We are pleased to announce the grand opening of our new online storefront: UK Ticket Printing, your source for high-quality, high-resolution Event Tickets for general admission or reserved seating events, plus plenty of matching publicity materials, such as poster and invitations, to keep you looking smart.

This site may be new, but we’ve been around the block. We know online ticket printing. We practically invented it! We’ve been at it for well over ten years, so you can choose designs from our online gallery safe in the knowledge that you are working with seasoned professional who can provide exactly what you need for any event.

Whether you’re holding a small private celebration or the charity event of the season, our new site makes it easy to select, customise, and order the perfect Event Tickets for your gathering. What’s your theme? We have seasonal, local, holiday, musical, childrens, and automotive tickets, to name a few. Full colour or black and white, simple and unadorned, or elaborate with an option to upload your own business logo, if you find yourself in need of an Event Ticket, you’ll find just what you need in our online gallery of Event Tickets.

So please, allow us to invite you into our parlour, where you can sit in your favourite chair and view our collection of original designs. UK Ticket Printing is the clear choice when you print your own Event Tickets.

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As the site launch approaches, I’ve been fortunate to preview some of the lovely new designs that will be available. Our designers have spared no effort and created a wealth of unique and lovely ideas for you. No matter what kind of event you want to hold, you will find a proper Event Kit at UK Ticket Printing. We’ll be starting off with a wide selection and adding more designs all the time. For instance:

• Local Kits
• Liverpool
• Manchester
• London
• Sport Kits
• Cricket
• Rugby
• Football
• Cultural Kits
• Ballet
• Art Fairs
• Night Clubs
• Seasonal Kits
• Christmas
• Hogmanay
• Summer Fairs
• St. Patrick’s Day

As you can see, there will be an Event Kit for every event, and when you’re ready to print your own event tickets, you shall be able to find just the very design for your tickets.

Of course, I’ll be offering up more information as it becomes available, including the date of launch. In the meantime, we are working to create the best tickets in the UK so that you can hold the best events!

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What’s in your event? If you’re like me, it’s your heart and soul. Whatever the reason for your gathering–conviviality, charity, social issues–you care deeply about the group that is to gather. You want everyone to feel comfortable. You want everyone to have as much fun as they can, or to be as productive as possible. You want things to run smoothly. You know that your events reflect on you. You want them to reflect well.

I pay attention to detail. That’s why I choose to print my own professional, affordable Event Kits. My General Admission Tickets, Reserved Seating Tickets, and VIP Passes have to look great. They speak to the success of my event before I open the doors, and I care that they speak well. That’s what I love about matching Event Kits selected for their beauty and relevance to my affair. They create a lovely and enviable sense of anticipation well in advance of the party. I can even find posters, fliers, invitations, and more publicity materials in the same design.

My tickets set the stage for my events. Yours can too. It’s easy to do a search for relevant keywords. Christmas? Hip Hop? Classic Cars? You can find what you’re looking for, and if you can’t find it, you can use your own images to create the perfect ticket, either with our DIY tool or by choosing to have a talented designer put the ticket together for you. It’s almost too easy. You may find yourself planning galas well in advance when you see all your options. You can print the right ticket faster than you can blog about it!

Who said event planning had to be a burden? Put the fun back into fund raising (or conferences and conventions, or huge social gatherings, or small, intimate theatre) with fantastic tickets for every occasion.

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Consider the staple: a lowly scrap of metal with two right angles built into it. Just a piece of stiff wire, waiting to be folded around a stack of paper. In the Middle Ages, the staple had slightly different shape–more like a U–and you had to pound it in by hand. The modern age brought us the stapler, which uses leverage and makes it all the easier to bend the staple’s legs, and then the electronic version, which requires almost no effort at all.

What has any of this to do with tickets? Well, it may not have occurred to you that staples can help organize anything, including your tickets. With just the click of a button, you can turn a stack of loose tickets into neat and orderly ticket booklets. Just pull a single ticket away from the stack as you sell individual seats, leaving the rest of the tickets clean and sharp.

