Copy Shop News February 2012

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Attending exhibitions either in person or by proxy is a must-do for 2012, same as celebrating high tea days with more print.

Starting with your highlighted events on your CSN year planner.

Quarter One: Three print shows to visit, Open house at Duplo, Sports Relief, Two Saints days to celebrate, clocks go forward and don’t forget Valentine’s and Mothers days.

Quarter Two: Fast forward to Easter, St George’s day, Four bank holidays, Fathers day and The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Quarter Three: Plain sailing and cool running, the Olympics are here in the UK, a new print show and yet another bank holiday Quarter Four: Clocks back, Halloween, Bonfire night and Remembrance Sunday, plan 2013 CSN year planner dates, St.Andrew’s Day, CSN Readers Raffle and yes it’s Christmas again already! With your marketing targets met, relax and have a break before the merry go round starts another lap.

The time to plan is now!

No one plans to fail, they just fail to plan!

Peter, Plan Ahead, Foulkes

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Driving profits Celebrating seven with Digital Print years of PrintIT! success T

he organisers of the inaugural Digital Print UK are creating a unique and valuable visitor experience and as such are asking industry peers and print service providers what they would like to see at the show.

“We are taking the show from the visitors perspective rather than that of a show organiser”, says Alan Caddick, Senior Marketing Manager. “So, as part of this exercise we are asking our industry peers for their opinion and welcome any feedback.

It is not about buying a box and hitting print it is about the business of making money and we want the show to be a platform from which visitors can discover many ways in which to drive their profits forward. The market has matured considerably over recent years with emerging technology giving printers more of those profit making opportunities which includes realising how existing kit can be used to its full potential. This is why we are using a mix of advice, demos and working applications which will prove of real business value to those visiting the show whether they are looking to invest or are already considered to be digital printers.”

Digital Print UK will take place on the 18-20th September 2012 at the NEC, Birmingham, giving UK printers an easily accessible destination to see a wide range of products and services as well as some of the exciting developments which are planned for launch at drupa.

This is the UK show for the UK market. It is the perfect opportunity for UK companies to both conduct business and learn how to ‘drive profits with digital print.’

The show will encompass both a production environment and a strong mix of advice and business opportunities to attract visitors and there are have plans afoot to make the new show an event that is simply too valuable to ignore.

Are you a leading company in digital print?

Many of the prime stand positions for Digital Print UK 2012 have already been snapped up, so if you are interested in profiling your company and products at this important event, please get in touch as soon as possible. Stand packages include free PR and use of show data, as well as the opportunity to get involved in show features and demos.

Contact information for Digital Print UK: Alan Caddick, Marketing Manager, alan.caddick@fav-house.com Chris Rushton, Sales Manager, chris.rushton@fav-house.com Rudi Blackett, Event Director, rudi.blackett@fav-house.com www.digitalprintuk.net

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ince its launch in 2005 thousands of students across the country have participated in the industry backed PrintIT! programme, an industry wide educational initiative led by Proskills which encourages students to consider a career in the print and paper industries.

As we enter 2012 and with the 2011/12 programme up and running, now is the ideal time to look back on the first six years of the programme and celebrate its success in promoting the print and paper industries.

Evidence suggests the programme has a real impact on participating students’ perceptions of the industries. A recent survey found that students were twice as likely to consider the print and paper industries ‘exciting’, ‘versatile and dynamic’ and ‘environmentally friendly’, and three times as likely to think about taking an apprenticeship after completing PrintIT!, demonstrating its importance to the long term future of the print and paper industries.

The programme has now been mapped to GCSE and A-level media studies as well as Graphic Products and Product Design. The overall development of the programme has been welcomed by teachers. “Having worked on the format that was used last year I like the developments that have taken place,” said Jon Lambert, Curriculum Manager of Design and Technology at Aylesbury High School in Buckinghamshire.

Due to the success of PrintIT! Proskills has developed the programme for five other industries

in the process and manufacturing sector and PrintIT! Scotland was launched in 2010 with a Wales version soon to be curriculum mapped and developed.

This wider relevance has helped the programme attract broad support from industry. Their generous support will help teachers engage students in major design challenges and heighten awareness of the wide variety of career opportunities available in the print industry.

Pantone, a platinum sponsor has donated equipment and Xaar, a gold sponsor has provided copies of ‘Industrial Inkjet for Dummies’, helping students develop industry relevant skills. Plus there are two recent silver sponsors, GVMC and DS Smith.

Last year in excess of 500 schools registered, nearly 24,000 students on the programmes and excess of 200 employers twinned with schools. There is no better programme to engage students with what the fascinating world of print has to offer.

With Proskills keen to expand PrintIT! further in 2012, Deputy CEO Tom Bowtell says they are looking to attract further support for the programme from both SMEs and larger enterprises. “PrintIT! has gathered real momentum over the last few years; however, we do rely on donations to run the programme, so if you want to support the ongoing development of the print industry then please get in touch,” he says.

For further information on PrintIT! visit www. printit.org.uk or contact the PrintIT! Team at printit@proskills.co.uk or on 01235 432018

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XChange UK and ThePowerXChange.com multipack offer xchange UK and ThePowerXChange.com, the sources for extended technology worldwide have announced a new limited time promotion that offers users the ability to purchase one full version license of PitStop Pro 10 and receive a second full version license at 50% off until February 29th, 2012.

“We receive numerous calls from customers who want to add licenses of PitStop Pro once they experience the time and money the product saves them in their PDF workflows. This offer gives customers the ability to save even more.

Additionally, we have customers who have never tried PitStop Pro but have heard about the productivity gains they can realise with this software. This promotion gives them the ability to jump in at an affordable price,” offers Tami Stodghill, Press Relations for XChange UK and ThePowerXChange. “Our sales staff are constantly being told how indispensable this powerful plugin is and that it is basically the Swiss Army knife for their PDF workflows.”

This promotion is perfect for businesses who need multiple licenses of PitStop Pro 10 and would like to receive a volume discount but do

not require large volume licenses. Now users needing as few as two copies of PitStop Pro 10 can benefit from a massive savings.

PitStop Pro 10 has everything a user needs for fast and reliable preflighting and editing of PDF documents. It not only provides a systematic and thorough detection of all possible problems, it also enables users to edit and correct them in a matter of seconds, without ever having to leave their familiar Adobe Acrobat environment. And PitStop Pro 10 can now automatically optimise PDFs for popular e-reader formats including Apple iPad! The PitStop Pro preflight engine contains predefined settings to detect typical problems. All settings are based on the current best practices of graphic designers and printers worldwide, and use industry standards such as PDF/X and the Ghent PDF Workgroup specifications. Users can modify the pre-defined settings or create their own to correct PDFs according to the unique requirements of their clients, publishers, printers, or user associations. Users can also configure their own customised workspaces with their own toolbars, presets, and favourites.

PitStop Pro uses Certified PDF technology to register all preflight information, including all changes that have been made, when they were made and by whom. All preflight results are embedded in the PDF file and a report of the preflight result is always available to other PitStop Pro users. The included Navigator feature automatically leads you to the problem objects and offers solutions to fix them.

Users can detect all types of problems within their PDF documents — before they lead to costly reprints.

• Font issues • Incorrect colours • Transparency • Low resolution images • Problems with hairlines • Missing trim and bleed boxes • Objects and colours that will not print The Enfocus PitStop Pro Multipack promotion is available now through XChange UK and ThePowerXChange.com worldwide. To order, or for more information, users can visit the website or call 0870 458 3414(UK/Ireland). www.thepowerxchange.com

Duplication centre enhance quality and profitability T

he invesTmenT in a new Duplo DC-615 automatic crease and cutting machine has enabled Duplication Centre to simultaneously reduce production costs and improve the quality of the 40,000 CDs and DVDs they output every month.

The Essex based company has been trading for 8 years and offers CD, DVD and Blue-ray duplication services to everyone from the general public to some of the world’s largest blue-chip organisations.

Managing Director Martin Johnson has seen the company grow year on year and puts the success down to the superior quality of its products and a commitment to delivering first class customer service. The company markets itself and transacts most its business online and strives to achieve the fastest turnaround, highest quality and lowest cost service in the UK. Copying the discs, printing the artwork and assembling the finished goods into cases is done completely in-house giving the company full control over quality. Mr Johnson explained, “ We look to exceed customer expectations in everything we do. Even our raw materials are the best available. We only use Sony discs and Xerox paper (for the CD inlays and DVD wraps) to give a finish no one else offers”.

As a quality focus organisation the company is always looking at ways to improve and had been disappointed by the standard of some its printed paper inserts that accompany the discs. Toner cracking on folded inserts was of particular concern as was the time taken to complete a job. Until the DC-615 was installed, the company was printing CD inlays (track listings), booklets and DVD wraps using its Xerox workstation and then cutting them on a guillotine before folding and inserting into cases.

Now, the company simply loads the raw print from the Xerox directly into the DC-615 which does all the cutting automatically; by-passing the

guillotine. This has freed up man power as the machine does not need a dedicated minder. Mr Johnson was also pleased with the DC-615’s built-in creaser; “ We used to buy in pre-perforated paper for the CD inlays but we’d often get cracking when we folded it. With the DC-615 we can crease the sheets instead so we don’t need pre-perforated paper, the finish is better and cost is lower.”

The Duplo DC-615 was supplied to Duplication Centre by print finishing equipment specialist, Elmstok. The DC-615 is a pre-programmble digital finisher that cuts and creases SRA3 sheets down to finished products.

According to the literature, it can produce 1200 greetings cards or 6000 business cards per hour with no manual intervention. www.duplouk.co.uk and www.elmstok.co.uk

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Unlock the key to Web2Print success i

f you are looking to invest in or have invested in Web2Print you need to attend How to Take Web to Print to Market, a one day course that is to be held on February 22nd 2012 at Xeretec’s HQ in Wokingham, Berkshire.

The course will identify why so many print companies struggle to take web2print to market whilst providing the tuition to enable this profitable application to be successfully integrated into a business to add real customer value and significantly increase revenue streams.

The course will address what is ‘web2print’, how to implement a good web2print system and how you can identify and capture the opportunities that exist within both B2B and B2C markets.

How to Take Web to Print to Market is one of the many industry courses that has been developed by the Xeretec Training Academy and will be delivered in an exciting format that encourages interaction and debate.

This is a popular course with places restricted to just twelve delegates and is being offered at the special rate of just £150.00, which includes lunch and refreshments.

For more information contact Julietta or Ashton on 0118 977 0123.

