288 Grandpass Road, Colombo 14
Commercial printing, packaging and specialist finishing.
Xpress Solutions is a family-run print house in Colombo. Offset printing, lamination, die cutting, foiling and Spot UV are handled by the same team, so a job is printed and finished as one piece of work rather than passed between suppliers.
Not sure what to ask for? Build a brief in five questions and we take it from there.
Illustrative imageWhat we produce
Printed work for businesses, brands and organisations
Most enquiries fall into one of these. If yours does not, describe what you are producing and we will tell you how it would be made.
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Brochures & catalogues
Folded leaflets, stitched booklets and multi-page company literature, printed so colour holds across the whole run.
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Business cards & stationery
Cards, letterheads, compliment slips and envelopes, with foil or Spot UV where the design calls for it.
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Labels & stickers
Product labels, promotional stickers and cut-to-shape formats, laminated where they need to survive handling.
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Boxes & packaging
Printed cartons and boxes, die cut to a structure that suits the product and the way it is packed.
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Corporate & promotional print
Booklets, flyers, posters and promotional pieces produced as one consistent set rather than job by job.
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Premium finishing
Foiling, Spot UV, lamination and die cutting — on work we print, or on a specification you bring to us.
Production
Print and finishing under one roof
Moving a job between a printer and separate finishing houses costs days and adds risk at every hand-off. These five processes are handled in-house rather than bought in.
Offset printing
Ink transfers from plate to blanket to sheet. Colour stays consistent across a long run, which is what makes it the sensible choice once quantities pass the point where digital stops being economical.
Lamination
A thin film bonded over the printed sheet, gloss or matt. It stiffens the stock, resists scuffing and fingerprints, and changes how the surface reads before anything else is applied.
Die cutting
A steel rule forme cuts the sheet to shape. Used for carton structures, windows, slots, rounded corners and anything that is not a rectangle.
Foiling
Metallic foil pressed into the sheet with heat and a die. Gold and silver are the usual choices, and it works hardest on logos, type and rules rather than large solid areas.
Spot UV
A high-gloss varnish applied to selected areas only. Over a matt laminate the difference between the varnished and unvarnished areas is visible from across a room.
Finishing
What finishing actually changes
Two jobs printed from the same file can look nothing alike once they are finished. Lamination decides how the surface behaves in the hand; foil and Spot UV decide where the eye lands. Deciding early is cheaper than adding it later, because the artwork and the sheet layout have to allow for it.
Why Xpress Solutions
What working with us looks like
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One team from plate to finished job
Printing and finishing are handled by the same team rather than bought in, so a job does not sit in a queue at an outside supplier, and there is one place to call when it needs checking.
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Specification help before you commit
Tell us the product, the quantity and what it has to do. We come back with the stock, print method and finish that fit — including when a cheaper route would do the same job.
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Artwork handled in-house
We have graphic designers on site, so files that are not production-ready can be set up or corrected here instead of going back and forth.
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Individuals through to large organisations
We print for individuals, small businesses, government bodies and large companies. The process is the same; the quantity is what changes.
How a job runs
From brief to finished work
The same five stages apply whether you are ordering 200 business cards or a run of printed cartons.
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Brief
Tell us what you are producing — the product, size, quantity and the date you need it by.
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Specification
We confirm stock, print method and finishing, then quote against that specification.
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Artwork
Send production-ready files, or we prepare and correct the artwork here.
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Production
Plates and printing, followed by lamination, die cutting, foiling or Spot UV as specified.
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Completion
The job is checked against the specification and made ready for hand-over. Tell us at the brief stage how you would like to receive it.
Also
We import printing machinery and supplies
Alongside the print house we import reconditioned machinery — cylinder presses, guillotines, die cutting and foiling machines — together with paper and consumables. The two sides inform each other: the machines we sell are the classes of machine we run, and the paper we bring in is paper we print on ourselves.
Machinery & supplies- Cylinder presses, including Heidelberg cylinders
- Paper cutting machines and guillotines
- Die cutting and foiling machines
- Paper, board and printing consumables
Planning a print job?
Send the product, quantity, size and finish you have in mind and we will price it. If the specification is not settled yet, describe what you are producing and we will work back to the stock, print method and finishing that suit it.
- Call
- +94 76 620 0995
- Not sure what to specify?
- Use the specification helper
Find us
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Workshop
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Hours
Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm