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haPPy holidays…Do you usually make ‘owt over the summer?

This is our 26th year running a print shop on the South Coast and 17th year assembling our team tactics in this our CSMA club magazine and we are none the wiser really, well maybe a tad.

We have gone through the never taking any time off stage as we found no one missed us too much, ahh, sound familiar? If not you should try it, especially in July or August.

Then followed years spent dreaming up aimless activity to keep everyone busy in the summer during the holiday season, now that is a clue really. Holidays. 25% of your customers may be away at the same time, school holidays mean mass exodus. You cannot buck this trend so tune in and either get away yourself or plan some extra summery sales. Language schools, Art Shows, Sports Schools, Exhibitions, T-shirts, Hens, Stags, Fun Runs etc… then Back to School and round you go again.

I guess we all very much flagged out due to the footie, but hey there are so many other sporting and social events needing outside signage. Nail your print credentials to the mast and get out there with your own banner and flag samples to lead by example.

As usual we have projects and beta testing throughout the break and you are invited to get involved.

Peter, raising print standards, Foulkes

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Flags manufactured by a south coast firm have made their way across the North Pole thanks to Kevin Sheppard’s successful completion of a challenging race to raise money and awareness for a children’s bereavement charity.

Hampshire Flag supported the 39 year old from Gloucestershire’s ambitious 350 mile race across the High Arctic to the Magnetic North, which took him 15 days, by donating three flags to take on the expedition and help raise money and awareness of the charity Winston’s Wish.

As one of only 42 who took part in last month’s race, Kevin had to pull his sledge across frozen wastelands battling against severe storms and high winds which at times reached 35mph. He was also having to navigate with the visibility as low as 20-30ft.

The flag manufacturer has supported Kevin’s mission from the outset by providing three bespoke 68 x 38cm flags; two featuring the Team Sheppard/ Winston’s Wish logos and one for another of Kevin’s sponsors, R&H Interiors.

Kevin said, “I am ecstatic to have completed what was the most challenging 15 days of my life. The conditions were far harsher than I had ever imagined and I lost eight kilos in weight, trekking for up to 23 hours a

day to ensure I reached the finish line on time.

“Knowing I was raising money and awareness for Winston’s Wish however was all the motivation and encouragement I needed to press on. Flying the flags at the North Pole was emotional and much dreamed about and I really appreciate Hampshire Flag for making this a reality,” added Kevin.

Kevin lost his brother 27 years ago due to a motorbike accident when he was just 13 so Winston’s Wish, a leading authority in childhood bereavement, is a charity close to his heart. He aims to inspire young children from all backgrounds to achieve their own aspirations, goals and ambitions through Team Sheppard.

Hampshire Flag’s Managing Director Graham Wilkinson said, “We are delighted that Kevin has successfully and safely accomplished his incredible mission. The entire Hampshire Flag team congratulates him and it is wonderful to think that our flags have travelled so far, and for such a worthwhile cause.”

The multi-award winning firm has a team of 21 and produces hand sewn national and international flags and digitally printed banners. The Waterlooville company also offers a bespoke flag design service, PVC banners, marine flags, bunting, table

flags, exhibition graphics and event systems in addition to the supply and installation of an extensive range of flagpoles.

Its prestigious portfolio of clients includes Selfridges, the BBC, Channel 4, Portsmouth Football Club, IBM and British Airways. Hampshire Flag supports various charities and expeditions including Action for

Kids, Samaritans, Gumboots and for swimmer and environmentalist Lewis Pugh’s on-going feats. Further information: The Hampshire Flag Company – Graham Wilkinson tel, 0845 644 3129. To find out more about Kevin’s Polar Challenge and one man’s journey to the Magnetic North Pole with Hampshire Flag, visit www.teamsheppard.co.uk

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Canon colour light production printer wins EDP award

Canon UK has announced that the Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9060 PRO was

awarded the accolade of ‘Best High End Multi-Functional Printer’ by the European Digital Press (EDP) Association at a ceremony at Ipex. Comprising publishers of leading European magazines devoted to digital printing, the EDP Association represents

a readership of over one million graphic arts professionals.

Focusing on innovation and the value of new technical abilities the product offers, the EDP Technical Committee described Canon’s colour light production device in the following terms: “Very fast with 60 pages per minute, high paper capacity,

many finishing options and nice integration of Adobe LiveCycle-Management. This new printer offers good print quality combined with a fast printing speed and those parameters remain unchanged whether the printer runs in colour or black and white – therefore enabling the user to print mixed colour and black and white documents without any changes in productivity.”

Trevor Dodsworth, Head of Product Marketing, Business to Business, Canon UK says, “We’re delighted that the imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9060 PRO has won this award. It has proved to be exceptionally popular since its launch and this is a fantastic accolade. The innovative technology in this printer offers customers a scaleable solution that can grow in tandem with their business and help them to make a leap to a new area of business involving digital print.”

Designed to offer outstanding value to production environments, the imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9060 PRO delivers excellent image quality, advanced finishing and powerful workflow integration.www.canon.co.uk


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ProFessor FranK romano, international analyst and Ipex ‘Champion in Print’ best summed

up the mood of exhibitors and visitors when he declared that “Ipex 2010 has demonstrated that the printing industry is back in business”.

Visitor attendance was over 50,000 from 135 countries, excluding over 20,000 exhibitor, agents, dealers, distributor, OEM’s and 500 international media personnel. Most significantly, the international ratio has increased by 8% compared to 2006, with the overall visitor attendance representing 48%. This makes Ipex more international than any other business to business event in the UK.

The largest overseas visitor groups came from France, Germany, Netherlands with a 4% overall increase from Western Europe. Notable increases in attendance levels came from Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa as well as China and India. Exhibitors commented on the high level of personnel seniority from both overseas and UK companies. 77% of attendees were senior managers, company directors and owner/managers.

Trevor Crawford, Ipex 2010 event director, commented: “We’re delighted with the visitor numbers which are roughly in line with 2006, despite considerable industry consolidation. The notable increase in international visitors underlines the importance of Ipex to the printing industry. A far-reaching integrated marketing campaign, including successful international roadshows and a comprehensive co-marketing programme, came together to deliver an international decision making and buying audience.”

With over 1,000 exhibiting companies from 40 countries, Ipex 2010 provided a spectacular showcase of the best in printing equipment, workflow and consumables. Trevor Crawford continued: “ At Ipex 2010, the industry’s leading suppliers certainly inspired visitors with exciting new technology, but we believe Ipex 2010 will be remembered, first and foremost, as the moment when printers showed renewed confidence and moved to invest in the future of their business.”

reCord levels oF bUsinessExhibitors reported record levels of business, with tens of millions of pounds worth of deals closed at the show, for both digital and offset technologies. HP surpassed its revenue and lead generation targets

as of day five. Xerox sold in excess of 100 digital systems at the show. Canon exceeded targets, with 250 production and light production print engines sold, supported by strong solution sales. Konica Minolta’s order intake surpassed expectations, with orders taken during the first three days covering the cost of participation. Heidelberg reported orders for 140 printing units in the UK alone and AGFA generated more than € 25 million worldwide sales. Finishing specialist Duplo lauded Ipex as the company’s most successful show ever, with more than £2 million worth of orders.

Nick Craig Waller, Ipex 2010 Marketing Director said: “Two phrases spearheaded our global campaign for Ipex 2010: Perfect Time, Perfect Place, One Unique Opportunity and Marketing Print’s Potential. Both have resonated extremely well with visitors and exhibitors. Feedback confirms that Ipex has played a key role in re-igniting the global industry and provided the catalyst the market was seeking. While we’ve set our own targets, ultimately, we judge the show on the business results our exhibitors have achieved. By that measure, Ipex has been a tremendous success.”

Over a third of the exhibitor base had never participated in the event, demonstrating how Ipex continues to evolve and attract new companies and reflecting the status of Ipex as an international launch pad to the graphic arts industry. Ipex newcomer, web-to-print company Red Tie has been thrilled with the quality of enquiries, and Israeli digital print supplier Scodix commented on the high volume of sales and have confirmed their attendance at Ipex 2014.

The following is just a small selection of quotes from exhibitors as the show was closing; Laurence Roberts, Ipex 2006 President &AGFAUKMD, commented:“There has been a real buzz at the show and having generated more than €25 million worldwide sales, we’re more than delighted. We’ve also noted a significant increase in the number of international visitors, in particular from Brazil, Africa and India. IIR has done a fantastic job in organising the event.”

PICON Council Member and joint managing director of Apex Digital Graphics, Bob Usher, said: “There has been an air of optimism amongst both visitors and exhibitors that has lead to a very successful IPEX. We already have orders for all of the Ryobi press equipment on the stand, and are taking away many excellent sales leads.”

David Preskett, European Professional Print

Director, Canon Europe said: “Canon came to Ipex 2010 with high hopes generated by the results of our latest industry survey, which reported a growing sense of optimism in the market. I’m delighted to say that those hopes have been more than fulfilled.

Peter Jolly, Marketing Director at Duplo UK commented: “Ipex 2010 has been the most successful show for Duplo ever with all machines sold from the stand. We’ve taken more than £2 million worth of orders during the show, more than double the amount we had taken one month after the show had finished last time around. This includes a single order of over £500,000 from the Synergie Group. We’ve also sold our first Alpha Saddle to the UK market.”

“IPEX is back to being a truly international show and we have benefitted from serious investors from all over the world coming to see our new SurePress L-4033A digital label press and our range of high-end commercial and packaging proofing Stylus Pro printers and media,” says Duncan Ferguson, Director of Pro-Graphics, Epson Europe.

Richard de Boissezon, Worldwide Marketing Manager, HP Graphics Solutions Business comments: “Expectations exceeded! We are happy to announce that at Ipex 2010, HP surpassed its revenue and lead generation targets as of day five. We experienced strong demand for our entire graphic arts portfolio, with visitors coming from many faraway places. Ipex 2010 proves that digital printing is the mainstay. That’s a fact.”

Comments Marc Fischer, marketing manager for Kern: “Ipex has been very successful for the Kern Group and has proved itself as an important ‘place to be’ for anyone in this business.”

Konica Minolta UK’s Pauline Brooks, Group Product Manager for the Production Print Divison UK says: “We came to Ipex with realistic expectations, but the show has exceeded all our projected goals. We sold two bizhub PRESS C8000 on the very first day and sales have continued throughout the show. The raft of orders we now have on the books is a terrific endorsement of the R&D investment that has gone into the new system. Its performance and specification have had our stand buzzing. We are delighted with what we’ve achieved at Ipex.”

Ronald van Hees, Director of Marketing, Pitney Bowes: “Ipex 2010 has been a big success for Pitney Bowes. We announced the launch of IntelliJet 20 inkjet print system for the transactional market to huge interest from across the globe.

Iain Bullock, Renz, UK MD, “Ipex has exceeded all our expectations. It is living up to being a selling show with £100,000 worth of new orders in the first three days of the show. It’s the first time for a long time that everyone seems to be very positive about the future. Negativity has gone.”

“Xerox has sold in excess of 100 digital systems at the show. Sales of devices have come from right across the portfolio of industry leading digital systems, led by the production colour products with the Xerox iGen4, the new Xerox Colour 1000 Press and the ever popular Xerox 700 Digital Colour Press amongst the best sellers.” said Tracy Yelencsics, Vice President, Production Products and Programs , Global Business Group, Xerox Corporation.

‘Print is back in business.’ IPEX sparks new wave of industry optimism

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north west Printers Paper Innovation were

honoured to be asked to produce a special edition of the book that celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the 1966 World Cup. A limited

number of copies have been printed at the Preston site as part of the build up to this year’s World Cup.

This new publication was launched at The England 1966 World Cup Winners Theatre Show on 3 May at the The Brigewater Hall, Manchester. Managing Director, Steve Johnston was invited to experience the event and, in an unexpected surprise, introduced to Sir Geoff Hurst and other members of the winning ‘66 squad.

Steve commented “It has been an extraordinary day for Paper Innovation and for me, personally. Sir Geoff Hurst and the rest of the team have been hailed as legends throughout my lifetime, as the country has celebrated their achievement and willed the subsequent England squads to replicate their success. It was a privilege to spend time with such a set of legendary names, who turned out to be true gentleman and superb company.”www.paperinnovation.co.uk

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Roland DG wins Three Awards for Its Innovative Inkjet Technology

roland DG has announced that it received three awards in the 2010 European Digital Press (EDP) Awards. The coveted EDP Awards are judged on innovation and recognise the best products of the year introduced in the European market. Roland DG’s innovative inkjet technologies were recognised in the following three categories:• Best Wide Format Print & Cut Machine:

VersaCAMM VS-640 64” Wide-Format Metallic Inkjet Printer/Cutter. The VS-640’s compact design, accelerated print speeds and the option of a white plus metallic ink configuration, generating more than 500 metallic colours, made this product a clear winner. The VS-640 combines a new generation of print head technology and an ink circulation system with improved ink flow and circulation. The VS-640 also features Roland OnSupport software, which alerts users of low ink, print finish status and emergency stops via e-mail.

• Best Emerging Technology Printer: SOLJET PRO III XC-540MT World First 54” Wide-Format Metallic Inkjet Printer/Cutter. The XC-540MT is the world’s first wide format metallic inkjet printer/cutter. Featuring six colours, CMYK+Metallic Silver+White (CMYK+Mt+W), Print and Cut and amazing production print speeds, the XC-540MT was a worthy winner. The metallic ink can be incorporated easily into the workflow using the included Roland VersaWorks RIP software.

• Best Alternative Ink Technology: ECO-SOL MAX Metallic Ink, Roland ECO-SOLVENT Metallic Ink. The Metallic Silver ECO-SOL MAX ink can be used to create vibrant silver text and graphics previously impossible with any inkjet printer. The new Metallic ink can be printed as a spot colour or combined with CMYK inks to produce a range of coloured metallic effects. The ink was first introduced in 2009 with the XC-540MT and is now available with the VS-640, including the new metallic colour library with more than 500 metallic colours.

EDP Award and EDP (European Digital Press Association). EDP Association was founded in 2006 to serve as an industry forum and valuable resource for association members and the digital printing industry. The annual awards programme (EDP Awards) is designed to acknowledge and award the latest developments in R&D in the digital printing industry. More information about the EDP Association and the EDP Awards can be found at www.edpassociation.com.www.rolanddg.co.uk

DUPLO ANNOUNCE MOST SUCCESSFUL SHOW EVERdUPlo international have announced IPEX

2010 as their most successful exhibition on record. The print finishing manufacturer announced sales of

over £2 million taken during the show, which included their biggest ever single UK deal to Synergie worth over £570,000. Duplo have also announced that a record 2,000 visitors came to their stand which they hope will open up new opportunities to push their sales from IPEX to ‘up to near £5 million within the next 12 months’.

