Copy Shop News March 2010

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MARCH 2010

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OK now that is early, even for us lot.

But if you don’t plan for those green shoots of recovery someone will benefit from them before you.

So let’s all March forward this month and get set for the upsurge in new business from, well, new businesses. It seems that every party is driving new start business as the key to reducing unemployment. All true, it worked last time around. So we can all get on board with some new business start up packages.

March is going to be such a busy month. My Mum’s 80th Birthday and my eldest’s wedding, more party invitations to print and the election called?

Can you lend a hand please with some insurance planning on page 21 and volunteer for our CSMA Services steering committee to help keep us all on the right track?

Two shows as well this month; let me know what you pick up.

If March is for madness then the road to recovery is just around the bend.

Join the printers barmy army today!

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NEWS

Duplo Digital announces First Copy event

Following the success of Duplo’s Digital North Event in November, Duplo International has announced its latest event; Duplo Digital East, in collaboration with First Copy and the Print On-Demand Solutions Group.

The exhibition takes place at First Copy’s showroom in Cambridge,on the 9th and 10th March and is aimed at organisations both moving into digital print, and existing digital printers looking to improve their workflows.

The event is the first exhibition tie-up between the print finishing manufacturer and Xerox concessionaire, First Copy, after a successful first twelve months working in partnership. The event will feature the XEROX 700 Digital Color Press and the XEROX CX Print Server, Powered by CREO Color Server Technology, as well as Duplo’s Digital System 2000 Bookletmaker, DC-615PRO Multi Finisher and DC-445 DuCreaser.

“We are very excited about this show. Both our London and Warrington events in 2009 exceeded all expectations and there is a definite upsurge in interest in digital finishing

solutions. Now, working with First Copy and the Print On-Demand Solutions Group, we can show the end to end solution and a fully complementary workflow line all under one roof.” comments Peter Jolly, Marketing Manager at Duplo.

Peter continues, “Our digital print finishing range is the widest available on the market today. The Digital System 2000 Bookletmaker, our entry level digital system which will be on show, has now become one of our most in demand products in recent months.”

First Copy will be showcasing entry Xerox equipment as well as having on hand specialists to advise on specific requirements including workflow and Web2Print solutions.

First Copy’s ‘e-commerce’ partner Red Tie will also be represented at the event.

First Copy comments, “We are happy to host the latest Duplo show, and know our customers and potential customers will appreciate this opportunity to gain information on how to implement an automated workflow, from receiving a file to producing a finished job with little or no manual input”.

Promotion for the event has incorporated Quick Response Barcoding, which enables guests to use their mobile phones to link straight to the event bookings site via the barcode on the printed invitation mailer.

“The show is all about innovation and modern technologies, what better way to promote this than innovative marketing methods. After our Duplo Digital North promotions many printers have now incorporated QR barcoding into their service offering, and more phone manufacturers are now supplying barcode scanners as standard.” concludes Peter.

For more information about the show and to register, visit www.duplodigital-east.com.

For further information please contact: Duplo International, 01372 468 131, www.duplouk.com

Konica Minolta supports UKA for 2010 season

Konica Minolta Business Solutions is continuing its sponsorship as Official Supplier of UKA (formerly UK Athletics) Major Events for printers, copiers and faxes for a second athletics season. The agreement with UK Athletics runs until September 2013 and takes in participation in the London Olympics to be held in 2012.

As an Official Supplier, Konica Minolta will support UKA at events during the 2010 season, with coverage on BBC network television.

The Konica Minolta logo will be clearly visible at the finish line of all events, as well as trackside.

At the events Konica Minolta will supply UKA with the latest high-speed bizhub multifunctionals for copying, printing, scanning and faxing. Konica Minolta bizhub document imaging systems will be provided both at event venues and also at the hotels used by UKA. The current Konica Minolta product line up ranges from an entrylevel 5 ppm (print per minute) printer through to a 250 image per minute production print system for high-speed commercial print applications. Konica Minolta is a leader in growth market for colour multifunctionals. In Europe overall, Konica Minolta is a leader in colour document imaging.

Commenting on the sponsorship agreement, Kathryn Hobbs, Marketing Communications Assistant for Konica Minolta said, “We are delighted to be supporting UKA as Official Supplier for printers, copiers and faxes for the 2010 athletics season. This is a great partnership agreement for Konica Minolta giving us maximum brand exposure in the period leading up to the London Olympics, which will certainly be the most significant sporting event for Britain in the new decade. But it is also an excellent opportunity for the entire five year duration of the contract to associate Konica Minolta’s brand values with British sporting success and pride.” www.konicaminolta.co.uk

Men across London are urged to give prostate cancer the red card The World Cup 2010 is just around the corner, and whilst football fans all over the country are crossing their fingers for a 1966 result, men across London will be locked in a battle of their own - The Prostate Cancer Charity’s Real Man Cup. The Charity’s annual men’s five-a-side tournament is back and this year’s event, which is scheduled for Saturday 13 March, is promising to be bigger than ever.

Men across the capital are invited to live out their childhood dreams and score a goal at Wembley - at the Soccer Goals Centre that is, to help give prostate cancer the red card during Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

Football legend, Mark Bright, attended the Real Man Cup last year, to lend his top tips to the teams taking part on the day. Rumours are rife as to which soccer star will be on hand to coach the players this year.

Following the final whistle after a tense penalty kick out last year, Mark Bright said: “It’s great to see so many men giving up their Saturday for a kick about with a difference. The football skills on display were excellent and the teams were all in great spirits. The Real Man Cup is in a league of its own and I’ve had a brilliant day and feel like I’ve won the tournament myself.”

The Real Man Cup will take place on Saturday 13 March at Wembley Soccer Goals Centre. Teams can be made of up to eight players and the entry fee is £150

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per squad. For further information please visit http://www.prostate-cancer.org. uk/help/community/RMC.asp or contact Gemma Cornwell on 020 8222 7630 or email gemma.cornwell@prostate-cancer.org.uk Thousands of individuals and groups across the UK will also support the awareness month by staging awareness events, signing up for five-a-side football tournament The Real Man Cup, or taking part in a brand new fundraising initiative, Do Blue Day. Whether people encourage their colleagues to wear a sea of blue to work, jump into a bath full of turquoise jelly or cook up a storm with blue-themed foods, they will be raising funds, and critical awareness of the disease. Anyone wanting more information can visit www.hiddencancer.org.uk. www.prostate-cancer.org.uk

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PrintIT! Scotland Goes Live PrintIT! has teamed up with the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) and Graphic Enterprise Scotland (GES) to launch PrintIT! Scotland, which yields a potential catchment for PrintIT! of more than 300 secondary schools in Scotland. `This extension of the PrintIT! brand follows the success of PrintIT! in England, which was first launched to English schools back in 2005 and has recently registered its 100,000th student.

Says Paul Evans, project director of PrintIT!, “It’s been a truly collaborative effort getting PrintIT! Scotland off the ground, and once again, I am indebted to all the sponsors who have continued to support PrintIT! I’m delighted that we are able to introduce this initiative into Scottish schools, and am confident

we can replicate the success that PrintIT! has enjoyed so far in showing students what print can achieve in today’s world and how they can play a part in its future as potential industry leaders of tomorrow.”

PrintIT! Scotland is a curriculummapped project aligned to the Standard Grade Graphic Communication Course and culminates in a competition whereby winning students and their schools are awarded prizes. The initiative includes free teaching course books and student guides, detailed lesson plans, online and multimedia

resource materials, and flexible, easyto-teach course units, all designed to meet criteria in the Illustration and Presentation elements of the course.

Neil MacGowan, head of corporate affairs at the Scottish Qualifications Authority adds, “PrintIT! Scotland has all the hallmarks of a valuable and effective means of engaging with students and introducing them to the many career opportunities within the printing industry while working towards a nationally recognised qualification.”

Schools will also be given access to the ‘Twinning programme’, which links schools with local print-related businesses who can further assist teachers in the delivery of the course and provide the students with real hands-on experience and mentoring.

The teachers and student books were printed by Montgomery Litho Group (MLG) based in Glasgow, a member of Graphic Enterprise Scotland.

Commenting on PrintIT! Scotland, Bob Hodgson, director of Graphic Enterprise Scotland says, “It’s really exciting to be involved in a project that not only plays a role in the education of our youngsters, but also gives them the opportunity to learn more about our high-tech industry.

We will also be encouraging our members to get involved too as part of the Twinning Programme, so they too can become part of something really special.”

For further information about the programme, visit the PrintIT! Scotland website at www.printit.org.uk/ scotland.

Morgana makes it 25,000 Sharp opens major new showroom to showcase document solutions portfolio

The 25,000th product to be made in the UK by Morgana Systems has come off the production line at the company’s Milton Keynes headquarters.

Fittingly, the machine in question is an AutoCreaser 50 the latest version of the product that set Morgana on its way to becoming an international leader in digital finishing when it was launched in 2000.

Pictured in the foreground with the AutoCreaser are Morgana’s Production Manager, Martin Washington (left) and his deputy, Adrian Whybrow. In common with 85% of the output from Morgana’s factory, this unit is destined for export – the machine in question having been sold to one of Morgana’s leading US dealers, E. Thomas Brett of Pennsylvania.

Commenting on the landmark 25,000 and the continuing popularity of the AutoCreaser, Morgana’s M.D. Quen Baum said that Morgana had started by making folders and numberers March 2010 | Copy Shop News

but production had increased dramatically with the introduction of the AutoCreaser, which was the first finishing product to address the specific problems posed by the digital print process. “Everyone now appreciates that digital output cracks when folded and that it has to be precreased”, he said, “but the AutoCreaser was the first product to provide high speed automated creasing at an affordable cost. There is still a high demand for it and it will continue to be an integral part of our range for the foreseeable future.”

The patented blade and matrix creasing mechanism devised for the AutoCreaser has since been incorporated into other successful Morgana digital finishing products such as the DigiFold and DocuMaster.

For further information contact: Morgana Systems Ltd, telephone: 01908 608888

Sharp Electronics UK has opened a new showroom in a prestigious location in London’s West End to showcase its industry-leading document solutions line-up. The new high-tech facility was officially unveiled by Mr. Hiroshi Sasaoka, President and CEO of Sharp Electronics Europe.

The new state of the art showroom, located at 2 Cavendish Square, will provide demonstration facilities to Sharp’s UK dealers and direct sales force.

On display are the multi-award winning range of document solutions, including desktop models through to light production, as well as Sharp’s full range of software and MPS solutions. The new showroom also includes conference facilities and meeting rooms equipped with the latest projection equipment and LCD displays enabling full multi-media presentations and recording.

Commenting on the new showroom, Sales and Marketing Director for Sharp UK’s Information Systems Division, Marcus I’Anson said, “We are extremely pleased to be able to support our dealers and direct team with this new showroom, conveniently located just three minutes walk from Oxford Circus.

It allows them to fully demonstrate the broad range of hardware and solutions we offer.” www.sharpinbusiness.co.uk

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The benefits of Apprenticeship & Vocational Learning aPPrenTiceShiPS and Vocational Learning are a fantastic way to train the workforce. It is one of the most cost-effective ways to train staff. Work-based training programmes allow people to earn and learn at the same time by combining on and off the job training and they ensure that learners are trained in the skills that are relevant to their work at the same time as increasing motivation and company loyalty.

In the current economic climate where people sometimes have to take on new roles, this is a great way to retrain or up skill employees.

Bob O’Shea, Chairman, Proskills Print Qualifications Reform Group said, “The opportunity for employers to capture and train that unique talent you get from a successful apprenticeship has never been greater nor the challenges it brings more difficult. Ever more reason to make it happen and reap the benefits” Designed by employers for employers, vocational learning is tailored to meet the needs of industry and business to help improve the productivity and profitability of a business as well as being a great way to fill skills gaps in existing workforces and ensuring that future workforce generations

are equipped with the right skills and qualifications to meet current and future business needs.

Apprenticeships and vocational learning are not just about training the young, “older” workers can also benefit.

Particularly in the current economic climate, people have to retrain for new roles, and up skill to deliver the demands of new working systems.

Vocational training offers an unrivalled framework to undertake new or changed roles, and provides a means of continual professional development, and as part of Proskills commitment to Apprenticeship week they are announcing 2010 Apprenticeship and Training Awards.

In its fourth year, the Proskills Awards celebrate and reward the achievement of apprentices within the process and manufacturing sector. This year, Proskills is expanding its categories to also acknowledge the achievements of vocational learners, employers and training providers who have been committed to training and up skilling their workforce.

If you would like more information on apprenticeships or vocational training, then call Proskills on 01235 432032 or email info@proskills.co.uk . www.proskills.co.uk

Premier Beswick sponsors ‘Everest Trek’ employee

PaPer merchant Premier Beswick, part of the Premier Paper Group, has sponsored employee Simon Bennett, who is undertaking an enormous feat for the Help for Heroes charity by trekking to Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal, which is at a height of 5,585 metres.

Simon, who is known as “Ben” to customers and staff alike, works at Premier Beswick’s Cheltenham branch as a driver/warehouseman, was previously a member of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces where he served as a Physical Training Instructor for 4th Field Royal Artillery Regiment – “The North East Gunners”.

Simon says he has always maintained a high level of contact with his fellow service pals, some of who went on to become Sergeant Majors and most of them have seen active services in places such as Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan to mention a few.

“Because of these reasons I decided that I wanted to try and raise some funds to help the families and the injured soldiers. The charity that I have chosen is “HELP FOR HEROES”.”

So, on 25th March 2010 Simon will be heading out to Nepal, on a self-financed trip, and undertaking his enormous task to get to Mount Everest Base Camp.

The “HELP FOR HEROES” charity helps all of our armed forces and their families after injury or death, so Simon 6

says that to him every penny raised will count. “As our troops are shedding blood, sweat and tears for us back home, I shall shed a lot of sweat and possibly some tears to help them!”

If you would like to make a donation you can do so via Simon’s charity website at www.bmycharity.com/

simonbennett5585mtr For further information on the Help for Heroes charity visit the website at: www.helpforheroes.org.uk.

For more information on Premier Beswick products and its ranges contact your local sales branch or visit www.paper.co.uk

SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT GROUP CALLS FOR DEFAULT RETIREMENT AGE TO STAY a small business support group has called for plans to scrap the default retirement age to be shelved.

The Government has proposed removing an employer’s option to retire workers when they reach 65, claiming the change will prevent an anticipated skills shortage. However, the Forum of Private Business (FPB) believes that if the move goes ahead, it could prove highly damaging to thousands of small firms. Currently, there is nothing to stop an employee working on past 65, providing his or her employer agrees to the move.

Many businesses are well aware of the skills and experience older workers provide and are happy to maintain their employment.

However, if the default retirement age is scrapped, business owners will be forced to keep on over 65s, whether they want to or not. This, the FPB believes, will prove a huge problem for thousands of small firms, hampering their abilities to plan for the future.

The move could also open the door to costly and painful employment tribunals, as employers only means of ending employment will be through a ‘capability dismissal’ based on the declining competence of the worker.

The FPB set out its views on the issue in response to a Government consultation, which has now closed.

In its response to the consultation, the FPB emphasised the need for small firms to be able to plan ahead.

The FPB’s response reads: “Removal of the default retirement age will limit some small businesses by removing the tools that help them to plan for the future. Most employees are certainly competent enough to work beyond the age of 65 without a significant deterioration in their abilities.

However, for those employees not willing to leave voluntarily, there will eventually come a time when the needs of the business will have to be considered. In the absence of a default retirement age, the only viable option available to an employer is a capability dismissal based on the declining competence of the worker. We believe this would be an undignified and humiliating end to a career for most staff.”

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Expect Impact – Konica Minolta at IPEX 2010 ‘eXPecT Impact’ is the theme for Konica Minolta’s stand at this year’s IPEX. At the show the company is demonstrating its professional printing solutions for central reprographic departments, commercial printers and the graphic arts industry. Visitors can see, touch and experience the Konica Minolta product line, including brand new innovations, as well as live applications. The demonstrations will show print professionals how to make an impact by means of comprehensive solutions, in terms of growing business, achieving more flexibility and serving customers better.

“Our theme for the IPEX 2010, ‘Expect Impact’, summarises the additional values Konica Minolta’s professional printing solutions offer our customers’ businesses,” says Olaf Lorenz, General Manager, International Marketing Division, at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe. “Our experts at the IPEX stand will show how our technologies and services open up additional business opportunities in the printing and graphic arts sector. Boosting sales and being able to act flexibly in response to customers’ demands and the economic situation are key business capabilities that we are supporting with our hardware and software solutions.”

Visitors will experience Konica Minolta’s core products and applications for the professional printing environment first-hand at a stand with around 1,250 square metres of floor space. Highlights of the production printing line-up are the bizhub PRO C6501 series for highest colour quality as well as the bizhub PRO 1200 series for superior black and white performance. Both printing systems impress with their fast print speed and their flexibility of media

handling and finishing options. Konica Minolta will also demonstrate its workflow solutions, for example the Printgroove POD series and the Printgroove Jt series, showing how entire print production processes are managed efficiently, from job submission and shipping to invoice generation.

In cooperation with international processing and finishing companies, Konica Minolta will showcase complete applications, from creative ideas via software processing, printing and finishing to the end product, such as photo books, business reports and mailings. Consequently, visitors will not only see, but also touch and feel the impressive quality, speed and flexibility that can be easily achieved in today’s print

Mimaki trade-up scheme ThroughouT this Spring, Hybrid is offering a lucrative trade-up scheme for users of their highly successful Mimaki JV3 printer as well as customers with other solvent machines too. Available through Hybrid’s authorised reseller network, the Spring Promotion is a great way to invest in new hardware, whilst saving up to £8,000 as part of the trade-up scheme.

In any of the new printers, customers can choose either Mimaki’s eco or low solvent inks – with advantages for either, and with the CJV30 and JV33, a bright, opaque white available as standard for the low solvent ink set. Production features, such as Mimaki’s UISS (Uninterrupted Ink Supply System) and the powered take up unit allow for long, unattended print runs and the inclusion of Mimaki’s RasterLink Pro RIP software package mean it’s ready to run from the box. Mimaki’s low solvent inkset characteristically achieves a three year outdoor lifespan – even for unlaminated prints; ensuring a durable and vibrant print for sign makers’ customers.

A perfect example in the range is the Mimaki JV33 Series inkjet printer. Its ability to print to a vast range of inexpensive uncoated materials (from banner and vinyl, through paper, canvas, coated metallic and clear films, pull up materials and backlit products to name a few) put it at the forefront of the wide format printer market and with its low running costs and lucrative two year warranty, it pays back quickly too.

Talking of paying back, Hybrid offers a unique ink cartridge recycling scheme – linked to valuable ink rebates – that’s proved very popular with their eco and

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workflows. In addition brand new innovations for the professional printing world will be presented at the Konica Minolta booth for the first time.

“At our IPEX stand, we’d like to show printing professionals what they can offer their customers in terms of end products, print quality and services,” adds Olaf Lorenz. “With our extensive experience and broad range of printing solutions, we consider ourselves the ideal partner for all customers seeking to perform at top level. From us, you can really expect impact for your business.”

Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK), tel: 01908 200400, or visit www.konicaminolta.co.uk

low solvent ink using customers. The phenomenally successful scheme (the first of its kind) is almost entirely coordinated online to avoid unnecessary paper and administration. Hybrid arranges collection of spent cartridges at their cost – and typically tie this into visits to the same area to make the whole scheme as green as possible. Hybrid recycles all the components of the cartridges and so far, the success of the programme has led to many tonnes of landfill being removed in the past year alone. In addition to the environmental benefits of the scheme, a valuable rebate is paid – providing the customer with financial reward for their environmental efforts.

Hybrid’s marketing manager, Duncan Jefferies told us “The Let’s Do More scheme works because customers are so committed to it and we reward this with a rebate towards valuable consumables for their business. So far, this has resulted in well over £40,000 worth of ink being supplied free to our customers as our thanks to them for contributing to the programme.”

“The success of Mimaki’s solvent printers has come about for many reasons, but having so many machines in the market place means that there are a lot of cartridges we can take out of landfill through recycling - and that’s an important cornerstone of our green philosophy.”

With ongoing cost benefits and strong environmental credentials – coupled to Hybrid’s Spring Trade-up Promotion, the Mimaki JV33 Series is a powerful solution for the signmaker and graphics professional. More information on this, and the complete range of Mimaki’s products, is available by visiting www.

YouGetMore.co.uk and the web based ink recycling programme can be found at www.LetsDoMore.co.uk . Hybrid can be contacted on 01270 501900 and the full Mimaki range is available through their authorised reseller network.

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ver the past 12 months there has been a dramatic increase in demand for full colour printing of logos and designs onto fabrics and garments made of nylon or polyester.

The range of such garments is increasing with a wider choice of designs and colours now available. This is now affordably possible using TheMagicTouch image transfer process.

The market is changing, as are attitudes and perception towards transfer technology, with a realisation that TheMagicTouch image transfer process assists in creating new business and marketing opportunity. There are a myriad of different solutions available for full colour transfer printing on dark garments, all options seem to have their unique differences but vary dramatically in quality, speed and price.

TheMagicTouch offer the “Award Winning” WoW transfer paper for full colour printing onto almost all fabric types regardless of fabric colour. The latest addition to the printable range is that of Nylon considered by many as the “Holy Grail” of full colour transfer printing. The process involves no cutting or weeding and offers flexibility on transfer positioning, even on sleeves and collars.

The WoW transfer durability is beyond all expectations previously achieved with full colour transfers. The toner-based colour printers used to produce the WoW transfers are available for a few hundred pounds with a typical full colour

“breast logo” costing less than 50p each to produce.

The bottom line is simple, once you see, touch and feel the WoW transfer and consider the options, WoW is the perfect inexpensive solution to the growing market of short-run full colour “dark colour garment” decoration. In a production environment an operator can easily produce in excess of 45 garments per hour, therefore looking at the modular expansion, the more presses the more garments!

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Mimaki’s new adhesive belt equipped LFP With continued demand for short run production, lower costs and greater creativity across the board in direct to textile printing, the introduction of Mimaki’s new TX4001800B textile inkjet printer looks set to deliver a solution for the apparel, furnishings and soft signage markets.

Historically, production textile printing has required long runs, cumbersome un-environmentally friendly processes and the costs and time associated with rotary or flat screen printing. The introduction of the Mimaki TX400 provides a solution for volume production of high quality direct to textile prints onto a myriad range of fabrics.

With a 1.8m print width and production speeds of around 25sq m / hour, the TX400-1800B utilises an adhesive belt carrier system to stabilise fabrics that have a tendency to stretch and contract during printing. This technology ensures a high quality of result, increased speed and reduced ink usage - alongside the capability of printing to traditionally ‘difficult’ materials. The high speeds are achieved even with an 8 colour ink set and at detailed resolutions - and the newly designed heater system allows for the rapid drying of the wetted out fabric before it goes onto the powered take-up roller. This also incorporates Mimaki’s Web Tension Control System that provides consistent tension over the full width of the print - whether on light or heavyweight cloths.

The machine’s inbuilt UISS (Uninterrupted Ink Supply System) automatically switches between ink sacks as the ink becomes spent, easily fulfilling long run, unattended print jobs. With the use of Mimaki’s new two litre bulk ink containers, the ink cost is reduced significantly too. Inks for the machine include reactive dye (for printing to cotton and 10

silk), acid dye (for silk, nylon and wool) and dye sublimation inks for polyester prints. As such; the range of work that can be produced with the printer is vast - from haute couture silk scarves through to flags and fabric banners, upholstery and sportswear - the list is endless!

Hybrid’s marketing manager, Duncan Jefferies comments; “Production digital textile printing is all about reducing costs, lead times and waste, whilst maintaining quality and creativity. The Mimaki TX400 makes the introduction of a low inventory business model possible, drastically reduces environmental impact and delivers what the customer wants, in the time that they need it.”

The TX400-1800B joins the dye sub specific 1800D model at the head of Mimaki’s direct-to-textile printer range — adding the adhesive belt to its sister machine’s feature list.

Delivery of both is expected to commence in Spring 2010 with demonstrations available through Hybrid’s authorised textile reseller network.

Further information can be found at www.hybridservices. co.uk or by calling on 01270 501900.

New 200m long image support enhances Xerox

Xerox has announced “long image support” for the Xerox 6279 wide format solution. This unique new feature allows printing of up to 200 metre long documents on plain paper up to 36” wide. Long image support further enhances the Xerox 6279 allowing it to address applications such as wiring diagrams, railway signalling, road planning, seismic data and well logs.

Long image support is a standard feature of the Freeflow Accxes Controller and will be available to both new and existing Xerox 6279 customers at no extra cost.

The Xerox 6279 Wide Format Printer is a mid range black and white digital printer, copier and scanner which features sharp image quality, fast speed, a compact footprint and low running costs. The system is flexible enough to fit in a variety of environments, including commercial print shops. Its speed printing seven or nine A1 prints per minute - makes it one of the most productive products in its class. www.xerox.co.uk

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NEW PRODUCTS

Roland’s Revolutionary LFP – VersaCAMM VS-640

Roland DG, manufacturer and supplier to the sign and allied industries of inkjet printing, cutting systems and related consumables has announced the launch of the new, 64” VersaCAMM VS-640. Available in three configurations, this next-generation printer/ cutter continues the record of innovation established

by Roland’s VersaCAMM line, and delivers entirely new application potential with genuine metallic ink and the advanced ink handling technology required to print it. The printer is also available configured to print dual CMYK for top quality output at high production speeds, and as a Hi-Fi colour printer with light cyan and light magenta, plus white ink.

Positioned squarely at professional graphics producers such as sign and display manufacturers, the VersaCAMM VS-640 has the potential to redefine what a wide format inkjet printer can do for graphics producers and what wide format digital inkjet print can do for their customers.

Configured to print Roland’s award-winning new Eco-Sol Max metallic ink, the printer produces a

dazzling range of pure metallic and pearlescent colours. The user can freely combine silver, process colour and white to effortlessly create a range of specialist effects yet to be imagined. Equipped with a VS-640 configured for metallic ink, the user can produce effects that were once the exclusive province of costly offset or screen processes. Now they’re possible without costly origination or specialised media for use anywhere conventional durable inkjet output can be used - and in thousands of places it never has been.

The VS-640 also features a new print head which enables a greater range of variable dots to be printed.

When configured with light cyan, light magenta and white ink, the result is immediately apparent in the printer’s output. Images rich in colour and density now display even smoother gradations, and solid colours are faithfully rendered free of artefacts. Roland’s Intelligent Pass Control further contributes to productivity and quality, elevating the VS-640’s Hi-Fi output into a class of its own beyond four-colour.

For users looking for outright productivity, the VS-640 is available configured with a dual CMYK ink setup. In this configuration, the printer is able to cruise at high production speeds while maintaining quality standards normally associated with unidirectional print. Free from chromatic artefacts, the output stands close comparison with output from printers produced at much slower speeds and gives users of the VS-640 a distinct and measurable commercial edge when addressing the volume markets for print.

Whatever configuration is chosen, the VersaCAMM VS-640 provides a robust 64” print and cut platform in one manageable footprint. Easy to work with, maintenance is largely automatic and requires little in the way of operator intervention. The VS-640 boasts the same ink recirculation system as that introduced on the SolJet Pro III XC-540MT, which prevents the pigment in metallic and white ink from settling, and thus reduces ink wastage and running costs. Also, thanks to a heavy-duty take-up unit, unattended print and cut operation is possible and accuracy is maintained over the longest production runs.

The VersaCAMM VS-640 also features the all-new Roland OnSupport, a diagnostic support package that assists the user in informing them of tasks such as print finish, low ink or emergency stop via email alerts.

A perfect tool for people who cannot afford to be with the printer 24/7 Roland OnSupport is the start of complete control for print producers everywhere.

Despite its innovation-led features and the entirely new possibilities they introduce, the Roland VersaCAMM VS-640 is priced to appeal to print producers of more or less any size at £17,999, including the take-up unit. The first opportunity to see this innovative new machine will be at this year’s Sign and Digital UK, 13-15 of April, where it will be making its European debut. www.rolanddg.co.uk

EPSON TO HIGHLIGHT INKJET SOLUTIONS AT IPEX

At Ipex 2010, Epson (Hall 10 Stand C260, NEC, Birmingham) will showcase its range of production-level inkjet printers that combine quality, flexibility and productivity to deliver innovative products for commercial packaging, proofing and display graphics applications.

Solutions for the packaging and labelling sectors feature strongly in Epson’s newest innovations, and the company will launch its Digital Label Press at the show. Featuring Epson’s acclaimed Micro Piezo inkjet technology, the press is aimed at companies wishing to produce short runs of high quality labels cost effectively. It delivers smooth gradations and superb colour quality on a wide range of versatile media, including standard semi-gloss, film and matte label stock up to 320 microns in thickness and rolls from 80-330mm wide. The Digital Label Press prints at production speeds of up to 5 metres per minute, and uses Epson’s enhanced 6-colour pigment ink system to reproduce colours with remarkable accuracy.

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Also on show will be the Epson Stylus Pro WT7900 inkjet printer, demonstrating contract packaging proofs and accurate sample production.

The Stylus Pro WT7900 offers sophisticated colour management and precision printing on a variety of flexible film, paper and metallic media. Using the Epson UltraChrome HDRWhite inkset, it produces the wide colour gamut and accurate spot colours required by the packaging industry. A key feature is its ability to deliver high density white tints and accurate overlays using a world-first, water-based white ink developed specifically by Epson for this printer.

Reinforcing its position in the large format market for exterior and interior graphics, Epson will also demonstrate the Stylus Pro GS6000 eco-solvent type printer. This 64” large format printer with UltraChrome GS inkset offers a very wide colour gamut in a printer designed for both indoor and outdoor applications. The inkset allows the production of high-impact, high quality durable prints, enabling printers, copy shops and sign shops to extend their business into higher quality and more demanding applications such as airport and exhibition graphics.

Finally, the company’s range of award-winning Epson Stylus Pro inkjet printers will be in action demonstrating large format photographic, fine art, poster and proofing applications in association with leading software partners. www.epson.co.uk Copy Shop News | March 2010

European debut of Fujifilm Acuity Advance HS at Sign & Digital FuJiFilm is exhibiting its latest line-up of inkjet printing systems and media at Sign & Digital UK 2010 from 13th - 15th April 2010 at the NEC. The recently-launched latest model in the Acuity series of UV flatbed printers will feature on the stand, alongside the euromedia range of products for inkjet roll-to-roll devices.

Showing for the first time in Europe, the Acuity Advance HS is the latest addition to the Acuity series and meets demands for a cost effective, high quality printer with even greater productivity than before. Near-photographic quality images can be achieved at typical production speeds of 40m2/hr, with a new ‘express’ mode of 65m2/hr for images viewed from greater distances. As with the other models in the series, the printer’s ability to print edge-to-edge saves time and labour in finishing, and end-use application possibilities are extended with a white ink option.

In addition, a roll media unit can be added to print to a broad range of flexible materials.

Fujifilm has specifically designed the Sign & Digital UK stand to allow both printers and finishers to get hands-on with products in the euromedia range.

The euromedia brand includes a wide array of consumables, finishing tools and presentation systems for roll-to-roll printing, with an extensive media range for water-based, solvent-based and laminating applications.

David Burton, European euromedia sales director at Fujifilm, says: “We are excited about our wide-format line-up for visitors to this year’s Sign & Digital UK. By combining the first European showing of the Acuity Advance HS and our euromedia range, smaller printers right through to high-end, high productivity print service providers will find solutions for both roll-to-roll and rigid material decoration on our stand.” www.fujifilmholdings.com

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iTh a goal to reduce the complexity and cost of printing, EFI has launched Fiery VUE, an innovative print application that makes publishing of professional-looking finished documents fast and simple.

Fiery VUE takes all the complexity out of producing professional documents.

Before printing, any user can interact with the document on-screen in 3D to sculpt and then preview exactly how the finished document will look. This creates better looking documents, reduces waste and lowers overall cost.

“Fiery VUE is a game-changing application from EFI. We believe it will eliminate ongoing frustration associated with searching for available printers, installing various print drivers or just trying to print a nice looking finished document,” said Toby Weiss, general manager and senior vice president of the Fiery division, EFI. “As companies seek solutions to lower costs, speed turn-around times and reduce waste in support of their green initiatives, Fiery VUE enables fast production of professional-looking documents while dramatically improving productivity.”

With minimal keystrokes or training, Fiery VUE allows users to be more productive, reducing the time and complexity of creating and assembling finished documents, while being assured of consistent quality and colour accuracy.

Fiery VUE is compatible with Microsoft® Word®, PowerPoint®, Excel®, and Adobe® Acrobat® applications. Users can launch the software as a stand-alone application or conveniently from within Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007. The Fiery VUE desktop application has a user-friendly interface that visually guides you through document layout and production. The powerful application also allows multiple files to be combined into a single document, where finishing options such as stapling, binding and hole punch can be selected.

Fiery VUE is available for download now at www.efi.com/fieryvue.

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Qube – certainly not square

Professional printers will decide to run existing repeat jobs on a Xerox Qube to save running costs and increase profit margins. When quoting for new business sight of the job will become as important as LFP poster work.

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any cSn readerS are looking to take volume off of their digital presses, especially shorter run print jobs and on-demand work over the counter. The inherent problem is when smaller, slower original colour printer kit has been upgraded it has either been removed or now runs at a less competitive cost per print.

Until recently our print shops have had to invest over £100K to achieve running costs less than 5p pp. Now, with the Xerox Colour Qube 9201, investment starts at around £200 per month to finance the kit and obtain service including toner from under 1p pp A3 for colour and black and white.

In particular, the unique way the Xerox Qube breaks down the service charges to 3 bands of toner usage will attract new print customers to use colour.

Whereas before, budgets would have dictated a mono print, colour is now affordable.

This will create new colour print, only affordable at present with a Xerox Colour Qube. As this does not fuel a price war, CSN can readily recommend this printer as quickly as we did when we started the old Xerox DC12 revolution. Heady days those, with A3 colour at only 5p and everyone else clicking twice for more.

Xerox invoice running costs through its normal FSMA agreement using three meter readings dependent on how much consumables are used in the production of each print. In short here are the bands and achievable break points.

Tier One – Useful Colour – up to 1.2% coverage – .5p; yes point 5 of a penny, ie a halfpenny.

Tier Two – Every Day Colour – up to 8% coverage – 2.5p Tier Three – Expressive Colour – 8% plus coverage – 5p To appreciate what billing category each job will run at is as simple as doing one sample print. For now, just check out the coverage samples here; Tier one will attract a lot of letterhead work with tier two 14

developing new markets for ‘spot full colour’ manuals, books and reports. Tier three will be for everything else, it will benefit from a cost ceiling of 5 pence as most existing service plans do.

For a comparison with your present costs remember to add any toner charges you receive if you are on a not inclusive deal.

These service charges include all consumables, save paper, power and labour. Also check if you are being charged two clicks for A3?

If you are wondering how Xerox are offering such a small colour click rate, and only on the Qube? It is due to the print process not requiring either a

drum or a fuser roller.

The new Xerox Color Qube™ 9200 Series multifunction printer uses Xerox’s proven solid ink technology to the centre of a highly competitive market. At the heart of Color Qube is a print head that increases ink flow 400 percent by packing in 880 nozzles.

Each print head is about the size of a deck of cards and funnels molten solid ink through a complex network of channels to the nozzles, enabling colour printing at 85 pages per minute. The design features four print heads per printer totalling more than 3,500 ink nozzles.

“This device opens up a huge market for Xerox,” said Don Titterington, vice president, print head and ink research and development at Xerox. “At 150 million drops per second, this is a breakthrough in how fast we can put ink on the page. That is as many ink drops

automatically enter power-saving mode, resuming full-power operation as employees begin work activity.

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The Color Qube we had on test was noted by our own shop operators to have the following attributes; Nice bright colours. Prints onto 250 gsm straight out of tray 1, good registration.

Quick and easy to change toner refills, no excessive packaging to dispose of. Print speeds up to 85 ppm. Copy speeds up to 50 ppm. Powerful scan and fax solutions. Paper size up to SRA3. Maximum paper capacity7,300 sheets. Good repro from the glass.

Copier screen easy to use. And get this, it even smells nice!

The Color Qube also features: • Sophisticated sensors and image processing algorithms to calibrate the image before it is printed.

• A product lifecycle that requires 9 percent less energy and produces 10 percent fewer greenhouse gases than comparable laser equipment.

• A patented vacuum system, only 17 thousandths of an inch wide that removes tiny paper dust particles from the printing zone, lengthening the life of the print head.

• An Intelligent Ready system uses a patented learning technology to activate a power-saving mode based on the users’ schedules. For example, after monitoring work patterns for a couple of weeks, the device will detect if there is a low level of use during the lunch hour and will

3 images of awards Praise for this more affordable full and spot colour print option is being heralded from all the important people with best buy awards and more, all we can say is make room for at least one or at least upgrade your next mono upgrade to include colour at he same cost.

• In May 2009 the Color Qube was honoured with a Technological Innovation Award from Industry Analysts, Inc., in recognition of the breakthrough technology behind the world’s first high-speed solid ink multifunction printer.

• In June 2009 the new Hybrid Colour pricing plans, offered with the Color Qube, were awarded “Most Innovative Colour Printer Pricing” as part the 2009 BERTL’s Best Awards.

• In July 2009 Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) awarded the Color Qube an Outstanding Achievement Award for its innovative pricing structure, ease of use and environmental benefits.

The list price for the Color Qube 9200 Series starts at £13, 491 and is available in the UK through Xerox’s direct sales force, resellers, concessionaires and distributors. www.xerox.co.uk.

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An online printing company is celebrating the re-launch of its website which now offers an additional 700 printing products.

Andrew Knowles, managing director of Full Colour Cards

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ullcolourcardS.co.uK now oFFerS the chance to print matt laminated business cards, leaflets, postcards, NCR pads and pop-up banners and in addition to its Lithographic range it will also be offering a digital printing service allowing clients to order short run quantities from 10-150 items.

Fullcolourcards.co.uk offers a cost effective route to market for graphic designers, copy shops and print management companies, enabling them to offer printing solutions without the machine overheads.

Managing director of the online printing company, Andrew Knowles, believes Fullcolourcards.co.uk offers an honest service for an honest price, with no hidden extras. He said: “Unlike other online trade printers we don’t charge a fee for our discounted prices as we believe in helping the printing industry that has had a challenging time during this recession.

“In the last 12 months we have gone from strength to strength picking up 10 new users per week, so we are hoping with all the new services on offer now that we have re-launched it will continue to grow even faster.”

Fullcolourcards.co.uk has simplified the navigation of the site enabling clients to browse and place orders quickly. The client simply sends print-ready artwork to the downloadable templates. Fullcolourcards.co.uk then posts the print direct to the client as an unmarked, white label package.

To see how it can benefit you, visit their site at: www.fullcolourcards.co.uk.

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SHOWTIME

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iTh JuST  weeks to go until the UK’s premier sign making and digital printing event returns to the Birmingham NEC on the 13th, 14th and 15th April 2010 make sure you don’t miss out on a whole new world of opportunities by registering online for FREE admission While the main priority for visitors attending the UK’s premier trade event for the visual communications industry is to do business, there are a plethora of other reasons why attendance at Sign & Digital UK 2010 is essential. This years show aims to provide the visitor with the best experience yet.

As well as the usual feast of exhibitors and networking opportunities on the show floor, there are some other exciting benefits to be taken advantage of. As usual, entrance to the event is FREE, all you need to do is simply register online.

Sign & Digital UK brings you the best visitor competitions, and this year is no different. We are offering the opportunity for you and a guest to win VIP tickets to a match at Old Trafford.

As part of the package, which is being sponsored

by Hybrid Services, you will receive over night accommodation, food and refreshments, entertainment, the chance to meet a famous face and utilise on-site parking.

To register for FREE entrance to the show and to enter into the visitor VIP competition, visit www. signanddigitaluk.com The exhibitor list keeps on growing, and some of the latest to book stands include; agripaflex Ltd, Autobanner, CNC World, Eurostand Display Ltd, Fattorini, Isik Plastik, Polychromal b.v , Profile Tension Systems, The Magic Touch and Taylor Signs In addition to some of the new exhibitors, some of the biggest names from industry have signed up including Hexis, William Smith, Roland DG, Oce, Hybrid Services/Mimaki, Grafityp and Fujifilm Sericol and many more.… where else can you see 250 suppliers under one roof in one day?

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Another fantastic seminar programme is on the cards, with Terry Steeley from Iridius giving demonstrations, tips and creative solutions on Adobe Creative Suite 4, including Photoshop, Bridge, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro and Snow Leopard. Also part of the seminar programme will be Corel, who will be demonstrating their latest technology.

Adobe will once again be hosting their own software theatre that was expanded with great success to make it even more accessible in 2009. Hosted by Terry Steeley from Iridius, demonstrations, tips and creative solutions for using Adobe Creative Suite 4 will be available including Adobe Bridge, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat Pro. In addition, representatives will be on hand from Apple, giving a session on getting the most out of Mac OS X v10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’.

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SOME KEY SESSIONS RUN AS FOLLOWS Adobe Bridge (10:30 – 11:15) is considered the heart of the creative or production environment, boasting new review modes, full screen previews, task based workspaces and faster performanace, Adobe Bridge CS4 is an essential easy-to-use media manager for organising, locating and viewing all of your files.

Adobe Photoshop (Part 1: 11:30 – 12:15), will encompass time-saving techniques in the creation of stunning cut-outs, fabulous monochrome imagery, and understanding best practice when sharpening images.

Adobe Photoshop (Part 2: 13:45 – 14:30) meanwhile promises to deliver you with the necessary skills to correctly set-up your colour settings, understand how-to accurately soft-proof your image onscreen and finally produce a perfect proof. Or alternatively, if you simply want to have your questions answered, everything will be covered.

The Adobe InDesign (14:45 – 15:30) seminar will be mastering typography, whether you’re creating a trade show display, pop-up banners or a company brochure, the seminar is crammed full of indispensable learning to ensure you realise the potential of InDesign. It will cover classic typography, creative type, font tips, invaluable advice and money saving techniques.

Adobe Illustrator (15:45 – 16:30) has evolved into the essential design tool for creative professionals, learn how you can create multiple artboards, smart guides, transparent gradients, accurate clipping masks, an improved appearance panel and separations preview.

Adobe Acrobat Pro (16:30 – 17:00) will be previewing and preflighting PDF files, learn how-to control costs and reduce errors with automated output controls to preview, preflight, correct and prepare PDF files for high-end print production and digital publishing.

And lastly, Snow Leopard (12:30 – 13:15) is the latest operating system that makes your Mac faster, more responsive and easier-to-use. Boasting refinements, updates and new additions, you can unleash the power of your hardware and help make your life easier.

Alan Caddick, marketing manager for Sign & Digital UK comments: “Adobe are one of the biggest players in the software market for Graphic Designers and Sign makers all over the world, and we are once again delighted to have them on board with the show. Terry’s seminars have always proved hugely popular with our visitors, and I have absolutely no doubt that once again it will be ‘standing room only’ throughout.”

Running alongside the Adobe theatre once again is the Corel seminar programme, full of the latest features and advice for those who use Corel. Covering CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5, Suzanne Smith, product trainer at Corel will cover how to use CorelDRAW for vehicle signage, Wilcom DecoStudio e1.5 and Webgraphics as well as Painter 11.

Between 10:15 – 11:00 and 16:00 – 16:15, there will be an overview of new features in CorelDraw Graphics Suite X5. Whether you illustrate, lay out, trace, photo-edit or create Web graphics and animations, it’s time to banish boring and make ordinary designs extraordinary. Get going faster than ever with new, professionally designed templates and compelling learning materials.

Vehicle Signage with CorelDraw X5 (11:15 – 12:00) will help create quick, cost-effective clipart for professional output and print. With more than 2,000 new templates, 1,000 OpenType fonts and a collection of more than 10,000 high-quality clipart and digital images, it is sure to make your job a lot easier.

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SHOWTIME Wilcom DecoStudio e1.5 (A CorelDRAW Product) (13:00 – 13:45) combines superior stitch quality and embroidery software with the creative power of CorelDRAW X4, ideal for users in the apparel and promotional item industries. This product makes it easy to visualise and design garment printing, embroidery and appliqué.

Webgraphics with CorelDRAW X5 (14:00 – 14:45) helps designers more effectively create, preview and optimise web content with the new Pixels mode. A new integrated web animation tool makes it easier and faster to design, and with new Export for Web dialog mode will make it easy to optimise your settings and achieve the highest graphics.

Corel Painter 11 (15:00 – 15:45) is the ultimate digital art studio for anyone expanding their creativity. Digital art tools let you experiment with colour theory, composition and brush strokes with complete simplicity and none of the cost associated with traditional art.

Alan continues, “We have always put a lot of work into ensuring that the seminar programmes hosted at Sign & Digital UK are

LIST OF EXHIBITORS

ADMAX SHANGHAI AGRIPAFLEX ALBION DESIGN & FABRICATION ALCAN COMPOSITES ALL FORMATS / QUEEN ALEXANDRA COLLEGE ATA ENGINEERING PROCESSES AUTOBANNER AWARDS CRAFTERS AXYZ INTERNATIONAL BANNERFLEX EUROPE BARUDAN UK BOLDSCAN BANNERS & FRAMES BTC ACTIVEWEAR CALDERA GRAPHICS CAMBRIDGE ELECTROLUMINESCENT CARMO CITY & WEST END SOLUTIONS CNC WORLD COLOR-DEC ITALY COLOUR MILL CROWN NORGE AS DELCAM DENIS RAWLINS DORO TAPE DRYTAC EUROPE DTP SUPPLIES ELEMENTS TRADE EUROBOND ADHESIVES EUROSTAND DISPLAY EVE PRODUCTS EXPAND INTERNATIONAL FAIRFIELD DISPLAYS + LIGHTING FASTSIGNS® FATTORINI FOSHAN NAHAI BEISUDA ELECTRO-OPTIC TECHINCAL COMPANY FUJIFILM SERICOL GESS GIGAPRINT - SUBSIDARY OF AJR MEDIA GROUP GO KLIPS TEKSTIL MAKINA. (CLIPSHOP) GOQ LED EUROPE GRAFITYP UK

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GRANTHAMS GRAPHIC DISPLAY MANUFACTURING  GRAPHIC PRINT TECHNOLOGIES (GPT) GRAPHTEC HARDSOFT COMPUTERS HARMAN TECHNOLOGY HEXIS UK HPC LASER HYBRID SERVICES I - SPI TRADE SUPPLY IMAGE PRINTING IMPACT GRAPHIC SOLUTIONS INDENTIFY ENGRAVING SYSTEMS INKTEC EUROPE INNOVA SOLUTIONS ISIK PLASTIK ITC J TECK  KEENCUT KMA SIGNS LASERITE LATITUDE LION PICTURE FRAMING SUPPLIES MIDWEST DISPLAYS MOUSE MUTIPANEL UK NOVA CHROME OCE (UK) OMNIJET UK OSHINO ARCHITECTURAL LED LIGHTING PHOTO USA ELECTRONIC GRAPHIC INC PINETREE ENTERPRISES PLEX DISPLAY POLY TECHNOLOGY CO, POLYCHROMAL B.V. PRINT UNITED PRINTMAX PRINTONE UK PROFIL TENSION SYSTEM QUALITY PRINT SERVICES RAYS D MOTION PRINT PVT REFLECTIV WINDOW FILMS

the most informative, entertaining and practically useful sessions around. The Corel seminar programme has been very popular over the past few years and so I am delighted that they will be returning in 2010.”

Following the success of FREE internet access last year at the Sign Makers Bar, this popular feature area returns to the 2010 floor plan. Take a break from the show, it’s a great place to meet industry movers and shakers, network with your peers, pick up your emails and recharge your batteries.