2012 Print Charity President

The Printing Charity has announced that Murdoch MacLennan, Chief Executive Officer of the Telegraph Media Group Limited, has accepted the charity’s invitation to be its President for 2012.

The honorary role is for a one year term commencing on 1 January 2012 when he will take over from the charity’s outgoing President, Sir Christopher Meyer KCMG. Murdoch MacLennan, Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group, said: “I am delighted to be involved and do what I can to help this hugely important charity which impacts on the lives of so many in our industry.”

Stephen Gilbert, Chief Executive of The Printing Charity, said: “We’re looking forward to working closely with Mr MacLennan to help raise the charity’s profile within the printing and publishing industries. We want everyone who works or has worked in the industry to know about The Printing Charity as we have the resources to help individuals and their dependents, who are experiencing financial hardship.” www.theprintingcharity.org.uk

The caravan gallery brings artwork to life The Caravan Gallery is a mobile exhibition venue and visual arts project that aims to record the ordinary and extraordinary details of life in 21st century Britain.

Eager to examine clichés and cultural trends, it highlights the absurd anomalies and curious juxtapositions that are typical of places in transition. The gallery needs to produce prints for use in its own exhibitions and for larger displays at galleries across the UK. “Over the years, we have used a number of different printers, media and inks to produce our prints – always aiming to get the best results in terms of colour fidelity, durability and quality,” explains Chris Teasdale, co-founder of The Caravan Gallery. “However, this is not as easy as it sounds. For one indoor exhibition in Sunderland we produced 500 prints, but by the end of the month they had been bleached green. It was a constant struggle to get the quality we needed both for our own shows and for gallery exhibitions.”

The Caravan Gallery turned to third party print shops to produce the larger format prints needed for exhibitions, but found this involved surrendering control of the process with a subsequent loss in control and colour reproduction. It was on the look out for a high quality printer that could deliver lasting prints on top of quality media.

“We already partner with Panasonic Lumix, who provide our cameras, and invited us to its stand at the Focus on Imaging Expo to show the public the great results that can be achieved with Lumix cameras. Panasonic is closely linked with HP so we thought we should approach them for advice on printers at the show,” adds Teasdale. “The quality of the HP printers was exactly what we were looking for, and HP was delighted to get involved.

The company loaned us an HP Designjet Z3200 Photo Printer with HP Photo Inks which is perfect for printing superb quality prints that last a lifetime. It also handles reds, which have caused us lots of trouble in the past, with perfect fidelity.”

The printing system takes advantage of HP chromatic red ink, part of the new Designjet technology, which enables new shades in red, green and blue for a wider range of colours, while giving red shades pure RGB values without changing the printer’s overall colour palette. The chromatic red ink enables incredible colour quality and, together with the other HP Photo Inks, delivers over 200 years’ permanence on a range of HP media.1 “We loved the clarity and perfection of the HP Matte Litho realistic Paper. It contrasts really well with our typical subject matter which is quite gritty and urban. The first exhibition we produced on the HP Designjet Z3200 blew the audience away – everyone thought the print quality was amazing,” adds Jan Williams, co-founder. “People often associate our formats with amateur snapshots, so to see the quality produced by the combination of printer, media and ink was a real eye-opener. It also gives us the ability to easily enlarge to an A1 format which helps transform our work for gallery presentation.”

The HP Designjet Z3200 Photo Printer is now crucial to the cosy caravan that tours Britain with its eclectic exhibitions. It has not only made the prints on view much higher quality – it has also opened new opportunities for Teasdale and Williams.

“We can now easily print individual pieces to order for visitors to the gallery, whereas previously we could only offer our books, such as Is Britain Great? And we can also offer services to other artists,” says Williams. “A very discerning international artist, who was this year’s winner of Art Space Portsmouth’s International Artist Residency award, was astonished by the quality and asked us to produce 50 prints for her own exhibition. Being able to help the wider cultural community in such a way is invaluable.”

The HP printing solution is now central to the ongoing mission of The Caravan Gallery and is helping it to promote its uniquely quirky take on British life in the UK and beyond. The next step is to consider a printer that can handle larger format prints, such as four feet (1.22m) in size. www.hp.com

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CWE Solutions first with hP DesignJet L26500 T

he reseller of HP Designjet latex printers, CWE Solutions has achieved another first with its sale of the latest HP Designjet printer in the UK. CWE Solutions has become the first company to sell the HP Designjet L26500 large format printer in the UK, and Stocksigns the first company to receive the printer.

The Designjet L26500 is the successor to the L25500 model, and boasts a number of improvements including extra width, increased speed and double sided printing abilities. Plus, as a latex printer the HP device offers a cost effective means of creating professional signage on a host of media, together with low maintenance, good green credentials and excellent reliability.

For Stocksigns, buying this latest HP latex printer has given the company more flexibility and signage options, as well as reduced printing concerns and costs.

Bruce Main, Managing Director at Stocksigns said: “Our new HP latex printer will increase our business opportunities thanks to the advantage of being able to print on an even wider media range using the more versatile HP latex ink. Our working environment will also improve due to there no longer being the solvent smell of our previous printers.

“There is also the added peace of mind, knowing CWE Solutions is only a phone call away if needed,” Mr Main added. “Their technical team is brilliant, and we know that should any issue arise with the HP printer, it will be fixed quickly and with minimum downtime.” If you would like to learn more about Stocksigns visit www.stocksigns.co.uk/custom-made-signs.

CWE Solutions has worked with businesses since 1999, providing the right printer solutions for each and every client. By understanding the printing industry and taking the time to discuss individual needs with companies,

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CWE makes sure the printer or related accessories and software match the business requirements.

Proud to have sold the latest HP Designjet printers to various firms – and to have been the first to do so – CWE Solutions continues to be a market leader.

In addition to selling the first HP L26500 printer in the UK, the company was also first to sell the HP Designjet 5000, 5500, 6100, 6200 and L65500 models in the UK. To find out more about CWE Solutions and the latest HP large format printer, visit www.cwesolutions.co.uk or contact the company directly on 0207 394 6414.

olloWing Their recenT move to the new purpose built international headquarters, Automated Precision House in Addlestone, Surrey. Duplo International are delighted to announce they will be holding a 3 week open house to celebrate its launch between 27th February and 16th March 2012.

Titled, ‘THE EVENT.’, Duplo will be showcasing the latest in digital print finishing technology in the new state of the art showroom, with the full range of Bookletmaking, Binding, Folding, UV Coating, Laminating and digital cutting solutions, including the new DC-745 digital cutter/creaser, as well as showcasing the ESKO Kongsberg iXE-10 digital die-cutting system.

In addition to the solutions on show, Duplo will demonstrate the new facilities environmental innovation which incorporates over 500m2 of solar panels, energy efficient lighting and heating systems, as well as a rain water collection system.

During the 3 week event, Duplo have partnered up with pre-press specialists, VPress, EFI and ESKO to provide visitors with the opportunity to benefit from free best practise seminars.

Duplo UK Managing Director, Tony Lock commented: “Our range has expanded rapidly over the past 3 years and we now have the widest range of digital finishing available. Because of this we simply out grew our previous headquarters and we are delighted to be able to show our full range of equipment in our new 400m2 showroom space.”

“We would like to invite every printer in the UK to ‘THE EVENT.’ to come and see not only our equipment, but how we run our business. Upon arrival at Automated Precision House, visitors will see our office in action, from our customer support team fielding calls from customers, to our warehouse team distributing parts and machinery, as well as our technical department developing our technology for the future.”

Lock concluded: “We are confident about the future of print and it is nice to be able to talk about our investment in the print industry and demonstrate our solutions that help printers become more efficient in this digital multimedia world. This is a good news story.”

For more information, or to register your interest in attending ‘THE EVENT.’ simply visit www.automatedprecision.co.uk.

global marketing campaign relies on Augmented Reality When the drupa advertisements appear in roughly 500 specialist publications in over 60 countries in the next few months, the letters AR in the top right-hand corner will catch your eye immediately: The advertisement is enhanced by augmented reality. If the reader views the marker, in this case the image, using a smartphone, tablet or PC/laptop camera equipped with special software (Junaio; also see www.drupa.de/hilfe), then a 3D animation starts up on the screen.

You are taken directly to the drupa website by just tapping the interactive button with your finger. The advantages are obvious: Using print the reader can be directly taken to the drupa website to get the latest information. “This logical linking up of print, internet and mobile systems is the central theme of our whole marketing campaign for drupa 2012 and is a continuous thread throughout all elements”, explains Petra Köhler, Manager of Marketing Communication at Messe Düsseldorf. “In its marketing campaigns drupa has always picked up on the latest print communication trends, adapted them to the specific needs of the world’s leading trade fair and implemented them accordingly.

“The cross-media networking of different media channels is the focus of the next drupa, although print is still the leading medium”, clarifies Petra Köhler. “The campaign’s motto is fittingly: your link to print”. The drupa song was integrated across media in the summer of 2011.

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hP Designjet L26500 and L28500 on show a

uniQue hp Latex Demonstration Suite is now open at Nottingham based ArtSystems, featuring the most comprehensive range of HP Latex printers in the UK. The new HP Designjet L26500 and L28500 join the existing HP Scitex LX850 and are already being used to train HP Reseller Partners as the UK launch activity builds for 2012.

Steve Hawker, MD Art Systems said “By having the new printers in our demo suite we can continue to support the HP reseller partners as latex is being adopted more and more as the technology of choice for users looking to replace solvent printers. Our investment is also in support of HP’s on-going activities such as the Latex Truck Tour. Having this accessibility means we can ensure our partners are able to present the very best solutions from HP to their customers.”

The HP Designjet L26500 61 inch wide Latex printer builds on the success of the L25500 as a true solvent replacement printer and addresses the soft signage market with its new back to back printing option. The HP Designjet L28500 is a 104 inch wide latex printer delivering speeds up to 70

per cent faster than the HP Designjet L25500. Both continue the investment of HP to produce high quality, multi-application printers that offer greater overall productivity and better environmental performance than solvent technologies.

Resellers attended the first printer briefing event

at ArtSytems on the 1st December after which the demonstration suite was open for them to bring potential users to see the new printer. The HP Designjet L26500 is now available from resellers and the HP Designjet L28500 is now available. www.artsystems.co.uk

Konica Minolta launches new A4 MfDs for professionals konica Minolta Business has announced the launch of two new A4 mono multifunctional devices (MFDs) offering all the feature rich functionality of the company’s award winning bizhub A3 range, including print, colour scanning, copy and optional fax capability. Based on Konica Minolta proven technology, the new A4 MFDs provide customers with the best from Konica Minolta’s existing A3 products and engineering in an A4 device.

