togsPrint.com - Our Blog

Our picture framing workshop has gone from quiet this last month to incredibly busy! We’ve finally got our updated products online now - so customers over the internet can view our range! You can do this by clicking here: http://www.togsprint.com/store/index.php/moulding

We are by no means limited to these products, however these are by far our most popular sellers. For customers wishing a gallery look for their picture frames, we highly recommend the box black. Perfect for making your work stand off the wall. The Double Scoop materials are fantastic - add a lot of character to your wall art as well as making it timeless! Both modern, contemporary art and portraits look well in this.

Hey everyone! Well today is a great day for us - we have finally found a logistics company that can meet our demands and the demands of our customers.

For 12 months now we’ve struggled with a service that hasn’t always been as reliable as we would have liked, red tape and slow systems. Well 2010 will see the launch of FedEx being our primary courier service for UK Domestic services (both standard and express).

The new integrated system will be built into our website and on confirmation of the order the consignment will be generated and an order put in to the courier for collection.

This will save us loads of time in the workshop, meaning we aim to be able to produce 20% more orders per day. Great news for you as you’ll get a quicker service too!

We will still be offering standard mail services but all courier based shipments will now go via FedEx.

Hi everyone,

A long time I know since our last post. We’ve had a bit of a clear out of old bits and pieces - out with the old and in with the new!

It’s been a long time coming but togsPrint.com have now taken EVERY bit of production in-house. Before - we were getting our stretcher frames and picture frame cut and built off-site, then finishing them off in our workshop. However, missed production times, increased orders and reduced staff meant that time wasn’t being utilised efficiently. So…we’ve invested in a whole new suite of picture framing equipment to ensure custom orders as well as bulk-items are turned around now within 2 days (used to be 7 days to shipping). This will have a MASSIVE impact for our customers - meaning you no longer have to make your clients wait! We’ve also taken on a new member of staff who is dedicated to framing - and boy can he make them nice!

We’re taking stock in as we speak from Arquadia and Simons. Our popular ranges will be staying - but we’re getting some newer more modern mouldings in too. We’ll be framing up to 3ft x 4ft for the next 6 weeks til we get our new relationships firmed up with suppliers - we’ll be manufacturing bigger items in no time at all! Should there be any item you’d like to try (a particular range for example) - just give us a call and we’ll get a couple of lengths in for you to try!

Workshop now open!

We’ve been busy at togsPrint.com recently - having moved from our small office in Knottingley to a new 4500sq ft Mill in Morley, West Yorkshire.

At our workshop, as well as our photo studio (details here: http://www.islstudio.co.uk) we have an extensive range of products on our walls including Acrylics, Canvasses, a huge range of picture frames and very shortly, a complete display of frame chevrons / mount board which you can configure for your own prints.

Onsite you’ll be inspired by the product ranges as well as a huge selection of wedding and portraiture products that you can sell on to your own clients.

We’re hoping in the coming months to become an established reseller of professional imaging products and hope to start advertising our business to organisations such as SWPP/BPPA members and other large photographic societies where quality is key.

Sorry for such a small update - there’s been a lot of work done here recently and it’s just starting to really show itself off now

Cheers
Lee Proctor

togsPrint.com

Our new logo

We’ve had our old logo for over a year now. It was basic. It was boring. It was lacking in colour. It also didn’t really tell people new to our site or who saw our logo in the street what we did! So we had a sit down and came up with this.

It’ll be here for some time now too and you’ll likely be seeing it on websites we sponsor over the next few weeks.

As we’ve released our new logo - it’s only fair that we release something else new too. So - please find a link here to our latest release of prices across all of our product ranges. It also includes some new layout templates we’re going to be offering you for multi-aperture frames! These will be released shortly on our website for ordering.

Acrylic Prints!

Another new addition for us here at togsPrint.com is our fabulous new acrylic panel prints. These prints are laminated to 5mm or 10mm clear 3M acrylic with either a red, blue, black or white back panel. Add to these a stylish stand-off (polished black, silver, chrome or brass) and you have yourself a contemporary product to hang proudly on your wall.

We can produce these for you from 12″x8″ through to 40″x60″ - please get in touch if you’d like more information. Our standard products can be found here.

Thanks for taking the time to read!

Lee Proctor

togsPrint.com

Our printers here in the workshop our all, essentially, made in Japan. And this has a massive impact on how expensive (or cheap!) prints are to reproduce.

Over the last few months, the value of the yen to one pound has fallen drastically. The majority of our inks (Epson & Fuji) are imported and the price of these have slowly been rising. There’s been a 25% increase on the price of a single cartridge - multiply this by 10 and you’re into some serious expense!

We’ve been trying to hold off on increasing our prices so that you, our clients, can still receive the very best prints at great prices.

To achieve this we’ve looked into ways of cutting back - and the only way to continue to keep our prices as they always have been is to stop supplying the products which drain the profits. In this case - our small format prints.

As of now, togsPrint.com will not be supplying small format prints (6″x4″ through to 12″x8″) until the value of the pound against the yen begins to pick back up.

We hope this isn’t going to be a long-term scenario and as the year progresses we aim to buy a new Frontier machine which will bring the cost of these smaller prints down considerably and allow us to start supplying them to you again.

Watch this space…………….!

Lee Proctor

togsPrint.com

Apparently a blog (as per Wikipedia) is….

“A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.”

Well - for us here at togsPrint.com - it’s another way to reach out to our fabulous customers and let them know exactly what’s going on here in our studio. We tend to spend so much time testing products for our own interest and regularly forget to feedback to people out there who maybe interested in what is up and coming. Maybe you’ll find something you think is pretty cool and you’d like to try yourself?! Who knows….?

I’ll try to update this every week - we tend to get new frames and types of paper in every now and then and will post what we think about them - give advice on what to use (we feel) for what application.

Remember - a print is a reflection of your work and is the only real item that people generally interact with. Make sure it represents the emotional response you desire.

Lee Proctor

togsPrint.com