Our Services

From creative concepts to collating and laminating, we’ve got all your print and design needs covered.

We welcome all projects, big and small.

Expect competitive prices, fast turnarounds and refreshingly reliable advice and support.

  • Transform your ideas into reality.

    We're committed to helping you convert your ideas into spectacular documents.

     

    We can assist you with every part of the process,
    from creative consultation and initial design, to printing, finishing and distribution.

     

    Please click on the topics below to learn more.

     

    If you can't see what you need, or need some help to understand the options available
    please contact us
    here - we're sure we can help.

  • Print consultancy and management

    Take the pain out of printing with our all-inclusive print management service.

     

    We take care of everything from consultation and design to outsourcing, print finishing, packaging, distribution and print supply chain consultancy.

     

    We are often involved in situations where clients require technical support and advice on implementing alternative print strategies or design concepts.

     

    Our professional print management team are highly experienced to advise and manage all technical aspects of the print process. We will help rationalise your print requirements and create both efficiencies and enable cost control to your business communication requirements.

     

    Our print management service focuses on a holistic approach to all aspects of business communication for both digital and print platforms. Our service is supported by our in-house capabilities, our close links with suppliers from whom we can access the best skills and our knowledge of the printing industry.

     

    We value building a close liaison with our clients, managing your print runs, coordinating advice on print formats and design aspects to the completion of print and distribution.

     

    We will help, guide and direct the entire print process, providing innovative solutions while making sure attention to detail and quality standards are adhered to, keeping you informed of progress and achieve deadlines.

     

    If you have standard or unique printing requirements then let us know,
    our experienced team can provide a wealth of print management expertise that includes:

     

    • Providing a clear overview of your total print spend.

    • Provide a high quality and speed-to market that exceeds your expectations.

    • Cut costs by consolidating by targeting you communication messages and by rationalising your products to maximise production and distribution efficiencies.

    • Eliminate costs resulting from poor inventory management or inefficient ordering processes.

    • Provide a skilled and knowledgeable team of operators.

    • Provide a on-line interface to source your visual communication needs electronically using a simple tool to select products or build your print requirement.

     

    Our print management service offers a procurement strategy that supports many aspects of the print supply model. Our on-line system enables your users can access supplies through an efficient streamlined ordering system, automating the buying process and support; online through a highly customised interface, while you have control over unauthorised spending and detailed, highly flexible reporting and management information options.

     

    • Price negotiation.

    • Purchasing standardised products (Business stationery, etc).

    • Building the elements required in a new prints job.

    • Reviewing historical purchases and costing.

    • Delivery requirements.

    • Payment processes.

     

  • Creative & graphic design

    Bring your ideas to life with help from our branding and advertising experts.

    From websites, print media and typesetting to CD/DVD duplication,
    variable data integration and document imaging, you’re spoiled for choice.

     

    Our aim is to help you communicate your ideas through high-impact design solutions.
    Our design team will work with you to create products that meet your business needs.
    We have in-depth print production knowledge, access to the latest resources and can advise you on all stages of the design process.

     

    Here’s how our creative and graphic design team can help:

     

    • Providing technical input and advice on the most cost-effective production methods for your print or bringing passion and energy to each project to provide creativity and strategic design solutions that meet your business needs.

    • Advising on all design stages and job specifications (including paper types, finishing options and database driven technologies).

    • Brand identity development from concept (with new imagery, colours, fonts) or brand refreshment to ensure your brand reflects your company values.

    • Brand maintenance through branded stationery.

    • Advertising, promotional and campaign management (online or offline), creating advertising to suit brochures, flyers or posters.

    • Web design – create a comprehensive online presence with elaborate interactive functionality.

     

  • Digital printing

    Make the most of competitive prices, fast turnaround and no minimum quantities for stationery, brochures, flyers, mailers, booklets, postcards, price lists, menus, manuals, newsletters, catalogues, short run books, building plans, posters or banners.

     

    PinkLime’s in-house digital print equipment is at the forefront of print technology, enabling us to provide the most cost-effective and high quality print solutions.

     

    We consistently deliver exceptional advice at competitive prices to ensure you get the right product.

     

    We understand what you are trying to achieve and will advise and guide you to ensure you get the best options for each element of the print processes.

