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MARCH 2015 COMMENT

Attention!

Remarkably the first quarter of the year is nearly put to bed!

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NEWS FRONT

We are fast approaching the manic part of the printers season, mind you, as a profession we are often dealing with headless chickens at all times of the year.

26 NEW PROFIT CENTRE

Hot QPP news in print

So we spring into March with print exhibitions showing off new kit and politicians offering new promises.

Profit in new print products

10 NEW PRODUCTS

30 READERS SCRIBES

What’s new and in store for you

17 IT’S SHOWTIME

Your jokes shared, more welcome

Time to plan your must visit away days

32 FINDA PRODUCT / SUPPLIER QPP preferred suppliers in print and on the web

22 DIGITAL IMAGERY

Martin Christie – pixel prophet

34 BUSINESS 2 BUSINESS

24 GREEN ISSUES

Look who’s cleaning up in print?

For once we are the prospects, the suppliers customers; and yes they need us to vote with our time and money to invest in the future.

QPP will help you with the research to enable an informed decision. Just point me in the right direction.

Have a great month in print.

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EDITORIAL: Marina Peirce EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER: Maureen Foulkes CONTRIBUTORS: Lara Groome, Louise Wickenden, Rebecca Foulkes, Dan Tester, Charlotte Rolf and Helen Baxter FEATURES: Peter Foulkes

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PassIT! Partners Reunite for Fundraiser Photo PASSIT!, a PrintIT! fundraising campaign, welcomed its partners on Tuesday 20th January for a photo shoot at Duplo headquarters in Addlestone, Surrey.

Each of the 10 partners sent senior representatives who travelled across the country to take part.

of September, before showcasing their results at London Calling 2015.

Optimus cycled 296 Miles from their offices in December and now Nicola Bisset Optimus Group Managing Director has handed over the baton to Mark Browne Digital Support Manager at Antalis

Back row (left to right): Charlotte Lawrence (Balreed), Ebony Arnold (Proskills), Gary Downey (Balreed), Tim Cox (Vpress), Mark Browne (Antalis), Nicola Bisset (Optimus), David Smith (Vivid), Paul Simpson (Renz). Front row (left to right): Miles Bentley (Lumejet), Sarah Crumpler (Duplo), Zoe Hartill (Taopix), Amy Moran (Proskills)

Proskills would also like to thank printer Colourfast, who generously donated two large PassIT! pop-up banners to accompany the photo shoot.

Optimus, Antalis, Balreed, Taopix, Vpress, Lumejet, Renz, Neopost, Vivid and Duplo have each been allocated a month in which to organise a fundraising activity to raise money for Proskills’ PrintIT! The PassIT! baton is passed to each partner throughout the year ending with Duplo taking the last month

Watch this space to see how they get on!

The photos from the shoot will be released throughout the year to accompany their activities.

For more information please contact the PrintIT! team on 01235 432030 or sii@proskills.co.uk.

Mimaki inks achieve OEKO-TEX Accreditation MIMAKI has attained the OEKO-TEX accreditation for direct skin contact for its Sb300 series dye sublimation inks and Sb53 sublimation transfer inks. The OEKO-TEX criteria catalogue provides manufacturers in the textile and clothing industry with a scientifically based standard benchmark for the evaluation of potentially harmful substances in textiles. OEKO-TEX approved inks are suitable to finish skin-friendly clothing and other textiles for end users. This certificate therefore constitutes an important decisionmaking element when purchasing inks for textile production.

As a pioneering manufacturer, Mimaki has been awarded OEKOTEX Standard 100, product class Il. This concerns textiles and inks which, when used as intended, have a large part of their surface in direct contact with the skin, e.g. underwear, bed linen, terry cloth items, shirts, blouses etc. The independent testing and certification system for textile products from all stages of manufacture confirms the inks have met the human ecological requirements of the standard for products with direct contact to skin.

The certification shows the inks fulfil the requirements of Annex XVII of REACH as well as the American requirement regarding total content of lead in children’s articles.

“We were already well aware of the business-winning value of the inks but are delighted that Nissenken Quality Evaluation Center has awarded them the OEKO-TEX Standard 100,” comments Mike Horsten, General Manager Marketing EMEA at Mimaki Europe. “Customers

can now use the inks confidently and safe in the knowledge they are approved for direct skin contact.”

“Our digital textile printing capabilities have already hit a number of catwalks. This certification means even more designers can take a closer look at how printing can add creative value to their collections.”

The inks can be used on the following Mimaki systems: TS5001800, TX500-1800DS, TX500-1800B, CJV150-107, 130 & 160, CJV300-130

& 160, JV150-130 & 160, JV300-130 & 160, JV5-320DS, TS3-1600, TS51600AMF, TS34-1800A and TPC-1000.

Horsten concludes: “After a very successful participation at Heimtextil in Germany, this industry seal of approval demonstrates just how far-reaching digital print can be. It is an endorsement of our continuous efforts to optimise our portfolio and more notably our digital print solutions.” www.hybridservices.co.uk

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Epson and Mercedes AMG Petrona F1 Team

EPSON has announced a long-term global partnership with the 2014 FIA Formula One World Champions, the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team. Epson will become an official team partner of MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS, providing its expertise in the product areas of inkjet printers, scanners, 3LCD projectors and wearables, including smart glasses and health/sports sensing products. The Epson logo will be visible on the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS race cars, along with branding on the helmet visors

and race suits of the team’s drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, in a new livery for the 2015 season that will be revealed by MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS when Formula One testing begins on February 1.

“We are extremely proud to enhance our global brand profile by becoming an official partner of the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team,” said Epson President Minoru Usui. “The partnership aligns two world-renowned champion brands committed to the relentless pursuit of innovation, the attainment

of global leadership positions and the creation of products and services that continue to exceed expectations and emotionally engage stakeholders worldwide.”

Toto Wolff, Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport commented: “We are delighted to welcome Epson to the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team as our preparations for the 2015 season gather pace. It is always a pleasure to work with forward-thinking companies and Epson’s products are a natural fit for our race and manufacturing operations. Epson’s use of innovative technology to deliver performance is perfectly aligned to what we strive to achieve in Formula One and we will be working closely with Epson to showcase these innovations and increase global awareness of their brand and products. We look forward to the season ahead and many successful years as partners.”

The locations of the twenty 2015 Formula One race events closely reflect Epson’s global footprint and will provide unique and highly visible platforms for showcasing its advanced technologies and accelerating growth by deepening customer relationships worldwide.

The global partnership also brings together two organisations with a strong commitment to minimising environmental impact. Epson, for example, aims to achieve a 90% reduction in CO2 emissions versus the environmental impacts of current and future operations by 2050, partially by reducing the environmental impact of its manufacturing processes but also by reducing the impact of its products during use.

The Championship-winning MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS F1 W05 F1 Hybrid car, raced by the team in 2014, was over 30% more fuel efficient than its predecessor and has also delivered real-world benefits in the S 500 Hybrid Plug In and other Mercedes-Benz road cars. www.global.epson.com

DyeSubMagic DYESUBMAGIC the sublimation division of TheMagicTouch in the UK, has announced its partnership with Sawgrass to offer Virtuoso HD Product Decorating Systems, the next generation of sublimation printing technology.

Sawgrass have announced its partnership with printer manufacturer Ricoh to produce the only inkjet printers on the market designed specifically for high definition product decoration. This unique partnership marks the first time an ink and printer manufacturer have worked together to create a sublimation system that ensures the highest quality result, while delivering consistency and affordability as never seen before.

DyeSubMagic based in Dunstable, is pleased to be able to bring Virtuoso HD Product Decorating Systems to customers throughout the UK, and is currently accepting pre-orders.

Complete systems include either the SG400 or SG800 printer with enhanced SubliJet-HD water-based inks. Both printers deliver maximum resolution up to 1200 x 1200 dpi, while the inks are designed specifically for Ricoh’s print head technology and with significantly greater colour gamut.

Also included in the Virtuoso HD Product Decorating System is Sawgrass’ proprietary CreativeStudio online design software and advanced PowerDriver 4.2 colour management programme.

CreativeStudio makes designing easier than ever, with images, templates and guides for creating popular applications and products accessible from virtually any computer or connected device. PowerDriver 4.2 has been enhanced for greater colour control and versatility with popular graphics programs, such as Photoshop and Corel.

Virtuoso systems will initially consist of A4 (SG400) and A3 (SG800) options, with optional paper feed units and bypass trays available. Both products will enjoy expanded in-house technical support for all of the system’s components and a standard one year warranty.

DyeSubMagic will offer special package launch prices of £299.00 for the SG400 and £680.00 for the SG800 both of which can be viewed at Stand G60 at this year’s Printwear & Promotion.

For further information contact sales@themagictouch.co.uk or call 01582 671444.

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The Pen Warehouse winning start to the year

THE Pen Warehouse has made a winning start to the year with the award for Supplier of the Year (£2m and over) at the British Promotional Merchandise Association (BPMA) Awards dinner.

The UK supplier of promotional writing instruments also picked up the Constant Contact Digital Awards Website of The Year 2014 for its innovative No-Minimum bespoke Ecommerce website.

The No-Minimum bespoke Ecommerce site gives distributors the opportunity to increase revenue by selling small order personalised products and gifts

online to consumers, sole traders, franchisees and small businesses. Competitive prices for products allow distributors to undercut VistaPrint and still make a margin.

The Pen Warehouse has developed a number of ground-breaking new services and products to offer distributors more product choice, a competitive price point and no minimum order quantities through the No-Minimum trade website.

Investment in new technology has enabled the company to offer exclusive products with unsurpassed print quality, while staff development

has helped to create an award-winning customer service team.

Managing Director Neil Cleere said: “We’re thrilled to be named Supplier of the Year once again and would like to thank everyone who voted for us.

We recognise the pressures faced by distributors in light of increased competition from on-line retailers, and will continue to develop exclusive products and innovative services in 2015.”

The Pen Warehouse is a family firm which designs and supplies an extensive range of writing instruments and offers Europe’s largest range of full colour promotional pens, pencils and accessories. It is one of the few trade only suppliers to offer exclusive products designed in-house, providing a point of difference for distributors of promotional writing instruments. www.pens.co.uk

Antalis passes PrintIT! baton to Balreed PROSKILLS is delighted that paper and packaging distributor Antalis has made a sizeable contribution to the PassIT! campaign for their month of January! Their generous donation will now go directly into the PrintIT! programme helping to fund school visits to industry, the development of new career materials and content for the student work books.

Belinda Kelly, Marketing Manager at Antalis commented: “We’re delighted our donation contributes to such a worthwhile cause and gives students a real feel for the variety of career opportunities in the print and paper industry.”

The PrintIT! team is in awe of the efforts so far from the partners, as Antalis handed over the fundraising baton to Balreed for the month of February.

Balreed tested their limits by attempting to complete an endurance run on Friday 27th of February. On February 24th they hosted Cornwallis Academy, on an all expenses paid visit to their Maidstone HQ offices. Their visit included a talk and tour of the premises and the students learned first-hand the ins and outs of a large printing company.

Gary Downey, Group Marketing Director at Balreed says: “We are very pleased to be supporting the PrintIT! initiative, it’s a great opportunity to open our doors to a local school and help them understand how digital print can be an exciting and rewarding industry to get involved in. We have just been appointed as official Print Partner to the Virgin Money London Marathon so we thought an endurance running challenge in the middle of the office would be a very appropriate way for us to raise funds for PrintIT! and raise the heart rates of staff at our Maidstone head office too!”