For organisations requiring occasional A3 output the new multifunctional devices provide A3 output via the bypass tray, giving customers the best of both worlds – an A4 device with a compact footprint capable of occasional A3 printing.

“The all new bizhub 36 and 42 are capable of serving organisations as a central communication hub”, states Jonathan Wilson, Market Development Manager, Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK). “These innovative devices are Konica Minolta’s first monochrome A4 MFDs that also offer A3 capability via a bypass tray, enhancing the flexibility for those who rarely need A3 prints”, Wilson adds.

Konica Minolta’s bizhub 36 and 42 have a robust yet compact design ensuring they can fit comfortably into the heart of any environment and feature a variety of versatile finishing options. Low total energy consumption (TEC) values mean that both the bizhub 36 and 42 offer reduced energy consumption, with the benefits of economy coupled with environmental conservation. Konica Minolta systems meet the highest eco standards and are

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Flexible network options ensure seamless integration into the Konica Minolta existing bizhub A3 line-up. With PageScope Mobile, Konica Minolta’s free app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, users can print documents on the bizhub 36 and bizhub 42 from anywhere using their mobile device or send scans from the A4 MFDs to their mobile device.

For more information visit: www.konicaminolta.co.uk/MFD-Mono

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Innova puts JetMaster Paper in the frame innova Art’s biggest success of the past 12 months has been the JetMaster display system. A tough, lightweight and stylish gallery wrap that can be assembled in minutes; the winner of the much coveted Innovation Award at the 2011 UK Art & Framing Industry Awards.

The JetMaster frame comprises a pre-cut, laminated self-adhesive board to which a paper or canvas print is pressed, then trimmed and folded to make a 3D gallery wrap print.

Now, Innova Art is broadening the brand with the launch of the JetMaster paper, newly developed to enable perfect prints for the JetMaster system, time after time.

“As a supplier of premium digital media for the fine art market, we are experts in helping our customers create that ‘gallery’ look,” said Mike Ramos-Gonzalez, Innova Art MD. “The JetMaster paper takes the display system a step further: a carefully tailored solution that means JetMaster prints look even better, are even easier to produce – and can cost less too.”

The JetMaster paper has been specially developed to allow the print to stretch without cracking as the 3D frame is assembled. Its unique pliability produces perfect finished corners and the paper has the strength to withstand being peeled back and repositioned if necessary. The JetMaster paper is available in two finishes, one Smooth the other Embossed to replicate the surface texture and appearance of canvas. Innova Art is long renowned for the image quality of their media and the JetMaster paper is no exception.

“We have applied our knowledge supplying the top end of the art market and applied it to a product with a much wider industry application,” says Gonzalez. “The JetMaster paper has the look, feel and archival quality of traditional fine art products. It offers outstanding print quality yet it has all Half Page - XTA Web2Print Course_Rev3.pdf 1 16/01/2012 09:26:41 the flexibility that a JetMaster user is looking for and is much, much cheaper

than many of the alternatives.”

The JetMaster display system has been an immediate hit in those busy production environments seeking innovation, quality and consistency at the lowest possible cost. The incorporation of the JetMaster paper range enhances those benefits still further. The paper will be available in A4 and A3 Plus sheet formats and a variety of rolls.

available noW! free on-line prinT uTiliTy To assist customers in making the perfect JetMaster frame visit www. jetmaster-systems.com. They have created an On-Line Print Utility for all frame formats within the Jetmaster range. The print utility enables users to make a professional gallery wrap without the need for photoshop or other proprietory software.

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Bound to succeed Watkiss Automation’s new 420PUR perfect binder has successfully completed customer testing and is now available in the UK. The 420PUR has its own niche as an entry level machine offering the benefits of PUR binding on a budget. It has a 420mm x 50mm maximum spine and a closed tank glue system.

Adrian Wood, Sales and General Manager at test site Advantage Digital of Dorchester, says: “We were looking for a PUR solution, but we thought the available options were over-engineered and overpriced until the Watkiss machine was presented to us - some of the processes may be manual but there are real cost savings for us and our customers. We can now offer short run PUR at a fraction of the cost of traditional trade finishers.”

The company runs an iGen4 digital press and previously had a hot melt EVA binder. “We could cope with lighter stocks, but a common requirement was 150 gsm silk or gloss with a 350 gsm cover. To produce work like this with a traditional hot melt machine using digital compatible stock just doesn’t work, books start to fall apart rapidly,” says Mr Wood.

One of the key features of the Watkiss 420PUR is a unique recirculating glue system, meaning the glue is not simply supplied to the point of delivery in one direction, minimising the potential for clogging. Viscosity is maintained by keeping it in motion via the careful management of temperature and pressure. To this end, it has four connected glue tanks so that different temperatures can be maintained in different parts of the machine. Another feature is ‘on demand’ glue melt; in many systems, a whole PUR candle must be melted each time – the Watkiss system has an insulated candle housing, where heat is applied from below, meaning the glue can be melted

incrementally, saving on both cost and maintenance.

Book blocks and covers are manually loaded. From there, the process is largely automated, with the vice and clamp automatically adjusting according to book width. The spine dimensions for gluing are set via a photo sensor, ensuring that the correct amount of PUR adhesive is applied, every time. The floor standing Watkiss 420PUR features a milling disc which takes a fine layer off the spine rather than just cutting notches, which results in better spine preparation, better adhesion and a flatter spine. It has a vacuum extraction system as standard.

The Watkiss 420PUR Perfect Binder is priced at a competitive £25,000. www.watkiss.com

Misterclipping.com launches in the UK Online graphics service provider Mister Clipping (www.misterclipping.com) has launched in the UK for the first time, providing a photo-clipping service for quick professional looking for images starting at less than £1.

Designed for graphic arts professionals, it provides a quick, online service for image clipping. It allows users to choose the options they need for individual work paths, masks, resizing or scaling, re-colouring or retouching, or isolating images according to their needs.

Supported by a dedicated team of imaging professionals, Mister Clipping takes away the burden of time consuming clipping and cropping operations needed for any form of design.

The Mister Clipping service uses a skilled team of experts to isolate objects from their background using clipping paths or masks. They can also provide any additional processing entirely by hand, producing an expert final result. Special finishes, including ‘invisible man’ techniques for cut out shots of clothing, or colour processing, are also available on request.

Built around Misterclipping.com’s easy to use website, users are able to upload and download images quickly and easily using its unique automated wizard. Mister Clipping provides a guarantee to isolate and return images via the application within 24 hours, regardless of the number of images to be processed.

Mister Clipping can process a single image, or thousands, depending on users’ needs and requirements. Costing between 75p and £5 per image, depending on the complexity of the task, the service also offers to redo any job free of charge if the customer is unhappy with the end result.

Chi Lau, UK Business Development Manager at Mister Clipping says: “We have been running Mister Clipping in The Netherlands, the US,

and Germany for many years now with great success. Following the successful expansion of the application and through thorough testing, Misterclipping.com is now ready for the UK market.Our customers simply demand that we are fast, good and inexpensive. And of course they want the best service. We are an online company, but if our customers have a need for it we will be able to speak to them in their own language and in their own time zone, which now includes our fully supported office in the UK.” The entire auxiliary process (such as uploading, giving instructions, checking, downloading, etc.) is automated, proving a quick, easy and cost effective way to process multiple orders. In addition to processing images 24/7 and providing an online feedback service. Support staff are available by phone during normal office hours (8.30 to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday).

Services include • Isolating images (handmade Clipping paths) • Image masking (Channel/Layer/Soft) • Individual / multiple Work Paths / Masks • Image Cropping, Straightening and Resizing • Image Shadowing (Natural/ Drop/ Reflective) • Photo Manipulation and Creative Processing • Colour processing / Recolouring • High-end Photo Retouching and Restoration Mister Clippin, tel: 0207 164 2031

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Mimaki launches TS34-1800A dye sub printer

Mimaki is set to launch a new 1.8m wide, production dye sublimation printer. The TS34-1800A has been designed specifically for the sublimation printing market with high speed and quality in mind.

Sublimation transfer printing is widely utilised for sportswear applications due to the elasticity and quick drying capability of polyester material as well as in the growing market of soft signage applications, such as flags, retail point of sale and exhibition graphics.

With a staggered array of two newly developed print heads, the Mimaki TS34-1800A is capable of printing up to 32m2/hr at 540 x 720 dpi. In addition to this significant production speed, the machine can achieve a printing speed of 17.7m2/hr in six colour mode at the same resolution, where customers have a requirement for superior quality prints, with smooth gradations of tone and colour. These features make the TS34-1800A suitable for both large sized soft signs and apparel applications, which respectively require a quick response and fine image quality.

In addition to this increased print speed and quality, various practical functions also contribute to the improved productivity of the machine by enabling automated continuous operation. Mimaki’s UISS function enables the setting of two ink cartridges per colour in four colour mode. When an ink cartridge is depleted, the system switches automatically to the second cartridge of the same colour, preventing the printing process from stopping.

The optional Mimaki Bulk Ink System (MBIS) provides large volume continuous ink supply with two litre ink sacks. As a result, overall ink costs along with users’ environmental footprint are substantially reduced. Mimaki also offers an optional drying fan which increases the ink drying speed significantly, enabling continuous media take-up even during high speed printing.

Using aqueous ink to print to polyester ensures the Mimaki printing solution has excellent green credentials and the TS34-1800A, packaged with Mimaki’s RasterLink Pro RIP software, will be available from early 2012 through Hybrid’s authorised reseller network. www.hybridservices.co.uk

New Kala Starter Laminators

Colourgen has announced the exclusive UK distribution of the new range of Kala Starter laminators. These new cold laminators provide simultaneous single sided lamination and adhesive mounting onto substrates up to 50mm thick and are available at an extremely competitive price.

This entry level range of wide format laminators comes in 108cm, 140cm and 160cm widths and are all capable of handling rolls up to 100m in length. The Kala Starter range supercedes the existing range of Kala Bunny laminators, by providing more capabilities and better ease of use.

The Kala Starter laminators are manufactured to a very high standard and are designed to be easy to use and versatile. The pressure can be adjusted with a high level of control and visual gauge, unlike many other laminators at this price level, which often only have a pre-set lever to control pressure.

The new laminators simultaneously apply lamination film to one side and an adhesive layer to the other for easy finishing onto a broad range of substrates up to 50mm. Forward and reverse motion is controlled by hand or with a foot pedal and for safety purposes there is an emergency stop button.