     

    We deliver innovative printed solutions for your printed material.

     

    Digital Print Products

     

    • Documents, including price lists, parts lists, training manuals, annual or quarterly reports and catalogues.

    • Brochures, flyers and company newsletters.

    • Short-run publishing of books, magazines, and technical brochures.

    • Colour posters and banners.

    • Cards, including invitations to functions, wedding, Christmas and other specialty cards.

    • Stationery products including letterheads, NCR books, business cards, self-adhesives labels, tickets and invitations.

    • Variable data print or adding to pre-printed shells.

    • Large Format plan and poster printing.

     

    Digital Print Services

     

    • Small and Large Format Digital Printing.

    • “Print-on-demand” digital publishing.

    • Printing from digital files or Copying from originals.

    • Document preparation and Creating and Inserting Tabs.

    • Variable Data Printing.

  • Print finishing

    They say presentation is everything.

     

    We’ll apply the perfect finishing touches to your book or project – see us for document and book binding, drilling, gluing, stitching, creasing, folding, perforating, collating, laminating, guillotining and more.

     

    PinkLime offers seamless, cost-effective post press finishing options – including drilling, guillotining, cutting, collating, folding, binding (including perfect binding), gluing, laminating, packing and distribution.

     

    Our highly experienced finishing team works with the latest print finishing technology.

     

    Your product will be completed with a high degree of attention to detail and to a high quality standard.

     

    Cutter Slitter

    Our cutter slitter is programmed to provide constant accuracy
    and is extremely versatile to suit a wide range of work.

     

    Trimming

    For either single or a more complex cutting, our in-house machinery cuts paper and card
    with great precision and accuracy.

     

    Creasing/ Scoring

    Our equipment provides a complete solution of cracking problems,
    which occurs when folding digitally printed output,
    effectively managing printed card up to 330gsm, laminates or cross-grained stock.

     

    Folding

    From a simple A3 fold to A4 to a complex document with multiple folds.
    Our in-house machinery is designed specifically for the digital toner or offset ink printing.

     

    Collating and Inserting

    Our collating machinery makes light work of this labour intensive task.

     

    Drilling

    Our multi-head drill can handle full reams of paper,
    drilling with ease through paper, thick card or specialised materials.
    Our drilling machinery ensures perfect results every time.

     

    Gluing / Padding

    Our gluing services include padding and NCR books.
    From A6 to A3 size with heavy backing board.

     

    Perforating

    Ideal for return slips from Invoicing, separating coupons or raffle tickets.
    Suitable for all stock weights between 65 and 160gsm.

     

    Hand Finishing

    For any job that can’t be more effectively completed on our equipment.

     

    Shrink Wrapping

    Protect the quality of the print materials, providing security to confidential materials
    or batch printed materials in sets.

     

    Fasteners, Folders and Covers

    We provide a range of document fasteners
    including, metal ACCO clips, plastic Euro clips and D clip ring-binders.

     

    Stapling

    Wire stapling from 2 to 280 sheets of paper, single or multiple staples.

     

  • Binding

    Binding

     

    Binding is used for books, reports, manuals and presentation material.
    Our services include a wide range of binding options to fit the intended use or cost effectiveness, including:

     

    Wire Binding

    Metal binding offers a professional finish with documents that open completely flat on a desk and allows

    for a 360 degree rotation of bound pages.

    Ideal for manuals, recipe books, diaries, journals and guides.

    Available in four colors and sizes from 6 mm to 32mm.

     

    Coil Binding

    Plastic coil provides a quality product that enables documents to sit flat when opened and offers 360 degree rotation for easy notetaking.
    Available in a wide range of colours

     

    Comb Binding

    Plastic comb allows a manual to be disassembled and reassembled by hand without damage.
    Available in many colors and sizes from 6mm to 50mm diameter.

     

    Thermal Binding or Tape Binding

    Coloured cotton adhesive tape strips are wrapped around the base of the document.
    Heat, activates the thermal adhesive on the glue strip and binds with the pages of the book.
    Available in a range of colors for books from 10 to 180 sheets of paper.
    We recommend adding thermal plastic front covers for books with over 100 sheets and staple for additional strength.