Rashida Petch, D&T teacher at the academy, is thrilled that Balreed has opened their doors: “Balreed has kindly given my year 9 GCSE Graphic Products students the

opportunity to visit their HQ offices. The students will get to see, first-hand, how products are printed and made on a commercial level. This will help them with completing the PrintIT! national competition that they have been working on and bring printing techniques to life. This information will also be relevant when the students complete their controlled assessment and GCSE examination at the end of the course.”

You are invited to donate to the partners’ extraordinary efforts and find out more about the PassIT! fundraising campaign by contacting the PrintIT! team on 01235 432030 or sii@proskills.co.uk

DIAMOND ADDS DIGITAL SPARKLE WITH LINOPRINT C 901 DIAMOND Colour Print has taken delivery of one of the last Heidelberg Linoprint C901digital presses, determined to match the existing press which has added £200,000 a year to the turnover of the Dartford company.

“We wanted this proven technology,” says managing director Roy Risley. “Our first Linoprint C 901 has generated a high volume of short run business from existing offset customers and new markets. We have used Fogra standards and set up

colour matching across proofing, digital and offset technologies inhouse so that our customers can be confident of the colour quality and consistency.”

“You know when you are dealing with Heidelberg you will get the right advice and support. They understand the ethos of the commercial printer and can make things happen if anything goes wrong,” says Mr Risley.

The press will run on a flexible single shift. The new machine will lead to a new full time position at Diamond Colour Print.

Heidelberg has recently announced the replacement of the Linoprint C901 and C 751 with Linoprint CP and CV models. www.heidelberg.com

Duplo’s London Calling partners have come together under the PassIT! Campaign to support PrintIT!, the UK’s largest schools into industry programme run by the charity Proskills UK. These companies recognised the need for more young people needed in the print, paper, and packaging industries. They each will be holding a month of fundraisers throughout the year ahead.

PrintIT! has already engaged with 140,000 students from over 2,000 schools Pri - but with these heroes involved - this is just the beginning....

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TG Print Wins Trade Business with DigiBook 200

TG Print & Design, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, has become the latest UK print business to install a Morgana DigiBook 200 PUR perfect binding machine. Morgana, who are a manufacturer of equipment for digital finishing, launched the DigiBook 200 last year at Ipex 2014 as the latest addition to its popular PUR perfect binder range.

The company prints both litho and digital work and offers its binding services out to the trade. Litho work at TG Print & Design is handled with a Heidelberg XL75, with a combination of Konica Minolta 6000 and MGI Meteor machines handling the digital throughput. Wide format production is undertaken on both EFI flat-bed and HP equipment..

Commenting on the latest Morgana purchase, Dave Duhig, Managing Director of TG Print & Design, said: “We had been considering the benefits of bringing PUR binding in-house for some time. We have an excellent relationship with the team at Morgana, and they offered us a trial of the DigiBook 200, suggesting that this machine would be more than capable of handling the work that we needed to produce, with the quality of bind that we were looking for. The trial was a great success – in fact it was so good that we picked up two new trade jobs because of it!”

The DigiBook 200 joins a range of other Morgana equipment, including an AutoCreaser, DigiFold Pro, and one of the suppliers laminating products.

“In addition to winning new trade work, the DigiBook means that we are saving money on placing PUR

work out, and keeping a much tighter hold on production schedules.

The fact that we can now produce PUR binding at a more cost effective price means that we have been able to tempt a number of customers to try it – they then become hooked on the quality of bind they get back.

We might not use it for several days, but when we need PUR it is available immediately, and like everything we buy from Morgana, it is reliable, efficient, and affordable.”

Short-run work completed on the DigiBook 200 at TG Print & Design has included the production of advance copies and even proof copies of publications. “It makes a big difference to how customers view you as a supplier when you turn up with a couple of finished books rather than a whole bundle of loose sheets,” said Dave.

Ray Hillhouse, Sales and Marketing

Director at Morgana Systems, said: “We have been delighted over the last year with the reception of the DigiBook 200. TG Print illustrates yet again that the product offers the ideal solution for print businesses seeking quality PUR binding for short to medium-run work. The quality of bind, the speed of production, and the cost of the system are making it an essential tool for today’s fast turnaround print business.”

The DigiBook 200 handles spine lengths from 110 to 320mm and the maximum thickness is 50mm.

Retractable spine milling means that the device can go from soft- to hard-cover binding at the flick of a switch. Side gluing for the cover hinge is adjustable depending upon the cover style required.

Full details of Morgana’s product line-up can be found at: www.morgana.co.uk

Newtech success for Doro Tape BEING part of the Newtech ‘Wide Format, Screen, Digital & Display’ regional shows has been paying dividends for Doro Tape UK Ltd. Not having a large network of sales reps on the road, Doro Tape find exhibitions a useful way of presenting their excellent and diverse range of products to customers and potential customers alike. James Carpenter Doro Tape’s MD says ‘We are finding that these shows are an invaluable way of getting to all areas of the UK, where we are able to make a really good presentation of our products and services. And it is paying off as have picked up new customers from both Wetherby and Corby’.

BALREED HOST DOCUMENT STRATEGY EVENTS

BALREED are holding a series of exclusive open-house events around the UK to help businesses reach their Peak Performance, focussing on optimising document and infrastructure strategies. The inaugural event will take place at Warwickshire Cricket Club’s Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham on Wednesday 11th March and the second event will be held at Bristol City Football Club on Thursday 12th March. Further dates and venues will be announced soon.

Attendees will be taken on a journey to discover how the efficiency and resilience of their document infrastructure and process can be optimised with Balreed.

Specialist staff from Balreed will be on hand to show how devices are monitored remotely and to demonstrate live workflow solutions including mobile working and cloud.

Gary Downey, Balreed’s Group Marketing Director said; “The Peak Performance events will be a great opportunity for all types of organisation to see how our approach and the right mix of technology and support can dramatically improve their document efficiency. There will also be opportunities for visitors to get involved in live unique workflow demonstrations.”

If you would like to attend, please visit www.balreed.com/events/ or call 0345 000 8899 to register your interest.

A good example of this is when James Hopkin of Ability Digital Print – part of Cast Media Group – visited the Doro stand at Wetherby near Leeds.

He was looking for a printable wall covering media that was simple to apply and removable.

He was pointed in the direction of Doro Tape’s Digi-Fab, a PE based self-adhesive fabric with a quality textured finish. This film fitted the bill as it had a removable adhesive making it simple to apply. James Hopkin commented ‘I used the Digi fab material for a one day exhibition in London. It worked brilliantly and it was easily removed the following day’. www.dorotape.co.uk

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New Enfocus PitStop 13 PITSTOP 13 has a re-designed preflight engine that addresses the challenges of creating high-quality PDFs and is structured to ensure the submission of high-quality PDFs, today, tomorrow and well into the future. It includes a new option to generate bleed where none currently exists and the ability for users to customise the language and content of the error messaging within preflight reports, including the use of languages for which the software has not yet been localised.

Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager responsible for the PitStop product family, explains: “As PDF files are now being used for more and more complex print jobs and deadlines are becoming increasingly tighter, it became obvious to the PitStop development team that the current preflight engine needed some improvements in order to support the current and future needs of our users. The result is the next generation of PDF Preflight and correction. In addition to paying close attention to customer feedback, we unleashed the creativity of our engineering team to ensure that PitStop 13, which contains both enhancements and brand new functionality, stays ahead of market demands and secures our continuing leadership position in the preflight and auto-correction arena.”

MORE TARGETED, RELEVANT CHECKS AND CORRECTIONS Preflight Restrictions represents the most significant change to the PitStop Preflight library since it was created 15 years ago. It allows the checks and fixes included in

a preflight profile to be limited to certain aspects of a PDF. For example, a PDF page box, a certain page or pages, a particular area or specific elements of a PDF, even different layers within a PDF file can each be checked in different ways, depending upon user requirements.

The options for customising preflight are now virtually endless.

This means that PitStop 13 users benefit from a much more targeted preflight check, receiving fewer irrelevant warnings and errors. It also enables the ability to carry out complex quality control routines, thoroughly checking files in one processing pass.

Because the PitStop Preflight editor interface, already familiar to hundreds of thousands of users around the globe, has only minimal changes, the new functionality can be implemented without any major retraining or re-reading of product manuals. This is a significant benefit for users.

shapes to create bleed if none existed. Users could also manually manipulate a PDF to extend bleed if the file design allowed it. The new version is a leap forward, as it works by mirroring the individual objects that are close to or cross a PDF box to create bleed. These mirrored objects are also completely editable so the resulting bleed can also be adjusted manually if necessary, which we believe is unique in the world of preflighting. Bleed can be generated for single or multiple objects, as well as complete pages or documents, significantly streamlining workflow in the production process.”

AUTOMATIC BLEED GENERATION

CUSTOMISABLE PREFLIGHT MESSAGES

Another major enhancement is the Add Bleed Action, which allows bleed to be generated even if none exists in the original file.

Bailes-Collins explains: “Lack of bleed in supplied PDF files is still a major issue for our customers.

Previous versions of PitStop displayed bleed if it was available and could automatically extend rectangular

Based upon PitStop users’ request, the ability to customise the warning and error messages in the PitStop Preflight reports has been added. In PitStop 13, messages can be customised to reflect non-technical language that can include suggestions for corrections if necessary. In addition, the preflight messages can be translated into

languages that are not currently supported by the PitStop application.

PITSTOP PRO 13 AVAILABLE WITH OPTION OF SUBSCRIPTION LICENSING Subscription licensing models are becoming popular within the design, print and publishing industries. Enfocus has had positive feedback from more than 2,000 customers regarding this type of licensing model, and as a result Enfocus is pleased to announce that subscription licensing is now a new option users can consider when purchasing PitStop Pro 13.

A single monthly subscription for PitStop Pro will cost £25 per month, or £20 per month with an annual prepaid contract at £240 whereas a perpetual license cost £579. The option for subscription licensing will be available when PitStop 13 is released in April 2015.

Users purchasing or upgrading to PitStop 12 will automatically be entitled to PitStop 13 free-of-charge when the new version is available. www.enfocus.com

Canon announce new ColorWave printers CANON has launched two new high performance wide format colour systems which are set to make their UK debut at Sign & Digital in March. The two new models come as both printer only and multi-functional; the Océ ColorWave 500 dedicated to workgroups and the Océ ColorWave 700, designed for wider graphic arts applications.

The printers are designed to enable a wide range of high quality applications, supporting print service providers, in-house or remote work-

groups and central print rooms with a requirement for instant dry and water resistant prints on roll-based media. Both printers utilise the latest version of Océ CrystalPoint technology for high speed toner printing with excellent adhesion to standard and specialty substrates, a higher print quality and clean refilling.

The Océ ColorWave 500 is designed to support CAD, GIS and production applications in the manufacturing, architecture, construction, design and reprographics industries. The system comes

with secure cloud connectivity and Windows 8 embedded controller, making the system a perfect fit for government and corporate environments with multiple users. There is also an option for removable dual hard drives, for added data security.

The Océ ColorWave 700 caters for businesses requiring a higher print volume, including reprographics, sign and display print providers, and in-house printing applications in industries such as retail, hospitality, POS, education and government. Its unique features make it a very capable all-rounder graphic arts device and puts innovation at the heart of the business.

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Canon launches new five colour imagePROGRAF CANON has announced the introduction of two new imagePROGRAF printers aimed at supporting print businesses and in-house print rooms needing efficient and easy-to-use CAD and display graphics solutions.

The Canon imagePROGRAF iPF670 (24” / 610mm) and Canon imagePROGRAF iPF770 (36” / 914mm) both feature faster print speeds, improved ink management and faster, more reliable image processing. Both models can now print an A1 equivalent image in 28 seconds in the fastest print mode, while HP-GL/2 and HP-RTL support allows for more flexible and reliable CAD file handling.