The show was the UK launch for their new fully automated saddle stitcher, The Alpha Saddle, of which five were sold, the first to M & H Printers in Walsall.

Tony Lock , Managing Director Duplo UK explains his delight at Duplo’s success; “To be honest, we were absolutely staggered with the success of IPEX 2010 for Duplo. I don’t think we were the only exhibitor with their fingers crossed at quarter to ten on the first day not knowing what to expect.” He continued “We sold absolutely everything from our stand but what pleased me most was the genuine interest across all products. After the second day we had to send for more staff to help us man our booth.”

Duplo’s theme for the eight days was Automated Precision, with the promise that all machines in their portfolio come ‘with 60 seconds or less set-up time and precise finishing giving a quality finished product’. Also, for the first time Duplo had onsite finance company Print Finance as residents on their stand, to help close the many deals that were happening daily.

Whilst the tangible sales taken during the show were clearly the main highlight for the Esher-based

company, Lock explains there were many other factors adding to the success;

“We also made significant progress with our digital vendor partners by having a huge presence on their stands and making noteworthy sales, such as the DC-645 with DIFS sale to Oxuniprint via Canon. As well as this we had the announcement of our new relationship with Ricoh Europe, our new In-line Alpha Saddle with HP Indigo plus the announcement of the UK distributorship of Fujipla laminators. In addition we had some fantastic synergy amongst our Finishing Alliance partners, with some large sales with Renz equipment and some great onsite sales activity with Friedheim, combining our kit with their products to create total finishing package solutions. There were so many positives to report.”

“Overall, what really pleased us was the shift toward finishing in the industry. No longer are we seen as the baby brother of the industry, I think IPEX 2010 will be remembered as the show where finishing came to the fore in the print industry.”

However, as Jolly concludes, it was not only the amount of traffic on the stand that was the real shock for Duplo; “Tony has been Managing Director for just 9 months, but in that time he has created real positivity amongst our staff and to ensure total staff focus at IPEX, he introduced a ‘Warrior Monk’ regime; alcohol intake was kept to a bare minimum and 6.30am gym and running sessions took place every morning. I think it made a massive difference to our outstanding performance at the show. ” Duplo UK: 01372 478 205, www.duplouk.com

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XeroX believes that, following IPEX 2010, the graphic communications industry is emerging from the recession leaner and even more driven to take advantage of the opportunities presented by digital print. The number of signings closed at the show indicated print providers were bullish on the future and viewed digital print as a viable way to expand existing business and attract new customers.

Xerox featured 18 pieces of technology at IPEX 2010, including a demonstration of Xerox’s production inkjet technology, and the new Xerox Colour 1000 Press. The stand also included new business development tools, workflow enhancements, and the Real Business Live Theatre, which drew on industry expertise and customers’ business models to bring to life the opportunities for success in the world of digital printing.

“The new technologies and tools that Xerox revealed during IPEX demonstrate the broadening scope of revenue-generating print applications now available.” said Peter Taylor, director and general manager, Large Enterprise & Graphic Communications, Xerox UK. “Our stand was consistently busy throughout the show’s run with considerable interest from attendees in learning more about Xerox’s technology, workflow and business development tools.”

XeroX honoUrs digital Printing eXCellenCe at iPeX 2010 “At Xerox, our strategy is always to make it easy for print service providers to drive revenue through the power of digital printing,” said Tracy Yelencsics, vice president, Production Products and Programs, Xerox Corporation. “Our customers are using technology and software to transform their clients’ challenges into opportunities that pay off – and that’s a winning combination in today’s marketplace.”

Xerox’s Best-of-the-Best contest honoured digital printing applications produced by members of the Xerox Premier Partners Global Network. Applications from more than 17 countries were judged on image quality, business results and the use of Xerox technology in the following categories: books, collateral, digital and offset, direct marketing, photo publishing, and transpromo. Three winners were honoured in each category.

This year’s winning print providers, in alphabetical order, are: Cathedral Corporation; ColorCentric Corporation; ColorFast, S.A. de C.V.; De Budelse b.v.; dsicmm Group Limited; DMM, Inc.; Global Diseña; Keiger Direct; LaserTryk.dk; Lateral Group; MBA Group Ltd; medialogik GmbH; Pondres; Progressive Communications; TeleMail; TOCHO Co, Ltd; and Wuhan Caifeng Digital Image Express Printing Co. Ltd.

A sampling of the winners includes: • U.K.-based Lateral Group, an integrated communications management

company, produced a campaign for the British government’s Change4Life campaign, which is aimed at raising obesity awareness. The integrated campaign demanded a complex and robust mix of variable data points and were printed on a Xerox iGen3 110 Digital Production Press using software from XMPie, a Xerox company.

The resulting campaign generated 200 percent more registrations than

expected. Lateral Group has engaged in similar campaigns for a harmful drinking awareness programme for a global pharmaceutical and consumer goods company.

• MBA Group created the world’s first 100 percent variable publication that integrated personalised content on select pages throughout the magazine, generating 256 percent more leads for advertisers. The U.K.-based company produced the magazine, with a circulation of 12,000, on a Xerox 980 Colour Continuous Feed Printing System using XMPie software.

• Mexico-based commercial print provider ColorFast created a promotional calendar to highlight its capabilities to customers and prospects. Printed on the Xerox 700 Digital Colour Press, it helped the company improve sales by 60 percent over the previous year.

• LaserTryk took advantage of the printing quality of the Xerox 1300 Continuous Feed Printing System, Nuvera 200 EA Perfecting Production System and Xerox iGen3 110 press to produce offset quality, short run black and white books on demand.

The Denmark based company captured sales with publishers who wanted the look of traditional offset without the hassle of extra stock and warehousing costs. The fleet of Xerox solutions offers LaserTryk significant flexibility – using the iGen3 press for short run colour covers, and the black and white systems for high quality pages inside.

XeroX at iPeXFrom continuous feed to wide format, black and white production devices to an automated packaging solution, show attendees were able to see result generating applications printed live on the show floor – all aimed to help print providers grow their businesses.

The stand also included new business development tools, workflow enhancements, and the Real Business Live Theatre, which drew on industry expertise and customers’ business models to bring to life the opportunities for success in the world of digital printing.www.xerox.com

DRUPA 2010 REGISTRATION REMINDERdrUPa 2012 (3rd – 16th May, 2012) is still some way off - however International Trade Shows Link Ltd (ITSL), the UK representative for Messe Düsseldorf, would like to remind readers about the cut-off date for companies wishing to exhibit at the giant global print media trade fair.

All space application forms must be returned to ITSL at its Hemel Hempstead offices by the end of October 2010. Previous exhibitors will have been automatically sent a form, but if you have any queries or questions, you are urged to ring them now on 01442 230033.

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Morgana’s New PUR Binders

a new range of PUR binders from Morgana consists of three models suitable for short run work in the digital environment. All have fully enclosed gluing systems and are fitted with automatic cleaning systems to make them more user friendly.

The new Morgana Pioneer is unique in being able to produce both soft cover volumes and book blocks for producing case bound books. It will produce 200 soft covers or 150 book blocks per hour in sizes up to 450mm and 50mm thick. The system is fully enclosed and all operations – including cleaning – are controlled automatically from a touch screen.