     

    Perfect Binding

    Used for paperback books, manuals or large catalogues.
    Combines internal sections or pages with a wrap around cover, made from heavier paper or card, glued together down the spine.
    When preparing a perfect bound book, our specifications will provide clear guidelines.

     

    The Three Knife Trimmer is used for perfect bound books or books that require trimming to three sides of the book. Using a robotic arm to control the trimming process, the quality of the finished product is greatly enhanced.

     

    Case Bound Books

    Hard covered bound books are ideal for theses, and are produced from a large range of cloth and embossed text colours.
    This quality product virtually eliminates any chance of a book falling apart.

     

    Saddle Stitching

    Booklet making that uses staple wires through the middle fold of a set of collated sheets.
    Ideal for marketing material, manuals or information booklets.
    Available in A6, A5 and A4 size booklets and up to 80 pages at 80gsm plus cover.
    Pre-creasing is recommended for heavy weight covers.

     

  • Laminating

    Laminating

     

    Add a professional finish to your presentations with our lamination services.

     

    We offer a high quality lamination service for A4 to A0 sized documents at a competitive rate. Laminating involves coating a print in a water- and UV-resistant plastic film.

     

  • Posters and poster display

    Make your project stand out from the crowd.

     

    We can help you create an eye-catching display with foam board mounting or installation into free-standing or fixed frame display units. We also provide fitting services for struts, hangers and eyelets.

     

    PinkLime’s large format digital printing technology produces large, high definition, full colour graphics fast and cost-effectively. Our large format printing services include colour, canvas and plan printing – ideal for displays, product launches, maps and drawings.

     

    We manage your large format printing from concept to finished product to ensure maximum impact.

     

    Our range of large format products

     

    • Banners and Posters on a range of material and mounted on board or laminated.

    • Portable displays for conferences, trade shows and exhibitions.

    • Shop displays systems for point of sale or showrooms, capturing your customers’ attention and promoting new products or special offers.

    • Product launches.

    • Presentation posters.

    • Self adhesive Vinyls.

    • Floor graphics.

    • Backlit images for electrical light display,
      made to any shape or size, suitable for internal or external use.

    • Maps and drawings.

    • Home or office décor.

     

    Colour Poster

     

    • We understand the importance of size: we can increase from an A4 poster to display AO posters, banners and wall murals several meters long.

    • Innovative and professional reproductions from various sources including original art or digital files.

    • Enables PSPs and GIS, CAD and AEC high-impact printing with outstanding quality with consistent and predictable colour.

    • Weatherproofing - UV cured inks for sun protection or lamination to protect against rain – ideal for long-term use of banners, display material, photo reproduction.

    • A range of substrates including premium paper, canvas, light box and vinyl (perfect for signage, exhibitions, trade shows and events).

    • Paper finishes are gloss, satin and matt

     

    Canvas Print

     

    • Ideal for turning your images into a beautifully printed print stretched on a canvas frame for a gift or to decorate your home or office wall space.

    • We print your canvas images to any size – from 914cm wide to any length.

    • Using premium quality Artist Canvas 340gsm cotton fabric, a high quality, single side coated double strand art canvas for graphics and art applications. It is "crack" resistant and has a water resistant coating.

    • Suitable for stretching over frames.

    • Either choose white edges or have your image wrapped around the edge of the frame.

     

    Plan Print

     

    • Includes line drawings, site plans, building plans, aerial shots and architectural drawings.

    • Up to 30 metres long and 840mm wide from either a digital file or hard copy material.

     

  • Large Format Finishing

    Large Format Finishing

     

    Lamination

     

    Laminating preserves and enhances printed images by deepening and brightens colours, enhances contrasts, protects and waterproofs through encapsulation and protects from smudges and abrasions or other routine hazards.  We have a range of protective and application specific laminate materials to suit all your requirements.

     

    • Pocket laminates from business card to A3 posters.

    • Heavy encapsulation films for moisture protection.

    • UV resistant for outdoor usage, slowing down the fading process.

    • Matt lamination flattens the reflection of light of wall hung posters, glare can detract the value or message of the poster.

    • Gloss laminating is highly durable.