The iPF770 is also available as an MFP, with an optional large format scanner and 22” touchscreen display attachment.

New inks allow for an increased colour gamut specifically intended to print more vivid reds for clarity in CAD drawings and indoor point-of-sale signage.

Two black pigment ink tanks supplement the standard dye inks for richer, sharper blacks, while making it easier to mark-up CAD artwork without smearing the print. The ink tanks are hot-swappable, and can be replenished mid-print without wasting either ink or paper.

Other new features allow for an improved workflow before and after printing.

Accounting software makes it easier for small businesses to manage costs and margins. A print utility for Apple iPad enables mobile users to view and print files straight from their mobile devices. Finally, a new stand design allows for easy switching between a basket or flat-stacking print output.

“Canon’s imagePROGRAF range is known all over the world for its quality and reliability,” said Yuichi Miyano, Director, Wide Format Printing Group, Canon Europe. “We have listened to our customers to understand their needs as businesses, and invested the imagePROGRAF range to support those needs. As a result, the Canon imagePROGRAF iPF670 and iPF770 are designed to be the perfect large format printers for growing businesses with a need for standard volume CAD or indoor point-of-sale printing. With easy maintenance, versatile file handling and comprehensive workflow compatibility, they’re ideal for print service providers or in-house print rooms in architecture, construction and engineering firms.” www.canon.co.uk

New Mimaki CFL-605RT Flatbed Cutting Plotter MIMAKI has announced the launch of the CFL-605RT Compact Flatbed Cutting Plotter which offers both creasing and cutting capabilities and enables the creation and delivery of high quality, cost-effective output.

The new CFL-605RT is designed with Mimaki’s well-established technology to support immediate finishing of packaging and prototypes with multiple functions.

“There is growing demand for ondemand production of prototypes and small lots, both for products and their packaging,” explains Mike Horsten, General Manager Marketing EMEA at Mimaki Europe. “This includes fast, efficient prototyping and production of samples as well as small lots of products and packaging that may be modified to reflect different seasonal and regional requirements. There are promotional and special event opportunities, too.

In particular, we believe markets such as cosmetics and luxury items will benefit from the ability to produce highly responsive eye-catching packaging with short lead times. Our solutions are specifically designed to meet that need, and we are excited to witness the impact we believe they will have on the market as

brand owners and converters alike learn about their many benefits.”

The CFL-605RT is a multifunction flatbed cutter that accommodates material sizes up to oversized A2 and features a variety of functions including creasing and eccentric, tangential and reciprocating cutting. Used in combination with the UJF-6042, the new compact flatbed cutting plotter can achieve on-demand production of the original goods by providing the

whole production process, including printing onto goods and packages, and cutting of cushioning materials.

• The eccentric cutter has a maximum cutting thickness of 1mm with an optimal downforce setting between 30 and 1,000g.

• The tangential cutter features a maximum cutting thickness of 2mm with high downforce pressure, including materials such as reflective vinyl and rubber sheets.

• The reciprocating cutter has a maximum 10mm cutting thickness for materials such as foam or cardboard and uses a vertical reciprocating motion.

• The creasing roller creases materials for a perfect package.

Downforce pressures are adjustable from 500 to 1,000g.

Mimaki is distributed in the UK and Ireland by Hybrid Services Ltd and the company’s National Sales Manager – industrial products, Stuart Cole comments; “The launch of the CFL-605RT allows us to offer a unique, fully integrated, small format flatbed print and cut workflow solution.”

Mike Horsten adds, “We are also developing a complete end-to-end solution that will not only reduce the time required for prototyping and small lot production, but will also significantly reduce costs and enable a faster time to market. In many cases, these functions can be performed in-house, eliminating outsourcing and further reducing cycle time. These latest portfolio additions are an outstanding example of our mantra of ‘Let’s Create… Together!’ coming to life.” www.hybridsolutions.co.uk

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Mcor Wins Award for 3D Printers using copy paper

MCOR Technologies Ltd, manufacturer of the only line of desktop paper-based 3D printers in the world, announced that they have received the Best of CES 2015 Award in the category of 3D Printers in Las Vegas by GeekBeat.TV. “We are honoured to receive this distinction,” said

Dr. Conor MacCormack, co-founder and CEO of Mcor Technologies. “This award further validates our SDL paper-based 3D printing technology as the most unique and best suited to providing wide access to low-cost, professional-quality 3D printing.”

Mcor 3D printers create complex, durable and

stable physical 3D models from standard sheets of copy paper. Mcor 3D printed models can be tapped, threaded, hinged, made water resistant and flexible. They can print hollows and moving parts and they can even be disposed of in the recycling bin for cradle-to-grave sustainability.

The only ones to include the global-standard ICC (International Colour Consortium) colour map, Mcor 3D printers produce the industry’s most accurate and photorealistic, true, full bitmap colour.

International CES is the world’s gathering place for people who thrive on consumer technologies. It has served as the proving ground for innovators and breakthrough technologies for more than 40 years.

The event showcases more than 3,500 exhibitors, and more than 150,000 attendees from more than 140 countries, attracting the world’s business leaders and pioneering thinkers to a forum where the industry’s most relevant issues are addressed.

Mcor beat nearly 60 3D printing exhibitors in the 3D Printing Tech Zone section of the show for the top prize.

Mcor’s vision is to make 3D printing more accessible to everyone. The company operates internationally from offices in Ireland, the UK and America www.mcortechnologies.com.

Your Print Specialists appointed learning partner YOUR Print Specialists (YPS) has been appointed as a learning partner at Studio West Newcastle after installing a laserengraver and wide-format inkjet printer into the ‘project-based learning’ school.

The brand new school, which had its first intake of students in September 2014, is recruiting a number of businesses to provide work placement opportunities and real life projects across a variety of market sectors, with YPS set to mentor and give the youngsters insight into the wide-format printing industry.

Based in Tyne-and-Wear, YPS has been delivering hardware, software, support and advice to screen printers, lithographers and digital print providers for many years and is renowned for its knowledge of the industry, as managing director, Garry Brown explains; “We’ve got a vast amount of knowledge within our team at YPS and we felt it would be worthwhile to work with a local educational institution and pass some of this on to young people to try to do our bit to preserve the future of print. We feel the pioneering curriculum at Studio West is a wonderful way to teach students practical skills as well as academic subjects and we’re really excited about having the opportunity to be involved.”

Brown explains how YPS came to be involved with the ground-breaking school; “We’ve just commissioned a Mimaki CJV30-130 digital inkjet

printer into Studio West for student use. In addition to providing a printing setup, we have also installed an Epilog Laser Helix 18” x 24” engraver, which facilitates engraving of wood, plastics, acrylics and stone as well as many other substrates. Kit like this will really give the students a hands-on opportunity and allow them to explore concepts from design through to manufacturing.”

Studio West is more akin to a workplace than a school and has been inspired by High Tech High in California, aiming to build confidence, teamworking and communication skills for the 13 to 19 year olds by combining subjects together into

project-based learning and implementing new teaching methods. Working closely with external businesses is crucial to the success of the projects, as principal designate, Val Wigham explains; “Having businesses partnering with Studio West ensures the students are working on relevant, real-life projects that will equip them with the skills and knowledge they need to move on to an apprenticeship, employment or university. By working with businesses from a wide selection of industries we can match students to the projects appropriate for their required learning experience and strengths.”

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Duplo to shine at Northern Lights Customers and partners have pledged huge support for Duplo’s ‘Northern Lights’, the print finishing pioneer’s new regional show on March 10-11 that will bring together a wide cross-section of industry experts demonstrating live applications.

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EGISTRATIONS HAVE NOW opened for the inaugural free-to-attend two-day showcase at The Lowry, part of a magnificent waterside location in the redeveloped Salford Quays, Manchester.

The Duplo event, Northern Lights, will start at 10am, but will remain open until 9pm on day one to provide customers with opportunities to continue discussions and to network in a relaxed environment, as well as get more hands-on with all products, with light refreshments also being served. An ‘operator focus’ will provide an additional attraction on the second day, with the event closing at 5pm.

Duplo product specialists and customer trainers will also be on hand, together with other experts, to discuss solutions directly in front of liverunning systems.

The headline partners working alongside Duplo will include Balreed, Infigo Software, Lumejet, Paperlinx, Renz and Vivid. A variety of applications will be shown with latest software, print and finishing systems demonstrating cross media marketing, web2print and on-demand personalisation solutions.

Developing new and existing revenue streams will be at the heart of ‘Northern Lights’ alongside creating added value and providing ideas for increasing workflow efficiencies and reducing bottlenecks within current processes.

Sarah Crumpler, Duplo UK Marketing Manager, said: “Our customers are delighted that we are

bringing a show northwards, which is another example of our innovative approach and customer care where we are increasing support through training, service and marketing initiatives.

“Our business is driven by the feedback that we receive from our customers and our events are no different. There is a lot of excitement around the inaugural ‘Northern Lights’.

DUPLO OWNERS’ CLUB LAUNCH

DUPLO will be using its inaugural ‘Northern Lights’ show as the official launch-pad for a new initiative, the Duplo Owners’ Club, to further improve customer communications.

Duplo’s first customer-only forum will be chaired

by Adrian Tolley, Operations Director at Prime Group, Nottingham. The first of many events that will be created to focus on booklet makers, service

and R&D. Directors of print companies who have Duplo multi-finishers are the target audience, but no employees from the print finishing pioneer will be present.

Both initiatives are designed to create a community and improve a two-way dialogue between Duplo and its customers.

Another attraction for ‘Northern Lights’ will be the ‘hands-on’ operator sessions. They involve hourly demonstrations on getting the best out of two of the most popular Duplo products in the region, the DC-645 multi-finisher and the System 500i booklet maker system. Expertise will be provided by Duplo product specialists, together with other experts including trainers, as well as commercial partners at the event.

Sarah Crumpler, told QPP: “The launch of the Duplo Owners’ Club and our first customer-only forum are all part of a fresh approach to the way we do customer communications, designed to improve the two-way flow of information. “’Northern Lights’ will bring together a wide cross-section of industry experts demonstrating live applications. All initiatives are designed to help customers develop new and existing revenue streams alongside creating added value and providing ideas for increasing workflow efficiencies and reducing bottlenecks within current processes.”

Registration is free for the event and promises to deliver a platform for networking in a relaxed environment, as well as providing time to get more hands-on with all products.

Register for your free place here: www.duplonorthernlights.com.

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Bigger and brighter than ever

Showcasing the latest innovative products, technologies and services from across the sign, display and print industry, Sign & Digital UK attracted more than 6,100 visitors in 2014. Join the QPP team and 180+ leading suppliers this month at the NEC, Birmingham, from 24 to 26 March 2015.

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HIS YEAR’S INSTALMENT, which is 20% bigger than in 2014, will focus on the new theme, Creating Business Connections which will be explored through live product demonstrations, exclusive show offers, practical workshops and much more.

Apart from the opportunity to meet with the industry’s top companies faceto-face and get expert help and advice, visitors will also be able to update their skills and learn from expert speakers in the Business Theatre, software workshops from Corel, Adobe and SignLab, plus join ‘how to’ sessions in the Signmakers’ Workshop.

Quick Print Pro are aware that knowing the right people is just as important as knowing the right things. There are many networking opportunities across the event to meet your peers and make new business contacts. Exhibitors have paid to meet you and value the opportunity, make it worth your while and theirs.

Special deals are on offer for those that ask.

To help you navigate the show and find the right products and seminars, there are three highlighted trails – the Textile Trail, the Retail Route and Materials World.