For further information; including updated exhibitor list, show features and FREE registration – please visit www.signanddigitaluk.com

REVOLUTION TRANSFERS ROLAND DG (UK) ROSE PLASTIC UK ROTOSIGNS RUSSELL & CHAPPLE SACHSEN FAHNEN GMBH & CO. KG SHENZHEN CLT LED TECHNOLOGY CO SHENZHEN LAMP TECHNOLOGY CO SHENZHEN RETOP LED DISPLAY CO. SHENZHEN SANSUN HI-TECH CO SIGN ELITE (REAL INSURANCE BROKERS) SIGN UP SYSTEMS SIGNMASTER SYSTEMS SIGNWAVES TRADE SILVER SCREEN UK SOLENT SEWING MACHINES SPACE DISPLAY UK SPECTRON LED SPIRIT DISPLAYS TARGET TRANSFERS TAYLOR SIGNS TECNA UK TEKCEL CNC SOLUTIONS TENNANTS UK THE ALLSIGNS GROUP OF COMPANIES THE MAGIC TOUCH TOUCH SYSTEMS TRADE SIGN SUPPLIES LLP TRIANGLE WIDE FORMAT INKS UK ULTIMA DISPLAYS UNIVERSAL ALUMINIUM SYSTEMS VENTURE TAPE EUROPE CORP. VISTECH TECHNICAL SERVICES WILLIAM SMITH XPRES YOUR EMBROIDERY SERVICES YUAN YUAN INKJET MEDIA (UK)

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CSMA DEVELOPMENT

CSMA Development Your invitation to join steering committee

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olunTeerS are requeSTed to share their aspirations for our instant part of the print industry, as we design a nationally recognised trade body charter we can all sign up to. Benefits will include affiliation in print standards with quality certification for our processes. Not only will we look and act better, we will have greater purchasing power, with group purchasing discounts for all members on bespoke print industry products and services.

We have been asked to remind everyone of all the existing CSMA benefits as our continued development has so many new chapters. We should summarise where we are now before striving on to what you want next. Fair enough, let’s take time out for a stock check, progress report and evaluate our group resources. Then we can gather the aspirations of the industry and plan a way forward. Certainly there are many of you wanting to be part of a progressive print industry with the necessary standards to tender at all levels for new business.

Our present situation is that our printing group CSMA, Copy Shop Members Assoc., has around 36,000 members that are all employed in the instant part of the print industry. Most man our 6600 print shops and print rooms while others are suppliers to the industry. CSN, Copy shop News, is the industry’s original ‘print for pay’ trade magazine and celebrates its 16th year anniversary this summer.

All members benefit from inclusion in our best practice: • Dedicated point of contact with major suppliers.

• Group stationery deal • Group leasing rates with ownership options • Merchant Services, special card processing rates.

• Print Specialist Business Insurance Scheme • Business Utility Discount Club • Training • CSR Statement • Research • Beta Testing Reporting • Product lead supplier data base search engine.

• Free listing in national print hub www. interprinter.co.uk We have declined opportunities of becoming a full on buyers group as this would result in losing our independent, no hidden agenda, opinion.

We may make recommendations and even help start group purchasing schemes, after all we all benefit from being one of a united group of 6600 print shops.

Well the above covers where we have come from and where we are now, so where are we going?

Your help is also requested in some longer termed plans as all the above is either up and running or in the immediate pipe line. We need to pool some

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Together we can sign up to a nationally The question of customers artwork being recognised trade body charter, use certified insured is under debate and urgently requires quality systems and publish a branded kite mark. your input. To be involved you can simply report We can share processes in quality management, back with what is good or bad about your environmental issues, health and safety, disaster existing policy if you feel exposed let us know recovery procedures and more. You tell us what why. If you have bought cover that is irrelevant you have been asked for that has taken you out and that you would never have need to claim of the frame? for then you will benefit from a more bespoke Whether membership should be policed or given print industry policy. There will not be a one size away with a logo for your letterhead is down fits all CSMA finance product offered to the to our own drive for quality. This will only be as membership. Measurements to match your exact good as we all make it so please be involved at requirements will be necessary once we have this steering committee stage. Opinions and best built the foundation scheme. practice please to printstandards@csmaservices.

As a group we will all benefit from a saving co.uk in premiums but best of all we will have cover We have received a very big ask for better that fits rather than fitting in with off the shelf print shop and print room insurance. It seems protection. that as we do not fit comfortably into a off the If it is easier to send copies of your policies peg, shop, office or light industrial policy we with what you like paying for and ring the cover all end up paying for cover we don’t need and you don’t need, then we can take these to our remain exposed to being un-insured for …. planned underwriters meeting.

We are being advised by a brilliant team at Leasing is a real issue with our postbag and Lucas Fettes Lucas who are registered insurance phone calls received on the increase on this brokers and independent financial advisers subject. Tell us about it, supplier’s sales aid offering a comprehensive range of services to and MPR, minimum period rental contracts. people and business. Their clients range from CSMA has and will continue to offer arbitration the motorist to the flying enthusiast, from the services. When one isolate member is being corner shop trader to the Internet entrepreneur, out numbered or worse we will endeavour to from small and medium-sized companies to negotiate a way forward and as licensed credit large professional practices and multi-national brokers can intervene with questions of title to organisations. equipment etc. Most suppliers have now agreed Your help is required in selecting what standard that a less restrictive finance option will allow cover we require as an industry and highlighting new suppliers to offer trade in values to reduce options to leave out and extras to opt in. We the cost of the new contract. need to research the level of cover for all the Best practice is to be proactive with this usual headings, damages, business interruption, and request a comparative independent employers/product/public liability, goods in finance quote to compare with your supplier transit, money, personal accident, and legal recommended finance plan. finance@ expenses. Now for the a la carte bit; do you csmaservices.co.uk expertise and direction in setting some industry print standards. The gap between those that can invest in the latest ISO of BS something is widening with every tender, 2012 opportunity, local gov. or just big corporate quote process.

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DIGITAL IMAGING

Art for Arts’ Sake

Digital image printing is torn in two directions between fast cheap output, and more costly and time consuming quality. Which is more profitable is not always a simple calculation. As a print on demand service we are naturally inclined towards the former, but there is a good case for considering the latter.

Martin Christie writes…

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fter ten years of experience, I think it’s safe to say I have a pretty broad grasp of the problems and the potential profits of premium quality printing, wearing as I do two hats as a photographer, understanding the input, and as a printer, having control of the output — at least most of the time !

The one thing I would advise anyone starting or thinking of moving into the area is that there is no middle ground, no compromise between cost and quality. It is very much in line with the old adage, you get what you pay for, and that applies as much to the machines and media, as well as what the customer receives.

Part of the problem, like everything else we do, is educating the customer to pay a premium for quality. You are not going to convince everyone, certainly not your average customer, so the target audience is those who appreciate or expect the difference. This is most likely to be professional people for whom image is a vital presentation piece — designers and illustrators, for example.

Anyone who is generating their own original image for sale or for promotion of services.

This group can also include actors, models, and media persons. It may include photographers, although most of these will probably have bought a decent A3 inkjet printer by now and be printing themselves. Printing digital photographs does help a photographer understand how digital cameras see colours, and most professionals will want the direct personal feedback that results. It is a lot easier sorting out colour and lighting problems in the camera when shooting, than on1 the computer later. Amateur photographers, especially those new to photography as a direct result of the digital age, may not realise this, especially if they have bought a very expensive camera.

They may not appreciate the amount, or accept the cost, of colour correction needed to achieve print results they expect from their handywork. Tact may be needed to break it to them gently.

The group certainly includes artists, in all their many forms from seriously commercial to enthusiastic amateur, and this is one sector I not only have a

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lot of experience with, but would also advise can be the most problematic.

I know some printers who will actually refuse to deal with artists, and while that is a bit of an extreme embargo, I can at times sympathise with this policy.

My general advice covers all high quality digital printing, although the art side has its own particular issues. Not that long ago, before affordable colour printing came to the high street, artists wishing to reproduce copies of their art would have to go for a short run lithographically. They had to make a gamble on how many units of a limited addition they could sell. This gamble not only depended on the popularity of the image, and on how good they were at selling it. The result was usually a redundant pile of unsold prints stashed somewhere in a back bedroom that might just represent the difference between profit and loss on the whole exercise.

The digital age has made short run printing possible, and of course through the internet it has also made promotional sales so much easier. Now prints can be made to order, at the time of order, and most significantly, after they have actually been paid for. The flexibility of the digital image is such that once an original has been turned into binary bits it can just as easily be applied to a Christmas card, a calendar, a mouse mat or a mug — whatever is desired.

The key issues are the same for all

customer work — the quality of the input and the quality of the output. If the original has been digitally generated by the customer — on a computer — or captured on a camera or scanner, then you only have control of the output.

It may need several test proof prints to achieve results the customer expects, and this applies whether using inkjet or conventional toner machines. Only experience, and a keen eye, will give you a clue as to how an image viewed on the screen will reproduce. File size, and resolution, are a guide but not a guarantee.

But then that’s not even touching the numerous colour issues, such as the difference between display screen and printed page.

Regardless of whether the monitor has been properly

calibrated, there is always the simple fact that a projected image backlit on a red/green/blue high def viewer is always going to look slightly different printed on white paper in cyan, magenta, yellow and black.

More specialist printing on inkjet has the advantage of more colours, up to as many as twelve on some machines.

This wider gamut allows more subtle tonal range rather than the more severe transition from one colour to another familiar with toner. But at the end of the day, you still have to get the colours right, whatever. Ironically some images may even suit the more dramatic hue of toner — “more vibrant” I often tell customers.

Designers who are generating work completely digitally are often easier to please because they have no colour reference in the real world. They have to accept the practical limitations of print. Artists working with hard copy originals however have other issues. To understand why, it’s worth just popping into an art shop to appreciate the massive selection of material available,

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both to print on and to print with. From soft subtle watercolours, through acrylics to heavy oils, the colour range makes a Dulux chart look pathetically limited. Oh, and I nearly forgot pencil and charcoal. Then some artists will work with bits of material, stuck on vinyl, or carved wood and worked metal.

I even have one artist whose entire collection is based on people made from a created selection of sweets — a sort of confectionery version of Lowrie’s matchstick men.

Obviously anything three dimensional is impossible to reproduce — at least until 3D printers (yes they really do exist) become common place — and even getting close to copying texture accurately can be a challenge. Current flatbed scanners-even the ones on top of copiers- are pretty good but generally limited on size to A3, and to resolution.

Anything that won’t go completely flat will have problems with shadow being caused, either seeping in from the edges, or ghosting as the scanner light passes. That light will pass in one direction only so if you try and be clever and scan two bits of a larger original you may have difficultly disguising the join later as the shadow may go in two different directions.

We invested in a very good A2 scanner from Contex because of taking in so much artists work, the majority of which is A3 plus, but even than you will get things that are too big, or two difficult to commit to the glass. Photography is then not just the only solution, but often the best because I can use lighting to control shadow, or actually create relief effect.

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colours under the suggestion that it was the printer that was all wrong. I didn’t get involved in that one, but everyone who has stood at a copy shop counter will have experienced a similar scenario.

At least if you have taken the picture, or scanned it yourself, you are in with a chance of working out what the issue is.

It’s a learning curve, and you cannot expect a customer to grasp it when they only deal with digital when they need to, not on a daily basis.

Fortunately I have been able to build up a faithful following of artists — not without the cost of a few more grey hairs and wrinkles- who will listen to and accept my advice. But as much as the trials and tribulations have taxed me, I have also learnt a lot from them along the way. The important thing is matching what can practically be done with what they can afford or expect to pay.

What they have to learn to accept is that accurate colour matching may be important to them aesthetically, but if it’s a good looking print that people want to buy, there can’t be that much wrong with it. and studio lighting, and having the In that context there are a couple of experience to use it. For the average basic compromises in terms of colour copy shop this is not an option, but a and the nature of reflected light. We all decent digital camera, with some basic know, or learn, that the colour of print expertise is a worthwhile investment will look different under the lights of even if only occasionally used. It may the shop -whether cool fluorescent or well be better than letting the customer warm tungsten — compared to outside bring in images of uncertain quality on daylight. This is because we see not the a memory stick. With a knowledge of colour itself, but the light reflected back the printer’s performance, and a little from it. Of course we can’t even be sure bit of practice, you may be pleasantly we all see exactly the same colour, there surprised at the results. is no way of proving it. Colour blindness Just recently an artist from whom I had is more obvious, but I am convinced previously shot some originals was at we all have a sort of colour bias in the the counter with some images he had perception of light, or at least in our shot himself and was fussing over the preferences.

As a photographer, I will always try and assess all of the colours in an image in order to correct for print.