The Kala Starter laminators are available immediately from Colourgen authorised resellers, with prices starting at £2,670 (ex VAT) for the 108mm version.

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Tech8 launches first class ‘pay as you go’ service and support

Tech8, the technical support and spares specialist for the wide format printing industry, has launched a new first class pay as you go service and support package for owners of large format digital printers. Unlike some other pay as you go support deals, this option matches the service terms offered by Tech8 to its annual warranty customers.

The new Tech8 service has been launched to meet the needs of customers who prefer to pay as they go rather than be on a long-term warranty contract. It offers all the priority benefits of a warranty contract, but without the upfront costs, contractual obligations or small print exclusions that can sometimes be associated with them.

Tech8’s pay as you go option is available for print owners of all leading wide format printer models. The company has fully trained engineers based across the UK and offers a 24 hour response. The company also carries a large inventory of spare parts in stock so they are available for immediate despatch.

“Sadly, when it comes to large format printer service, pay as you go customers are often treated like second class citizens,” comments Justin Atkinson, Business Manager at Tech8. “If these customers aren’t on the most expensive level of pre-paid annual warranty, they can find they have to contend with long wait times for service, a lower level of priority and frankly a second rate service. This ultimately means their printers can be out of action for days.”

Justin adds, “At Tech8, we understand that a faulty printer costs a business time and money. Our primary aim is to always get the machine back up and running as soon as possible and we see no reason to delay that if a customer does not have a pre-arranged warranty with us.”

“We also like to offer our customers choice and - much like the mobile phone model – we like to offer our customers the option of paying upfront on a contract/warranty basis or to pay as they go,” he concludes.

For more information on Tech8 and its ‘pay as you go’ option contact Tech8 on Tel: 01628 560893 or visit their website at www.tech8.eu

PaperCo launches Giroform Giroform is to supercede Autocopy as the main sheeted carbonless brand supplied by PaperCo. The company has stocked the local warehouses for all 20 of its regional branches and company sales staff can now provide swatches and sample packs as well as technical information on this popular brand.

Produced at the Mitsubishi HiTec paper mill in Bielefeld, which is ISO 14001 certified, Giroform was the first carbonless grade to be awarded the Nordic White Swan eco-label and it is FSC Chain of Custody certified.

Giroform is available for both litho and digital applications. Its high bulk, stiffness and rigidity provide excellent stability making it a very easy product to use on modern high speed press and finishing equipment.

Grammages for the standard are white CB 80gsm, all (white and tints) CFB 86gsm and all CF 80gsm and the formats range from A4 to SRA2. These papers can be combined into fan apart sets using a Giroform adhesive. Stocks can be kept and used for up to five years and the copy durability of Giroform is put at ten years.

The Giroform CF system cards are available in 130gsm and 170gsm options in white or chamois colours.

The Giroform digital range is manufactured in 90gsm and surface coated.

CB, CFB and CF sheets are available and there are also two or three part pre-collated sets as well as fan-apart gluing options. It has been Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) approved for HP Indigo process and also runs on Ricoh, Kodak and Nexpress machines.

Charles Eaton, head of marketing, says: “When we discovered that Autocopy was being phased out by the mill we had to find a good value, workable solution. Companies can combine Autocopy and Giroform papers if they apply Giroform adhesives for fanned out sets. Moving forward Giroform offers the printability we know our customers need but also a respected digital option.

Our sister company Reel Paper has opted for the Appleton NCR Paper Brand Carbonless for its continuous stationery customers but for the sheeted product PaperCo believes the Giroform product is right for the UK market.”

NCR proves to be the Reel Thing Reel Paper is introducing NCR Paper*, the world’s leading carbonless brand, into the UK market and believes sales will soar.

The decision to represent NCR PAPER* follows from the announcement by M-Real Zanders in May that it was exiting the carbonless market. Reel Paper set about reviewing carbonless products to see which would best replace this well proven, market leading brand.

Sam Catterall, Reel Paper Business Unit Director, says: “We knew that it was the press room performance that had made Autocopy so successful. It gave printers a definite advantage and so we set out to find another stock that could replicate that advantage.”

Reel Paper’s target was to offer a stock with minimal dust, excellent punching properties and maximum running speed. In sum it had to be as production friendly as possible without compromising end user satisfaction.

The product chosen is Appleton NCR PAPER*, the original carbonless paper which was developed in the US during the late 1940s and was first produced commercially by Appleton in 1954. Trademarked NCR Paper* its name has become synonymous with the term carbonless.

The final deciding factor was the long term commitment that Appleton has shown to the partnership. “The goal is for the UK to mirror its worldwide market position and for that reason Appleton has chosen Reel Paper, the UK’s leading continuous papers merchant.”

Reel Paper’s representatives are already marketing this product but any customer requiring more information can contact Reel Paper on 01332 817950. * NCR PAPER is a registered trademark licensed to Appleton www.paperco.co.uk

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Sign & Digital UK Awards

Calling for entries…The Sign & Digital UK Awards, now in its second year, is the annual event aimed at encouraging digital print providers and sign makers to focus on and develop their creative skills and techniques in sign and display.

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he Awards are open to all sign makers, print providers and display professionals and provides an important platform to highlight the best talent and creative thinking in the UK display market. There are 10 categories in all and the focus is on rewarding both the creative and business aspects of the industry.

Alan Caddick, the show’s marketing manager comments; “We are excited to be returning with the Awards & Networking Event along side the 2012 show after a successful launch back in April 2011. Winners last year included some of the most dynamic and eye-catching displays we’ve seen and we’re hoping their success will inspire more companies to enter this year.”

The 10 categories are: 1. Individual Sign Project of the year 1-9 employees 2. Individual Sign Project of the year 10+ employees 3. Multiple Sign Project of the year 1-9 employees 4. Multiple Sign Project of the year 10+ employees 5. Vehicle Wrapping Project of the year 6. Wide Format Print Project of the year 7. Green Award 8. Rising Star Award

9. Sign company of the year 10. Wide format printing company of the year The accolades will be awarded at the Sign & Digital UK Awards and Networking event which will be held on the evening of the second day of the exhibition (Wednesday 28th March 2012) at the National Motorcycle Museum, near the entrance to the NEC, Birmingham. Entries will be judged by a panel of experts and the judges will be looking in detail at the methods used, creativity demonstrated and how these were used to deliver the required results.

All awards entries are specifically for work done during 2011.

Please visit the show website www. signanddigitaluk.com, where you can click on the Awards tab at the top of the page, which will give you further information on criteria and how to request an awards entry form.

The Rising Star Award calls for nominations for an individual that has really made their mark in 2011.

The individual must be working in the industry and be aged under 30.

Best Sign Company Award and Best Wide Format Printing Company Award recognises the very best company that has demonstrated a high level

of success in customer service, business growth/ development, business retention, innovation or creativity and should be backed up by solid results and testimonials. Strict criteria will make these two awards the most sought after in the industry.

Even if you don’t enter, this event is set to be the biggest networking opportunity for the signmaking and graphics industry in the UK in 2012.

You will need to be quick to book a table and single tickets are available also, if you prefer.

The ticket price includes pre-dinner drinks, a three course meal and entertainment as well as the awards ceremony itself. Rudi Blackett, show director comments; “The idea of holding the Networking event with the Awards is to give the exhibitors and visitors attending the show the ideal opportunity to network and socialise with business contacts and colleagues where they will be able to entertain customers and help celebrate the skill, innovation and flair within the industry.”

Don’t be disappointed and book your place now by visiting the website, www.signanddigitaluk. com, where you can click on the Awards tab at the top of the page, which will give you further details such as how to book a table / single seat tickets and sponsorship opportunities.

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Spotlight on new exhibitors at Sign & Digital UK 2012 Next years’ Sign & Digital UK will see a host of exhibitors new to the show from all different industry sectors.

The three companies featured here have very different product offerings and target markets — all within the sign and display industry – which demonstrates the real diversity of exhibitors at Sign and Digital UK and proves there’ll be something for everyone at next years’ show.

Wyzrds Co Ltd specialise in designing and supplying solutions for low cost and temporary signage.

The opportunity to devise new products was discovered by Wyzrds’ managing director, Pat Lennard, when he observed the difficulties experienced by local authorities and others when attempting to erect temporary signage on the street. Waterproofing and stiffening a printed paper notice by laminating it works — until it comes to mounting it on a supporting upright.

The same failing was seen to affect other low cost signage, particularly where the commonly used material was twin flute plastic. Both these materials are used worldwide for signage as is the problem of mounting. The invention and patenting of solutions to these problems has led to where they are today.

Making its debut at Sign & Digital, the new clip known as LAMINAID TF is for mounting the ubiquitous corrugated plastic or twin flute sign.

It will solve a real dilemma and has already been welcomed by the sign making trade. Sign & Digital UK will see the international launch of the Laminaid TF. Contact: Pat Lennard, MD Wyzrd Co Ltd., info@ wzyrds.com 01296 586498 Romac Display Solutions develop, manufacture and supply their own range of high quality, low cost, vandal and weather resistant poster cases and notice boards.

A young company, Romac Display Solution’s full product range will have been launched for less than a year when Sign & Digital takes place.

Demand from hotels, councils and the sign industry has been very encouraging and Romac are taking a stand at Sign & Digital in order to get their high quality, low cost product range in front of new customers.

As Allan McEvoy from Romac explains “We have nice colour brochures but that’s nothing like getting our products in front of customers so they can experience the quality for themselves.”

The range includes powder coated zintec, stainless steel and brass cases together with menu lectern stands. These are very popular with hotels and restaurants and can be freestanding or fitted into the ground. Illuminated cases are also available which incorporate the latest LED lighting technology.

Romac are confident that visitors to their stand at Sign & Digital will be impressed by the combination of high quality and low prices of their product range.

Contact: Allan McEvoy, Romac Stainless Ltd., sales@romacstainless.co.uk 01484 841 362

INDASOL INDASOL will be launching several new cutting edge products. The first of which is SIGN-BLOCK; a revolutionary material for producing ultra lightweight 3D shapes, images and letters. It can be routed, cut or carved and finished to look like folded metal, plastic, wood and even stone.

Offered with a 10 year warranty, SIGN-BLOCK will not warp, crack, split or rot and is manufactured using 15% recycled content.

INDASOL will also be launching the very latest in UHB technology. Two products, one removable with excellent shear and initial tack properties and the other designed for instant bonding onto low surface energy and difficult plastics.