ROLAND DG PRINTER PRIZE DRAW

ROLAND DG, a key Sign & Digital UK exhibitor, will be giving away one Roland Texart RT-640 64” wide dye sublimation printer, installation of the machine and a set of Texart inks. Also included with the prize worth over £13,000, is a one-year RolandCare Silver warranty.

Visitors who pre-register at www.signanddigitaluk.com will automatically be entered into the prize draw, and must attend the show to be eligible to win. The winner will be selected and informed in the month following the show.

The Texart RT-640 has been developed specifically for dye sublimation printing and delivers high performance production, superb quality, and vivid colours.

This allows users to add real value to their businesses by offering an extensive range of profitable applications including apparel, signs, interior décor and original goods.

Gillian Montanaro, Head of Marketing and Market Development at Roland DG says: “Sign & Digital UK is a key milestone on our exhibition calendar each year, and for 2015 we are delighted to be offering one of our new Texart RT-640 dye sublimation printers as an exclusive visitor prize.”

Rudi Blackett, Sign & Digital UK Event Director added: “We are thrilled with this additional support from Roland DG, a company that has been a key exhibitor at Sign & Digital UK for many years. For visitors to be eligible to win this excellent prize, they must pre-register online and attend the show from 24 to 26 March.

With over 180 exhibitors already confirmed, this year’s exhibition is shaping up to be the best show yet.”

2015 will welcome a range of companies of various sizes, ranging from small boutique businesses, through to leading industry brands. Exhibitors booked so far include Signwaves, Applelec, Mida Sign Services, Biesse, Complete CNC Solutions, Nova Chrome, The Magic Touch, Canon UK, Colourgen/ Mutoh, Roland DG UK, Fujifilm, Hewlett-Packard, Hybrid Services/Mimaki, Amaya, YES Ltd, Resolute DTG, J&B Sewing, Russell & Chapple, Ultraflex Europe, Esko, Ultima Displays, William Smith, MTEX, Agfa Graphics, Paperlinx, Grafityp, Art Systems, Inktec/Jetrix, Atech, i-Sub, Perfect Colours, PrintMax, AG CAD, Antalis, and CMYUK Digital.

The full exhibitor list of over 180 suppliers can be found online at www. signanddigitaluk.com/exhibitors-list/.

VIVID RETURN TO SIGN & DIGITAL UK

Vivid Laminating Technologies will be returning to Sign & Digital UK to offer a full and complete service to their reseller network and of course to meet us quick print professional end-users.

Sales Director Richard Marlow explained more “When we noticed how many of our dealers would be at the show, we didn’t want to waste such a brilliant opportunity to meet with our distributors and demo our latest kit to them and their prospective new customers”.

Vivid will be exhibiting their EM-1600 SH and EM-S1400H Sign wide format laminating systems from their award-winning Easymount range. The Leicestershire-based firm will also be showing their British-assembled Matrix MX-530P Pneumatic System for SRA3 and B2 prints, a first at Sign & Digital UK for Europe’s No.1 system.

“The Matrix is aimed squarely at the digital and litho print market” continued Richard “Sign makers are now diversifying into other areas of print. With the costsaving benefits the Matrix brings, it gives businesses a new revenue stream as an add-on system to offer a tremendous ROI” “We will be running demos of our kit throughout the exhibition and visitors can gain real-time expert advice on laminating techniques. We will also be providing some exclusive show offers which visitors can take advantage of”.

Vivid will be on Stand No. F44. www.vivid-online.com

COLOURGEN PRESENT THE NEW MUTOH VALUEJET

COLOURGEN is showcasing the new Mutoh ValueJet 426UF desktop flatbed LED UV printer. The new A3+ printer allows direct printing on a wide variety of solid materials and objects up to a thickness of 7 cm.

Utilising Mutoh’s newly developed LED UV VOC-free inks (CMYK with optional white and varnish), the printer offers a print table area of 483 mm x 329 mm.

This new multi-purpose ValueJet model is specifically targeted at short run personalisation of gifts, packaging prototypes, awards, specialty industrial items,

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as well as labels, decals, signs and much more.

Melanie Enser, Product Marketing Manager for Colourgen, comments, “The VJ-426UK is an entirely new A3 plus desktop printer that pushes Mutoh into whole new market areas. It is very competitively priced compared to similar products from other manufacturers and of course, because it is a Mutoh, customers can be confident of the build quality and reliability.”

The Mutoh VJ-426UF will be making its first UK public appearance at Sign and Digital and Colourgen encourages visitors to see the printer first hand. “We will be running demos on the printer to show exactly what this great little machine is capable of. We really want visitors to see the potential revenue growth a printer like this could generate by allowing them to grow into whole new business areas.” The SRP for the ValueJet 426UF is £14,950.

For more information contact Colourgen on 01628 588700 or visit the web site at www.colourgen.com.

CWE SHOW SIGN WORKFLOW SOLUTIONS

CITY and West End Solutions (CWE) will highlight the need for optimal quality across an entire digital print and finishing workflow – from the machines and inks, to the software, the media and the finishing.

CWE Commercial Director Graham De Kock said: “To get the best output you need to invest in your entire workflow – but that doesn’t mean it has to cost you a fortune.

“We’ll be showcasing the HP Latex 360 and 310 printers, which we first introduced at Sign & Digital 2014. They’ve proved to be incredibly popular since then, and we’ve installed more than 80 units from the HP Latex 300 range.

“Feedback from our customers has been overwhelmingly positive, and visitors to the show will be able to see how the new technology could benefit their business too.

“While the HP Latex 300s are great for signage applications and volume printing, they’re also perfect for the more bespoke, high end applications such as wall coverings and lightboxes where you need guaranteed colour matching and top notch image definition and ink density.”

The inks - The water-based HP latex inks combine the best characteristics of solvent inks and water-based inks for applications with versatility and enhanced durability. They produce high quality, environmentally friendly and odourless prints which are completely cured inside the printer to form a durable image that’s immediately ready for finishing, shipment, or display.

The software - Put the HP Latex 300 range together with the HP WallArt application for customised wall decoration, and the AVA Rip software that’s optimised for the decorative printing industry, and you can produce stunning results.

“High end, high margin applications are becoming increasingly popular across the residential, retail and commercial markets, from wallcoverings to posters, lightboxes and canvas,” added Graham.

“We’ve also recently been appointed as the sole UK distributor for Barbieri Spectrophotometers, and we’re looking forward to showing visitors how this top of the range product complements our suite of wide format solutions, offering super-accurate colour matching.”

Barbieri Electronic is a colour measurement market leader for large format, flatbed and industrial printing. Its spectrophotometers utilise many points of reference during the measurement process to give an accurate description of the colour. They also offer the benefit of variable patch size readings, contactless and speed readings.

The media - CWE will be demonstrating the capabilities of the HP Latex printers using its Expanse range of media which is aimed squarely at wide format print providers and signmakers. Expanse media deliver optimum results and a reliable, consistent and trouble free performance. The range supplied by CWE includes poster papers; vinyls; poly laminates; billboard paper; textiles including knitted flag and lightbox satin; backlit gloss; and easy to use textile wallpaper.

The final product - CWE will be taking a Summa wide format cutter to Sign and Digital, demonstrating how to get the perfect cut finish, every time. www.cwesolutions.co.uk

PERFECT COLOURS SHOWS THE PERSONAL TOUCH

PERFECT Colours will be unmissable at Sign and Digital UK this year, bringing a full house of new and established products to its largest stand to date. But, as well as the first UK outing for one of its new flagship wide-format machines, the award-winning sign and graphics supplier will be making the statement that it is personality that makes the difference when choosing a vendor partner in this fast-paced market.

Debuting in the UK at the show is the five colour UV-curable InkTec Jetrix KX6. The 2.4 x 1.2m flat-bed – which the reseller supplies with two years’ free warranty – attains speeds of up to 55sq m/hour using dual CMYK plus four white channels, making it an attractive option for the Sign UK audience. Able to produce fine art quality at low running costs, the KX6 is a robust and costeffective option for those transitioning from analogue process or hoping to increase their throughput, being as it is the fastest true flat-bed in its size.

Precision-focused printers will be interested in the Durst Omega 2, the compact but powerful 1.6m hybrid which, despite its entry-level price point, can accommodate heat-sensitive media and produce high-quality prints at up to 1,728dpi. Perfect Colours will also present an array of machines from HP, such as the popular 1.62m (64”) Latex 360, which prints at a top speed of 91sq m/hour and integrates a media cutter for vinyl, paper and polyester film, and the small but mighty Latex 310.

The HP Designjet Z6800 and the Epson SureColor F6000 are likely to appeal to display professionals looking to diversify in 2015. The eightcolour 1.52m HP engine is a lightning-fast photographic production printer reaching an incredible 140sq m/hour and sporting an on-board X-Rite I1 Pro spectrophotometer for superb replication of skin tones and solid colours.

Meanwhile, the 1.1m Epson SC F6000 creates a viable entry point into lucrative dye-sublimation work. Supported by Perfect Colours’s education and customer led approach, these machines are strong contenders for print houses to expand without breaking the bank. A range of high-productivity cutters from Summa – renowned for their accuracy – will also be paraded.

Powering and complementing this formidable line-up will be software from Caldera. Perfect Colours will show how the suite – which received a major upgrade towards the end of 2014 – can streamline the entire production process for businesses large and small with modular options and varying degrees of workflow management. Finally, the reseller’s comprehensive range of media and ink options will also be on show.

“Perfect Colours is out in force at Sign and Digital UK this year to show how we always deliver for our customers on value, service and quality,” states Jon Telling, Perfect Colours’s sales director. “A business can have the best machine on the market but it has to be supported properly in the field to maximise its return on investment. We have the range, the expertise and the personal touch to ensure that success, and we invite visitors to come and see what we mean.” www.perfectcolours.com Sign & Digital UK is free to attend and registration is now open.

Please sign up at www.signanddigitaluk.com , or to enquire about exhibiting, please contact the show team on 01342 332000, or email signanddigitaluk@fav-house.com

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Get set for The Print Show

Organisers of The Print Show are bullishly confident over this year’s inaugural event after hitting their first target for stand sales two weeks ahead of schedule.

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UE TO TAKE place at Birmingham’s NEC from October 13th to 15th, 2015, The Print Show will be a cultural celebration of all things print. From the impact quality printed work can offer, through to the lasting legacy this type of media can leave, the event will welcome visitors and exhibitors from all corners of the industry.

Since being launched in November last year, The Print Show has generated a high level of interest in the industry, with a number of major companies, suppliers and organisations having already confirmed their backing for the event.

This success has been driven by a trend that is seeing suppliers and manufacturers send in their signed contracts much earlier than anticipated.

This will not only help them ensure a good stand position at the show, but also allows them to take advantage of special deals on offer to those that commit early.

The latest raft of exhibitors include key print mailing equipment and solutions provider AMS-GB, which recently confirmed its attendance at the show. Kevin McPheat, managing director, said the company has identified the event as one that will offer both the firm and visitors a number of new business opportunities.

“We’ve decided to exhibit as we believe the event will offer us access to new business opportunities as well as new customers,” McPheat said. “We’re also attending because, frankly, there are not many other events like this currently out there for UK printers. As there is a dearth of print shows lately, if the organiser gets the show right, and keeps the exhibitors and visitors happy, then they could steal the market in print shows as there is no real focal point for an annual event at present.”

Meanwhile, leading trade supplier and manufacturer of portable exhibition solutions, Ultima Displays, has also signed up to exhibit at the show. Speaking about the decision to attend, managing director Andrew Burdett said the show will attract a host of visitors from a range of areas and will allow the firm to interact with these attendees.

