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Shellharbour City Print Shop Shellharbour City Print Shop - a local printing business for local businesses. Offering a printing service at prices you'll LOVE ! Save time & money !

Quality design and print, friendly service, fast turnaround. Welcome to Shellharbour City Print Shop ~ we'd love to offer you a quote. Shellharbour City Print Shop is an Australian printing business operating from Shellharbour City, Illawarra, New South Wales. The majority of customers are based in Shellharbour, Sydney, Wollongong and Nowra areas. Enquiries from other areas are welcome as we can deliver Australia-wide. We specialise in high quality printing for businesses and we pride ourselves on fast turn-around times and prices that you'll love ! We stand out because we handle your print job from design to delivery with an enthusiastic, can-do attitude. As well as being highly skilled and keen to delight you with great work we're friendly and approachable. It's a combination that translates into fantastic design and print jobs that will have you smiling. We're geared up and ready to go, so whether you need glossy magazines, brochures, flyers, business cards or anything in between, you'll enjoy great service with Shellharbour City Print Shop.

16/10/2026

A customer came into the print shop looking for short-grain A4 paper, which can be difficult to find.
The solution? Start with long-grain A3 paper and cut it in half.
The cut doesn’t change the grain direction itself. It changes the size and orientation of the sheet relative to the grain. The grain that ran parallel to the 420mm edge of the A3 now runs parallel to the 210mm edge of the A4, making it short grain.
The bonus? One ream of long-grain A3 gives you two reams of short-grain A4 😄





14/10/2026

Designing a booklet? Don’t forget the bleed!
If your artwork has colour or images running right to the edge of the page, you need to include bleed. Without it, you risk unwanted white edges when your booklet is trimmed.
And with booklets, there’s also trim marks and creep to consider!
A little preparation in your artwork makes a big difference to the finished print.





09/10/2026

Did you know you can type a maths equation straight into a number field?
Instead of reaching for your calculator, just type 297/2 and let the software do the maths for you!
Such a simple little trick, but it can save you time every day.
Try it next time you’re working on your computer!





06/10/2026

I don’t actually print to the edge of the page.
Sounds wrong… right?
The trick is, I print onto a slightly oversized sheet first, then guillotine it down to a perfect A4.
That gives me a clean, precise edge every time — without relying on the printer to somehow print perfectly to the edge.





30/09/2026

Cool Christmas Card.
No blank cards. No laminating. No mucking around.
For these cards, we print directly onto Shimmer Coat stock — glossy on one side, uncoated on the other — then fold and finish them ready to go.
And yep, the same idea works for birthday cards, gift cards and other custom cards too.
Printed locally in Shellharbour for businesses, events and anyone who needs a few cards (or a few hundred!).




11/09/2026

There’s no white ink in my digital press … so how did I print WHITE?
Here’s the trick.
The press doesn’t actually print white. It uses the *paper* as the white.
So when you see white text on this artwork, there’s no white toner involved — it’s simply an area where no ink is printed.
And to prove it, I printed the exact same artwork on pink paper. Suddenly that “white” text is pink.
The same thing happens with black & white photos — the printer only lays down the black. The lighter areas are simply the colour of the paper showing through.
No white ink. No magic. Just clever printing.





05/09/2026

One of the best things about digital print? The variety!
One minute it’s tiny little cards, then it’s 100 menus, then an A1 poster.
No two jobs are quite the same — and honestly, that’s what makes it so much fun. 😁




02/09/2026

Accordion-fold cards.
Come behind the scenes and I’ll walk you through the process—from a flat sheet of printed paper to these clever little folding cards.
A simple idea, but the finished result is pretty impressive!

 
 
 


27/08/2026

420 page document … printed 2-up, full colour, double sided, punched TWICE before it even hits the output tray— then cut and twin-loop-wire bound.
What started as a 420-page PDF document became a professionally finished book, with the digital press doing most of the heavy lifting.
This is the kind of job where you can really see what a good digital production setup can do.
Printed and finished right here at Shellharbour City Print Shop.
Warilla | Shellharbour
Fast. Local. Reliable. Perfect. 👌





22/08/2026

There’s something VERY satisfying about getting the guillotine cut exactly right. 😎
Half the trim mark here.
Half the trim mark there.
Perfect. 👌





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1/12 Beverley Avenue, Warilla
Shellharbour, NSW
2528

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+61242976600

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