The new Morgana Explore also has a unique feature in that it can be used for both PUR or conventional hot melt binding, a great advantage for users who need to produce many different types of work. It operates at a highly productive 500 cycles per hour and also offers all the benefits of an enclosed system with automatic operation and cleaning. It makes books up to 450mm x 50mm thick.

The Morgana Adventure is a low price, small footprint unit which, at 200 cycles per hour, is aimed at the lower volume user. Despite its low price tag, it also offers automatic operation and automatic cleaning can be specified. It can produce volumes up to 450mm x 50mm.

Morgana’s managing director, Quen Baum, claims that the new range gives printers – and particularly digital printers – greater choice and greater flexibility than has been previously available in PUR binders. “We believe that our enclosed system design offers significant advantages, not only because of cleanliness and ease of operation, but because there is no waste and the systems can be left on stand-by.”For further details contact: Quen Baum, Morgana Systems Ltd, Tel: 01908 608888, [email protected]

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raPid and Memjet have combined their technical skills to produce these machines. Labels up to a maximum of 220mm can be output in two qualities – 1600 x 1600dpi and 1600 x 800dpi. Using the former resolution the machines will generate 9 metres of labels per minute whilst using the latter resolution will double this output to 16 metres per minute.

The print head itself utilises an incredible 70,400 nozzles to deliver the five colour (CMYK + K) water based dye inks to the label, generating fantastically sharp and vibrant prints every time.

The Rapid X1 is a small footprint roll to roll printer that can handle a roll of labels up to an outside diameter of 305mm, and incorporates an optical sensor for pre-cut and stripped labels. Manufactured with an all steel chassis it will sit comfortably on a desk top with the roll to roll system avoiding messy output by automatically spooling the printed labels. For short runs this can be over ridden with the labels being manually removed from the printer. Even maintenance has been made quick and easy with the Memjet head being hot-swappable making it an easy task for the operator should it be necessary. The real beauty of this machine is that it runs from a PC where the operator can generate 1 or 1000 labels at the same unit cost.

The Rapid X2 is, effectively, the big brother of the X1. Technically it has the same specifications except that it can handle a roll of labels with an outside diameter of 650mm. It also utilises a loop out-feed enabling it to be used in-line with post finishing equipment. In terms of its media

handling ability the X2 is a more industrious machine even though it uses the same Memjet print-head technology and has the same production capacity as the X1. Put bluntly, the X2 is more suitable for the larger producer of labels.Contact Impression Technology Europe 01623 861173 or visit them at www.impressiontechnologyeurope.com

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& calendars• 4"x6", 6"x9" and 8"x10" albums available• 4"x6" and 6"x9" calendars available• Create in store or at home

Mitsubishi’s latest range of retail solutions are designed specifi cally for high street stores, from smaller independents and pharmacies that want to offer instant digital prints and ID photos, to larger stores that want to be able to offer a complete one stop solution that includes photo gifts.

• Independent retailers• Easy to install: Plug and Play• Easy to use: Simple and Friendly• 4"x6", 5"x7" & 6"x9" instant prints• Biometric Photo ID• Calendar, mosaic and collage options

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wide format inkjet printer manufacturer Mutoh are releasing a new series of direct to fabric printers, called Viper TX Soft Sign series. Available in 1620 mm (63.78”) and 2210 mm (87”) widths, the Viper TX Soft Sign printers offer a total solution for direct printing of polyester fabrics with open or closed structure. The printers incorporate all features required to accurately load, transport and tension, dry, heat fix and roll up finished prints, ready for use. Tuned to Mutoh’s new VOC-free water based direct disperse inks, the new engines deliver typical production speeds up to 37 m²/h and top engine speeds up to 77 m²/h.

The new Mutoh Viper TX Soft Sign printers have been purposely built for professional soft signage print businesses looking for an integrated workflow to print directly onto polyester fabrics like flags. The printers are suited for a wide variety of applications: heavy duty flags, banners, architectural graphics, sport arena displays, wall murals, home furnishings, curtains and much more.

“We have been marketing wide format dye sub and direct textile printers developed and manufactured at our Belgian factory since 2004. Today, we offer several product lines products such as Viper, Viper TX, Viper 100, Viper Extreme and Viper TX Extreme,” comments Arthur Vanhoutte, President of Mutoh’s European operations.

“Viper TX Soft Sign printers are our first integrated direct textile printing solutions, delivering prints immediately ready for use. The new printers address the key demands for a green workflow. Using Mutoh water-based inks they print directly onto polyester fabric, with no need for transfer paper. Keeping the environment in mind, printing signage on fabric is preferable because it folds easily, is light to transport, re-usable and last but not least, polyester fabrics are recyclable. Our new cost-effective soft sign printers will allow innovative entrepreneurs to address latest market trends such as web-to-print, print-on-demand and customisation,” Vanhoutte concludes.

The Viper TX Soft Sign printer’s integrated infra red dryer and fan bank will dry the printed fabric before heat fixation. After drying, the printed fabric will run into the fixation unit, consisting of a contact drum with integrated infra red lamp. Its typical working temperature is 180 °C. The fixation time depends on the print mode that is used. The fabric process can be easily controlled via a touch display on a swivel arm. The in-line fabric drying and fixation system has no cooling down delay. An integrated switch ON timer makes sure the printer is ready in the morning.

Fabric transport has been made easy with the fully motorised heavy duty unwinding/winding system with dancer bars for media rolls up to 150 kg. The system is ready for inside and outside unwinding and winding. Perfect fabric tracking with the front and back belt system delivers straight winding of finished prints onto the take-up roll.

The new printers incorporate 8 drop-on-demand piezo inkjet heads. Each head has 2 x 180 nozzles. Using Dynamic Variable Dot Imaging Technology, each ink droplet is individually adjustable to provide high speed and high quality printing with low ink consumption. The printers incorporate Mutoh’s award-winning Intelligent Interweaving print technology.

To remove vapours when heat fixing direct printed fabrics, the machines can be directly connected to Mutoh’s optional fume extraction system. Connection is possible via multiple connection points. A hose will then make the connection with the fume extraction system.

The printers can also be connected to Mutoh’s optional bulk ink system offering long unattended printing options along with minimum user intervention.

The Soft Sign printers have been tuned to Mutoh’s VOC free water based direct disperse inks. They feature excellent nozzle stability, offer a large colour gamut and have an excellent outdoor durability, rated up to 1 year. Available in 1 litre bottles, these inks deliver top scores in wash fastness and perspiration, while allowing direct printing onto polyester fabrics with no need for washing.For more information on Mutoh, please visit www.mutoh.eu

MUTOH RELEASES VIPER TX SOFT SIGN PRINTERS

Pitney bowes inC. has announced it is expanding its line of high speed digital

colour printing systems. The new offering, the Pitney Bowes IntelliJet 20 printing system, will help more companies transition their printed communications from monochrome to colour simply and cost effectively, and communicate more effectively with their audiences. The new system which was on display at Ipex complements the IntelliJet 30 printing system, which Pitney Bowes launched in 2009.

Like the IntelliJet 30 printing system, the new system is the result of a strategic alliance with HP. Offering the same high quality, 1200 x 600 dpi resolution print engine and built-in Pitney Bowes Production Intelligence software, the IntelliJet 20 printing system produces complex transactional

statements without compromising speed or quality. Its 20.5” wide format is sized to replace existing toner based monochrome devices. Scaled for high volume transactional print and mail customers, the system fits right within their existing environment to deliver 2-up monochrome as well as the full colour variable print they need to expand services.