Martin Sadler, MD comments; “The main reason we decided to do the 2012 show is that we have been operating in the Sign Industry for many years and up until now launch our products via email, web and trade press. This year we felt the Sign Block product deserved a greater platform because of its’ revolutionary nature – hence booking a stand at Sign & Digital UK 2012. We’ll be delighted to see customers new and old there and show them how our products can help speed up signmaking and assembling, improve quality and deliver improved profits time and again.”

Contact: Martin Sadler, 0844 846 8252, enquiry@indasol.co.uk www.indasol.co.uk

25 years of serving the industry The Sign & Digital UK team are proud to reveal their plans for the 25th Anniversary of Sign & Digital UK 2012.

Alan Caddick, marketing manager for the show explains; “We want to celebrate a quarter of a century of innovation and creativity within our industry and we want to celebrate it with our visitors. We need your help to put together a 25 year gallery that will show iconic machinery and images that help represent the industry over the past 25 years.”

There will be a dedicated area on the show floor which will host the 25 year gallery where visitors (and exhibitors) will be able to walk around and see machinery and tools in the flesh as well as photographs and images of the things that have really stood out since 1987.

The organisers would welcome anything you think or feel would be relevant, including: • Living examples of machinery that will help

bring the gallery to life – product, kit or tools that can be displayed on the gallery floor.

• Images to bring the story to life and explain it in a visual sense to those that may not already know – photos or pictures of people in their workshops, working on-site or just wearing really bad clothes, sporting a dodgy haircut or a Magnum P.I. mustache!

• In addition, if you are unable to provide ‘in the flesh’ machinery for whatever reasons but do have images then please send those in to be included on the gallery wall.

This is meant to be a celebration and fun as well as interesting and informative and so anything you think will fall in any of these categories then they will welcome it.

There will be more information coming soon so please keep your eyes on the website, exhibitor newsletters and press for further details and follow @signanddigital on twitter If you wish to get involved or find out more, please email the team at signanddigitaluk@favhouse.com with the subject: 25 year gallery.

Green Trail in 2012 Exhibition organisers Faversham House Group will launch a “Green Trail” at the Sign & Digital UK. The Green Trail will highlight products that display either an eco-friendly, environmental or ethical element.

Alan Caddick, marketing manager of Sign & Digital UK explains; “We thought of a Green trail two years ago but through the recession we’ve seen businesses review the importance they placed on environmental issues and concentrated more on survival tactics with pricing and customer service on the top of their list of priorities. We’ve seen renewed interest this year and the Green issue is well and truly back on the agenda. In response to this, we’ve decided to implement the Green Trail at Sign & Digital UK 2012 and are inviting our exhibitors to make us aware of any products being shown at the event that will fit this new initiative.”

The organisers say that they’ve had a positive response from those they’ve spoken to already.

“There will be a good mix of products on the Green Trail list including ink and media manufacturers, printers, and recyclable display products,” adds Caddick, “Not to mention sustainable solutions from the digital signage sector.” The Green Trail will be heavily promoted prior to the show and highlighted on the exhibition floor plan so visitors can easily identify which stands are taking part. Exhibitors can register their products now for the inclusion with the show organisers directly by emailing signanddigitaluk@fav-house.com and include “Green Trail” in the subject.

“All applications for the Green Trail will be vetted to ensure that they actually do display either an eco-friendly, environmentally aware or ethical element to the product, so it’s important that exhibitors wishing to partake can demonstrate this side of their product to us,” Caddick concludes.

For more information on Sign & Digital UK 2012, visit www.signanddigitaluk.com or call 0208 651 7100.

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22 | DIGITAL IMAGING | COPY SHOP NEWS | February 2012

Back Behind the Lens This column has historically had a firm base in digital photography, and its developing role in the output of the printed image. When we began the digital journey, over a decade ago, the electronic eye was just coming out of the realm of novelty and into that of a practical professional tool. The early comparisons of film versus pixel count are now redundant, though the debate still lingers amongst the purists. Martin Christie writes…

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ost recently, the technology has moved on again. Now specifications that would have flattered a camera some years ago are available on a mobile phone.

Consequently the current sales of devices that only take pictures are in decline — by as much as thirty per cent according to reports.

The consequences of the development of the Iphone and other similar gadgets are hard to predict.

They are not likely to cause the demise of the stand alone camera as such, but they will herald a terminal decline of the pocket sized compact camera. Why carry two pieces when one will do both jobs ? This culling of the weakest items technically may ironically help the case of the “proper “ camera — one with a decent sensor, processor and optical capacity.

Those who still want to take pictures and not just snaps will be able to identify the difference, and not be confused by competing properties on paper that do not translate into quality results when printed on paper. It’s possible that the guidelines between photography basic imagery will become clearer. It may just come down to what is acceptable in terms of quality.

It is estimated that the average Iphone user has over two thousand images (not to mention music, movies and apps) stored on their pocket illustrator already, a figure I can easily believe watching people scrolling through the banks of thumbnails searching for the one they really want to view. It’s a scene we are now all too familiar with at the shop counter while a customer browses for that perfect picture for a mug or a T shirt. At least you can tell in advance that it’s unlikely to be suitable for a metre square canvas print.

Camera manufacturers have had a hard time adapting to the fast moving

pace of the digital revolution after years of relative stability — the traditional 35mm film camera had been barely changed in the previous 25 years. Now there were new developments almost every month and unless you had a revolutionary new product every year you were dead.

The digital camera battleground spread in several directions at once. At the professional end the top specifications became more sophisticated, the middle ground saw high specifications more affordable, and the mass market increasing complexity at an economy price. And to the non-expert it was very hard to tell where the lines were drawn, and what the difference was or meant in output.

The so called bridge cameras are a recent attempt to draw a clean line — positioned between more complex and expensive DSLRs — which have through the lens viewing and interchangeable lenses — and the many different types of compact. The aim is to approach the quality and flexibility of the one with the size and convenience of the other.

I’ve picked on the latest Fuji HS20 to review for two reasons.

First as a Fuji professional user I am very familiar with their DSLRs, and thus able to judge the comparative performance, and secondly, I have known and used previous models in this line going back at least eight years. The HS20 is the latest incarnation of what is in digital terms a long line of practical and user friendly cameras, which although the body shape has barely changed, has been comprehensively improved internally — sensor, processor — the whole shooting match in fact.

It sports an impressive 16-megapixel CMOS sensor with all manner of state of the art refinements for image stabilisation and colour shift adjustment. At the sharp end there’s a thirty times optical ( note optics not electronics) zoom lens which is the equivalent of a 24mm wide angle up to a 720mm extreme zoom — enough to capture the whole of a football stadium edge to edge, or the centre circle for kick-off.

The zoom is manually operated by a barrel on the lens, like a DSLR, and is much faster that way, so much so the electronic fine focus may struggle to catch up at times. In order to assist a steady hand at maximum distance, there is mechanical image stabilisation. With an F/2.85.6 aperture, this zoom lets in a healthy amount of much needed light, often the issue with budget digital cameras. Unless the lens lets in enough good quality colour information, in simple terms, whatever the processor does to regurgitate it is going to be less than ideal.

The HS20 can be dialled in to shoot in very low light, and though the resulting images will inevitably be low quality, they are still not as bad as many I have seen.

Although comparatively small, the camera fits comfortably into an average sized hand, the right side grip being a perfect match for manual manoeuvres.

Although comparatively light, it feels robust and well built enough to withstand a certain amount of rough handling or carriage.

My DSLRs are well built but I wouldn’t dream of taking them out without the protection of their padded cases, and to achieve the shooting range I would need to pack at least three more lenses in the kit bag, making the whole

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operation much more of an expedition.

So here is where the comparison is most relevant. I would have been not only surprised, but extremely hacked off if a camera that could fit in a handbag and costing only several hundred pounds, could approach the quality of output of my Fuji S5 and its prime Nikon lens costing several thousands.

What the HS20 does do is produce results far better than the price differential would suggest, and with the practical handling advantage of portability and ease of use. So much so that I would certainly consider having one as an addition to the gadget bag, as emergency back-up, or chucked casually in the shoulder bag for times when I really don’t want to be carrying the full arsenal, but still be ready for the unexpected photo opportunity.

Everyone will have a mobile phone to catch those spur of the moment images. What they probably won’t have immediately to hand is a half decent camera — one capable of capturing print quality reproduction.

This is why a review of this model is relevant to this magazine and its audience. Several years ago I suggested the digital camera be regarded in the print shop as a portable scanner, and as such was compatible technology, and complimentary equipment to all the other copiers and printers in the studio. It is likely to be more easily acceptable today as almost everyone today is familiar with taking pictures with a digital device of one form or another — even if we have to do a double take when handed an obscure compact by a foreign tourist for a snap of them outside Brighton Pavilion !

The dilemma has always been a compromise between a device that can produce reasonable commercial results, and still be operated by comparative amateurs. Over the years I have seen the varied results of both — really good images taken almost by accident under favourable conditions, and awful images taken with supposedly professional cameras. The mistake as always is believing that it’s the camera not the photographer that takes the picture and not the other way around.

The bridge camera is designed and aimed to span that gap between the amateur and the professional and as such can be criticised, I think unfairly, for failing to be less than perfect for both roles. The HS20 has a multitude of settings which may look daunting to the novice, but the fewer options the operator has, the less flexible the device. If you could make a camera completely idiot proof, you would hardly need an operator at all apart from switching it on and off.

Face recognition and scene composing would do most of the rest of the technical stuff — like reminding you the lens cap is on and pointing it in the right direction.

The controls layout, viewed from the top and back, and very much pro-DSLR style — main function mode dial with option buttons beside it and arranged either side of the large view screen — a screen that can be pulled out and tilted to ease viewing.

As well as standard automatic modes, aperture and shutter priority and manual settings, the Fuji has the next best thing to dummy mode which is EXR, automatically choosing the optimum settings, including dynamic range and colour balance, for the conditions available as the device interprets it.

If you should happen to know better than the camera, you can set your own custom shooting modes and save them, as well as saving two scene modes for shooting in similar conditions. One of these could be using external flash, in a studio location, and as well as the pop up on camera device, the HS20

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has a hot shoe which will take both additional guns or an adaptor which will allow a sync lead to other external studio units. This is a major plus over other comparable cameras, and one feature which Fuji have sensibly retained over the years.

The ability to override automatic settings and take control of external lighting makes this a bridge camera with professional potential.

In common with semi-pro spec cameras, the HS20 will shoot RAW unprocessed files as well as a selection of Jpegs, or a combination of the two, at 4608 x 3456 pixels maximum size and the Fuji software that comes boxed with the kit is extremely good at extracting the best from the former. Better, I found than other manufacturers offerings.

