The Knowledge Dock Fabric, Print & Design Bureau (FabPad) provides a valuable resource for artists, fashion and textile designers alike; helping them transform their vision into creative masterpieces. The bureau benefits from state-of-the-art printing equipment and regulated colour workflow via its colour spectrometer. This ensures that we can offer our clients output that is both eye-catching and consistent.
Support for Designers
Designers can bring their designs to the Bureau on disk and use our machines to print on a range of fabrics. The major benefit for designers when using the Bureau is that they are able to keep tabs on their designs in real-time throughout the design and printing stages.
Designers can also utilise the Bureau’s high-powered PCs and MACs, which are equipped with the latest industry standard graphic design software packages including Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter and Colour Matters. Furthermore all PCs and Macs are equipped with A4 Wacom graphic tablets making the Bureau an ideal environment for designers to work on their creative masterpieces.
Short in-house training courses are also available in NED Graphics (professional textile computer program), Colour Matters, Painter, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for those designers who need to brush up on their software skills.
Design Services for Businesses
The Bureau also offers an integrated design and print service to businesses. Our team of creative associates can help design your company’s office stationary such as letter headed paper, business cards and compliment slips. In addition we can also design and print posters, leaflets and even produce exhibition pop-up banners. Priced at extremely competitive rates, the Knowledge Dock Fabric Print & Design Bureau offers a quality design and print service for your business needs.
