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Holywell Press Ltd

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Holywell Press logo with tagline printing in oxford since 1890

16-17 Kings Meadow,
Ferry Hinksey Road,
Oxford,
Oxfordshire,
OX2 0DP,
United Kingdom

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Colourful brand identity guidelines document created for CRES

Branding & Brand Identity

Unlock your brand's personality with a professional visual identity design. Our creative services team will identify your brand's unique strengths and differentiators. We then work closely with you to define to refine your branding.

Simple brand guidelines will amplify your brand. And your people will have the tips they need to reflect your visual identity in everything they do. 

Middle East Centre brochure featuring their new logo design

Logo Design

Your logo is a key part of your brand identity. It should be strong, distinctive, and reflect your brand's personality.

The best logos are simple, timeless, and versatile. Colours, font, and taglines combine to leave a lasting impression on your customers. Whether you're starting from scratch or rebranding, our logo design services will make your organisation stand out.

Campaign material designed for CRM Students

Advertising & Campaigns

Get your next campaign off to a flying start with professionally designed advertising and brochures. Let us design and create everything you need for fully integrated, multi-touch marketing.

Build your brand and meet your campaign goals with original campaign creative and graphic design. Establish and strengthen credibility, generate leads, and boost fundraising through targeted print and digital campaign material.

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Illustrations

Brands that rely too heavily on stock images can lack visual appeal. Their materials often look like every other company – and worse, just like their competitors.

Hand-drawn and hand-painted illustrations add interest and personality to any project. Original artwork adds authenticity to designs and makes them truly unique. Our illustrations are affordable and offer unlimited artistic license and flexibility.

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Book Printing & Binding

Affordable book printing needn’t be a high-volume affair. With short-run digital printing, offset litho printing for longer runs and image-centric books, and binding expertise in house, we print books of all shapes, sizes, and styles for commercial and private clients.  

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Self-Publishing Support

If you want to self-publish a book you've written, we’ll support you at every step. Explore our vast back catalogue of printed books to decide on the format you want, and get help from our experienced design studio with page layout, illustrations, cover designs, editorial services, and more.

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Printed Brochures, Leaflets & Flyers

Printed sales and marketing brochures come in all shapes and sizes and are a great way to showcase your products and services. From glossy company brochures to simple postcards carrying your latest offer, we can cover all your promotional printing needs.

Magazine covers printed for The School Librarian

Magazine & Newsletter Printing

Regular communications strengthen relationships and build engagement. Emails may be easy to send but they're also easy for people to ignore. Printed publications are more likely to be read, more likely to be kept, and are a better way to get your story across.

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Business Cards & Stationery Printing

Professionally printed stationery will always make a great first impression. From headed paper and branded envelopes, to business cards and bespoke order/receipt books, we'll ensure your 'calling cards' champion your brand and make a lasting impact.

Printed party invitations

Printed Invitations & Event Materials

Whatever the occasion, you want your event to be memorable for the right reasons. We create stunning printed invitations, menus, programmes, badges, feedback forms, thank you cards, and even posters and large format banners to make every big day a success.

A printed recycled cardboard packaging sleeve

Printed Paper Packaging

Your choice of packaging affects how customers perceive your brand. With purchasers often led by environmental concerns, paper packaging is a versatile, sustainable and affordable option for product boxes, folders, wallets, point of sale, and more.

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Report & Document Printing

Printed documents help people receive and retain important information – they are easier to understand and are proven to be more memorable than digital communications. We print, bind, and turn around reports quickly so your updates make a bigger impact.

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Printed Banners & Displays

Promoting an event or looking to turn heads at a trade show? Posters, banners and exhibition stand graphics can help get your message across, but sometimes we want them to say too much. It takes design expertise and print experience to make a real impact.

Three printed desk calendars

Printed Calendars & Diaries

Calendars and diaries are practical gifts that will keep your organisation front of mind all year round. Create something unique and useful for the important people in your world, like a branded desk pad with room to doodle, a year-to-view wall chart or pop-up calendar.

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Website Design

Holywell Digital design and develop websites that offer a seamless experience whatever device they are viewed upon. Whether it’s a brochure, ecommerce or dynamic site you are after we can accommodate your needs. What’s more we are ideally placed to ensure your online presence and printed marketing collateral complement each other. Just provide us with a detailed brief and we will provide you with a bespoke proposal.