I have found however, many artists prefer to get one or two particular colours right, even if it means others are significantly out. Sometimes you just have to take your printer’s goggles off and try and get behind the eyes of a creative. Sometimes you want to say that actually yours looks better than the original. Sometimes the artist will say that too. The one thing I have definitely learnt from artists is to expect the unexpected.

I have got nearly to the conclusion of this month’s column without mentioning the word Giclee. This title, taken from the French, simply describes the jets of ink in the process of printing but was adopted to set aside fine art and photographic printing from standard inkjet.

The fact is that any pigment based inkjet printer, using compatible media, should produce print that is fade free, and as long-lasting as the quality of the paper allows. The practical difference is that printing onto higher quality paper, generally thicker, with a texture, or onto canvas, although a higher cost, produces a much higher perceived value.

There are now a great range of different quality media available for all types of art and photographic printing.

You don’t have to pay through the nose for a brand name, and it is worth shopping around just to buy the margins that make quality printing profitable.

Next month I will compare some of the varied media I have been using in recent years. You may get what you pay for but it’s still important to know exactly what you are getting.

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GREEN ISSUES

‘Lean and Green’ in North Yorkshire North Yorkshire - based Duraweld, one of the UK’s leading producers of customised presentation, packaging and printed stationery products, has been selected by the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) to host a visit showcasing best practice in lean manufacturing and successful environmental management.

The visit, which forms part of the MAS’s ‘Inside Industry’ initiative, is due to be held on the 25th February at the company’s factory in Scarborough and will show delegates from around the region how lean manufacturing works in practice.

It will also focus on how Duraweld has been able to successfully

synchronise lean manufacturing with its 20–step environmental programme, which has seen significant reductions in waste and energy consumption year on year.

Launched in 2002, MAS is one of the Government’s ‘Solutions for Business’ suite of offerings, jointly funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the nine English Regional Development Agencies.

In Yorkshire & Humber, MAS is jointly supported by Yorkshire Forward and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and managed by YFM Business Development. It aims to help manufacturers streamline their processes, reduce waste, become more energy efficient and generally improve their businesses.

The ‘Inside Industry’ factory visit programme for the Yorkshire and Humber region runs regular tours to enable manufacturers to benchmark their performance and learn new techniques from some of the most successful businesses in area.

Jamie Swan, Duraweld’s Production Manager, who will be hosting the tour said: “The main benefit of running our lean manufacturing and environmental management programmes side by side is that we have been able to stay competitive and innovative in what is a traditional, mature industry. We are delighted that the MAS has chosen Duraweld to show other companies how it can work well when it is done with commitment and care, and I hope we can provide some really useful tips to help inspire people to improve their manufacturing and environmentally friendly processes in the future.”

For further information about these visits or to register online go to www.masyh.co.uk/events/insideindustry-factory-visit-to-duraweld www.duraweld.co.uk

Denmaur receives NAPM endorsement for Amadeus 50% recycled range Denmaur Independent Papers, one of the UK’s leading independent paper merchant groups, is delighted to announce that it has received the NAPM (National Association of Paper Merchant’s) Recycled Paper Mark endorsement for its Amadeus 50% Recycled range – the double coated silk and gloss paper range with high environmental qualities.

Amadeus 50% recycled is part of Denmaur’s Best of Both World’s range, and is available in grammage weights of 115-300 gsm, with an extensive UK sheet and cut star reel stock ready for delivery in 24/48 hours. All UK stock is held at Denmaur’s centrally located warehouse in Bardon, Leicestershire.

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NAPM Recycled Paper Mark must be manufactured from a minimum of 50%, 75% or 100% genuine recycled fibre, no part of which should contain mill produced waste.

The Amadeus 50% recycled range couples the excellent print performance with the combination of 50% virgin woodfree fibre content together with 50% recycled content in the manufacturing process. As an endorsement of its high environmental credentials, the virgin fibre is sourced from responsibly managed forests, guaranteed by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) logo together with a certified and independently audited chain of custody.

To request a swatch or for further information contact Denmaur Independent Paper’s Marketing Director, Peter Sommerville or visit www.denmaur.com

Repropoint go greener Repropoint, one of the South of England’s providers of digital print solutions, and a leading environmental champion in the printing industry, has stepped up its commitment to the environment by adding to its range of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) approved materials those used for plotters and plan printers. It has also pledged to dedicate a tree with the Woodland Trust for each order worth over seventy five pounds received for FSC approved plain paper or inkjet rolls in January.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an independent, nongovernmental, not-for-profit organisation established to promote the responsible management of the world’s forests. Products that are FSC approved are produced using materials from sustainable sources.

Repropoint became a fully certified company by the Forest Stewardship Council in January 2008, achieving one of the highest accolades for a printing company. Certification means that Repropoint are able to guarantee the authentication of responsible forest management products to their customers.

Steve Hallett, Managing Director of Repropoint, says, ‘We have been actively seeking materials for all aspects of our business that meet these exacting standards and the wide format range has, until now, been the one area that has eluded us. Now our approved products include ColourLink 80gsm and 90gsm uncoated inkjet paper. It even includes 75gsm and 90gsm plain paper.’

In addition to dedicating a tree with the Woodland Trust for every order over seventy-five pounds for FSC approved plain paper or inkjet rolls received in January, Repropoint will also send the customer a personalised dedication certificate and wood information sheet which will show the dedicated area of the UK in which the tree has been planted.

Last year Repropoint also gained certification for the British Environmental Standard ISO 14001.

With its head office in Woking, Repropoint has three other branches in the South of England, based at Guildford, Portsmouth and Southampton and a graphic design company called Round and Red.

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PEFC at Paperworld Regular CSN contributor, Andy Scott reports from Germany.

It is a relaxed and somewhat pleased Ben Gunneberg I find greeting me at the Paperworld 2010 exhibition in a wintry and snowbound Frankfurt.

PEFC’s Director General has just arrived hot foot from his base in Geneva, and clearly has a message to relay to Paperworld visitors.

“Currently PEFC remains the certification system of choice for forest owners globally. An additional 16 million hectares of forest area were certified to PEFC since November 2008, which represents a growth of 7%.”

This is just one of the highlights which marked another successful 2009 for PEFC, which with more than 225million hectares of certified forest area, remains the world’s largest forest certification system.

Another high point of 2009 was that demand for Chain of Custody certification continued to gain momentum, with responsible companies seeking to procure wood-based products from sustainablymanaged forests. Last year PEFC Chain of Custody certificates recorded an increase of 36%. With more than 1,500 certificates being awarded, there are now more than 5,700.

In addition to these achievements, five countries were either endorsed or re-endorsed in 2009. These included Australia, China, Gabon, Malaysia and Russia. And Gunneberg is confident more will follow soon. This year ten scheme revisions will be processed, with at least one additional national scheme likely to obtain PEFC endorsement by meeting PEFC’s stringent criteria.

What’s more Gunneberg remains confident that PEFC is well positioned to promote and strengthen sustainable forest management and chain of custody certification globally, while contributing to the responsible management of the world’s forests.

“We have the necessary structures in place to resource, run, grow and promote our services,” he commented, “and together with all stakeholders united by the common objective of a world in which people manage forests sustainably, we are anticipating building on our achievements to further

improve the value that we add to global society in 2010.”

New standards and guidelines have also been introduced, with a revision of the International Chain of Custody standard which started in spring 2008, due for final approval later this year.

There is also the development of a joint PEFC – International Accreditation Forum (IAF) document for certification bodies which conduct Chain of Custody audits, which has now moved into its final stage for formal approval by the IAF. At the same time changes have also taken place at Board level within PEFC, with new PEFC chairman William Street becoming the first union official to be elected as chairman of a global forest certification organisation. William was formerly the Global Forest Director for Global Union Federation, the BWI (Building and Woodworkers International), an umbrella organization which groups together 318 trade unions representing some 12 million members in 130 countries. Currently he is on the board of BWI, whose headquarters are in Geneva. Now resident in Oregon, he holds degrees in political science from Mansfield State University and the University of Oregon.

The UK has also played its part in PEFC’s success in 2009. In February 2009 the 1,000th Chain of

Custody certificate was issued to fine arts and social stationery publisher Woodmansterne, whilst magazines such as The Economist and large run catalogues such as Argos are all proudly displaying the PEFC logo to provide assurances of responsible paper sourcing.

In November, PEFC celebrated its 10th Anniversary at its General Assembly in Paris. To mark the occasion, PEFC France launched the world’s first sustainable advertising hoarding, which was displayed high above the streets of Paris.

As we head back to the PEFC stand I pondered the vision that it’s newly-appointed chairman has for the organisation as it moves into the future: “I would expect to see us expand our efforts to protect forests and the sustainable livelihoods they provide to local communities and families in the Global South, building on our successes doing so in the Global North.I am looking forward to working with global forest leaders to promote forest certification to support our common efforts to safeguard these important ecosystems, the biodiversity they sustain, and the livelihoods that depend on them.”

In a world where the vital role that forests can play in mitigating climate change, that’s surely a goal worth pursuing.

Collins Scott Marketing launches new air mile saving service Market Harborough-based public relations, marketing and research consultants Collins Scott Marketing, who specialise in the print, paper,packaging and publishing industries, has announced the launch of a new service platform, which will enable clients and customers to obtain a full visitor report and breakdown on exhibitions and conferences, without leaving their desk. Customers and clients will be able to order a visitor March 2010 | Copy Shop News

report on any trade or industry related exhibition/event/conference, obtaining a pdf report and relevant papers and samples, all of which will be delivered to their desktop.

Director Andy Scott explains, “A lot of the time personnel are too busy or cannot spare other colleagues to leave the office and attend exhibitions and conferences for possibly a couple of days. This way we can attend the exhibition or event on their behalf,

bring back a full report on subjects or products they wanted to see and hear about and supply any samples, saving them the time spent travelling, queuing up to get into the event and then the actual undertaking of the event or conference itself. If a follow up visit is also required from our feedback by a sales person we can organise that for them as well.”

In today’s harsh business climate, Collins Scott Marketing realises time

is money to any business and its personnel, so by offering this service for a reasonable fee Collins Scott Marketing is providing its customers and clients with an invaluable service, allowing them to get on with their dayto-day job and running their business.

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Copy Shop News | March 2010

regular readers will know how we are encouraging the nation’s print shops to take up the challenge to mix print with stationery. It’s all about being more of a services supplier to our new and existing customers and ticking more boxes on their ‘things to do list’.

Most of our 8 million, and growing, SOHO, Small Office Home Office, customer base already dabble with print ‘in-house’. We know this as they struggle in with minutes to spare, for our help when their, free with the PC printer, failed to produce 100 flyers for today’s local exhibition. Either it blew up under the strain or more likely ran out of ink or toner.

Add to the fact that they are trying to print on paper stolen by their spouse from work or something on offer with a free bar of chocolate from a mail order stationer; the result is a rubbish presentation. Quite the opposite impression to what they were trying to make. Step forward the print professional; OK we do help with a quick and efficient fix, on-demand print is our business and we excel in our service.

While the customer waits we print with the best quality results on a matching media and save the day, hooray! What better time to give advice on your customers print at home?

Best he stops doing it as the running costs can be higher than our charges! We have tried this approach but customers do like to dabble and instant results delivered to their own desk without leaving the room is a real plus to a busy small business. Great for one off copies and internal consumption, but when print has to sell it needs to be professional.

The home brew customer does need to step out for supplies though and we can help in two ways.

PrinT larger PrinT runS and larger PrinT FormaTS

Supply professional print advice on our print at home range of manufacturer matching inks and toners, plus the best paper for the job, split a ream or sell single sheets to discover amazing GP opportunities. Have you ever sold a sheet of parchment card for £1? Well big stationers, with supermarket style parking etc sell blister packs of decanted reams for fortunes and they have all started to print as well.

Come on, we need your help to keep print in the high street.

If we have to sell the top 100 stationery lines to satisfy our customers one stop shop demands, so be it.

So who do we partner with for print consumables, who will give us assistance with point of sale and compatibility direction?

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Will there be enough margins to give this project shelf room? We are pleased to introduce our friends at JET TEC. The printer consumables market is constantly changing.

With a noticeably significant rise in OEM prices, inkjet cartridge retailers are seeking an alternative product to offer to their customers -without compromising quality.

