Magazine & Catalogue Printers for Peterborough
Peterborough has a long association with magazine publishing, alongside a growing base of retail, logistics and distribution businesses. Those are publishers and marketers who print on a schedule: an issue every month, a catalogue every season, a mailing timed to a sale. Fretwell prints, finishes and mails that work at our factory in Keighley, West Yorkshire.
We have no Peterborough office. We work with editorial, production and marketing teams there remotely, from file delivery to despatch.
Print to a publishing schedule
Periodicals live or die by their deadlines. A magazine or members' title needs files in, proofs signed off and copies despatched on dates that do not move. We can discuss your schedule, pagination and stock before the first issue so the plan is agreed in advance rather than renegotiated each month.
Our Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 B2 litho press suits longer runs, while Heidelberg Versafire and Konica Minolta AccurioPress digital presses suit short runs, sample copies and versioned editions. Saddle stitching and PUR perfect binding are both in-house, so the binding can follow the page count as a title grows.
From the press to the subscriber
Subscriber copies and catalogues usually go by post. Our data team can prepare the subscriber or customer file, and we can enclose copies with a letter, renewal form or insert on Buhrs lines before sorting eligible UK mail for Royal Mail Mailmark. Keeping print and mailing together removes a handover between printer and mailing house.
For retailers, a catalogue can be versioned by customer group or region using digital print and data, so a lapsed customer and a loyal one need not receive the same cover or offer.
Magazine printing
Saddle-stitched or perfect-bound titles printed to a regular publishing schedule.
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Seasonal and trade catalogues, with versions by customer group or region.
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Prepare and clean subscriber and customer files before personalised print and mailing.
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Getting from Peterborough to our printworks
Peterborough is roughly 130–145 miles from Keighley by road, commonly around two and a half to three hours depending on traffic. Production is at Goulbourne Street, Keighley BD21 1PX only. Copies can be delivered in bulk, mailed direct to subscribers and customers, or split between the two.
Distances and journey times are approximate, not a delivery or turnaround estimate. For a specific job, please discuss the destination and date with our team.
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Questions about print in Peterborough
Tell us what you need to make
Share your artwork, format and distribution plans. We will discuss the right production approach for your Peterborough project from our Keighley factory.
- Print, data and mailing under one roof in Keighley
- ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001 and FSC certified
- Royal Mail Mailmark and PostAim (Ireland) mailings
- Family-owned and producing since 1980