The camera has just a small 25 mb internal memory (once that would have seemed massive) and is served by SD/SDHC or SDXC cards which are now cheap and readily available. At maximum size, individual files occupy an average of 5.5mb.

Oh and did I mention it will record nearly 30 minutes of HD movie and can take still snapshots of the film at the same time ? You can shoot lower quality clips and slow motion, all in camera, and record sound in stereo.

It won’t email your pictures to a friend, but hey, what do you want a camera to do ? One review I read suggested the HS20 was comprised by the fact Fuji had already squeezed too many goodies in the picnic basket. Perhaps they have but in a demand led market one more feature scores points against the opposition.

As I have to stress, other bridge cameras are available. This has been one of them.

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Konica Minolta wins prestigious environmental award Minolta to calculate the amount of energy, paper and toner used by their devices. From this information, they are able to determine the amount of carbon dioxide generated and work towards a strategic plan of reductions.

Commenting on the Green Apple Award, Mr Kobayashi, Managing Director for Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) stated, “We’re delighted to have won this prestigious award in recognition of our pioneering Green Audit Process. At Konica Minolta we have developed a holistic approach to

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onica minolTa has won the prestigious Green Apple Award in recognition of its innovative environmental project, ‘OPS Green Audit Process’. The Award was presented at a ceremony held in the House of Commons, Westminster. The presentation was made by Chris Hopkins, Managing Director of Ploughcroft to Claire Ham, Quality and Environmental Manager for Konica Minolta and representatives of the Quality and Environmental team.

The Green Apple Awards are organised by The Green Organisation, an independent environment group dedicated to promoting environmental conservation. The aim of the Green Apple Awards is to recognise, reward and promote

environmental best practice. Konica Minolta’s awards submission for the Green Audit Process was considered by an independent panel of judges against nine criteria, including environmental benefit, innovation, economic benefit and quantative evidence of impact.

As part the Green Audit Process, Konica Minolta aims to reduce customer print fleets and volumes by installing improved efficiency devices, to reduce the environmental impact of customers’ document production, with the consequent benefit of reducing operating costs. Customer businesses typically do not have the in-house resources to ascertain their current environmental performance and are able to utilise the successful Green Audit Process from Konica

our customers’ document workflow needs, encompassing every facet of the process, including environmental impact. This is part of our customer intimate approach. Konica Minolta has a primary objective to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent through the life cycle of its products in the financial year 2015 compared with 2005. Through these proactive policies Konica Minolta seeks to conserve resources, preserve the earth’s ecological balance and act as a friend to the environment.”

For more information, please visit: www.konicaminolta.co.uk/ops

Caring About Our Environment vivid Laminating Technologies are designers and manufacturers of laminating systems, based in the heart of the National Forest.

Vivid care about the environment – so much so, that they have committed to doing the best for the environment by complying with relevant environmental legislation and to the adoption of practices and procedures that reduce the risk of environmental damage or harm.

They also go beyond requirements for environmental legislation and participate in a number of community and national projects in order to strive towards being carbon neutral.

This year, they are proud to be involved in planting a number of trees in the National Forest. This is very important to Vivid, both in supporting company ethics with regards to caring for the environment, but also to build a legacy that proves their commitments and company success for years to come.

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Energy Management at Mitsubishi m

iTsubishi hiTec paper Europe (MPE) has long taken environmental and sustainability concerns into account in the production of its high quality special papers. Now it’s gone one step further: Its existing energy management system has been certified as DIN EN 16001 compliant.

Managing Director Gerhard Schoon emphasises that “MPE’s existing energy management system was already an acknowledgement of the company’s obligation to environmental preservation and responsible use of non-renewable resources”. Energy concerns have routinely been reviewed within the framework of the environmental management system, and an energy management system has been in place for years, to great success. Recognising the increasing importance of energy as an issue at large, MPE has formally adapted energy awareness into the company’s policies and has introduced an energy management system certified to the DIN EN 16001 standard.

“The recently certified system does more than just put us in a position to pursue our goal of constant improvement of our energy efficiency and energy cutting efforts”, notes Gerd Finkenhofer, MPE’s energy management officer.

“In the sense of continuous improvement, we naturally expect that before the year is out the current certification based on the European standard will be replaced by DIN EN ISO 50001 certification, which is valid worldwide and befits our globally active company”.

The process of continuous improvements that has been initiated ensures responsible, sustainable handling of resources throughout the entire company. Among other contributions, it has been shown to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. All units of the company are affected: from R&D to purchasing, from the production chain as a whole to maintenance and repairs and on to distribution logistics. The installed systems at the Bielefeld and Flensburg locations have been inspected and certified by TÜV Nord.

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Agi & Sam – fashionable printing: something a little different H

ybrid, who supply Mimaki printers in the UK and Ireland would like to share this latest use of one of their machines with the readers of Copy Shop News…

Meeting up with a rising star of the UK fashion industry was bound to be inspiring and as Sam Cotton from the very much on the radar Agi & Sam label enjoyed a day out from London at his print supplier; Macclesfield based R A Smart, Hybrid tagged along to see what was round the corner for the exciting, young, menswear brand.

Becoming very well known in the right circles for their print inspired menswear collections, Sam Cotton and Agape Mdumulla founded Agi & Sam in January 2010 with the fundamental thought of integrating bespoke print with a sense of humour into their work. Their association with designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen and Armand Basi — amongst others — has stood them in good stead and it’s easy to forget that Cotton only graduated from the University of Lincoln’s illustration course in 2008. Meeting Mdumulla; himself a Manchester College of Art graduate from the same year — whilst working together at Alexander McQueen, they’re now moving their brand upwards at an impressive pace, and pioneering some standout work along the way.

wear material, polyester is by far the most versatile and creative base fabric available, morphing into substantially different handles, looks and weights with remarkable ease.

Great potential Examining the new fabrics for the upcoming collection, alongside some natty looking sportswear styled cloths, Cotton picks out a peached twill, ideal for a suit jacket’s outer fabric and barely distinguishable from its natural inspiration. With all the benefits (to manufacturer and consumer) of ease of printing, wear and care, it has great potential to fit into their new range and it’s one that Cotton’s clearly excited about.

“Dye sublimation is such an integral part of fashion printing and for next season we’re looking to mix natural cloths with man made fabrics in a contemporary and clean collection.”

One thing he’s surprised about though is the lack of capacity for digital print provision onto polyester in the UK. “The majority of polyester is being printed for soft signage, sportswear or the flag industry,” agrees Mighall, “and whilst there are a number of well known bureau services for printing natural fabrics, I’m not surprised that Agi & Sam initially struggled to find a print partner for its polyester work.”

Hard graft

Paris 2012

Agi & Sam produced its first commercial work not much more than a year ago, describing it at the time as “A fully committed menswear collection”. The company has embarked on the usual hard graft to gain the necessary uplift in a famously tough industry, and Cotton admits that they are effectively building an expensive portfolio. They’re now at the stage where well known labels request freelance projects — so together, he and Mdumulla are consulting for the big names and gaining the exposure that will elevate their brand.

“With fashion, you have to make a scene,” says Cotton. “Everything we do is tarnished with humour. We’re making print based catwalk collections and getting noticed for it, but show by show, we’re pulling it back to a more normal perspective — we just had to create a fuss to get noticed at the outset.”

The purpose of Cotton’s visit to Macclesfield is to discuss fabric sourcing with senior partner at R A Smart; Magnus Mighall. His company is a well know print provider for fashion, furnishings and sportswear and consistently has a number of household names’ designs running through their substantial digital or high end silk screen print facility. It’s Paris Fashion Week and the resulting spring / summer 2012 collection that’s closest to both their minds today, and although digital print has brought deadlines much closer to delivery dates, there’s still a body of work to get through.

“Finding the right fabric remains a challenge,” says Mighall, “Although there are fewer obstacles now, as we can digitally print to almost any material with either dye sublimation, reactive, acid or pigment inks.”

Cotton agrees to this, remarking on the frustrations he faces, “The hardest thing has been sourcing interesting fabrics.” The one he’s keenest on tying down is a sweatshirt jersey with a looped, fleecy back to it. “It’s the most popular product in our range,” he says, “and to find one that’s printable will be a real winner.”

They’ll produce this next collection on the same digital printer that brought the plaudits and awards at London Fashion Week earlier in 2011. Their Spring / Summer 2011 collection entitled “Tabasco, Tequila and Tomato Juice” was inspired by many facets of Central American society and delivered menswear, shoes and millinery that sported vibrant colour blocks and traditional cuts embellished with powerful printed patterns. The Mimaki Tx400-1800D textile inkjet printer that R A Smart used is capable of printing both direct and via transfer paper to the polyesters that make up the majority of Agi & Sam’s range.

Long rid of an ancient reputation of being an unfashionable and unpleasant to

The sample fabrics that R A Smart will produce for Agi & Sam to create their next runway pieces will be short work for the Mimaki — barely a few hours printing — but it’s sowing the seeds for the volume work that comes off the back of a successful collection launch. The beauty of digital lies in the ease of delivery of the short runs required for just such a project, and not that many years ago, it would have been a very different story for designers like Mdumulla and Cotton to get their work off the ground.

Cotton is completely accepting of this and sees digital textile printing — and his knowledge of it — as core to what their label offers. “A lot of people don’t really know much about the choice of processes, or how versatile digital printing is. What we’re keen on harnessing is where we can take it.”

The success of the Mimaki printed first collection was recognised by leading publications like Vogue, ID and Dazed and the awareness this created has seen something of a spike in demand at R A Smart, with a number of designers looking at similar projects shortly after Agi & Sam’s showing at London.

So saying, Cotton’s not one for counting his chickens. “We had this plan. We hit all our targets. We delivered what we’d hoped for,” he recalls, “But you know what? We could have done all this and had everyone hate it!”

There goes the fickleness of fashion, but with a drive towards delivering their captivating designs on new ecologically savvy cloths, recycled polyesters and other challenging fabrics, Agi & Sam are happy working on the new, while others have yet to embark on the present. www.agiandsam.com, www.rasmart.co.uk, www.hybridservices.co.uk

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finally the holy grail of marketing is discovered by ScanMe

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canme.com, creaTors of a new free social media app based on personalised QR barcodes, have discovered the Holy Grail of marketing methods. Taking barcode scanning by Smartphones to a whole new level, ScanMe is experiencing huge success with interactive merchandising which not only instantly recruits social media fans, but also records useful information on how effective a product marketing campaign is in the real world.

