Custom Letterhead Printing.

Because the sheet gets a second print pass in your office laser printer, and toner will not fuse properly to a coated surface. The fuser heats the paper to bond the toner, and a coating can blister or let the toner flake off in the tray.

Uncoated stock takes toner cleanly and also accepts pen ink for a signature. That is why nearly every letterhead we make is uncoated, regardless of how the brand's other print is finished.

Not across the print area, no. Foil and laminate both cause fuser problems in office printers, so we keep them off letterhead entirely rather than risk a jam or a blistered sheet.

If you want something tactile, a blind emboss positioned away from the body of the letter works, and a watermark produced in the paper itself reads as quality without any surface build-up at all.

100gsm to 120gsm, with 120gsm as the choice most organisations settle on. It feels substantial in the hand and still runs comfortably through most office printers without curling or misfeeding.

100gsm suits high-volume correspondence and is lighter to post. Going heavier than 120gsm starts to push the limits of ordinary printer trays, so we'd talk you through it first.

Laid paper has a faint ribbed texture pressed into the sheet during manufacture, and yes, it runs through laser printers without trouble. The ribbing is a paper texture rather than a coating, so the fuser treats it like any uncoated stock.

It reads traditional and people notice it on handling. Watermarked stock works the same way, with a mark visible against the light and no surface treatment to interfere with toner.

Specify the brand colour as a spot Pantone ink rather than a CMYK build. A spot ink is mixed to a reference, so the third reprint matches the first, whereas a four-colour build can drift between runs.

Letterhead usually carries just one or two brand colours, so spot printing is often the cheaper route as well as the more consistent one. The same inks are used on the matching envelope and compliment slip.

A4 at 8.27 x 11.69 inches or US Letter at 8.5 x 11 inches, and the printed elements stay in a header and a shallow footer. The body of the sheet is left clear because your office printer will fill it, and it can't reach the edges either.

Edge-to-edge design doesn't suit letterhead for that reason. We plan the print area so nothing from your layout collides with the margins a typical printer imposes.

500 sheets. That covers most small offices for a year, and the price per sheet drops at the 1,000 tier.

Matched items ordered at the same time, such as envelopes, compliment slips and continuation sheets, run on the same stock and colour references, which keeps the set consistent. Ordering them together also avoids paying setup twice.

Standard letterhead ships in 7 to 10 business days after proof approval, or 5 to 7 business days on rush. A printed sample takes 5 to 7 business days, and we suggest running one through your own printer before the full order.

The sample fee is deducted from the production job. Recycled uncoated stock is available on the same timing and is fully laser-compatible.