“This is a new show dedicated to the print industry, we offer a wide range of printing services to the trade and having exposure at shows like this opens access to strong lead potential,” Burdett said. He adds: “The Print Show features many different aspects of printing which will attract a lot of customers from areas that we don’t usually get to sell to, which means we can expand further and potentially into different market avenues.”

In addition to Ultima Displays and AMS-GB, The Print Show has announced that a number of other companies have also signed up to exhibit.

Management information system (MIS) supplier Clarity Software has confirmed that it will be in attendance, as has bespoke digital inkjet printing solutions provider Copytrax Technologies.

Bespoke software solutions provider Touch Systems has taken a stand at the NEC and will be joined by lamination and encapsulation technology specialist D&K Europe. Folder gluing and finishing expert B&R Moll, bindery technology specialist Perfect Bindery Solutions, and print equipment reseller Signmaster Systems will also be in attendance.

These companies will join the likes of Premier Paper Group, Learn2Print and Ashgate Automation, all of which have already confirmed that they will exhibit at the Print Show this October.

Speaking about the show’s expanding exhibitor list, event director Chris Davies believes the continuing uptake of stand space gives solid evidence that the UK market is clearly in need for a focused event like this, which will be benefit both exhibitors and visitors.

“I encourage all print companies to come along, check out this new gear, and take advantage of the knowledge of those industry experts that will be in attendance. I also encourage those interested in exhibiting to get in touch with our team to secure their desired stand as space is filling up fast!” www.theprintshow.co.uk

3D Printshow: London 21-23 May 3D Printshow returns to London for the 4th year, bringing this incredible tech to one of the world’s most exciting, vibrant and multicultural cities – the city where 3D Printshow began!

3D Printshow London will be an all-encompassing event, giving a true overview of the many facets of 3D printing/Additive Manufacturing in 2015. It will feature content that ranges from high-end industry, business and automotive manufacturing to medicine, fashion and art and design.

This year, 3D Printshow will be heading to one of London’s major landmark buildings, located in the City and on the river. Old Billingsgate is a stunning Grade II listed building, which is certain to provide an inspiring backdrop to the amazing content on offer over the three days.

For education and inspiration, the workshops and seminars rooms will be filled with some of the world’s top 3D printing speakers and the classroom will allow

younger visitors from schools and colleges to understand how this tech is transforming design and manufacturing.

The growing team behind the global 3D Printshow, which will be taking place in seven cities in 2015, has welcomed its newest member: Rachel Park.

“With her extensive experience and breadth of knowledge across the 3D printing industry, we are so excited to have Rachel join our dynamic team,” said Kerry Hogarth, founder and Managing Director of the 3D Printshow. She continued:“Rachel will be leading the new publishing division at the 3D Printshow, which will launch the sister publication

to the shows later this year. We are thrilled to also announce the title of the new magazine as Disruptive.”

Rachel will be taking up the position of Editor of Disruptive and will work with a dedicated team of contributors bringing together a diverse and respected community of voices from across the 3D printing ecosystem. As the 3D Printshow continues to evolve in 2015 in terms of offering real B2B opportunities while still demonstrating its innovative brand of creativity, Disruptive will complement this evolution by offering a new and original media platform for the 3D printing community. www.3dprintshow.com

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Thanks for the memory!

An ancient Persian King once asked his wise men to construct a phrase he could use that would always be true. After much deliberation, they come up with the adage ‘this too shall pass away’. Martin Christie looks at how recorded history could head into the ‘dark ages.’

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HE PHRASE IS possibly the world’s first recorded sound bite, this prediction has now been updated for the digital world by one the internet’s wise heads, Vint Cerf, currently a vice president at Google. He is worried that all the images and documents we have been saving on computers will eventually be lost as hardware and software becomes obsolete. Cerf fears that future generations will have little or no record of the 21st Century as we enter what he describes as a ‘digital Dark Age’.

Speaking at a large science conference in San Jose he said “Our life, our memories, our most cherished family photographs increasingly exist as bits of information — on our hard drives or on ‘the cloud’. But as technology moves on, they risk being lost in the wake of an accelerating digital revolution.

Old formats of documents that we’ve created or presentations may not be readable by the latest version of the software because backwards compatibility is not always guaranteed.

“And so what can happen over time is that even if we accumulate vast archives of digital content, we may not actually know what it is.”

This revelation may have shocked the cyber geeks who had no idea that their electronic world could crumble into dust as well as the temples of ancient civilisations. But it won’t surprise anyone who has worked in the print on demand industry during the last decades, nor regular readers of this column.

The days when hard copies of originals could be stacked in a drawer for future use are long gone. Backing up and storing all the vast amounts

of digital information in different file formats is enough of a challenge, but there is also the problem that you still have to sort through it all to find anything.

It’s surprising how quickly the general public has accepted digital information without question, and more worrying that it is assumed to be indestructible. The fact that they will commit valuable items, and even entire life history to small pieces of metal and plastic, reveals a faith in technology which is way beyond actual reliability.

Backing up files and photos on discs and hard drives is good practice, and seems a bit like an insurance policy, but you are still hedging your bets on the likelihood of anyone of them failing.

The continual deterioration of digital files through saving and transfer is a potential nightmare described as data rot. And as nobody has any form of digital format older than fifty years, no

one really knows if it will survive more than a generation.

It is sobering to remember that the space shuttle was retired, not because the mechanical aerodynamics were out of date, but because NASA could not service software that was more than several decades old.

Now that the technology is literally in the hands of the general public worldwide it is much more of an issue because there is, apart from the basic binary mathematics, no standard for language or coding to interpret the information contained.

In simple terms we have various formats for text, graphics, digital photographs and now movies and those formats need the correct software to render those objects. Sometimes the standards we use to produce those objects fade away and are replaced by other alternatives and then software that is supposed to render images can’t render older formats, so the images are no longer visible.

Cerf is calling for some form of standardisation to ensure the files and images are preserved — set in digital stone as it were. But with the pressure of competition driving ever more novel devices and solutions, this hardly seems likely. It’s a bit like the attempt at introducing Esperanto as a universal language. Nice idea if you could get everyone to agree to use it.

The long term concept is to have this universal decoder, or decoders, embedded into the very body of some gigantic cloud based server, far bigger than anything currently available, to which everything could be uploaded and therefore preserved for the conceivable future.

Of course out of all of the millions of images uploaded daily on social networking sites, if the vast majority of cute kittens and culinary masterpieces were lost to future generations, it would not be such a great tragedy for human history.

But on a personal note there are things that are worth preserving, and records that need to be passed on to generations to come. And for that Cerf has a simple short term solution — print it out. Good idea. Do you think it will catch on?

In the light of this I am designing a storage device that will be able to contain these priceless prints. It will be simple, affordable, and made from recyclable material. It will be easily accessed and quickly searchable. I am going to call it a shoe box.

I think I am on a winner here. Just have to work out what to do with all the shoes!

By coincidence a digital milestone was passed in February. Back in 1987, Thomas Knoll developed a pixel imaging programme called Display. It was a simple programme to showcase grayscale images

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on a black-and-white monitor. However, after collaborating with his brother, John Knoll, the two began adding features that made it possible to process digital image files from newly developed cameras. The programme eventually caught the attention of the industry, and in 1989, some far sighted wizard in Adobe made the decision to license the software, naming it Photoshop, and introducing the first version in 1990. Hence 2015 marks the 25th birthday of the ubiquitous photo editing service, and as a little reminder I’m reproducing some images that may or may not be familiar to QPP readers.

If you have been here a while they may remind you of just how basic things were twenty years ago, and how far we have come in the manipulation of digital image and information.

Adobe thought they would sell about 500 copies a month, but it would be fair to say they have exceeded expectations as the programme has expanded over the years, including the development of the Creative Suite in the last decade. From basic images it has gone to 3D and special effects for movies such as Avatar and Shrek.

Adobe’s success has been the result of developing complimentary software for illustration and design, both for print and web, so that files can be moved seamlessly from one platform to another. That’s why, although other products are available, there is no complete alternative for the professional user and a competent knowledge of Photoshop and its associated software is as near to a universal knowledge of imaging as you can get.

They were also smart enough to get in on the mobile phone and table market before others overtook them, thus ensuring their market leading position. As a result Photoshop has become not only a name, a noun and an action, much like to Hoover once meant using a vacuum cleaner.

I’m sure the boffins at Adobe are busy plotting developments in the next decade, but those are not likely to be exhibited too soon.

THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

What is coming in the near term is likely to be seen at The Photography Show, at the NEC, Birmingham, between Saturday 21st March and Tuesday 24th. Adobe will be there with their popular workshops on current Photoshop and Lightroom.

This is the second year of the relaunched Photography Exhibition. The previous long running camera show was launched when digital was still but a blink in a lens. These days you will be pushed to find a roll of film in the place, though the purists will still swear by it.

What you will find is everything from the basic to the most sophisticated camera gear, as well as the

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means of editing and printing the pictures.

That’s why it should be of interest to anyone involved in the current print on demand industry.

Not only will you see many familiar trade faces exhibiting, but you may find other products and services of interest you may not see at the normal print trade shows. And most importantly most of the visitors are your potential next customers.

The show draws about thirty thousand people over the four days, combining as it does both trade and retail. That’s why it’s a good barometer of the current and future market place.

Obviously much of the kit on display and for sale will be aimed at the professional and the serious amateur. But there will be a lot of simple over the counter product like photobooks, and frames that have a definite place in the high street shop.

The digital evolution has dramatically changed the face of photography as we all are well aware.

No one is safe from a captured snap, and it has made the collection of images an almost compulsive behavioral state. Perhaps fortunately, few of these glimpses of time will be preserved for the future, but as mentioned earlier in this piece, there are those that deserve more permanent attention.

That’s why printing will always be a central part of the visual experience, and ironic that it is heralded as such by one of the top developers

of the internet. In the early days of cyber space it was widely predicted that printed paper as such would become redundant! Perhaps even more in an instant world, the permanent record is seen to be more valuable. It is also quite priceless as a gift in the way that sending someone a smiley face on a phone will never be.

There are over 200 exhibitors in Hall 5 at the NEC next month including Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, Olympus, Fujifilm and Leica. But apart from the leading manufacturers there are many small specialists of services like mounting and framing.

I’ve always been a fan of this and similar exhibitions where potential customers can talk and take advice from experts, as well as get their hands on exactly the product they want. This is the relationship you can’t get easily over an internet connection, and it works both ways as the retailer gets to know what the customer actually wants.

This is of course the same as meeting over the high street counter, just with a much bigger shop, and a wider selection of goodies. So perhaps it is worth a second thought in promoting in the light of concerns of long term digital fragility. You don’t need to be a scaremonger to point out, like the wise Persians, that nothing lasts forever, but that a print may just last a bit longer than a JPEG. So if you want confirmation that a lot of people still want to see and touch things in the real world, I can recommend a visit to The Photography Show.

You are bound to find something of interest, and maybe something that will literally be of profit to you. If you don’t maybe somebody else will. www.thephotographyshow.com

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More than 3,000 trees were planted at a site which is set to become the UK’s biggest continuous new native woodland.

Its director Christine Herbert joined over 150 other ethically minded businesses at Heartwood Forest, which is a ‘Woodland Carbon Site’ in St. Albans, where they were greeted with hot drinks and breakfast to set them up for a hard days planting trees including Oak, Alder, Willow, Wild Cherry, Rowan, Holly, Beech and Hazel.

Said Christine: “Many believe that paper products are not environmentally friendly because the manufacturing process involves cutting down trees. In fact, our industry has always been one of the most active when it comes to green issues.

