of our finishing processes, before it is quality checked and packed, ready for dispatch. Back to Top

Dispatch:

Once dispatched, your job can be tracked using on-line courier tracing. Back to Top

We take pride in our work:

Each print order is backed by our commitment to quality and value. Back to Top

Values:

We only print the RIGHT stuff. What we print - we want to ensure looks the best we can. Thanks to our own customised colour profiles and high definition print technology we are able to print crisp, bright, vibrant images that literally jump off the page at you.

RIGHT POLICY - SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

As a print company, we have an obligation to the businesses we promote AND to the general community.

• It is our goal to promote companies to the best of our ability utilising simple, high quality, cost-effective methods.
• We will be socially responsible for what we allow to be promoted through design and print, within our community.

Therefore it is our aim to produce high quality and good value print material that fall within the following areas ...

• R - Respect for others and life (ie. people, culture, life)

  Excludes any promotion or practice that degrades or demeans another or seeks to offend others or promote abuse / death. This may include abortion, euthenasia etc.

• I - Intention or motive is right / just.

  This is more subjective, so a general guideline would be to exclude any promotion where the intention behind the promotion is to manipulate using say sex, pornography, violence, fear, guilt or any other tactic that would be deemed to be unacceptable.

• G - General Audience

  Excludes most promotions that requires the participant to be 16 or over. This would mainly be due to violence, language, or sexual content, but may also include gambling, cigarettes, massage parlours, adult shops etc.

• H - Honest.

  Excludes any promotion that does not give an honest representation / or promotes a product that is not honest (although it may be legal). Examples of this could be Radar Detectors, licence plate covers that obscure speed cameras photos, promotions that contain misrepresentations, misleading statements or offers, gossip, slander etc.

• T - The Law

  Excludes anything that falls outside of the National Advertising Standards Authority or is deemed illegal within the country(s) of operation.

If we have a query on any one of these points when handling a job, then we will discuss the material with the client supplying the work prior to starting the job.

Any work that clearly does not meet one or more of our RIGHT checks will be refused. Back to Top

We respect the environment and our community:

All paper stocks come from 'sustainable resource' and we ensure we minimise the amount of wasted paper by ganging up similar jobs together. We also commercially recycle what offcuts (which are minimal) that are left.

We also take a responsible approach for what content material we print. We believe print is important - as long as it honestly informs and does not offend. That is why we developed the RIGHT policy. A simple 5 step system for ensuring we only print what we'd be happy to put our name too. Our philosophy has always been - 'would we be able to show our kids - or would we need to hide it?'

It's a pretty bold stand in a competitive print market - however we're not going to compromise our core values for the sake of making an extra dollar. So we will decline to print any job that contravenes our 5 step check. So if you see anything offensive in print media - it won't have been printed by us. Back to Top