“For years, enterprise customers and service bureaus have turned to Pitney Bowes for industry leading customer communications solutions,” said Leslie Abi-Karam, executive vice president and president, mailing solutions management. “The IntelliJet 20 now allows us to take the ability to integrate variable colour print and mail down market, delivering this same value to a much broader array of customers, both domestically

and internationally.” Both the IntelliJet 20 and the IntelliJet 30

printing systems include new features and system enhancements for greater performance and capability. These include:• Pitney Bowes IntelliJet Print Process Manager,

a powerful hardware and software solution that maximises the productivity and operational control of IntelliJet printing systems

• Fully integrated MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) to allow financial institutions to print checks with integrity and security

• Expanded range of integrated post print accessories that can be configured to support specific mail finishing needs

Pitney Bowes Production Intelligence software allows mailers to integrate print and mail with one streamlined platform for unprecedented process integration. Independent of page complexity, the IntelliJet 20 printing system can consistently deliver maximum throughput with a print speed of up to 400 feet (122 m) per minute for monochrome; 200 feet (61 m) per minute for colour, with high quality output that is specifically tuned for high speed mail finishing. Moreover, the IntelliJet 20 printing system can also help turn routine bills and statements into powerful marketing and sales tools www.pb.com

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Pitney Bowes expands IntelliJet Line

EFI Fiery Powers Konica Minolta Production PressKoniCa Minolta Business Solutions Europe, a provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, and EFI have announced that Fiery technology is powering the new bizhub PRESS C8000 from Konica Minolta. Ideal for meeting the unique needs of commercial print, print for pay and in-plant markets, the Fiery IC-306 server delivers the highest performance in its class for demanding operator led environments, superior colour, strong Variable Data Printing (VDP) capabilities, intuitive job management and JDF workflows to increase return on equipment investment for Konica Minolta customers.

“Once again our industry leading Fiery server is paired with the latest powerhouse press from Konica Minolta, providing customers in demanding production environments with the latest productivity boosting features to reduce job handling time and waste, new colour control capabilities for best in class colour for the first and every page, and job management tools to ensure operational efficiency,” said John Henze, vice president of Fiery marketing, EFI.

Customers in high volume

environments are poised to realise tremendous performance capabilities with the bizhub PRESS C8000 featuring Fiery server’s colour quality and workflow enhancing features,” said Olaf Lorenz, general manager, Production Printing Division, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe. “The Fiery IC-306 server is the ideal solution for this new digital press, and we are again pleased to offer the efficiency, quality and reliable functionality that EFI promises, to ensure that our customers can always count on Konica Minolta to meet their digital imaging needs.”

The Fiery server has intuitive and integrated make ready tools so that document management and preparation can be performed quickly and effectively with minimal waste. The Fiery Command WorkStation 5 job management solution and user interface centralises the entire print workflow, connecting to all Fiery servers on the network. The advanced queue management capabilities eliminate bottlenecks and minimise downtime, raising the productivity and profit potential on every job.

Embedded JDF technology resident on the Fiery server enables seamless and powerful integration with third

party prepress, other workflow applications and EFI web to print and MIS solutions. Customers can easily integrate their JDF compliant applications with their Fiery driven workflow without the need for additional software or hardware.

EFI’s VDP solutions for the bizhub PRESS C8000 offer scalable tools for producing effective one to one marketing campaigns, and lead the print industry in speed, ease of use and flexibility. The optimised solutions work with all industry and legacy languages, including PPML.

With this release, customers have new scalability with the most popular Fiery options, including Color Profiler Suite (CPS), Fiery SeeQuence Suite, and Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition. Fiery Color Profiler Suite provides complete colour quality control at every stage of the printing workflow. CPS offers its users simple, yet professional functionality that ensures colour accuracy and consistency, while increasing productivity and return on investment. Integration of profile making directly into the Fieryudriven printer reduces the time needed to optimise colour quality, decreases the possibility for errors, and enables colour matching

of multiple engines in a production environment.

Fiery SeeQuence Suite is comprised of document composition and imposition functions that simplify and automate labour intensive document preparation tasks via a newly redesigned interface that is more integrated and intuitive. Fiery SeeQuence Impose and Fiery SeeQuence Compose work independently or in a tightly integrated workflow through Fiery Command WorkStation, allowing operators to accurately set up jobs and soft proof.

Another popular option available to bizhub Press C8000 users is the Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition, which provides expert users with professional tools for managing colour, proofing and controlling workflow. The integrated solution meets industry standards and ensures accurate and repeatable colour every time by letting operators have total control of colour output quality. The newly integrated FOGRA control bar is just one example of how users can check and validate print output for conformance to common industry standards. www.konicaminolta.co.uk

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Roland Introduces CAMM-1 PRO GX-640, 64” Large Format Vinyl Cutt er

roland DG has introduced the CAMM-1 PRO Series GX-640 64” vinyl cutter. Building on 23 years of advanced CAMM-1 technology, the GX-640 is

Roland’s largest and most advanced cutter ever, setting a new standard for performance and precision across media ranging from vinyl and polyester to Mylar, polyurethane, sand blast, twill and flock. The GX-640 outperforms other cutters on the market today with a new generation of servo motor technology, superior media handling, and powerful integrated design and output software for both stand-alone cutting and print then cut workflows. The GX-640 joins Roland’s CAMM-1 PRO cutter range, which also includes 50” and 30” models.

As a CAMM-1 PRO cutter, the GX-640 offers full integration with VersaWorks RIP software, included with every Roland wide-format inkjet printer. As a result, the GX-640 can be paired with a Roland printer to produce custom, full colour POP displays, signs, vehicle wraps, T-shirt heat transfers, labels and decals with ease and efficiency.

The GX-640 features Roland’s optical registration system, Quadralign®, which reads pre-printed crop marks and accurately aligns the graphic. This allows the GX-640 to automatically contour cut pre-printed designs with precision. At 64” wide, the GX-640 also cuts a variety of media in virtually any size and shape. New powerful servo motors and a “heavy mode” setting guarantee results on the largest, heaviest media rolls, including paint mask.

Roland CAMM-1 PRO GX-640 Features:• Supports 64” wide media, large enough for virtually any job, including vehicle

wrap, window tint or paint protection jobs• Powerful new servo motor technology and a “heavy mode” handle large,

heavy media rolls, including sand blast materials• New “pre-feed” function ensures proper feeding of heavy media by

automatically drawing one metre of media through the device before cutting

• High performance cutting speed and blade force for precision handling of a wide range of media, including long rolls of thick and thin materials

• Full integration with VersaWorks, Roland’s easy to use RIP software, for pairing with Roland inkjet printers

• Cutting data for pre-printed graphics is output from VersaWorks directly to the GX-640

• The GX-640 recognises printed crop marks, making it fast and easy to contour cut full-colour graphics

• Includes CutStudio, Roland’s feature-rich design softwareRoland CutStudio SoftwareCAMM-1 PRO cutters come with the latest version of CutStudio, Roland’s powerful, easy to use design software. With CutStudio, users can draw sophisticated graphics in this vector based programme and also import photos and graphics in jpg or bmp. CutStudio is compatible with Windows 7/VISTA/XP and includes plug-in software for Adobe Illustrator CS2/CS3/CS4, CorelDRAW X3/X4/X5 for Windows, and Adobe Illustrator CS2/CS3/CS4 for Mac. As a result, users of these programs can send data directly to the CAMM-1 PROwww.rolanddg.co.uk

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roland DG has introduced the CAMM-1 PRO Series GX-640 64” vinyl cutter. Building on 23 years of advanced CAMM-1 technology, the GX-640 is

Sense Creative wins SOTMThe website www.thatprintt hing.com wins the coveted CSN site of the month award for July/August in recognition of their online design and ecommerce print package. If you are looking to profi t from print you need to know about this system.

sense Creative have installed a new Ryobi Colour Press to add 100s of new print products for CSN readers to sell. The new trade site has all the tools to help you design and expand into new product lines.

easy Print e-CommerCeIntroducing a full e-commerce printing and template package which allows your customers to personalise a huge range of templates online. www.thatprintthing.com brings fantastic online personalisation within the budget of all small to medium sized printers and designers.