“By sourcing trees from properly managed forests and then balancing the carbon emissions created during the paper making process through helping to create new native woodlands, significant amounts of carbon will be removed from the atmosphere and stored.

CO2 levels in the atmosphere have increased by more than a third since the industrial revolution. The UK government has a target of reducing carbon emissions to 50% of the levels they were at in 1990 by 2025. Scientists are currently looking at ways the CO2 produced by making energy through burning fossil fuels can be captured before it enters the atmosphere and then stored safely underground for thousands of years.

But trees capture and store CO2 as part of their natural growing process. CO2 emissions from the paper purchased and used by Kall Kwik is compensated for by planting and conserving native woodland in the UK. It is calculated that 25m² of native UK woodland will capture and store one tonne of CO2 and creating large areas of new native woodland, will, over time, remove hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The scheme operates under the Woodland Trust’s Woodland Carbon scheme and the Government’s Woodland Carbon Code, a voluntary standard for woodland creation projects in the UK. www.kallkwik.co.uk/oxford

Antalis win sustainability business award ANTALIS UK has won the Sustainable Business of the Year award within the Suppliers category at the Sustainability Awards hosted by the Professional Publishers Association (PPA).

The ceremony held at British Medical Association House, London, marked the end of the PPA’s 6th annual Sustainability Summit.

The Summit was an event dedicated to those looking to raise environmental standards, and

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Tullis Russell win Green Energy Award EMPLOYEE-OWNED premium paper and board producer Tullis Russell won the Renewing Scotland category at the Scottish Green Energy Awards in Edinburgh. The prestigious environmental awards, now in their 13th year, recognise the best in renewable energy talent, projects and innovation across Scotland. The company received the award for its part in a multi-million pound project with RWE Innogy UK to replace the coal and gas-fired power station at its Markinch base with a new-state-of-the-art Biomass CHP facility.

The new Biomass CHP at Tullis Russell has been built, and will be owned and operated by RWE Innogy UK. It is providing all of Tullis Russell’s electricity and steam requirements and is also feeding power into the local grid, making a major contribution to Scotland’s renewable energy targets. The largest of its type in the UK, the new plant uses a combination of end of life recovered wood as its main fuel source topped up with virgin wood and provides the Fife-based business with an environmentally friendly source of renewable energy. The CHP technology used in the plant will result in a reduction in fossilfuel carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 250,000 tonnes per annum, reducing the company’s carbon emissions by more than 70%.

Tullis Russell were one of three Fife businesses to win awards at the ceremony with ScotAsh and Mines Rescue Service also picking up awards, all demonstrating Fife’s commitment to sustainability, green technology and innovation.

Niall MacDonald Managing Director at Tullis Russell’s Markinch mill commenting on the award said: “Sustainability sits at the heart of our business.

We are employee-owned and have been an important part of the community for over 205 years. The CHP plant offers the ideal platform to take the business forward by providing us with a secure and sustainable energy source, and it’s fitting that the plant will deliver strong environmental benefits to Fife and Scotland as a whole in the years to come.”

Ian Calvert, Head of Biomass at RWE Innogy UK said: “RWE Innogy UK has invested over £200 million in the construction of the Markinch Biomass CHP plant. More than 600 temporary jobs were created during the construction phase of the project. Thirty seven permanent jobs have been established to maintain the running of the plant and the offsite fuel processing facility in Cardenden. By generating efficient, sustainable steam and power for Tullis Russell, the biomass CHP plant is helping to secure the 500 jobs at the Glenrothes operation. The plant has and will continue to deliver on many levels in the years to come.”

Councillor John Wincott, Fife Council’s Sustainability Champion said “This is fantastic news for Fife and I’d like to congratulate Tullis Russell on their awards success. This is another example of Fife leading the way in sustainable economic development and renewable energy generation and strengthens our reputation as a centre for excellence for renewable energy.” www.tullisrussell.com @tullis_russell

help delegates understand the issues and actions that need to be taken to improve the sustainability of their supply chain.

Accepting the award on behalf of Antalis, Matthew Botfield, Environmental Manager at Antalis, comments, “Winning this award drives the message that Antalis is committed to raising environmental issues and tackling the requirements of our customers by improving their own green credentials.

Our wealth of knowledge allows customers to make the right choice in terms of quality, environmental impact and of sustainability. We are also committed to ensuring responsible sourcing of the products we sell, from FSC to PEFC and European Ecolabel certification, all as part of the Antalis Green Connection.”

For more information on Antalis’ green credentials and environmental tools available, visit www.antalis.co.uk

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New online print platform launches essentials range EXAPRINT, the online print platform for graphic designers and print professionals has launched a new lost-cost “Essentials” range as it looks to offer low added value products at ultra low costs to resellers.

The firm, which delivers white-labelled print solutions exclusively for resellers, is introducing the range so as to offer very low prices for standard commodity products, whilst also providing a huge range of added value higher end products. The move comes as it aims to improve its customer’s margins in line with the company mission, that of helping its customers to grow their own business.

Simon Cooper, Managing Director of Exaprint, said, “Print resellers require a diverse range of added value products that they can offer to their customers, as well as tools to help them stimulate demand for those higher value items. Traditionally Exaprint has been very good at supporting those needs, however with Essentials we have recognised that on high frequency commodity

products, low price is what’s most desirable and that’s exactly what this range of products delivers.”

The “Essentials” range covers the most popular and frequently used products, such as business cards, leaflets, flyers and letterheads. The range will initially consist of ten products, specifically broken down into four different business card offerings, two types of flyers, two versions of letterheads, a leaflet and a roll up banner. Exaprint operates exclusively on a white-labelled basis, allowing resellers to have all products delivered directly to the end user without reference to Exaprint.

Real Bottle

AT this year’s Trophex exhibition held at the NEC in Birmingham TheMagicTouch were awarded the prestigious “Best Innovation” accolade for the second successive year.

This year’s successful entry introduced the unique full colour direct image transfer process for the decoration of glass bottles and jars offering a premium “no label” look and feel.

Using the unique Oki 711 “White Toner” LED digital printer and TheMagicTouch CPM transfer paper the company has developed a quick and simple method to produce full colour images onto various shaped bottles or jars regardless of glass colour.

Having witnessed in 2014 the success of personalised labels on selected drinks brands including Famous Grouse and several Champagne brands, together with the global success of the personalised Coca-Cola bottles, there is now the opportunity to print and personalise “directly to the surface” a vast range of glass products.

Potential applications include limited edition bottles, personalised gifts, promotional and recognition products, together with the obvious wine, beer, cider and spirits markets.

The CPM toner-based transfers are applied using a traditional mug press in less than two minutes, costing as little as 15p per full colour transfer.

Jim Nicol, Managing Director, commented “We introduced the white

Business cards are available from as little as £11.08 for 250, with A5 flyers priced at £25.31 for 1000. A4 letterheads will cost £21.38 for 250, whilst roll up banners in the range are priced at £25.60 for 1.

Simon Cooper elaborated, “We’re the only UK online printing business that works exclusively with resellers, which gives us a unique understanding of their needs. By introducing the “Essentials” range we’re recognising that there is a time and a place for value added products, but at other times it’s price that matters most. We believe the prices we have set are the lowest in the market, but should someone find lower elsewhere, all of these items are covered by our price match guarantee as well. We want resellers to be able to use us for all of their day-to-day requirements as well as using us for the less frequent added value products on offer.”

Simon concluded, “We firmly believe in the value of not only providing an innovative product range but also in developing tools to help our clients to grow the demand for those products. Whilst we don’t think that price should be the main differentiator, we recognise that from time to time, particularly with commoditised products, we can be most helpful by simply offering our customers the lowest prices on the market.”

The Exaprint Essentials Range is accessible via www.exaprint.co.uk or by calling 0203 475 7475.

WIP: Work in Progress

toner technology over a year ago and continue to find new and innovative applications using the same technology and heat press equipment.

The ability to print to the quality we are achieving on the bottles is truly astounding and is great to be recognised by the visitors to the show and their online voting audience”.

The process involves glass products with no special coating enabling the user to source empty bottles or jars from a multiple of options including online wholesalers and even retailers such as Wilkinson, Aldi and even Ikea!

For further information contact TheMagicTouch directly on 01582 671444 or sales@themagictouch. co.uk, www.themagictouch.co.uk

THE Brighton beta test centre is busy researching new profit in print opportunities to share with our QPP print club members.

We are prototyping 3D printing from various angles and would like to hear from likeminded pioneers. Mastering miniatures can be printspiration itself, new lingo to be learnt obviously, watch this space…

Following on from a couple of issues recently reported, print on windows and print on cushions; we are pleased to have been approached by Eleanor Spensley to share some marketing ideas from the Printed Cup Company.

Branding that your customers can show off and get to grips with will be spilt next month.

A new series of big brother is being created between the sheets. As this March issue goes to bed we will be uncovering how to print on tape and ribbons with the new Brother Tape Creator, get ready for the latest news on tape in the April QPP NPC New Profit Centre feature.

Please do join in the research on these pages and share what you print on or in and what else you want to try?

The contribution from David Chill last month showcased the versatility in print with the facts and myths of gold foiling. Next month David will be sharing his experience and getting those wedding bells ringing in some new £rofit in print, surely a marriage made in heaven.

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A Surefire Way to Success I

T’S NOT OFTEN that something as straightforward as a printer changes the course of a business. But an OKI device has certainly opened up new horizons for Surrey-based Surefire Print and Design. Although the company remains a popular one-stop shop for local businesses needing anything from business cards to banners, thanks to the OKI C711WT, it now also lists film crews, fashion models and motorracing companies among its clientele.

There are many reasons for this new direction — the skills and experience of the team for one. But on the technical side, it is all down to one main factor — the ability of the device to print with white toner.

Surefire’s founder and managing director Simon Garrett is certain of the impact of this advance. “We have made the decision to stay small, but for any company aiming to expand, I think this printer could help increase turnover by at least 20%,” he says.

Started with a mug - Simon founded Surefire in 2008. He had just sold a large, high turnover print shop as the recession began to bite. Reluctant to waste his many years of print experience, he set up the new venture with the idea of keeping it small. Instead of focusing on growth they would concentrate on the quality of their work and on providing the best possible customer service.

The business began by focusing on large format printing — posters, banners and the like. Then, a few years ago, one of Surefire’s customers asked if they could produce printed mugs and iPhone cases. “We went down the dye sublimation route originally — and we still do a lot of this,” explains Garrett.

“However, we then began to consider mugs with a matt finish.”

He saw an advertisement in a printing magazine for OKI specialist partner, TheMagicTouch, experts in image transfer paper and applications. The team there suggested the OKI C711WT — an innovative LED printer that, for the first time, includes white toner in the CMY colour process. This enables the

decoration of dark coloured substrates such as mugs and other products including diaries and phone covers.

MORE IDEAS However, the C711WT was about to do far more than just print mugs. “In fact we don’t do them at all now,” says Simon. “Somehow it sparked off far more ideas and we realised we could print and bond onto almost anything using the transfer paper supplied by TheMagicTouch and the OKI printer.

“Everybody does T-shirts,” he says.

“But we’ve been more ambitious.

We’ve particularly worked hard on perfecting our work on leather. We’ve found a way to get the print to sink into the leather and this has meant printing, not just on iPhone and iPad cases and bags, but also on leather jackets.”

In fact, Surefire’s customised leather jackets have become legendary. Customers approach them to print one-off jackets to see what the design looks like, before they go into mass production, using silkscreen printing. Or sometimes it’s a single jacket for a TV programme or fashion shoot.

