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Common Large Format Printing Mistakes – And How To Avoid Them
With large format printing, there can (literally!) be more room for error, so there are a number of potential large-format printing mistakes. With these kinds of graphics, it’s absolutely imperative that you get your message across in the right way. Here, we take a...

Digital Cutting vs. Die Cutting: What’s The Difference?
People often ask us about the difference between digital cutting and die-cutting, so here we offer an explanation. For those who weren’t aware, both digital cutting and die-cutting are a great way to make your brand stand out and create a bold statement with a...

Guide to School Signage: Create an Inspiring, Vibrant Place to Learn
The right school signage can make all the difference when it comes to creating the ideal environment for children to learn in. And with pupils back for a new academic year this autumn following months of lockdown, it’s arguably more important than ever to ensure they...

Keeping It Under Wraps: The Benefits of Construction Site Building wraps
Building wraps, which use large-format digital printing to cover a building, provide numerous benefits when deployed on a construction site. If you’re not familiar with them, these wall wraps are among the highest-impact forms of outdoor advertising and are used to...

Rocket Delighted to be Associated with Award-Winning Exhibition Stands
Attending exhibitions and trade shows in person may be off-limits for now, but at Rocket, we’re extremely proud to have been associated with a number of superb stands which scooped top wins in the recently announced World Exhibition Stand Awards for 2020. The scheme...

Our Recent Social Distancing Signage Installs
In recent months, social distancing and Covid-19 safety signage have become part of the landscape, and at Rocket, we’ve been helping businesses across numerous sectors prepare for the easing of lockdown restrictions by producing and installing it. As daily life...

Social Distancing Office Signage: A Simple Guide
Office social distancing signage and structures for workplaces are set to become important as the UK mulls a gradual, staggered return to work. The country went into lockdown on March 23 in a bid to tackle the spread of the coronavirus. Many workplaces across the...

Social Distancing Retail Signage: A Simple Guide
Social distancing retail signage has become an important consideration since the outbreak of Covid-19 and the start of the UK’s lockdown. While huge numbers of shops across the country have been firmly closed, with little sign yet of things changing, for those,...

Graphics for Large-Format Printing: a Guide and Checklist
It can sometimes be poorly understood, but large-format printing, also known as large-scale or wide-format printing, could bring a number of benefits to your business’s branding. These days, printing in a bigger size in no way means having to compromise on efficiency...

What Is Signage – And What Are Its Uses?
Everyone’s heard of it, but could you identify precisely what signage is and the specific purposes it serves? Of course, it’s everywhere you look, every time you leave the house, from hoarding signage to sports and retail signage, among numerous other examples. Some...

Acrylic Signage in Brand Implementation: How You Could Benefit
You may not realise it, but acrylic signage is everywhere – you see this hugely popular and versatile material every day in signs and branding in offices, banks, shops and restaurants; the uses and benefits of acrylic signage are numerous. So if you’re not already...

Five Great Uses of Tension Fabric Systems (TFS) to Boost Your Brand
A Tension Fabric System (TFS) is a technique for showing graphics in a plethora of ways in a variety of different settings, be it in retail displays, exhibitions graphics or events and corporate settings. A system like this is essentially just one where...

The Benefits & Uses of Hoarding Graphics & Signage
Hoarding signage and graphics are something we all come across all the time in our daily lives – on the way to work or when we’re out and about at the weekend, especially when passing building sites and new developments, be it commercial or residential. We probably...

10 Ways to Increase Workplace Productivity with Great Office Branding & Signage
When it comes to increasing workplace productivity, office branding and signage isn't always an obvious answer. However, the workplace has undergone huge changes over the last two decades. Cubicles have been swapped for open-plan designs, while ping-pong, beer...

Make the most of visual graphics in your retail store this Christmas
It’s nearly that time of year again where we brace ourselves for this season’s festive window displays on the high street. If you’re one of those people who dislike any mention of the C-word this side of November, we can’t say we entirely blame you. But the reality is...

How the right graphics can set your entertainment venue apart
Whether you run an aquarium or a museum, a go-karting track or a theatre, the right graphics and stand-out signage can do more to boost customer footfall and enhance brand recognition at an entertainment venue than you may have realised. In a competitive climate in...

Hospitality Graphics: Why They Matter
If you’re in the hospitality or hotel trade, you’ll know just how competitive the industry can be especially in an age in which reputations can be made or broken in seconds with online customer reviews. But if your hotel, restaurant or bar sets itself apart with the...

What is Large Format Printing
Large format print, otherwise known as wide format printing, sets itself apart from conventional printing in a number of ways. Traditionally, standard printing presses have not been able to produce work over a particular size, or in large format, but advanced modern...

5 great uses of vinyl graphics in your printed branding
Vinyl has more uses than just about any plastic in the world. It was discovered completely by chance more than 90 years ago in 1926, by Washington University chemistry teacher Waldo Semon, who was researching a new manmade adhesive that would cost less than the...

Take your advertising on the road with vehicle branding and fleet wraps
If you’re not already using vehicle wraps in your fleet branding, you could be missing out on a vital opportunity. These kinds of vinyl graphics allow your cars and vans to work hard for you advertising your brand on the road, while an unbranded vehicle does nothing...