    • Cold lamination are thin contact finishes used to protect the product from scuff marks and heavy handling, such as book covers or in situations where heat rollers may damage the print surface.

    • Self-adhesive laminate that requires pressure to bond it to the printed surface,  used in mounting posters to a variety of boards.

    • The materials we use are in weights from 28 microns to 250 microns from light flexible to heavy duty laminate.

     

    Poster Mounting

     

    Mounting of posters onto a rigid base is an excellent way to present and storing posters.
    We can advise the on the best method and material for the job from budget considerations to functionality. We have a range of lightweight, soft core, white mount substrate available in 5mm and 10mm.

     

    Features and benefits:

        •    Extremely rigid & smooth

        •    Lightweight

        •    Versatile, easy to handle

        •    Exceptionally durable

        •    Warp resistant

     

    Foam Boards


    The Foam board is constructed using kraft paper lining a dense extruded polystyrene foam core and there are two grades, Fome Cor is a economical board and Ultra Mount, a premium series of durable, rigid, warp-resistant signboard and presentation materials.

     

    Fome Cor is the best choice available for temporary signage applications or light-duty uses. It provide you a quality, economical board at an affordable price. Fome cor is ideal for mounting and framing photos and prints, temporary signs, architectural models, promotional displays and point of purchase sales.

     

    Features and benefits:

    • Lightweight
    • Economical
    • Rigid

     

     

    Ultra Mount

     

    Foam Board is a lightweight, durable and heavy-duty foam board and will not warp or bow like other foam boards. This makes it perfect for permanent displays including interior signage, photo mounting, exhibits, and point of purchase displays.

     

    Ultra Mount coated surface performs with the surface quality and rigidity of higher priced foam boards. Its bright white liners show exceptional image quality and the heavy-duty board 18-pt poly-coated paper liners has been developed to provide a good surface for laminating, dry mounting, cold mounting or photo mounting.

     

    Features and benefits:

    • Heavy Duty Foam Board
    • Rigid but Lightweight
    • Quality Coated Surface

     

    Canvas Wood Framing

     

    We produces high quality canvas prints from your photos or artwork. Getting your photos on canvas email or bring it in to our office, we check the image resolution to ensure the image is suitable for the size of canvas you require. We mount the canvas onto NZ made kiln-dried pine framing which are strong and not prone to warping. We can add white or coloured edges or have your image wrapped around the edge of the frame.

     

  • Display Stands

    Display Stands

     

    A lightweight and economical free standing retractable display. Easy to assemble, an instant display stand can be created in seconds. The unit comes in an attractive metal finish and various forms of banner media are available for printed graphics. Easily transportable, the Roll-Up Display Stand comes in a fabric carry bag and only weighs around 3kg for the 850mm x 1970mm stand and 2kg for the 600mm x 1600mm stand.
    We have a wide range of versatile display solutions to suit all budgets and application.

     

    Pull-Up

    Portable, free standing, small footprint, and retractable pull-up displays stored in the base.
    Easy to assemble and available a range of attractive metal finishes with a fabric carry case.
    Pull up banners or posers are a cost-effective, extremely effective and a easily transportable way to create instant signage and get your messages out there.
    You can easily change out the posters to update your messages whenever required.

     

    Banner Rails

    This suspended banner rail in aluminium, snaps over the top and bottom of the poster.

     

    XBanner

    Cost-effective solution, lightweight and easy to assemble.
    Works well when multiple prints need to be changed over.

     

    Folding Display Wall

    2300 x 2300mm collapsible stand that can be put up quickly and easily.

     

    Light Boxes

    Slimline light box, 35mm depth, aluminium finish surround and CCFL lighting system.
    Light boxes are either snap frame style or graphics are sandwiched between clear rigid sheets for extra protection and viewable from two sides.  Sizes A1, A2 & A3.

     

    Board Stands

    A simple and versatile way to support rigid printed boards.
    Adjustable to support any self-supporting boards up to 28mm in thickness.
    Available in 100mm and 500mm.

  • Fast distribution

    Enjoy peace of mind that your product will arrive at the right place at the right time.

     

    We offer immediate distribution to one or multiple destinations anywhere in New Zealand.

     

    So, what can we do for you today?

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