“Most people assume that you can only print on flat items,” he continues. “But if you know what you are doing, you can print on virtually anything.

In my opinion, the OKI printer gives you that freedom — and it’s enabling us to differentiate

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ourselves as a business. I’ve been in the industry for 30 years and in my opinion there isn’t another machine on the market that would do what we wanted it to in this way.”

He stresses that the printed jackets are not a huge part of Surefire’s overall business as they are usually single orders.

“But they get our name out there and enable us to offer other things that traditional printers would never consider,” he says.

He believes very strongly that these days, printers need to diversify in this way to compensate for changes in the industry due to the increasing use of electronic marketing materials and communications. “Printers such as the C711WT offer a tremendous opportunity. At the moment, there are no plans to expand Surefire, but if we did need to do so, this would be the way forward,” he says.

He adds that, in his view, printing companies that wish to achieve similar success need to do two things. The first is to put the work in upfront to get new methods right.

“You might need to waste product at first, but if you are breaking new ground this is inevitable. Once you have cracked it, every job should come out right first time. But you have to be prepared to take a risk.”

The second is to have their own ideas. Of course, Simon is not going to give away how Surefire achieves what it does, but he believes that with the OKI printer and the help of TheMagicTouch they have the potential to innovate in a parallel way themselves.

“It’s a case of using your imagination - and then you can do almost anything,” he concludes. www.themagictouch.co.uk

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SALESMAN APPRAISAL A guy walked into a bar and said ‘All salesmen are idiots!’

Then he went to the barman and got a beer.

A customer walked up to him and said, ‘I am sorry but that offended me.’

‘Oh, I’m sorry, are you a salesman?’

‘No, I’m an idiot.’

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- Why don’t you ever see the headline “Psychic Wins Lottery”?

- Why is “abbreviated” such a long word?

- Why is it that doctors call what they do “practice”?

- Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavour, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

- Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

- Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

- Why isn’t there mouse-flavoured cat food?

- When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?

- Why do they sterilise the needle for lethal injections?

- Why don’t sheep shrink when it rains?

- Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

- If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

BOOZE BANTER A teacher wanted to demonstrate the evils of alcohol to his grade 5-class, so he conducted an experiment with a glass of water, a glass of whiskey, and two worms.

The professor put the first worm in the glass of water. The worm wiggled about, happy as can be.

Then he put the second worm in the whiskey. It writhed painfully, sank to the bottom, and died.

‘Now, what lesson can we learn from this experiment?’ he asked the class.

One bright student responded, ‘Drink whiskey and you won’t get worms.’

DON’T YOU JUST LOVE ARTISTS? A woman visited a modern-art gallery. One painting was bright blue with vivid orange swirls and the one hanging next to it was black with lime-green splotches.

The artist stood nearby, so as politely as she could, the woman said to him, “I’m sorry, but I just don’t

understand your paintings.”

“I paint what I feel inside me,” the artist replied.

“I see,” the woman replied innocently. “Have you tried AlkaSeltzer?”

THE OLD ONES ARE THE BEST God bless you Tommy…

I bought some HP sauce the other day. It’s costing me 6p a month for the next two years ‘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’s brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.

So I went to the dentist. He said ‘Say Aaah.’ I said ‘Why?’ He said ‘My dog’s died.’

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

‘So I rang up 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.’

Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And 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 in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang up, and he said ‘You’ve been promoted.’

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

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

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.’

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

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

‘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.’

A man walked into the doctor’s.

The doctor said ‘ I haven’t seen you in a long time.’ The man replied ‘I know I’ve been ill’ A man walked into the doctor’s, he said ‘I’ve hurt my arm in several places’ The doctor said ‘well don’t go there any more’ I had a ploughman’s lunch the other day. He wasn’t very happy.

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

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

I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any.

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

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.’

‘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.’

A guy walks into the psychiatrist wearing only clingfilm for shorts. The shrink says, ‘Well, I can clearly see you’re nuts.’

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 cross-eyed? ‘ ‘No, because he’s really heavy’

POLITICS FROM ACROSS THE POND At a construction site on the 80th floor of a high rise building, the lone conservative on the crew was having a heated political discussion with the liberals on the project. Deciding to take a break, he called everyone over to the edge of the roof. “Did you know,” he began, “that there are extremely violent invisible updrafts that are able to keep a body floating in mid-air? They only occur at certain times during the day between buildings. Here, I’ll show you!” He then leaped off the side of the building, and with arms spread-eagle, floated effortlessly on an unseen cushion of air, and then gradually

steered himself back to the safety of the roof. “That’s awesome,” one of the left-wingers shouted. “I want to try it.” “Me too,” another cried, and then another, and as they leaped over the side of the roof, one after the other, they fell 80 floors straight down to the ground, SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT! A crowd rushed over to witness the carnage, and while doing so, one of the spectators looked up and remarked, “Boy, Clark Kent sure hates liberals!”

WELL ‘ARD GEEZER A piece of road walks into a bar and declares to all the occupants, ‘I’m the hardest bit of bitumen in the whole of this town!’ The piano player stops and the bar goes deadly silent. After a brief, pregnant pause, all eyes drop, the piano starts up again and the piece of road pulls up a bar stool and settles down to a pint.

Five minutes later a piece of dual carriageway throws open the bar door. Once again the bar goes silent, but for the creaking of the slow overhead fans. The dual-carriageway declares, ‘I’m the toughest piece of bitumen you’ll ever see this side of the border and I don’t take crap from anyone!’

The piece of road slowly turns and locks eyes with the piece of dual carriageway. The tension mounts, other drinkers scatter and take cover. At that precise moment, in walks a piece of motorway and says, ‘I’m the hardest bit of bitumen in the whole damn country and I’ll take you both on.’

And there they stood, in a threeway Mexican standoff, for what seemed like an eternity. Once again the door opens and into the middle of the standoff walks a piece of coloured bitumen.

The other three turn their backs to the door, sit down at the bar and stare sheepishly into their drinks.

The bartender asks the three pieces of bitumen what the problem is, and they reply, ‘Shhhh. Watch what you say, that guy’s a real cycle path’.

LET THE TRAIN TAKE THE STRAIN In a train carriage there was a printer, a salesman, a spectacular looking blonde girl and a scruffy large lady.

After several minutes of the trip the train happens to pass through a dark tunnel, and the unmistakable sound of a slap is heard. When they leave the tunnel, the salesman had a big red slap mark on his cheek.

(1) The blonde thought - ‘That salesman son of a bitch wanted to touch me and by mistake, he must have put his hand on the large lady, who in turn must have slapped his face’

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(2) The large lady thought - ‘This dirty old salesman laid his hands on the blonde and she smacked him’.

(3) The salesman thought - ‘That printer put his hand on that blonde and by mistake she slapped me’.

(4) The printer thought - ‘I hope there’s another tunnel soon so I can smack that salesman again’.

REVENGE IS DARK Well, it has finally happened. The blondes of the print world have got together and decided to take revenge on the brunettes: WHAT’S BLACK AND BLUE AND BROWN AND LAYING IN A DITCH? A brunette who’s told too many blonde jokes.

WHAT’S THE REAL REASON A BRUNETTE KEEPS HER FIGURE? No one else wants it.

WHY ARE SO MANY BLONDE JOKES ONE-LINERS? So brunettes can remember them.

WHAT DO YOU CALL A BRUNETTE IN A ROOM FULL OF BLONDES? Invisible.

WHAT’S A BRUNETTE’S MATING CALL? ‘Has the blonde left yet? ‘ WHY DIDN’T INDIANS SCALP BRUNETTES? The hair from a buffalo’s butt was more manageable.

WHY IS THE BRUNETTE CONSIDERED AN EVIL COLOUR? When was the last time you saw a blonde witch?

WHAT DO BRUNETTES MISS MOST ABOUT A GREAT PARTY? The invitation WHAT DO YOU CALL A GOOD LOOKING MAN WITH A BRUNETTE? A hostage WHO MAKES BRAS FOR BRUNETTES? Fisher-Price

A dog walks into the doctor’s.

KNITTING IN THE USA A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing at the car, he was astounded to see that the blonde behind the wheel was knitting!

Realising that she was oblivious to his flashing lights and siren, the trooper cranked down his window, turned on his bullhorn and yelled, ‘PULLOVER! ‘NO,’ the blonde yelled back, ‘IT’S A SCARF!’

SALES SPIEL Two salesmen were driving through Wales. As they were approaching fairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch they started arguing about the pronunciation of the town’s name.

They argued back and forth until they stopped for lunch.

As they stood at the counter one salesman asked the blonde employee, ‘before we order, could you please settle an argument for us?

Would you please pronounce where we are ... very slowly?’

The girl leaned over the counter and said, ‘Burrrrrrr, gerrrrrrr, Kiiiiiiiing

I’M GOING TO THE ZOO, ZOO, ZOO This guy needs a job and decides to apply at the zoo. As it happened, their star attraction, a gorilla, had passed away the night before and they had carefully preserved his hide.

They tell this guy that they’ll pay him well if he would dress up in the gorilla’s skin and pretend to be the gorilla so people will keep coming to the zoo. Well, the guy has his doubts, but Hey! He needs the money, so he puts on the skin and goes out into the cage. The people all cheer to see him. He plays up to the audience and they just eat it up. This isn’t so bad, he thinks, and he starts really putting on a show, jumping around, beating his chest and roaring, swinging around. During one acrobatic attempt, though, he loses his balance and crashes through some safety netting, landing square

‘Doctor, I’ve got a cricket ball stuck up my backside.’

in the middle of the lion cage! As he lies there stunned, the lion roars. He’s terrified and starts screaming, “Help, Help, Help!” The lion races over to him, places his paws on his chest and hisses, “Shut up or we’ll BOTH lose our jobs!”

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT 1. Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.

2. Birthdays are good for you; the more you have, the longer you live.

3. How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you’re on.

4. Ever notice that the people who are late are often much jollier than the people who have to wait for them?

5. If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?

6. Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside us.

7. If Lidl is lowering prices every day, how come nothing is free yet?

8. You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

9. Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

10. Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.

11. We can learn a lot from crayons: Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colours... but they all live in the same box.

12. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

13. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

14. Happiness comes through doors you didn’t even know you left open.

STREET CANVASSING After walking for a few minutes, Paul the copier sales trainee turns to Mike his sales manager with a look of amazement on his face and says ‘Mike, will you have a look at that shop over there, I thought that London was supposed to be expensive but that shop is as cheap

‘How’s that?’

as chips.

Mike says, ‘Paul you’re right, Suits £10.00, Shirts £4.00, Trousers £5.00, I think that we should buy a job lot and take them back to the office. We would make a tidy profit selling them to the whole sales team.

Paul says in agreement, ‘Mike that is as good an idea as you’ll ever have, but I’m pretty sure that you have to pay taxes on the sales profit. The shopkeeper will never let us have more than one each if he thinks that we’re going to make profit from them and make our fortune in fashion.

Mike thinks and says, ‘Paul, I’ve got an idea! You can do the best business accent out of the pair of us. You go in there and do the talking and I’ll just stand behind you and say nothing.

He’ll never guess we’re salesmen.’

‘OK Mike’, agrees Paul, ‘I’ll do the talking, you just stand there and look business like.’ So the two salesmen go into the shop, where the owner greets Paul politely.

Paul then proceeds to do his best normal likeable person impression.

‘I need to re-stock my own wardrobe can I have 20 suits, 20 pairs of trousers and 20 shirts please?’

Upon hearing this request from Paul, the owner smiles, takes a look at Mike as well then asks Paul ‘You’re salesmen aren’t you?’

Quite bemused, Paul replies, how did you know that we were salesmen?