Sell Photobooks, Photocards, Graphics and Banners, Litho Print, Vehicle Panel Graphics, Digital Print, Customer Managed Websites and of course Greeting Cards.

You can print the orders yourself, or utilise the trade service. Get online to check the advanced personalisation tools.

eCommerCe FeatUreswww.thatprintthing.com has built an ecommerce system for print that is designed to make selling, processing and dispatch print orders quick and simple• Prices based on Quantity, Size and add on options - built for print• Take payments online• Customise your prices and profits• Add your own products• Customise all pages through the control panel• View, Modify and Contact your online customer address book• Search, Process and Modify Orders• Online Designer adds purchase options for your non-designer customers• Track sales and profitabilityGive customers control and develop new markets today! Your customers can choose from 100s of designs supplied with the system across a multitude of different products. New features include:• Access design options within all product types• Enter text with live preview as they type• Drag ‘n’ Drop items• Scale and Rotate• Change Text font, Colour and Size• Customer can upload Photos, Logos and graphics to use within preset designs• Add extra unlimited text fields to suit any template design• Save and recall previous designs from their account area• View designs through lightbox previews• Over 30 new designs added each month..

wedding ProdUCtsWedding stationery offers some of the highest profit margins in the print industry. Their system comes pre-installed with range after range of fantastic wedding designs, from cutting edge chic to eternally traditional designs.

Weddings modules comes complete with a range of stunning baby announcement designs.

Remember, add your own designs, develop your own ranges. You can print, or they can, you have complete control.• Wedding Invitations• Save The Date• Table Plans• Booklet of Service• Placecards• plus much, much moreOther Modules include photo, litho, Digital, outdoor. Vehicle, greetings, web and moreYou choose from eight modules for less than £2 per day!

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SHOW AWARDS

CSN/IPEX 2010 Show AwardsThe results are in and polling shut for another successful print show att ended by our intrepid band of roving reporters, readers and suppliers. With the votes now counted here are the stands that most stood out for our instant part of the print industry.

best Pre-Press soFtwareConneCt with enFoCUs – PitstoP

best new ColoUr Press or PrinterKoniCa C000 bizhUb Press

best Finishing eqUiPment – Joint winnersvivid laminating systems • UChida/Umg

best beneFiCial aCqUisitioninteC Printing solUtions

best new lFProland new versa Camm vs-0

best new ProdUCtsPitney bowes

best Promotional goodsthe magiC toUCh – oKi stand

best stand reCePtionrenz

Thanks to Daniel for showcasing so much opportunity on how best to present our customers print, plus free beer and sausage, no contest.

best stand at showdUPlo

Congratulations to everyone at DUPLO for such an impressive team eff ort in producing the best stand at IPEX 2010. The kit was in

constant demonstration mode to our readers delight. Response to enquiries is reported as being of the highest standard in product

knowledge and understanding of real printer’s requirements. The Duplo team were all there for us, fi t for purpose, thanks.

best stand at show

best Pre-Press soFtware best new ProdUCts

best new ColoUr Press or Printer best Promotional goods

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TOSHIBA


Going Green Can Keep You in the BlackRecent issues of CSN have reviewed the Toshiba e-STUDIO6530c Series to great acclaim. These high performing full colour systems are supplied in the UK and Ireland under the Toshiba Carbon Zero Scheme. With plenty of survey evidence showing that more than 70% of consumers would choose a “Green” product given the choice, Toshiba are keen that print retailers actively promote this value added benefi t to this growing market.

toshiba maKe every eff ort to reduce the environmental impact of their products, by

reducing energy consumption, higher reliability, reduced packaging and effi cient soft ware and service off erings. However as with all things some impact is unavoidable in the normal course of business. This is where the Toshiba Carbon Zero Scheme comes into play, and where you can maximise your investment in the product.

In short the Toshiba Carbon Zero Scheme is a very simple concept. Working with the leading carbon management company in the UK co2balance, Toshiba have calculated the full carbon footprint of their products. This includes the procurement and manufacture of the machine, plus the transport storage and installation to a UK site. Utilising the statistics from its Toshiba direct service arm it was possible to calculate the ongoing footprint of the machine including energy, toner, average service mileage, spares and consumable parts. The calculation also includes the paper which is the highest single contributor to the Carbon footprint of each click. This Carbon footprint of the product, and the fi rst one million prints produced, is then off set by investing in projects such as the African Energy Effi cient Stoves project based in Kenya. The whole process conforms to the highest standards and is independently monitored and verifi ed. Each of the stoves provided to a family in Africa saves on average 3 tonnes of Carbon emissions each year for the life of the project, and makes a signifi cant diff erence to the lives of the people involved.

This is all very well for the manufacturer helping them to meet their environmental and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) targets, but how does it help the independent copy and print business? By running a print system under this

scheme, you too, are able to utilise its Carbon Zero credentials. Advertising to your customers that you are able to off er Carbon Zero prints for any job run on the Toshiba product, is a very att ractive and unique proposition. With huge interest from both business and public users alike it’s important to get this message to your customers in the shop front and include it within your quotations. For example “ We (your business) take our environmental responsibilities seriously which is why we can off er you prints produced on a Carbon Zero Toshiba device”. If you are printing an annual report or similar you can off er a foot note “this report was produced Carbon Free” in turn allowing your customer to benefi t from the programme. This is Positive Printing and it means never having to apologise for doing business.

For more information check out www.toshibacarbonzero.co.uk or search for “Toshiba Carbon Zero” on You Tube to watch a video that explains the projects in more detail.

and complete media f exibility ...from ToshibaCarbon zero printing with comprehensive colour management

Simply purchase any Toshiba e-STUDIO Colour MFP from 1st April 2010 to 30th September 2010 and your printing/copying will be completely carbon zero up to 1 million prints.

Helping your customers and the environment has never been easier. With professional colour solutions from Toshiba every page is green, no matter what the content is!

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FESPA


Surf’s up for FESPA 2010Would-be ‘waveriders’ from the global imaging community made their way to Munich to catch the new wave of innovation at FESPA 2010, the most comprehensive FESPA event ever. It covered fi ve entire halls of Messe Munich, 25% larger than FESPA 2005 in the same venue, with over 700 exhibiting companies and around 30,000m2 of exhibition space.

the event was divided into clearly signposted Digital, Screen

and Fabric zones, addressing the needs of visitors from all geographical regions, producing all types of printed products and at all stages of their technological evolution.