The key to repeat business is to not only offer a product that saves the consumers pounds and pennies, but to also provide a product that delivers the results and quality it promises to. Finding a brand that is synonymous with both of these factors can be quite a struggle.

As an industry mogul, you may be familiar with the ‘Jettec’ brand of compatible and remanufactured inkjet cartridges and recycled toners. Jettec has been the house brand of UK manufacturer Dynamic Cassette International (DCi) for over 13 years, and is currently sold throughout the UK and Europe by high street retailers, on-line stationers and large scale distributors.

The Jettec range of inkjet cartridges gives its resellers a significant cost saving of around 50-60% in comparison with the OEM product, allowing them to benefit from healthy profit margins. But it is also well known for its award winning unique ‘Extralife’ technology which offers the consumers up to 100% more prints than can be obtained from the expensive OEM equivalent. The combination of these unique selling points allows you to offer your customers a high quality value for money consumable at a low price.

DCi invest heavily in quality control, and print testing before despatch. This ensures that failure rates are kept to an absolute minimum, but also that brand image and reputation is not damaged.

Everything from Research and Development, ink formulation and empty collections, right through to packaging design and distribution is carried out at DCi’s Lincolnshire factory. This allows them to be first to market with new market products, and to be flexible when it comes to product development.

Jettec’s sister company The Recycling Factory collect over 225,000 empty inkjet cartridges per month. TRF work closely with Jettec dealers, enabling them to generate extra revenue from the empties they return. Jettec will credit anywhere up to £6.00 for each cartridge which can successfully be recycled. printout@copyshopnews.co.uk

Tel: 01908 608888

Fancy opening a print take-away?

www.morgana.co.uk

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RU UP FOR AN ELECTION? Oxford University researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.

The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.

A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.

This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass. When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes

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Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.

THE WINALOT DIET I have a Labrador retriever.

I was buying a large bag of Winalot at Tesco’s and was in line to checkout. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

On impulse, and thinking it was a stupid question I told her no, and that I was starting the Winalot Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn’t, because I ended up in hospital last time. But because I’d lost 50 pounds before I woke up in an intensive care ward, with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms, I was willing to try it again.

I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your trouser pockets with Winalot nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete, so I was going to try it again.

I have to mention here that practically everyone in the queue was by now enthralled with my story. Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me.

I told her no - I’d been sitting in the street licking my balls and a car hit me.

IF TOMMY COOPER WERE ALIVE TODAY… • I met this bloke with a didgeridoo and he was playing Dancing Queen on it. I thought, ‘That’s Aboriginal.’

• This lorry full of tortoises collided with a van full of terrapins. It was a turtle disaster.

• I told my girlfriend I had a job in a bowling alley. She said ‘Tenpin?’ I said, ‘No, permanent.’

• I went in to a pet shop. I said, ‘Can I buy a goldfish?’ The guy said, ‘Do you want an aquarium?’ I said, ‘I don’t care what star sign it is....’

• I bought some Armageddon cheese today, and it said on the packet. ‘Best before End’ • I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said ‘Analogue...’ I said ‘No, just a watch.’

• I went into a shop and I said, ‘Can someone sell me a kettle.’ The bloke said ‘Kenwood’ I said, ‘where is he then?’

• My mate is in love with two schoolbags. He’s bi-satchel.

• I went to the doctor. I said to him ‘I’m frightened of lapels.’ He said, ‘You’ve got cholera.’

• I met the bloke who invented crosswords today... I can’t remember his name, its P something T something R. • I was reading this book today, The History of Glue. I couldn’t put it down.

• I phoned the local ramblers club today, but the bloke who answered just went on and on.

• The recruitment consultant asked me ‘What do you think of voluntary work?

I said ‘I wouldn’t do it if you paid me.’

• I was in the jungle and there was this monkey with a tin opener. I said, ‘You don’t need a tin opener to peel a banana.’ He said, ‘No, this is for the custard.’

• This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper.

He said, ‘I want you to trace someone for me....’

• I told my mum that I’d opened a theatre.

She said, ‘Are you having me on?’ I said, ‘Well I’ll give you an audition, but I’m not promising you anything.’

• This cowboy walks in to a German car showroom and he says ‘Audi!’

• I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, ‘Nearest the bull goes first’ He went ‘Baah’ and I went ‘Moo’ He said ‘You’re closest’ • I was driving up the motorway and my boss phoned me and he told me he’d made me managing director and I went right off into a tree. The police came and asked me what had happened. I said ‘I careered off the road’ • I visited the offices of the RSPCA today. It’s tiny: you couldn’t swing a cat in there.

• I was stealing things in the supermarket today while balanced on the shoulders of a couple of vampires.

I was charged with shoplifting on two counts.

• I bought a train ticket to France and the ticket seller said ‘Eurostar’ I said ‘well I’ve been on telly but I’m no Dean Martin.’

• I phoned the local gym and I asked

if they could teach me how to do the splits. He said, ‘How flexible are you?’ I said, ‘I can’t make Tuesdays or Thursdays.’

• I went to the local video shop and I said, ‘Can I borrow Batman Forever?’

He said, ‘No, you’ll have to bring it back tomorrow.’

• A waiter asks a man, ‘May I take your order, sir?’ ‘Yes,’ the man replies. ‘I’m just wondering, exactly how do you prepare your chickens?’ ‘Nothing special, sir. We just tell them straight out that they’re going to die.’

MORE TOMMY COOPER JOKES • Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

• Man goes to the doc, with a strawberry growing out of his head.

Doc says “I’ll give you some cream to put on it.”

• A guy walks into the psychiatrist wearing only cling film for shorts. The shrink says, “Well, I can clearly see you’re nuts.”

• A man said to me, “ I’m going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library”. I thought, “That’s a turn-up for the books”.

• You know, someone actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen; it said ‘Parking fine’. So that was nice.

• And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said ‘Do you earn a living doing that?’ He said ‘Yes, this is my livelihood.’

• Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. There are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It’s either my mum or my dad, or my older brother Colin, or my younger brother Ho-Cha-Chu. But I think it’s Colin.

• So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me “Can you give me a lift?” I said ‘Sure, you look great, the world’s your oyster, go for it.’

• 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 he 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”.

• 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.’

• I called my local swimming baths. I said ‘Is that the local swimming baths?’

He said ‘It depends where you’re calling from.’

• So I rang up a local building firm, I said ‘I want a skip outside my house.’ He said ‘I’m not stopping you.’

• “Doc, I can’t stop singing the Green, green grass of home.” “That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome.” “Is it common?”

“It’s not unusual.”

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READERS’ SCRIBES • A man takes his Rottweiler to the vet. “My dog’s cross-eyed, is there anything you can do for him? “ “Well,” says the vet, “let’s have a look at him” So he picks the dog up and examines his eyes, then checks his teeth. Finally, he says, “I’m going to have to put him down.” “What? Because he’s crosseyed? “ “No, because he’s really heavy” • Guy goes into the doctor’s. “Doc, I’ve got a cricket ball stuck up my backside.” “How’s that?” “Don’t you start” • I went to the butchers the other day and I bet him 50 quid that he couldn’t reach the meat off the top shelf. And he said, ‘No, the steaks are too high.’

• “I was cleaning out the attic the other day with the wife. Filthy, dirty and covered with cobwebs.... but she’s good with the kids...”

• Two fat blokes in a pub, one says to the other, “Your round!” The other one says, “So are you, you fat bastard!”

• A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the dog up and starts swinging it around his head.

Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: ‘Can I help, sir?’ ‘No thanks,’ says the blind bloke. ‘Just looking.’

• Cos it’s strange, isn’t it? You stand in the middle of a library and go ‘Aaaaaaagghhhh’ and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

• You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen. It said ‘Parking Fine.’ So that was nice wasn’t it?

• So I went down my local ice-cream shop, and said I want to buy an ice-cream. He said ‘Hundreds & thousands?’ I said ‘We’ll start with one.’

He said ‘Knickerbocker glory?’ I said ‘I do get a certain amount of freedom in these trousers, yes.’

• I went to Millets and said ‘I want to buy a tent.’ He said ‘to camp?’ I said (butchly) ‘Sorry, I want to buy a tent.’ I said ‘I also want to buy a caravan.’ He said ‘Camper?’ I said (campily) ‘Make your mind up.’

• So I went to the dentist. He said “Say Aaah.” I said “Why?” He said “My dogs died.”

• Now, most dentists’ 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.’

A man gets on a train and sits next to a young woman reading a book called ‘Sex Statistics’.

• Tommy Cooper was in a taxi and when he got to the end of his journey and paid his fare, the cab sat there waiting for his tip when Tommy gave him a tea bag and said, “Have a drink on me.”

• We were coming in to land, and it affects your ears, doesn’t it? The Stewardess gave me chewing gum. I put it in my ear. Took two days to get it out.

• This little old lady was frightened. She looked at me, she said “Do something religious”. So I took up a collection • A policeman stopped me the other night; he taps on the window of the car and says: “Would you please blow into this bag, Sir?” I said, “What for, Officer?”

He says, “My chips are too hot” • I got stopped again last night by another policeman. He says: “I’d like to follow you to the nearest Police Station.” I said, “What For?” He said, “I’ve forgotten the way.”

• So I said to the taxi driver, “King Arthur’s Close.” He said, “Don’t worry, we’ll lose him at the next set of lights” • I knocked at my friend’s door and his wife answered the door. I said, “Is Jim in?” She didn’t reply, just stood there looking at me. So I asked again. Just then a woman appeared at his wife’s elbow. “Sorry luv,” she said, “We buried him last Thursday.” So I said, “He didn’t say anything about a pot of yellow paint before he went, did he?”

• I went to Blackpool on holiday and knocked at the first boarding house that I came to. A woman stuck her head out of an upstairs window and said “What do you want?” I said, “I’d like to stay here.”

She said, “Ok. Stay there.”

• I went to the doctor. He said “you’ve got a very serious illness.” I said, “I want a second opinion.” He said “All right, you’re ugly as well.”

• When I was in the scouts, the leader told me to pitch a tent. I couldn’t find any pitch, so I used creosote.

• I went into this pub, and I ate a ploughman’s lunch. He was livid.

• I got home from work and the wife said “I’m very sorry dear, but the cat’s eaten your dinner.” I said “Don’t worry-I’ll get you a new cat.”

• I went into this ice cream parlour and said, “I’d like a vanilla cone.”

The assistant said, “Hundreds & thousands?” I said, “No - I’ll just have the one.”

• I said to the waiter, I said, “This chicken I’ve got is cold.” He said, “I should think so. It’s been dead for two weeks.”

“Any good?” he asks.

• “Not only that,” I said, “It’s got one leg shorter than the other.” He said, “What do you want to do, eat it or dance with it?”

• Sometimes I drink my whisky neat.

Other times I take my tie off and leave my shirt out.

• My wife and I were fighting like hammer and tongs. She won, she had the hammer.

• I hurt my back the day. I was playing piggy back with my 6 year old nephew, and I fell off.

• I was in Margate last year for the summer season. A friend of mine said, “You want to go to Margate, it’s good for rheumatism.” So I did, and I got it.

• Two cannibals eating a clown. One says to the other, “Does this taste funny to you?”

• Two aerials meet on a roof - fall in love - get married. The ceremony was rubbish but the reception was brilliant.

• “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!

• What do you call a fish with no eyes?

A fsh.

• A neutron walks into a bar. “I’d like a beer” he says. The bartender promptly serves up a beer. “How much will that be?” asks the neutron. “For you?” replies the bartender, “No charge.”

• Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar.

One says, “I think I’ve lost an electron.”

The other says, “Are you sure?” The first says, “Yes, I’m positive...”

ONE LINERS • Police Station toilet stolen....Cops have nothing to go on.

• Schizophrenia beats being alone.

• If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.

• You have the capacity to learn from your mistakes. You will learn a lot today.

• A thing not worth doing isn’t worth doing well.

• Hard work never killed anyone, but why chance it?

• All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

• . I don’t have a solution, but I do admire the problem.

• I think sex is better than logic, but I can’t prove it.

• The meek shall inherit the earth..... after we’re through with it.

• If a thing is worth doing, it would have

“Fascinating - American Indians are the best lovers and Polish men the longest.

been done already.