If you’re selling general admission seating, there’s no need to keep your tickets separated. Why not save the hassle of spills and losses by having your tickets stapled into booklets?

It’s easier to split booklets among your sales team, keep track of sales, and mobilize event sales with stapled ticket booklets. You can tell at a glance how many tickets you’ve sold, how many remain. You can slip booklets into a pocket or bad without any fear that those tickets will get away from you or become crushed at the bottom. Booklet stapling when you print your own tickets is just a smart idea for the smart business owner. You choose booklet stapling and our machines will take care of the rest.

So let’s hear three cheers for the lowly staple: keeping human lives together for hundreds of years.

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It’s never a rip-off!Most good event tickets come with a perforated ticket stub, which detaches easily to keep patrons moving through the door. Your ticket taker must stay sharp on her feet. There may be a crowd of eager folks queued up for entry at the door of the theatre or disco. They want to come inside and enjoy the show, and you want them to come inside, but you can’t afford any mistakes, either.

When you print distinctive tickets, your door person can take a quick glance to ascertain that the tickets he’s been handed are genuine. Then what does he do? He rips off the stub and hands it back to the patron. You keep the body of the ticket. You may use this for accounting purposes; it can ensure an accurate headcount for your event. The stub goes back into the patron’s hand.

Then what?

• If you’ve chosen reserved seating, that stub tells the usher where to seat each individual
• Resolved disputes with ease
• Ticket stubs allow patrons to exit and re-enter the venue without confusion or hand stamps
• Gate crashers without ticket stubs are easily identified
• A pretty ticket stub remains a nice souvenir of a lovely evening

Most ticket stubs are 2 inches long: small enough to slip into a pocket, and large enough to dig out later on. Most ticket stubs are printed with a unique and identifiable design. Most ticket stubs are perforated so a quick flip of the wrist is all it takes to admit one.

It’s the little things that make our lives easier. Let’s hear it for ticket stubs!

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How about youth sport?If we want to encourage children to maintain active lifestyles whilst enjoying fresh air, healthy camaraderie, and friendly competition, what can we do to encourage them? Perhaps it’s only a small step, but printing tickets for children’s sport events in the UK may be a step in the right direction.

For athletic clubs and school activities, we can encourage young people to take their physical activity seriously by demonstrating that we take it seriously ourselves. Printing and selling tickets for these events is a wonderful way to help show we care and keep everyone looking forward to the future. Tickets are lovely little reminders of upcoming excitement!

What kinds of activities deserve tickets?

• football
• rugby
• gymnastics
• swimming
• cricket
• tennis
• squash

Any organized spectator sport can be the right occasion for ticket printing.

Whether you’re the director of a popular sport club or an administrator at a school with a strong athletic program, you can show your young athletes that their hard work deserves recognition. Printing your own tickets lets you add a professional feel to the games. Perhaps you are merely distributing them to parents and family friends, but imagine the joy and pride on a child’s face when she sees her team name on a lovely ticket, just like for a professional sporting event.

If you are selling tickets, what better way to get noticed than brightly-colored, customized tickets? Sending your young athletes into the community to sell seats to their own games helps them take ownership of their skills. Your team, school, or organization will stand out from a crowd. You’ll raise funds while encouraging healthy behaviors.

Who knew printing tickets could do so much good in the world?

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We’re off! Have you plans for the biggest party of the year? We have! And we’ve got the tickets to speak to it. They’re quite elegant, with little star bursts and an image of a wide-bottomed bottle to summon up all the delicious, bubbly champers we’ll be drinking this evening, to put us in just the right frame of mind for welcoming in 2009.

My man is looking fit in his tuxedo. (Who doesn’t look fit in a tux? Although I really ought to go straighten his bow tie.) I love any excuse to don that slinky black gown, strap on the towering heels (ooo…now I can look at his chin!), and carry that little beaded bag my mum found in Gran’s things. A real vintage item!

