Leeming Brothers are printers specialising in luxury, engraved stationery. Engraved printing – or die stamping – in which the text is printed from an engraved copper die and raised slightly from the paper is the best type of printing there is. The quality of Leeming Brothers’ engraving is second-to-none and, selling direct to the public from the factory, our prices are very competitive. In fact we are less than half the price of some of our competitors with 200 correspondence cards, for example, costing just £135 if ordered online.

Engraved printing is more an art than a science and an extremely difficult one to master. These days there are fewer engraved printers in England than there are brain surgeons. Our Production Director and chief press operator was apprenticed in the trade at the age of sixteen and now, with twenty years of experience, is known as one of the best die stampers in England, if not the best. He has been die stamping supervisor at the two largest engraved printers in the country and, at his last job, was responsible for printing the House of Commons paper – about 10 million sheets of it a year!

In recent years, a process known as thermography has become widely used for invitations and stationery that in the old days was engraved. Thermography apes the raised effect of engraving by sprinkling a resin powder on the wet ink which is then melted by heat. But it looks like what it is – a cheap imitation of engraving.

Leeming Brothers is at the forefront of technological developments in its industry and has pioneered a new process of engraving the copper dies from which the paper is printed and reduced the cost of the entire process to little more than that of the metal. Our customers are now able to enjoy the luxury of beautifully engraved stationery printed specially for them at a price little above that of thermography.

So if you want to enjoy the same quality in your stationery as the Queen or your MP, you can order it online or ring us on 01962 738492 for a brochure, samples and order form.