CD mastering | website design | font development | page layout | typesetting

Good Imprint is a compact, responsive and reliable CD mastering, web design and typesetting house based in Sussex, UK. Projects benefit from an imaginative but considered approach to technology, a flair for presentation and near fanatical attention to detail.

Present and past clients include: Alden Bookset Alner Hamblin Electronics AMB Technology APR Barbican
BBC Classic FM Magazine Classic Record Collector Cooper Hill Press Chrysalis Coaching Gramophone Grant Thorp Hi-Fi News Hypoparathyroidism UK International Record Review Kava Media Kennetbridge Lifescape MARQ magazine Macsen NJC Services The Original Tooth Fairy OxCHEPS Omen Ra Philip Allan Updates SomCom SOMM Recordings Songlines William de Wilde Wintershall

Good Imprint is greatly experienced in the exacting discipline of professional level audio CD mastering and provides this service to three prestigious consumer titles – Gramophone, Classic FM magazine and Songlines – for their front cover CDs. All aspects of Red Book CD production are catered for, including waveform editing, level matching, custom track point and indexing, coding for ISRC, copy inhibition and SCMS. Proof and Duplication masters are provided. Good Imprint also offers CD artwork and copy generation/proofing services plus liaison with a tried and trusted UK agency for clients requiring an extended service through to the delivery of commercial product.

Additionally Good Imprint offers mastering of multimedia, cross-platform (Blue Book) CDs. Examples are the enhanced format cover discs containing both music tracks and record company catalogue information or MPEG promotional videos that it has produced for Songlines.

Good Imprint is much occupied in the design and implementation of websites, small and large, servicing a variety of clients in the academic, arts, consumer magazine, industrial design, charity and consumer electronics worlds. Working both independently and in conjunction with the publishing & marketing agency Kava Media, Good Imprint specialises in 'clean', functionally elegant websites that are inviting to look at, informative and quick to display.

Options include database-driven pages using MySQL with PHP, an approach confering many advantages, not least the option of including a sophisticated, in-house developed content management system that enables the client to use a standard web browser to add pages or to update or delete existing material. Many of the sites shown in the Portfolio below are maintained in this manner.
   

Font development
Customised fonts for Macintosh or PC. Good Imprint has produced Eastern European character additions to the standard fonts used by Classic Record Collector, Gramophone and International Record Review. The same service was provided to BBC Proms for its programme booklets from 2006 onwards and in 2009 to the Barbican centre in London.

Page layout
Good Imprint offers professional level page layout services for any paper-based application, from company letterhead through to magazine and book publishing. Completed jobs are supplied in QuarkXPress or Print/Press optimised PDF format as appropriate. Where required Good Imprint can also arrange delivery of completed bulk print jobs through its connections with a small network of professional printing agencies.

Typesetting
Expert formatting of supplied text to suit almost any kind of typesetting requirement. Client copy can be submitted in a variety of formats, including any version of Word. Completed, styled setting is returned in QuarkXPress, Word, RTF or other format to specification. Good Imprint has typeset a range of academic textbooks for Alden Bookset, Cooper Hill Press and Philip Allan Updates.

Good Imprint is based in
East Grinstead
West Sussex
UK
t +44 (0)1342 314943
e info@goodimprint.co.uk

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