FESPA Managing Director Frazer Chesterman commented: “FESPA 2010 is by far the most significant event worldwide embracing screen and digital processes, and the full gamut of commercial and industrial applications. It provides the perfect environment for printers evaluating how to adapt their business to an altered climate, a changing work profile and shifting customer needs. Signs are that the economic storm is blowing over, and the swell of optimism in our community is gathering momentum day by day. Our own campaign for the show has urged printers to innovate out of the

downturn, and those investing their time to visit FESPA 2010 will find all the input they need to plan for a productive and profitable future.”

FESPA 2010 mirrored the diversity of today’s blended wide format production environments. With 150 exhibitors, screen printing occupied an entire hall, while digital technologies expanded to fill three halls at the show, reflecting the industry’s dramatic progress to digital production since the last FESPA to be held in Munich in 2005.

For the first time at FESPA, the specific needs and interests of garment printers were met with a dedicated ‘event within an event’ under the new FESPA Fabric banner, bringing together more than 180 exhibitors in this area alone, and offering a dedicated educational programme and Fabric Live! fashion show.

The cool surfi ng theme which

dominated the marketing campaign for FESPA 2010 was refl ected throughout the show, with the striking wave structure and graphics of FESPA’s own stand and the two Innovation Theatres sure to catch the eye of all visitors. Show goers were met in the Messe entrance atrium by a team of FESPA ‘Lifeguards’ off ering information and pointers on how to make the most of their visit. The Surf Shack being the place to buy a limited edition T-shirt as a memento of the show, with the proceeds going to FESPA’s chosen pancreatic cancer charity.

An action packed timetable of FESPA Innovate! events ran alongside the exhibition, offering FESPA ‘surfers’ the chance to take part in inspirational and informative sessions on dozens of topics ranging from planet friendly printing to digital signage, from direct to garment to workflow automation. Those looking for more visual stimulation found it in with the FESPA Wrap Cup delivering some high speed vehicle wrapping action.


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the dilemma is the usual one, balancing speed and price against

faithful colour reproduction. The compromise is the same — you can have any two but not all three. The simple problem is that although instant digital printers have got better, customers expectations have also escalated along with their ability to capture and create original images. That, and the fact their impatience, has also increased in the light of a culture of immediacy.

The latter is the deciding factor. Whereas it might have seemed reasonable to expect a lengthy process to produce an acceptable result, now when images can be sent around the world in a split second, a few minutes seems to be a long time to wait for a print, an hour or more can seem an eternity.

Once, in a simpler photocopier world, the ’yes we can’ approach was not a problem. Now an inordinate amount of time is spent at the shop counter explaining why things can’t be done, or at least not the way the customer wants, or to the price they expect to pay. No we can’t print edge to edge. Yes we know you want it now but ink still has to dry…and so on.

It is important to try and sound positive and helpful — not easy when you are repeating yourself for the dozenth time that day. Some answers are straightforward, practical ones based on what is physically possible. When it comes to colour reproduction, it gets a lot more complicated, and it’s often much harder to explain why a particular image is not printing exactly as it appears on screen, in camera, or even in comparison to an identical print done previously. We’ve all been there.

In the years developing my knowledge

of digital imaging and printing along with the writing of this column, I’ve tried to tackle problems and solutions in a simple and straightforward way, much in the way you might want to talk to your average customer. I’m not an IT boffin, I’m a traditional photographer who has had the painful growing pains of going digital too late in his career to meekly accept all the advice of apparent experts without question. I try and translate the jargon and the technical explanations into more simple language, and terms and examples that can be more easily understood. Inevitably, this means I will take a few liberties with actual technical facts, so those of you with degrees in Rocket Science must bear with me if I err on the side of comprehension and entertainment, rather than absolute scientific truth.

You don’t have to talk down to customers to explain something in practical terms rather than baffle them with incomprehensible nonsense that can often sound patronising even if it is accurate. And, as I have learnt, in the digital world today’s absolute truths are likely to be overturned by tomorrow’s experiences. At the very least, we are still at such an early learning stage of digital imaging, that it is impossible to imagine how many of the facts we now hold to be certain will be so in another ten years.

The basics of binary information are likely to remain the same until they are replaced by something even more inscrutable, but how we manage them is liable to undergo revolutionary change as the technology expands exponentially — a small step today is a massive leap tomorrow.

One of the basics is the bit, the smallest unit of data. It can be 1 or 0, black or white, on or off. 8 bits comprise a byte.

Are you still with me ? The mathematics allow for the variety of combinations of ones and zeros to create 256 options, or shades of grey from absolute black to absolute white. You can see the make up and shape of shades in an image if you open the Levels control panel in Photoshop. What’s called the Histogram is the graphic map of the images with its peaks and troughs, and the slider below can be used to adjust the values.

Colour Images, whether scanned or captured with a digital camera, are in the primary basics of red, green and blue, each colour channel having a similar 256 options, and the resulting combination can create a possible 16 million colour options. These are the broad colours of the rainbow if you like, what we see, what can be created in the visual world. Unfortunately the print world, working in toner and ink cannot compete with this spectrum, and can only achieve a quarter of these possibilities. This is because we are not working with light, with displayed colour, or even picking individual solid colours to make a selection, but mixing simple combinations of several tones in different proportions to produce a final print.

The modern digital printer is obviously much more sophisticated in how it selects this mix from the binary information it is fed, but essentially the process is as it has always been — what we call additive colour, produced by adding the different proportions of ink. In its simplest form this is made up of the four basic colours of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (the K in CMYK). More accurate inkjet printers have anything up to twelve colours to call on, which increases the tonal range that can be achieved, but the process is essentially

the same.Each of the four colour channels is

capable of holding the 256 options of 8 bit, which is why it is called 24 bit colour. It’s just the limitations of the ink combinations that compromise the resulting colour. The difference is best seen looking at the RGB spectrum versus the CMYK one. This may be a very simplistic representation but I have found it a very effective aid in showing exactly what the difference is, and why it is important.

If you open the two side by side in Photoshop and go to Window>Channels you can easily see, by hiding one of the three colours in RGB or the four in CMYK, the effect this has on the colours overall, or not as the case may be. We will put these two on the CSN website if you want to download the originals.

Many people are under the impression that a CMYK file is ‘better’ than an RGB one, partly because it is a bigger file and has four channels rather than three. The opposite is actually the case, and as modern digital presses don’t need four colour separations to print from, there is no need to perform a conversion, the machine will do that all on its own.

The plot thickens however, because most good scanners and decent digital cameras are capable, if the operators know how to use them properly, of capturing colour in 16 bits per channel, instead of 8. This is also referred to as 48 bit colour (sixteen times three). This may seem overkill if the printers can only print 8 bit, but it means that on the image management side there is a lot more scope for editing. Instead of the millions of colours available in 24 bit RGB, a 48 bit colour image has billions, literally.

This is not to be confused with resolution — the pixel size and sharpness of the image are different matters. The 24 and 48 bit images will have exactly the same pixel count, size for size, but the latter file will be twice the size as each colour channel contains twice the information. In editing terms it’s like having an encyclopedia to draw from rather than a paper back novel. This is a great advantage for fine tuning as however clever Adobe is, adjustment of colour by levels, curves and filers is comparatively crude and the more latitude you have to play with the better.

At the end of the day, however good the image, you are still working with resolution dependant files — dots per square inch or centimetre. You can’t re-create resolution, but you can improve the quality of the image depending on the information you have available to work on.