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Electronic Publications

While we still love print at Holywell, we appreciate the convenience and added interactivity and multimedia capabilities of electronic publications. We know the difference between print and digital design and can redesign and repurpose print publications for online or ereader use. We can create ePub and Kindle files as well as interactive PDFs that can include audio and video. We also offer flipbook creation.

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Digital Marketing

Online promotion is vital these days. Holywell can design and implement a range of digital marketing activities, search engine optimisation (SEO) being just the most obvious of these. Other activities we offer support with include social media campaigns and email marketing as well as pay per click and image and media rich online adverts including motion graphics. We can also advise on content marketing, for example blogs.

Phone screens showing mobile app for stone carver's website

App Design

The best way to deliver content on mobile devices is undeniably through an app. At Holywell we offer mobile app development and design of native iOS (Apple) and Android apps.

We can take your idea and brief and use agile development practices to ensure the smoothest development from concept to deployment on the App Store or Google Play.

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Sustainable printing

Holywell Press strives to operate sustainably – generating our own electricity from solar panels on the factory roof, printing on Carbon Captured paper, reusing packaging to reduce waste, and making zero-emission deliveries by bicycle or all-electric van.

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Carbon Balanced Print

Feel good about everything you print. Carbon Balanced Print can help you reduce your carbon footprint, strengthen your Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) commitments, and benefit the planet – at no additional cost.

As a Carbon Balanced Printer, we balance the carbon our business produces through the World Land Trust’s global conservation and restoration projects - helping them to do vital work protecting carbon-rich habitat around the world. We can balance the carbon emissions that result from creating your printed materials in the same way.

About us

Holywell Press Ltd is a long-established and highly regarded printing company in Oxford. As the City’s only Carbon Balanced Printer, we are also the perfect choice for those looking to print sustainably.

Founded in 1890, Holywell Press is a thriving family-run business. For decades, we have helped businesses and individuals bring their brands to life with creative graphic design and expertly produced print and digital materials. Combining cutting-edge graphic design, expert print craftsmanship, and state-of-the-art technology under one roof, we are the one-stop shop for all your printing needs. 

Customers value our attention to detail and friendly customer service. We regularly receive 5-star reviews for our work – a testament to the quality of everything we produce and the lasting relationships we form with our clients.

What we offer…

Design

Great design comes from creativity, experience, and attention to detail. It also helps to have the right tools for the job! Whether you need help with logo design or branding, want to create a newsletter or magazine, or have an idea for a graphic but don't know where to start, our skilled creative team can help. 

As you might expect, all of our designers are experts in designing for print and will happily advise you on the common pitfalls that can sometimes derail print production. Their skills naturally extend into digital media too, and these dynamic skills will guarantee a professional edge to online and offline communications.

Printing

With more than 130 years of print experience, Holywell Press is the natural choice for digital and lithographic printing. We print everything from business cards to brochures, books to large format banners. Our approach is to consider every customer as a valued individual and every printing project as unique. We will proactively steer you through layout options, choice of paper, finishing techniques, and cost-saving options to ensure you get the best results for your budget.

Professional printing should make materials shine and give every project added impact. That's what we deliver, and that’s why our customers see us as a trusted advisor for affordable, high-quality printing, whether they need just a few copies or several thousand items.

Digital

People experience brands in many different ways, and Holywell Press can help you ensure your brand experience flows seamlessly across print and digital platforms. Whether you need responsive website design, app development, e-books, or motion graphics, our digital specialists are ready to assist. 

Unlock the power of digital media and deliver your customers an exceptional user experience online and offline. 


Holywell Press strives to operate sustainably (generating solar power on the factory roof, reusing and recycling packaging to reduce waste, and making deliveries by bicycle or fully electric van). We are also a certified Carbon Balanced Printer. This means we measure and balance the carbon our business operations produce through the World Land Trust’s global conservation and restoration projects – helping them to do vital work protecting carbon-rich habitat around the world. We can also balance the carbon emissions that result from everything we print – helping you to reduce your carbon footprint, strengthen your Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) commitments, and benefit the planet – at no additional cost.

As a Carbon Balanced Printer, everything we print for you can feature World Land Trust's Carbon Balanced Print logo, and we can issue World Land Trust certificates to show how much CO2 you have saved. That’s a great way to demonstrate your own commitment to a better world.

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