The Owner replies; ‘This is a Dry Cleaners mate!!’

BANGED TO RIGHTS A man was stopped by the police around 2 a.m. The officer asked him where he was going at that time of night.

The man replied, “I’m on my way to a lecture about alcohol abuse and the effects it has on the human body, as well as smoking and staying out late.”

The officer then asked, “Really?

Who’s giving that lecture at this time of night?”

The man replied, “That would be my wife.”

‘Don’t you start’

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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.

ALMABYTE

Contact: John Clark, tel: 020 7924 1087 1A Mallinson Road, Battersea, London. SW11 1BW

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.

CALF HEY DESIGN

Tel: 01484 542 795 Fax: 01484 421 435 www.calf-hey.com 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 fullcolour, 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.

COPYMATTERS

Contact: Dan Tester Tel: 07957 291718 Fax: 01273 609135 www.copymatters.co.uk

Copywriting, proofreading, design, print and web services.

CUSTOM PRINTED

Tel: 01970 808808 Mob: 0777 333 0203 Email: sales@customprinted.co.uk Web: www.customprinted.co.uk Glanyrafon Enterprise Park, Aberystwyth SY23 3JQ

Manufacturer and distributor of business promotional items printed with your Company name, business logo and contact details. We have one of the largest ranges of promotional and packaging solutions including printed carrier bags, pens, mugs, coasters, key rings, trolley key rings, badges, wrist bands, fridge magnets and boxes customized to your requirements. We offer a top quality service, competitive prices and fast turnaround.

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.

HARRIER LLC

Tel: 01626 322680 Brunel Road, Newton Abbot, Devon. TQ12 4UH Email: sales@harrierllc.co.uk www.harrierllc.co.uk The UK’s leading HP Indigo digital printer and finisher offering unbeatable TRADE ONLY prices, litho qualty and customer service.

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: 01268 534444 Email: info@konicaminolta.co.uk www.konicaminolta.co.uk Miles Gray Road, Basildon, Essex. SS14 3AR

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.

LUCAS FETTES

Tel. 020 7392 2800 Email: andrew.thompson@lucasfettes.co.uk www.lucasfettes.co.uk 1st Floor, 13-15 Folgate Street, London. E1 6BX Insurance – CSMA premier business policy.

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.

METRO UK

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

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

MORGANA SYSTEMS LTD

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

NCR PADS

Tel: 0845 8388 358 Email: damon.t@ncrpads.co.uk www.ncrpads.co.uk NCR Pads Ltd, 6 Waterside Gardens, Shrewsbury, SY3 9AG Bespoke printing​in the UK for trade NCR pads, sets, books and continuous forms.

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NELSON PRESS

Tel: 01794 340100 Fax: 01794 340696 Email: sales@nelsonpress.co.uk www.nelsonpress.co.uk Unit 5, Home Farm Industries, Romsey, Hampshire. SO51 0JT 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 PRINTING SOLUTIONS

550 Dundee Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 4LE, UK Tel: +44 (0)1753 819819 Fax: +44 (0)1753 819899 Email: ukenquiries@okieurope.co.uk www.oki.co.uk

PEN WAREHOUSE

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

PERFECT COLOURS

Tel: 0845 680 9000 Fax: 0845 680 9014 Web: www.perfectcolours.com Email: info@perfectcolours.com Unit 2 Glengall Business Centre, 43-47 Glengall Road, London, SE15 6NF HP Preferred Partner specialising in large and grand format printing and finishing solutions, supplying Durst, Jetix, HP, Canon and Epson LF printers. For more information or to book a free printer demonstration call or email us.

PDC PRESENTATION SOLUTIONS

Tel: 020 8810 5770 Fax: 020 8810 9190 Email: sales@pdcuk.com www.pdcuk.com

PDC are the UK’s Coil/Spiral experts, we manufacture 45 coil colours in any length up to one metre, in diameters from 6mm up to 50mm and in a range of 45 colours. Call or email for free samples and pricing.

PRINT ON

www.printonbeermats.co.uk www.printoncoasters.co.uk Email: info@printonbeermats.co.uk New, easy entry, full colour printing system.

Advertising in print has become more refined. It’s cooler, more refreshing and its smooth message lasts to the bottom of the glass.

RAFFLE TICKETS DIRECT

Tel. 01933 411332 Fax 01933 411514 Email sales@raffleticketsdirect.co.uk Web: www.raffleticketsdirect.co.uk Lower Farm, High Street, Irchester, Northants. NN29 7AB One colour to full colour raffle tickets. Fast free express delivery. Cheapest prices in the UK at the best print quality. All tickets are glued within the stub (no metal staples used to fix books).

RENZ UK

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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SHARP ELECTRONICS (UK)

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

SMETHWICK ADVOCATE PUBLISHING

1 Lowry Close, Church Hill Street, Smethwick West Midlands. B67 7QT Tel. 07760 197974 email info@sapublishing.co.uk web sapublishing.co.uk

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.

SUPREME LABELLING

Tel: 01924 402111 Fax: 01924 412993 www.supremelabelling.co.uk Unit 6, Valley Road Business Park, W. Yorkshire WF15 6JY Label Suppliers, Roll Labels, Laser Labels, Warning Labels, most formats available.

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.

UMG UK

Tel: 0800 915 4263 www.uchida.uk.com Jasmine House, High Street, Henfield, West Sussex, BN5 9HN

VIVID LAMINATING TECHNOLOGIES

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

XEROX UK

Tel: 01895 251133 Fax: 01895 254095 Bridge House, Oxford Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 1HS The Document Company supply a full range of office equipment.

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As technology improves, the use of online and offline channels to communicate with target customers is becoming an ever more increasing consumer demand.

Neopost and The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) have combined their extensive industry knowledge to create a guide for creating Multi-Channel Communication Campaigns.

HOW TO

1

To find out how to get more from your database go to: www.dma.org.uk/guide/data-guide

DATA RULES! •

Inaccurate data costs businesses and fundamentally impacts on their performance

•

The average organisation loses 12% of its income because of bad contact data, through wasted marketing spend and resources as well as lost productivity

•

But the hidden costs may be even greater – 28% of those who have had problems delivering email because of bad data say that customer service has suffered as a result, while 21% experienced reputational damage

data should be collected based on your business goals

of businesses dependent on databases have reported that they believe some aspect of the data they hold is:

94%

ED

FLAW MOST THINK THIS IS MORE THAN A QUARTER

SOURCE: Experian - Global Data Quality Research (2013)

Accurate customer data is critical to the successful implementation of a Multi-Channel Communication programme. It is also a must have for all businesses. The Experian Global Data Report 2014 found the following:

‘ONE PIECE OF DATA CAN CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE OR COMMUNICATE WITH A CUSTOMER’

ASSESS what customer

where you can obtain data

DATA COLLECTION

RULES

3

at the point of entry

DATABASE

1

in-house?

DATA

£1

in better data quality saw their

PROFITS INCREASE

per year

last year

*Over £940,000

to ensure each record is complete

*Over £940,000

SOURCE: Experian - Global Data Quality Research (2012)

If email becomes your customers’ preferred means of communication – do you have an accurate email address for ALL contacts? Does your database enable you to maintain this?

WOW

HOW TO

MORE LIKELY TO CLICK A LINK IF THEY RECEIVED SOMETHING IN THE POST

REFER TO MAIL WHEN SEARCHING FOR A PRODUCT OR SERVICE ONLINE

rds

KEEP MAIL OF PEOPLE REFERENCE FOR FUTURE

BUD GET

A

PRACTICAL

DIRECT MAIL

DATA

RESP ON SE

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• How adopting a Multi-Channel strategy can result in increased efficiency and cost savings • The best combinations of different channels to utilise successfully • Examples of successful campaigns

CAMPAIGNS

PROD UCT ION

T POS

GUIDE TO CREATING EFFECTIVE

WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH EMAIL? 1. INCREASE SALES CONVERSIONS Prospects may require up to nine ‘touches’ before making a buying decision.

TO GET YOUR FREE GUIDE TO CREATING EFFECTIVE MULTI-CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS SIMPLY VISIT: www.neopost.co.uk/CSNFEB15

83% more when shopping

Keeping in touch on a regular basis can generate repeat sales and improve customer loyalty.

CALL US ON: 0800 731 1334

3. UP-SELL AND CROSS-SELL YOUR PRODUCTS Email provides a great opportunity for you to help customers order “one more” product while they’re in the mood to buy.

4. GAIN FEEDBACK FROM YOUR VISITORS

VISIT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE: www.facebook.com/neopost

Email in particular provides your customers with a unique opportunity to give honest feedback.

90% of consumers subscribe to emails from trusted brands

5. DRIVE WEB USERS TO OFFLINE PURCHASES Email marketing is often a catalyst for web users to purchase offline. More than half of users in one survey had made a purchase offline after receiving an email promotion.

Receiving response – email enables responders to get to you quickly.

Ensure you are set up to receive response and capture important information.

OR CONTACT US AT: www.twitter.com/neopost_uk

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SOURCE: DMA - Why Direct Mail Still Matters (2013)

Neopost and the DMA produced the ‘Practical Guide to Creating Effective Direct Mail Campaigns’ - go to www.neopost.co.uk/dmaguide to download your free copy.

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SOURCE: DMA - Direct Mail Drives Digital Response (2011)

67%

OF CONSUMERS REACT TO DIRECT MAIL IMMEDIATELY

• What a Multi-Channel Communications campaign actually is!

2. GENERATE REPEAT SALES Consumers who receive email spend

79%

SMART IDEAS FOR SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION

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EM@IL There has been an obvious growth in email traffic over the last 10 years.

It can be a very cost-effective method of contacting customers with offers and links to websites. There are a number of email service providers and also packages that can be purchased to implement campaigns in-house.

58%

PEOPLE TAKE DIRECT MAIL SERIOUSLY

hello!

WOW

DIRECT MAIL TRIGGERS AN ONLINE RESPONSE

It is most effective at: Providing information l Generating a response

WHAT’S IN THE GUIDE?

to amend your data collection regime to support business requirements

Visit the DMA website to find out to construct a successful email campaign www.dma.org.uk/guide/email-guide

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To find out how to get the best from direct mail go to: www.neopost.co.uk/dmaguide

Direct mail remains a vital component in any communication programme and is welcomed by customers.

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SOURCE: Experian - Data quality, The Key to Unlocking Cross Channel Returns (2013)

HOW TO

People continue to value direct mail and printed communications from brands, finding that it plays a seamless role within their connected worlds, offers some qualities not found in other comms and is an essential part of the overall brand experience.

SMART WAYS TO MANAGE MULTI-CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS

4

RULES

STRIVE

*

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Direct mail has long played a key role in communication with customers. This could be for marketing or transactional mail such as invoices, statements, etc. There is a perception that mail has fallen out of favour and has been superseded by the ostensibly cheaper alternative of email, however recent research by the DMA dispels that theory.

SMS

MAINTENANCE 3

MILLION

of companies that

INVESTED

REMITTANCE

2 ASSESS what you can do

INSTIGATE a data

Investment in improving data accuracy has the power to more than compensate.

Worldwide, the average increase in profits was almost

INVOICE

4 CAPTURE data accurately

AUDIT

your data and identify where errors are occurring

maintenance regime

90%

2 IDENTIFY within the business

PROD U C TIO N

COMMUNICATIONS GUIDE

DATA

MULTI-CHANNEL

WOW

GET TAR

DOWNLOAD OUR FREE

BUD GET

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CONNECT

HOW TO REALLY CONNECT WITH YOUR CUSTOMERS

SOURCE: DMA - Email Tracking Report (2013)

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