Most clients put this on a monthly plan. One team, one bill, guarantee-backed. Explore the plan

We own the press. So your print just works.

Most agencies farm print out and add a margin. We don't. Spectra owns its own print house, Star Print Pro, so your brochures, signage, direct mail and exhibition stands are designed and printed under one roof. Faster, controlled, on-brand, with no third-party mark-up.

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Why it matters that we own it

Owning the press changes everything.

When the people who design your work also print it, the margin, the timeline and the quality all stay in your corner. No agency cut on top of a printer's price, no waiting at the back of an outside supplier's queue.

Most agencies outsource print to a third party and add their own margin. You pay more, you wait longer, and a printer who has never touched your brand is the one running it. We do it ourselves, so design and print sit with the same team from start to finish.

An agency margin on top
You pay the printer's price, plus a cut for passing it on.
At a supplier's mercy
Their queue is your deadline, and you can't do much about it.
Quality crossed-fingers
Colour and finish handed off and hoped for, not controlled.
Finger-pointing if it is wrong
When something's off, the agency and printer blame each other.
What you get

If it carries your brand, we can print it.

All of it designed to do a marketing job, not just look nice on the shelf.

Brochures & flyers
Sales collateral and leaflets that do the talking when you can't.
Business cards & stationery
The handshake in card form, on stock that feels the part.
Direct mail
Targeted print that lands on the doormat and gets a response.
Signage & banners
Indoor and outdoor signage that makes you impossible to miss.
Exhibition stands
Stands and pop-ups designed and printed ready for the show.
Vehicle graphics
Turn the fleet into a fleet of moving billboards.
Packaging
Branded packaging and labels that make unboxing part of the pitch.
Large format
Posters, displays and wall graphics, big and sharp.
How we work

Two ways to use our press.

Need print as part of your marketing, or just need something printed? Either way, you're covered, and either way it runs on our own press.

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Design and print, joined up

Brand, artwork and print from one team, so everything matches and the margin stays with you.

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Or just send artwork

Print-ready files welcome. Send them to Star Print Pro and we turn them around quickly, no marketing attached.

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Proofed in-house

Colour, stock and finish checked on our own machine before it runs, so it lands exactly as intended.

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Delivered on your date

We own the press, so we own the schedule and protect your deadline, ready for the day you need it.

Proof, not promises

Designed, printed and on the stand, by one team.

Case study

Less Common Metals

Exhibition stand & collateral

From the brand and the artwork to the printed stand, banners and brochures, all handled by the same team on our own press. No briefing a separate printer, no surprises on the day, and it landed ready for the show.

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"Design and print sat with one team, so the stand turned up exactly on-brand and exactly on time."

The smarter route

A print job is step one, not the finish line.

A flyer with no plan behind it is just paper. Tick what your print should be working alongside, and see why print lands hardest as part of joined-up marketing.

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Hire it piece by piece

Buy a print job on its own, then it’s on you to find, brief and chase every other supplier yourself.

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Or roll it into one plan.

One team
One bill
One guarantee
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On the retainer

Want it guaranteed? That’s what the plan is for.

Print on its own is a one-off, so we don't pin a results guarantee on a single run, that wouldn't be honest. Results come from sustained, joined-up marketing, not a single print job. Move onto a rolling retainer and it's different: we agree the targets up front, track qualified enquiries against them, and if we miss we keep going at our cost until we hit them. Print then plays its part inside a plan that's actually backed.

How the guarantee works
Investment

Quoted per job. No middleman mark-up.

Because we own the press, every job is quoted on its own merits, fairly and upfront, with the margin a third party would take left out entirely.

Quoted per job, fairly and upfront, before anything runs
No agency margin sitting on top of a printer's price
Production billed at cost, charged separately from any retainer
A note on cost: a marketing retainer covers strategy, design and management. Print production itself is quoted and billed separately, at cost with no third-party mark-up. Guarantee-backed plans start from £3k/month.
Print FAQs

The questions we get most.

Straight answers about printing with us. Yours not here? Just ask.

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Yes. Spectra owns Star Print Pro, our own print business. That's the difference: most agencies outsource print to a third party and add a margin on top, while we produce it ourselves. It means no middleman mark-up, a turnaround we control, and the team that designed your work making sure it prints on-brand.

Pretty much anything that carries your brand: brochures and flyers, business cards and stationery, direct mail, signage and banners, exhibition stands, vehicle graphics, packaging and large-format posters and displays. If you're not sure whether we can do it, just ask, the answer is usually yes.

You're not paying an agency margin on top of a printer's price, so you cut out the mark-up that most agencies add for simply passing your job to a third party. We quote each job on its own merits, fairly and upfront, and because we own the press there's no middleman taking a slice.

Of course. If you've got print-ready artwork and just need it produced, send it to our press, Star Print Pro, and we'll turn it around quickly at a fair price, no marketing services attached. If you'd like us to design it too, we can do that as well.

Both. We can take a job from a blank page, brand, artwork and print, all under one roof, or simply print artwork you already have. Most clients love that design and print sit with the same team, because it means the finished article actually matches the brand.

Faster than going through a third party, because we own the machine and set the schedule ourselves. Exact timings depend on the job and finish, but you're never stuck at the back of an outside supplier's queue. Tell us your deadline and we'll tell you straight whether we can hit it.

Need something printed properly?

Tell us what you need and we'll quote it from our own press, no middleman, no mark-up. Design included if you want it, or print-ready artwork welcome.

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