The event tickets have been teasing me for weeks, just sitting there on the cork board reminding me of the fun to be had tonight. Even a limousine couldn’t transport me so quickly, in so much style. We can’t afford a limo anyway. And besides, the ride only lasts a few minutes. The tickets are forever. When we’re old and gray, we’ll look back on the stubs in my scrap album and remember they nights we stayed out dancing ’til dawn.

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You don’t want just anyone at your private affairs, do you? That’s why you’re printing event tickets in the first place. “Admit One” means just that: admission is a privilege for the ticket holder. But what if you’re worried about everyone else?

Printing your own tickets gives you a basic sense of security. Even stock designs stand out, and heavy paper has a distinct feel, so counterfeiters have more trouble copying your tickets. Of course, there are free safety features on every ticket, like individual numbering, so you specify which numbers you want in your range. And unique bar codes on the back are standard, just like the colorful watermark that’s hard to copy. You’re never in doubt as to whether or not a ticket is real when you print your own.

And for a little more money, there are thermal tickets. They’re pressure-sensitive, changing color when you rub them with a coin. They change color under ultraviolet lights, too. That’s just a smashing combo, especially if you’re in a disco and you already have a black light to start! A little black light really adds a lovely air to any event, even if it’s just at the door! Thermal tickets even have magnetic striping, in addition to everything else, and extra security numbers on the front and back.

You really can rest assured that nobody’s getting in who doesn’t belong. You just need to find the right ticket for the event.

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Here’s how we do it. Printing our own event tickets: it works for community theatre; it works for large a cappella choirs; it works for your child’s grade three Christmas pageant.

Let’s say my mate’s band booked a swank New Year’s gig in Bristol and it’s meant to be a posh, plummy, and exclusive affair. They don’t want just anyone coming through the door. Let’s help them mock up their admission tickets.

First, I’d choose something with a great rock theme, like the Alt.Chaos ticket, with its screaming face and blue guitar. Then it’s as easy as filling in the blanks.

• 1. The Barley Mints (the band)
• 2. December 31 (the date)
• 3. £25 (the price of admission)
• 4. Doors open at 7 (the time)
• 5. First Night Revelry (the event)
• 6. +44 (0)117 944-4497 (the phone number)
• 7. Club UK (the venue)
• 8. 00001 (the first ticket number)

I still have to choose what kind of paper you want, but the web site will help me! I choose how many tickets I want to print, whether to staple the ticket books, and how many tickets in each book.

Finally, I choose whether or not I want extra security features on the back of the ticket, like bar codes or the band logo. From there, I view my proof to make sure it’s spot-on before I buy it. The tickets get shipped out fast, within a couple days, so the band can start selling the event right away.

See? Simple!

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For some reason, I can’t stop thinking about scrap booking. I’m not the kind of person who buys little themed cardboard cutouts, word bubble stickers, and star-shaped hole-punchers to adorn my holiday snaps. I do arrange photographs in acid-free archival albums, though, and I save little mementos to adorn the pictures. Event programs, ticket stubs, seating cards, and even fancy printed cocktail napkins make the best decorations.

I guess that’s why I like the idea of printing event tickets with just the right image. If my friends and I dress up and attend a charity ball, we’re sure to bring our cameras, and even though we’re shooting digital these days, we still print out the best shots. Our photo albums look even better, since we’re making more conscious decisions about what goes inside. And cool tickets tie it all together. I love the ones that let users upload their own images, so there are recognizable and memorable logos or head shots right there on the ticket.

When you’re putting a photo album together, if you have your ticket stub, you don’t even have to date the page. You just slip the ticket next to the picture. And if your snapshots only show you and your fabulous friends, your tickets give a little glimpse of what else went on that night.

• Date & time
• Location
• Event name
• Sponsor or charity
• Band, musician, or entertainer
• Team names

It’s all there.

Plus, if the tickets have a wonderful design, you just don’t need the cute cardboard cutouts.

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