• Ham and Eggs: A day’s work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig.

• Lord, if I can’t be skinny, please let all my friends be fat.

• Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die • .Confession is good for the soul, but bad for your career.

• Sometimes too much to drink isn’t enough.

• Jesus loves you! It’s everybody else that thinks you’re an ass.

• It’s hard to make a comeback when you haven’t been anywhere.

• Don’t get married. Find a woman you hate and buy her a house. It’s a lot easier on you.

• A closed mouth gathers no foot.

• When blondes have more fun do they know it?

• Money isn’t everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch.

• Losing a husband can be hard. In my case it was almost impossible.

• Jesus is coming! Look Busy.

• My Wild Oats Have turned to Shredded Wheat!

• Is reading in the bathroom considered multi-tasking?

• Seen it all. Done it all. Can’t remember most of it.

• Why do bankruptcy lawyers expect to be paid?

• What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

• Always try to be modest. And be damn proud of it!

• If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of mortgage payments.

• Attempt to get a new car for your spouse - it’ll be a great trade!

• I’d kill for a Nobel Peace prize.

• Chastity is curable, if detected early.

• Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

• Hell hath no fury like the lawyer of a woman scorned.

• Bills travel through the post at twice the speed of cheques.

• Hard work pays off in the future.

Laziness pays off now.

• Borrow money from pessimists- they don’t expect it back.

• A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

• If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

• I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

By the way, I’m Jane.”

“Hi,” he says. “I’m Tonto Palawlaski.”

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FINDASUPPLIER

ABBOT PRINT

Tel: 01442 867600 Fax: 01442 867601 Email: sales@abbotprint.com www.abbotprint.com Manufacturers of business stationery, books and pads.

ALLIED IMAGES

Tel: 01604 670679 Fax: 01604 670876 www.allied-images.com 53 Tenter Road, Northampton, NN3 6AX Large format technology distributor. Scanners from Colortrac, Contex and Proserv. Wide format printers from Mutoh. Full software support including document management.

Apple Office Equipment – RISO Tel. 023 8033 0611, Fax 023 8023 2288 Unit 5, Mountbatten Business Centre Southampton, SO15 1HY RISO Inks and Master, Repairs and Service

Art Systems Ltd

Sales: 0870 224 2612 Units 10-12 Glaisdale Parkway, Glaisdale Nottingham NG8 4GP www.artsystems.co.uk marketing@artsystems.ltd.uk Contex Scanners, Canon Large Format, HP Large Format, Xativia.

ARTEC PRODUCTS

Tel: 01403 218222 Littlehaven Halt, Rusper Road, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 4QL Document presentation systems, Binding Machines, Laminating Machines and trade discounts on consumables. Bespoke and stock presentation ring binders in PVC, Polypropylene, Paper over boards, copiable and laser, printable folders and desk calendars.

Laser, inkjet, copier transparencies. For the best combination of price and service, look no further.

CALF HEY DESIGN

Tel: 01484 846419 Fax: 01484 847163 Unit 23, Colne Valley Business Park, Manchester Road, Linthwaite, Huddersfield, W. Yorks HD7 5QG Label manufacturer, trade-only, plain, printed, laminated, barcodes, numbering, one- to full-colour, we do it all, total label solutions at trade prices. Call for free sample pack.

CANON UK

Tel: 01737 220000 Fax: 01737 220022 www.canon.co.uk Canon (UK) Ltd, Woodhatch, Reigate, Surrey RH2 8BF Canon’s broad professional portfolio includes the revolutionary imagePRESS digital colour engines, high-volume monochrome and large format printers. With Canon, you can.

Caslon Ltd

Tel 01727 852211 www.caslon.co.uk, info@caslon.co.uk Lyon Way, Hatfield Road, St Albans Business card cutters, Digital print finishing,, Finishing products and systems, Foiling equipment, Print finishing equipment and Thermographic equipment & supplies

COLES COPYING SERVICES Tel: 0208 502 2532 www.colescopying.co.uk Strerling House, Langston Road, Loughton, Essex.

COLOURFAST GROUP

Tel: 01273 674321 Fax: 01273 609135 Email: sales@colourfast.co.uk 36 Cheltenham Place, Brighton BN1 4AB High Volume B/W and Colour Photocopying and Brighton’s Original Copy Bureau Centre.

Artwork, Design and Print. Trade work undertaken.

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COPYMATTERS

Contact: Dan Tester Tel: 07957 291718 Fax: 01273 609135 www.copymatters.co.uk Copywriting, proofreading, design, print and web services.

DURAWELD

Tel: 01723 584091 Fax: 01723 581509 Email: sales@duraweld.co.uk www.duraweld.co.uk Salter Road, Eastfield Industrial Estate, Scarborough, North Yorkshire YO11 3UP Manufacturer of presentation products to package, present and protect printed paper and multimedia. Ring Binders, Tabbed Dividers and Indexes, Files and Folders, Wallets, Polypropylene Boxes, Multimedia Packaging, Self Adhesives and Presentation Ring Binders.

Customise to your requirements through screen or litho print, pockets and accessories.

Quality service, competitive prices and fast turnaround.

ELMSTOK

Tel: 01945 463434 Fax: 01945 582598 Email: sales@elmstok.co.uk www.elmstok.co.uk 4-6 Algores Way, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire PE13 2TQ A leading worldwide supplier in document presentation systems and finishing equipment including Binding Machines and Supplies, Manual and Electric Guillotines, Laminating Machines and Supplies, Paper Drills and Punches, Folders, Booklet Makers and Shredding Machines.

gfsmith

Tel: 020 7407 6174 Fax: 020 7403 1037 Email: london@gfsmith.com www.gfsmith.com Paper and card suppliers of prestigious printing and presentation media.

HOWARINE CALVERT

Tel: 0845 456 1544 Fax: 0845 456 1545 Howarine House, First Floor, 5/6 Empire Way, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 0XA Email: sales@howarine.co.uk Originators of adhesives for printers.

KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS (UK)

Tel: 01908 200400 Email: production.print@konicaminolta.co.uk Web: konicaminolta.co.uk Precedent Drive, Rooksley, Milton Keynes.

MK13 8HF Manufacturers of the bizhub PRO range of high quality production print devices ranging from 55cpm colour to 105cpm black and white.

KIP UK

Tel: 01327 304601 Fax: 01327 871097 www.kipuk.com Stephenson Close, Drayton Fields, Daventry NN11 8RF Wide Format Printers, Copiers, Scanners, Folders and Multifunctional solutions from KIP. Direct Sales and Service to the Copy Shop Sector.

Listawood Promotional products

Tel 01485 529100 Fax 01485 529200 Web www.listawood.com Tattersett Business Park,Fakenham Norfolk. NR21 7RF UK manufacturer of promotional products including mousemats, ceramics, liquid filled products, usb Flashdrives and magnets. 100% trade only

Listawood Trade Supplies

Tel 01485 529742 Fax: 01485 529756 Web www.listawoodtradesupplies.com Tattersett Business Park,Fakenham Norfolk. NR21 7RF A one stop shop for consumables and equipment for dye sublimation and chromablast. Authorised distributor of Hix heat presses and parts.

The magazine production company

Tel: 01273 467579 Web: www.magazineproduction.com Email: info@magazineproduction.com Comprehensive cost-effective design, production and print solution for independent publishers.

In-house company newsletters, brochures and magazines – we can send print compliant artwork back to you for printing for your customers.

MERLINS MARKETING

Tel: 0113 289 2202 Fax: 0113 289 3390 Email sales@merlinsmarketing.com www.merlinsmarketing.com North Hill House, Wetherby Road, Scarcroft, Leeds. LS14 3AU Supplier of promotional products.

METRO UK

Tel: 01753 884811 Email: hunterslodge@onetel.net A0 Plan Copiers, Plotters and Cad Printers.

Specialists in the supply of quality pre-owned 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.

M-REAL UK

Tel: 01628 411611. www.datacopy.com New Thames Mill, Sittingbourne, Kent Smart new colour paper and original top quality mono papers. Data Copy is designed for your customers presentations - make it real.

NELSON PRESS

Tel: 01794 517206 Fax: 01794 516753 Email: enquiries@nelsonpress.co.uk www.nelsonpress.co.uk Unit 30 Romsey Industrial Estate Romsey, Hampshire SO51 0HR Now part of the Whitehill Print Group, Nelson Press offers competitive trade prices on Draw tickets and other numbered/perforated tickets & books.

OCÉ IMAGING SUPPLIES

Wide format materials: 0800 623 623 Small format materials: 0800 212 943 Chatham Way, Brentwood, Essex CM14 4DZ Reknowned supplier of copying and printing equipment to copy shops, carries one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive range of consumables, for both small and wide format machines, from A4 white paper to display graphic materials such as backlit films.

OKI EUROPE

Tel: 0208 219 2190 Central House, Balfour Road, Hounslow, Middlesex TW3 1HY

PAPERCO

Tel: 01273 441560 Fax: 01273 441562 Email: info@paperco.co.uk Local branches throughout the UK Paper & Board Mechants including Digital substrates through to business card boxes.

PEN WAREHOUSE

Tel: 01252 400270 Email: sales@pens.co.uk, www.pens.co.uk Trade pen supplies.

PERFECT COLOURS

Tel: 020 7820 0333 Fax: 020 7735 5308 www.perfectcolours.com Unit 1A, Canterbury Court, Kennington Park, London SE5 0TG Supplying HP DesignJets. PosterJet Software Rip Mac & PC. Canon distributors.

PDC

Tel: 020 8810 5770 Fax: 020 8810 9190 www.pdcuk.com The UK’s leading supplier of coil, wire and comb binding punch bind solutions, together with a vast range of finishing and laminating equipment, PDC are the UK’s leading coil manufacturer, supplying a range of 45 colours in sizes between 6 and 32mm and any length up to one metre

PFS (Print Finishing Solutions) Ltd

Tel: 01942 322953 Fax: 01942 322963 www.pfsltd.net Email: sales@pfsltd.net Units 7-9 Hawkley Brook Trading Estate, Worthington Way, Wigan WN3 6XE PFS constantly strive to bring you the best solutions for your large format graphics business at the best prices possible prices.

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Tel: 01707 270001, Fax: 01707 271769 www.renz.co.uk Hatfield Park Estate, Hatfield, Herts. AL9 5PQ Renz Onepitch® ring wire system now allows binding from just a few sheets through to 350 sheets (1/4”-1 1/2” wire).

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Tel: 0208 261 4000. 1 Plane Tree Crescent, Feltham, Middlesex. TW13 7HG

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SHARP ELECTRONICS (UK) Tel: 020 8734 2000 www.sharp.co.uk 4 Furzeground Way, Stockley Park, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB11 1EZ

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.

STANFORD MARSH

Tel: 01905 458000 Fax: 01905 754057 www.stanfordmarsh.co.uk Haycroft Works, Buckholt Drive, Warndon Business Park, Worcs. WR4 9ND Official dealer for all main manufacturers, allowing us to supply best fit solutions for all users. Please visit our website.

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Magic Touch (THE)

Tel. 01582 671444 Fax 01582 671555 Email sales@themagictouch.co.uk www.themagictouch.co.uk Unit 4 Apex Business Centre,Boscombe Road, Dunstable, Bedfordshire LU5 4SB Supplier of transfer papers, colour laser printers and heat presses to open up exciting opportunities to print on a limitless range of products.

UNIBIND SYSTEMS LIMITED

Tel: 0845 130 5575 Fax: 01293 529272 Email: rob.marshall@unibindsystems.co.uk 3 Oak Court, Betts Way, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 9GG Suppliers of a unique, high quality range of binding covers; laminating supplies; bespoke and tailor-made hard back books; new innovative range of PhotoBooks.

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

St Georges House, Whitwick Road, Coalville, Leicestershire LE67 3FA Vivid offer a wide range of innovative and exclusive Laminating Systems ranging from Desktop to Wide Format Laminators. Visit the website to view the full range which also includes Binding and Print Finishing solutions.

XERETEC

Tel: 0118 977 0123 Fax: 0118 979 3565 Email: info@xeretec.co.uk. www.xeretec.co.uk 17 The Business Centre, Molly Millars Lane, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG41 2QY Xerox Technology, Document Consulting, Office Supplies

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