Barcode scanning is a fashionable trend, riding a huge wave of popularity with Smartphone and social media users alike, bridging the gap between online and offline social interaction. ScanMe.com was recently ranked number 1 website by UK national television show, The Gadget Show, which saw its member numbers leap 300%, and has had glowing reports from the likes of online technology reviews giant CNET. They now seem to be a victim of their own success, and are being inundated with requests and ideas for barcode incorporated merchandise from companies, bands and even the odd celebrity looking to increase their online fan base!

John Harrison, founder of ScanMe commented “My background is in custom clothing and product manufacture; what with experience of working with the co-founders of ASOS.com, as well as setting up the Tesco School Uniform Embroidery service. This meant that putting barcodes onto merchandise was a natural step for me and I became increasingly excited about the possibilities of a social connection scanning service.

Now that it’s a reality, the hype around the fact that our technology can tell you who, when, where and even what was scanned, has already led to a staggering flow of interest and new ideas for barcode incorporated merchandise. In fact, we’re actively looking for partners such as design agencies to support our growth”.

Many companies have jumped on the QR technology bandwagon, but ScanMe.com has developed the concept into a social media fellowship, creating QR barcodes that link through to a Smartphone optimised scan page, working with 99% of all scanning apps on every mobile platform.

The scan page is fully customisable to include a variety of instantly accessible contact details, including social media profiles, and can be updated at any time without the need for changing the barcode. Users can post and tweet about scans easily, making the possibilities of viral marketing even easier.

ScanMe.com offers users analytics that can provide valuable ROI information. The ‘product tagging’ technology, which identifies and reports the product that was scanned, is particularly useful for outsourced marketing agencies. It allows marketers to provide a clearly measurable service, creating a winning differentiator from other consultancies.

The best thing is, ScanMe QR barcodes are extremely simple to implement into existing marketing campaigns and are highly relevant for both current and new clients.

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What are we here at CSN, a free messaging service for our suppliers? Well yes that is one of our remits, so over to our friends at Nelson Press.

“Last year we saw a healthy 15% rise in Draw ticket orders here at Nelson Press and our thanks go to all our friends in the trade. Now that it’s our quiet period you can take advantage of some really keen prices on other numbered and perforated items like multipart Books and Pads or Event/ Admission tickets. And with local elections in May this is the time for one of our specialities Ballot books & slips.

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Start the year with a suppliers gift to help you work faster at work, home and on the move. Simon at Sharp licensee Colourfast has sharpened his pencil to quote you happy with the very exciting colour printer MX2610N. /This is Why the MX-2610N is best suited to your print room.

The finger-swipe control interface makes it easy for everyone in the office to make full use of the MX-2610N and MX-3110N’s power and versatility.

Print runs of all sizes, from just a few pages to several thousand, can be performed in colour or black and white at the full rated speeds. For truly outstanding performance, you can link two MFPs of the same model to share a print job between them, effectively doubling the output speed.

All-in-one performance Scanning is first class. A resolution that’s adjustable to 150 dpi lets you create smaller files without compromising clarity and, for ‘difficult’ documents, you can compensate by adjusting contrast and sharpness.

Sharp’s OSA Network Scanning Tool Option provides one touch scanning to your PC or network drive. Scanned documents can quickly be printed, filed, previewed, shared, and stored, saving time and improving workflows.

Even high volume scanning is effortless thanks to thoughtful innovations that automatically stamp originals as they’re scanned and skip blank pages entirely.

Space-saving inner finisher, saddle-stitch finisher and hole punch module all available as options for even greater flexibility and productivity Copying is just as quick as printing. Even when you want to copy just a page or two. You can directly print PDF*, TIFF and JPEG files without using the print driver.

For longer or more complex runs, you can scan single-sided originals at the rate of 50 per minute, or double-sided as fast as 20 per minute. Plus, there’s a Job Build function which lets you scan large-volume jobs in easily manageable batches, which are combined for eventual output as a single job.

Stylish documents for clearer communication From fully finished customer-facing proposals to internal presentations and briefing documents, the MX-2610N and MX-3110N lend style and professionalism to everything your team produces.

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Hi Peter, we have had a great meeting today and we are now ready to roll out a ‘New & exclusive’ mixer product to CSN members, and we love it!

I will be sending you three items by courier tomorrow, to land on Monday morning to you.

These are: 1) The new ‘mixer’ product offer which we hope you will open the box, photograph the presentation (we like the look it’s a vital selling point) and discuss / promote in the next edition.

2) 250 Cobox small business card boxes 3) 125 Cobox Deep business card boxes PS I take it you are at the beach today?

Stephen Callaghan, Managing Director Calco Paper Services Ltd Tel 01924 409995 Fax 01924 408320 Stephen@calcopaper.co.uk They say that presentation is everything and certainly delivering printed business cards held together by a lacky band doesn’t do much for the product.

Far better to invest some of the generous GP in a box to include re-ordering details say about two thirds of the way down. With each box only costing a few pence your repeat orders will roll in.

Business cards are still the greatest profit maker and you can track your new start business customers as they grow into requiring letterheads, invoices, brochures, banners and of course more business cards.

Order your start up box today, choosing one of three special CSN bundle offers which includes some quality card which we have successfully printed on our KM here in our own shop.

London 2012 Olympics

Now I know we can’t hold a torch to some of you other marketeers in our jolly group of frontline printers, but fortunately many of you have bought into sharing best practice across our 6600 print shops. So how about filling these pages next month with some ideas on how to print some extra business while we host the rest of the world here in the UK during the summer.

We need to inspire all our customers to print some extra flyers to commemorate our Olympic spirit. Ideas to get us on track please from you and your salesmen in the field.

I don’t want to be doing this on my own or your lot are for the high jump!

Come on help your old innuendo editor out with this one, after all it is a one off opportunity to ring in some extra sales.

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New year diet A woman walked up to a little old man rocking in a chair on his porch.

“I couldn’t help noticing how happy you look,” she said. “What’s your secret for a long happy life?”

“I smoke three packs of cigarettes a day,” he said. “I also drink a case of whiskey a week, eat fatty foods, and never exercise.”

“That’s amazing,” said the woman, “how old are you?”

“Twenty-seven,” he said.

What do you call…

What do you call a donkey with one leg? A wonky donkey What do you call a donkey with one leg and one eye? A winky wonky donkey What do you call a donkey with one leg and one eye makin’ love? A bonky winky wonky donkey What do you call a donkey with one leg and one eye makin’ love while breaking wind? A stinky bonky winky wonky donkey What do you call a donkey with one leg and one eye makin’ love while breaking wind, wearing blue suede shoes? A honky tonky stinky bonky winky wonky donkey What do you call a donkey with one leg and one eye makin’ love while breaking wind, wearing blue suede shoes and playing piano? A plinky plonky honky tonky stinky bonky winky wonky donkey.

What do you call a donkey with one leg and one eye makin’ love while breaking wind, wearing blue suede shoes, playing piano and driving a bus? A really talented donkey!

Perfect Harmony While attending a marriage seminar dealing with communication, Jack and his wife, Barb, listened to the instructor. “It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other.” He addressed the man, “can you describe your wife’s favourite flower?” Jack leaned over, touched his wife’s arm gently and whispered, “Its Homepride isn’t it?”

Cowboy Salesman “Just to establish some parameters,” said the sales trainer to the sales trainee, “what is the opposite of joy?”

“Sadness,” said the student.

“And the opposite of depression?”

“Elation.”

“Great answer, how about the opposite of woe?”

“I believe that would be giddy up...”

What Each Star Sign Says After Sex Aries Taurus Gemini

Okay, let’s do it again I’m hungry, pass the pizza Have you seen the TV remote Cancer When are we getting married?

Leo Wasn’t I fantastic!

Virgo I need to wash the sheets.

Libr I liked it if you liked it.

Scorpio Perhaps I should untie you Sagittarius Don’t call me, I’ll call you Capricorn Do you have a business card?

Aquarius Now let’s try it with our clothes off Pisces What did you say your name was?

Guy goes into the doctorS ‘Doc, I’ve got a cricket ball stuck up my backside.’ ‘How’s that?’

‘Doctor, I can’t pronounce my F’s, T’s and H’s.’ ‘Well you can’t say fairer than that then’ Two elephants walk off a cliff...... boom boom!

‘So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said ‘Who’s speaking please?’ And a voice said ‘You are.’’

So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang up, and he said ‘You’ve been promoted.’

And I swerved. And then he rang up a second time and said ‘You’ve been promoted again.’ And I swerved again. He rang up a third time and said ‘You’re managing director.’ And I went into a tree. And a policeman came up and said ‘What happened to you?’ And I said ‘I careered off the road.

Now, most dentist’s chairs go up and down, don’t they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought ‘This is unusual’. And the dentist said to me ‘Mr Cooper, get out of the filing cabinet.’

Two cannibals eating a clown. One says to the other ‘Does this taste funny to you?’

My dog was barking at everyone the other day. Still, what can you expect from a cross-breed.

I was driving down the motorway with my bird the other day when we both got a bit frisky and decided to do something about it. So we decided we’d take the next exit, but it was a turn-off.

I bought some HP sauce the other day. It’s costing me 6p a month for the next 2 years

The Guinness Book of Female Records CAR PARKING: The smallest kerbside space successfully reversed into by a woman was one of 19.36m (63ft 2 ins), equivalent to three standard parking spaces, by Miss Emma Hawley, driving an unmodified Vauxhall Nova ‘Swing’ on 12th October 2000. She started the manoeuvre at 11.15am in Reading, Berkshire, and successfully parked within three feet of the pavement, 8 hours and 14 minutes later. There was slight damage to the bumpers and wings of her own and two adjoining cars, as well as a shop frontage and two lamp posts.

INCORRECT DRIVING: The longest journey completed with the handbrake on was one of 50.4km (31 miles) from Stranraer to Holyhead

by Ms Joanne Hutchins (GB) at the wheel of a Saab 900 on the 2nd April 1987. Ms. Hutchins smelled burning two miles into her journey at Aird but pressed on to Holyhead with smoke billowing from the rear wheels. This journey also holds the records for the longest completed journey with the choke fully out and the right indicator flashing.

SHOP DITHERING: The longest time spent dithering in a shop was 12 days between 21st August and 2nd September 1995 by Ms Jacqui Wall (GB) in the Buxton Branch of Dorothy Perkins. Entering the shop on a Saturday morning, Ms Wall could not choose between two near identical dresses which were both in the sale.

