Offset plates
Computer-to-plate output in nine sizes and two gauges. The same plate quality on the smallest job as on the largest.
Platemaking since 2001
Tell us your press.
Tell us your press.
We have your plate.
Nine offset plate sizes, from 400 × 510 mm up to 800 × 1030 mm, covering the presses running in this market. Bring a file that's ready and your plates are ready in an hour.
60minutes
File ready? Plates ready.A print-ready file goes straight to output. Files that need artwork, imposition or corrections take longer — how much longer depends on the job, and we'll tell you before we start.
2001Making plates since
25Years in business
9Plate sizes in stock
60 minFrom ready file to plate
What we do
Everything between your file and the press
Most jobs are simply output. Some arrive needing work first — that's fine, we do that too.
Design
Our design section builds artwork from scratch, or takes your idea and turns it into something a press can actually print.
Artwork preparation
Bleed, trim, fonts, resolution, separations, colour adjustment on the artwork itself — the work that stops a job failing on press.
Imposition
Pages placed for your press and your finishing, so the sheet folds and cuts the way it should.
How it works
Four steps, most of them ours
Send the file
Upload it here, bring it in, or send it over. Tell us the press and the quantity.
We check it
Fonts, resolution, bleed, separations, overprint. If something's wrong we call you — we don't guess.
We output
Straight to plate. A ready file takes about an hour.
Collect or deliver
Pick them up, or we deliver for a surcharge.
Inside Halftone
What an hour here looks like
File in, checked, imposed, output. Four steps and a counter to collect from.
Plate sizes
Nine sizes, and one of them fits your press
You don't need to know our machines. Tell us what you run and we'll tell you which plate you need.
| Plate size | Gauge |
|---|---|
| 400 × 510 mm | 0.15 mm |
| 525 × 459 mm | 0.15 mm |
| 605 × 745 mm | 0.30 mm |
| 620 × 740 mm | 0.30 mm |
| 675 × 740 mm | 0.30 mm |
| 770 × 1030 mm | 0.30 mm |
| 790 × 1030 mm | 0.30 mm |
| 795 × 1050 mm | 0.30 mm |
| 800 × 1030 mm | 0.30 mm |
All dimensions in millimetres, width × height × gauge.
Why Halftone
Twenty-five years of getting it right the first time
- Speed that's actually useful. An hour from ready file to finished plate. When a press is standing still, that hour is the whole job.
- We cover the market. Nine sizes across two gauges. If it runs here, we plate for it.
- Files get checked, not assumed. We look before we output. Catching a missing font costs a phone call; missing it costs a print run.
- The same people since 2001. Twenty-five years of knowing which presses are fussy and which files are trouble.
25Years · 2001–2026
Send us your file
Upload it now and we'll come back to you with a time and a price. If it's ready to output, you could have plates within the hour.
Send your file