After one hour, her boyfriend, sitting on a chair by the changing room with his head in his hands, told her to buy both. Ms Wall eventually bought one for £12.99, only to return the next day and exchange it for the other one. To date, she has yet to wear it.

Ms Wall also holds the record for window shopping longevity, when, starting September 12th 1995, she stood motionless gazing at a pair of shoes in Clinkard’s window in Kidderminster for 3 weeks and two days before eventually going home.

JUMBLE SALE MASSACRE: The greatest number of old ladies to perish whilst fighting was at jumble sale in 1998, at a Methodist Church Hall in Castleford, West Yorkshire on February 12th 1991. When the doors opened at 10.00am, the initial scramble to get in cost 16 lives, a further 25 being killed in the crush at the first table. A seven-way skirmish then broke out over a pinafore dress costing 10p which escalated into a full scale melee resulting in another 18 lives being lost. A pitched battle over a headscarf then ensued and quickly spread throughout the hall,

claiming 39 old women. The jumble sale raised GBP 5.28 for local boy scouts.

TALKING ABOUT NOTHING: Miss Rachel Woodward (GB) and Miss Alex Hayman (GB) sat in a kitchen in Bristol, Avon and talked about nothing whatsoever for four and a half months from 1st May to 7th August 1997, pausing only for coffee, cakes and toilet visits. Throughout the whole time, no information was exchanged and neither woman gained any new knowledge whatsoever. The outdoor record for talking about nothing is held by Mrs Elizabeth Wheeler (GB) and her neighbour Mrs Charmaine Woodward (GB) of Ipswich, who between 11th November 1983 and 12th January 1984 chuntered on over the fence in an unenlightening dialogue lasting almost 62 days until Mrs Woodward remembered she’d left the bath running.

GOSSIPING: On February 18th 1992, Miss Lisa Henshall, a close friend of Miss Caroline Anderson popped round for a cup of tea and a chat, during the course of which she told Miss Anderson, in the strictest confidence, that she was having an affair with the butcher.

After Miss Henshall left at 2.10pm, Miss Anderson immediately began to tell everyone, swearing them all to secrecy. By 2.30pm, she had told 128 people of the news. By 2.50pm it had risen to 372 and by 4.00pm in the afternoon, 2,774 knew of the affair, including the local Amateur dramatic Society, several knitting circles, a coachload of American tourists which she flagged down… and the butcher’s wife! When a tired Miss Anderson went to bed at 11.55pm that night, Miss Henshall’s affair was common knowledge to a staggering 75,338 people, enough to fill Wembley Stadium.

GROUP LOO VISITS: The record for the largest group of women to visit a loo simultaneously is held by 147 workers at the Department of Social Security, Longbenton. At their annual Christmas celebration at a night club in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on October 12th 1994, Miss Kate Downton got up to go to the loo and was immediately followed by 146 other members of the party. Moving as a mass, the group entered the ladies at 9.52pm and, after waiting for everyone to finish, emerged 2hrs 37minutes later.

FILM CONFUSION: The greatest length of time a woman has watched a film with her boyfriend without asking a stupid plot-related question was achieved on the 28th October 1990, when Miss Jessica Avery sat down with her boyfriend to watch ‘The Ipcress File’. She watched in silence for a breath-taking 2 mins 40

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secs before asking ‘is he a goodie or a baddie, then, him in the glasses?’, revealing a staggering level of ignorance. This broke her own record set in 1962 when she sat through 2mins 38 secs of ‘633 Squadron’ before asking, ‘is this a war film, is it?’

SINGLE BREATH SENTENCE: An Australian woman became the first ever to break the thirty minute barrier for talking without drawing breath. Miss Karen Townsend, 25 of Queensland smashed the previous record of 23 minutes when she excitedly reported an argument she’d had in the butchers to her neighbour. She ranted on for a staggering 32 minutes and 12 seconds without pausing for air, before going blue and collapsing in a heap on the ground. She was taken to Radcliffe Infirmary in a wheelbarrow but was released later after check-ups. At the peak of her mammoth motor mouth marathon, she achieved an unbelievable 680 words per minute, repeating the main points of the story an amazing 114 times whilst her neighbour, Miss Julie-Ann Stark, nodded and tutted.

The last third of the sentence was delivered in a barely audible croak, the last two minutes being mouthed only, accompanied by vigorous gesticulations and indignant spasms.

TRAFFIC LIGHT COSMETICS: The longest spell spent oblivious to traffic lights whilst applying make up was one of 1hr 51mins and 38secs

by Miss Natalie Haynes at a road junction in the centre of Guildford on the 1st June 2001. Miss Haynes, a piano teacher, beautified herself through cycles of the light, creating a tailback of irate motorists stretching 28 miles towards Brighton.

Short and to the point… aren’t you Two Aerials meet on a roof - fall in love - get married.

The ceremony was rubbish but the Reception was Brilliant.

A doctor walked into a bank and prepared to endorse a cheque.

The Zoo A bloke starts his new job at the zoo and is given three tasks. The first is to clear the exotic fish pool of weeds.

He starts on this when suddenly a huge fish leaps out and bites him.

He is not going to let a fish have a go so he beats the offending fish to death with a spade. Realising that his boss is not going to be best pleased, he tries to find a way to hide the dead fish. He hits on the brilliant idea of giving the fish to the lions as lions will eat anything. So he throws the fish into the lion’s cage.

He then moves on to his second job, which is to clear out the monkey house.

He goes in and a couple of chimps start throwing coconuts at him.

Un-amused he swipes at the chimps with his spade, killing them instantly.

He’s really worried now, so what does he do? He feeds the chimps to the lions, because lions eat anything. He hurls them into the lion’s cage.

Anyway, he moves on to his last job, which is to collect honey from South American bees. He starts on this and quickly gets attacked by the bees.

Alarmed, he grabs his spade and smashes the bees as hard as he can, squashing them to death. By this point he is not too worried about the death of bees as he knows what to do by now. He throws them into the lion’s cage, because lions eat anything.

Later that day a new lion arrives at the zoo. It wanders up to another lion and says ‘What’s the food like in here?’. The other lion says: ‘Absolutely brilliant, today we had Fish, Chimps and Mushy Bees’

The surgeon a bit surprised, walked over to the mechanic working on the motorcycle. The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and asked, “So Doc, look at this engine. I open its heart, take valves out, fix ‘em, put ‘em back in, and when I finish, it works just like new. So how come I get such a small salary and you get the really big bucks, when you and I are doing basically the same work?”

The surgeon paused, smiled and leaned over, and whispered to the mechanic...

“Try doing it with the engine running.”

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Fishy Tale

A mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley motorcycle when he spotted a wellknown heart surgeon in his shop.

The surgeon was there, waiting for the service manager to come and take a look at his bike.

The mechanic shouted across the garage, “Hey, Doc, can I ask you a question?”

Two salesmen buddies are fishing, but they haven’t caught anything all day. Then, another fisherman walks by with a huge load of fish. They ask him “excuse me, but where did you get all those fish?”

The other fisherman replies,” If you just go down the stream until the water isn’t salty, there are a ton of hungry fish.”

They thank him and go on their way. 15 minutes later, one salesman says to the other “fill the bucket up with water and see if the water is salty.”

He dips the bucket in the stream and drinks some. “Nope. Still salty.” 30 minutes later, he asks him to check again.

“Nope, still salty.” One our later they check again. “Nope. Still salty.”

“This isn’t good,” the fishy salesman finally says. “We have been walking for almost two hours and the water is still salty!”

“I know,” says the other. “And the bucket is almost empty!”

He pulled a rectal thermometer out of his shirt pocket and tried to ‘write’ with it.

Realising his mistake, he looked at the thermometer with annoyance and said…

Harley Street

Small Crystal Ball Q: What do you call a midget fortune teller on the run from the law?

A: A small medium at large.

Sales Training Sales Trainer: What do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?

PUPILS: A Sales Trainer.

Parental Guidance A mother was working in the kitchen, listening to her five-year old son playing with his new electric train in the living room. She heard the train stop and her son saying, ‘All of you bastards who want off, get the hell off now, cause this is the last stop! And all of you bastards who are getting on, get your low-income asses in the train, cause we are going down the tracks.’

The horrified mother went in and told her son, ‘We don’t use that kind of language in this house. Now I want you to go to your room and you are to stay there for two hours.

When you come out, you may play with your train, but I want you to use nice language.’

Two hours later, the son came out of the bedroom and resumed playing with his train. Soon the train stopped and the mother heard her son say, ‘all passengers who are disembarking the train, please remember to take all of your belongings with you. We thank you for travelling with us today and hope your trip was a pleasant one.’

She then hears the little boy continue, ‘For those of you just boarding, we ask you to stow all of your hand luggage under your seat.

Remember, there is no smoking on the train. We hope you will have a pleasant and relaxing journey with us today.’

As the mother began to smile, the child added, ‘For those of you who are pissed off about the two hour delay, please see the old bag in the kitchen.’

‘Well that’s great, just great... some asshole’s got my pen!’

FELIX THE COPY CAT

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Manufacturers of the bizhub PRO range of high quality production print devices ranging from 55cpm colour to 105cpm black and white.

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Specialists in the supply of quality preowned Océ and Xerox plan copiers.

Morgana systems ltd Tel: 01908 608888 Fax: 01908 692399 Davy Avenue, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes Manufacturer of a comprehensive range of finishing products and systems. Booklet makers & Trimmers, Collators, Business Card Cutters, Creasers.

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SOVEREIGN Tel: 01495 248300 Fax: 01495 248419 Prince of Wales Ind. Est., Abercarn. NP11 5AR Screen printing as a trade service onto many materials. Labels, binder covers, estate agent boards, point of sale, plastic business cards, fire & safety signs, vehicle promotional items, etc. For a competitive quotation call now.

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UNIBIND SYSTEMS LIMITED Tel: 0845 130 5575 Fax: 01293 590748 Mobile: (Greg Dowling) 07881 996405 Email: greg.dowling@unibinduk.com 3 Pembley Green, Copthorne Common, West Sussex. RH103LF Suppliers of a unique, high quality range of binding covers; laminating supplies; bespoke and tailor-made hard back books; new innovative range of PhotoBooks.

VIVID LAMINATING TECHNOLOGIES Tel: 01530 510946 Fax: 01530 510979 www.vivid-online.com.

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XERETEC Tel: 02380 574100 Fax: 02380 574200 Email: info@xeretec.co.uk. www.xeretec.co.uk Brickfield Trading Estate, Brickfield Lane, Chandlers Ford, Hampshire. SO53 4DR Xerox Technology, Document Consulting, Office Supplies

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