In the working week I scan a lot of original artwork for book illustrators, and the standard spec now requested from the publishers is for 48 bit colour

Colour – a black artWe may be print on demand, but if it’s a call for colour accuracy as well, it’s more of an issue. Martin Christie, writes....

DIGITAL IMAGING



DIGITAL IMAGING

TIFFs, sometimes at 200% of the original, to allow maximum scope for cleaning, colour correction and the like in the repro stage before scaling back to the previous size for publication. Most decent desktop scanners will have a 48bit option if you know where to look. If it’s an Epson, you need to switch into professional mode to see the full menu. Most customers, even if they have the scanner, will find the options a little daunting, and unlikely to know what to do with the file even if they could create it. The ubiquitous JPEG is an 8 bit file format, so saving it as one defeats the object. Similarly, with a digital camera, saving a quality image as a JPEG is throwing away a massive amount of captured information from the original device. For a lot of applications, the quality will be acceptable. But if you are going for fine tuning and colour accuracy you need to go for a more sophisticated formula.

Although we have an A2 scanner, I am more often using photography with

difficult or oversize originals. One of the advantages of photography, using the option of studio lights with reflectors and diffusers, is that I am able to create flat lighting ideal for artwork that has texture, relief or has been heavily or unevenly glazed. The latter causes patches of glare on a normal scanner, or flare if you use a standard on camera flash.

I am using a very good 12 Megapixel Digital SLR with a top of the range Nikon lens as well. That makes a whacking difference in initial sharpness and vibrance in the original image, but the final trick is in post processing. I tend to shoot a JPEG first, for convenience, just like we used to use a Polaroid to check

lighting and composition. Then I shoot in RAW, which is the unprocessed file format which can be processed on the computer with compatible software to output a 16bit (x3 colour) TIFF file for fine tuning. Pretty well all high-end digital cameras can shoot RAW files, and most amateur photographers are aware of and may use them. But whether your average customer would be able to do anything with it, like the scanner issue, is another matter.

This is where the professional tips and experience come into their own. When quoting on scanning or photography it’s important that the skill and expertise is appreciated as well as the equipment. When I get the “It’s ok I have a camera” or “I have a friend who has a scanner” I know there is no point explaining further. When they come in with something that won’t print like it’s supposed to, then is the time to resume the conversation.

One of the advantages of processing a RAW file on the computer is that you will be using a faster and therefore better

processor than is likely to be in the camera with its limited space. You can also do your editing at your own pace, and save versions at different stages, rather than let the camera itself make an instant, irrevocable choice in a JPEG.

Traditional film, because it was developed as an optical projection format, was virtually seamless in its tonal range — colours would blend gently into each other. The digital image relies on the processing software to decide when one colour becomes another, and how harsh the transition between them is recorded.

With small bit files, that step is always going to be severe, as recorded in the spikes and dips of the Levels Histogram. Large bit files have a massive advantage in being able to fill the gaps with much useful information that will make a difference when finally sent down to the printer. It’s the printer that ultimately has to make the split second decision on what shade of what colour in will finally spit out. The more help you can give it the better!

No cyan

No yellow

No magenta

No black

GREEN ISSUES


Duraweld named in Sunday Times ‘Best Green Companies’ listdUraweld is celebrating two new accolades for its commitment to environmentally friendly business practices, as it features in the third annual edition of The Sunday Times Best Green Companies list and scoops one of the top prizes in the Binding Industries Association (BIA) Awards.

Competing against companies from across the US in the BIA Awards ‘Product of Excellence’ category, Duraweld entered a specially designed travel card holder made from their own 100% recycled polypropylene. The company adapted its standard vinyl travel card product using sonic welding instead of a heat sealing manufacturing process, producing wallets which were both environmentally and ethically sound, as well as attractive and durable.

The BIA Judges commented: “We were very impressed with the design and use of materials. The travel card holder is creative, very practical and it really stood out amongst the other entries.”

In The Sunday Times, Duraweld was ranked 39 out of 60 companies throughout the UK, and featured in

the Top Ten for having the ‘greenest employees’. According to The Sunday Times, “…competition for places in the Top 60 was intense and the quality of entries very high. Only those organisations demonstrating the highest environmental standards, with

workforces wholly engaged and in tune with their green initiatives, have made it onto the list.”

Victoria Pitts, Durawelds’ Green Team leader said: “It is very rewarding to have our green initiatives and products recognised by both these

organisations and it positions us as being up there amongst the best in employing environmentally friendly business practices. Our commitment to protecting the environment remains firm and we will continue to improve and develop both our internal processes and our recycled product ranges.”

These two new accolades support Duraweld’s ISO 14001 accreditation and carbon zero status.

Based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Duraweld is one of the UK’s leading producers of customised presentation, packaging and printed stationery products. Over the last five decades, the company has constantly invested in new technology and staff development, building a reputation for first class production quality, the highest environmental standards, constant innovation and excellent customer service.

Its product range includes folders, portfolios, ring binders, dividers, organisers, boxes, conference packs, wallets, badge holders and multimedia packaging.www.duraweld.co.uk.

a new 12” album hits the shops next month – Brownswood Recordings’ Havana Cultura Remixed presented by internationally renowned DJ Gilles Peterson. What makes this album unique is that it is the first to print the record sleeve on Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC) certified paper and will also use the logo to prove it.

The album packaging was produced by London based project management company, Clear Sound & Vision Ltd. The company was formed in 1997 and since then has worked predominantly within the music and film industries; managing and providing solutions for manufacturing of CDs, CD ROMs, DVDs, vinyl pressings and associated print, packaging and design. In recent years CSV has seen their client base extend both in and outside of the entertainment business. CSV works regularly with leading blue chip clients including Sony Music, EMI, Warner Music, O2 and Barclays.

As a major part of CSV’s business is the provision of bespoke packaging solutions. The company has always been keen to demonstrate its strong commitment to using environmentally friendly products. In order to be

able to provide its customers with assurances of responsibly sourced packaging materials, earlier this year the company achieved dual PEFC/FSC chain of custody certification. Chain of custody certification is the process by which wood based products can be traced back to responsibly managed forests.

Commenting on its latest project, CSV’s Clive Robins said “We take our commitment to responsible packaging very seriously and gained PEFC and

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) chain of custody certification to provide assurances to our customers. We are proud to demonstrate our support for responsible forest management by including both the PEFC and FSC logos on our packaging. We believe that these accreditations are valuable to both our business and our customers and it is something we actively promote to our clients”.

Welcoming CSV’s decision, PEFC UK Chairman, Peter Latham said, “We are

delighted that Clear Sound and Vision has chosen this highly visible means of demonstrating their participation in the PEFC programme. With over 600 companies now having a licence to use the PEFC logo, it is beginning to appear on more and more consumer facing printed products. However, this is the first time a company has used the logo this way and it presents an excellent opportunity to increase awareness of the PEFC logo to discerning consumers.”www.pefc.co.uk

First record label to use PEFC on its sleeve


GREEN ISSUES

UPM Shott on’s Sustainable Schools Dayover 10 sChoolChildren

from across North Wales, Cheshire and the Wirral took part in a series of hands on science and sustainability workshops at UPM Shotton recently.

Supported by Business in the Community and Techniquest Wrexham, 115 primary schoolchildren were given the opportunity to learn about paper – including making their very own hand made paper squares – as well as renewable energy and a tour of UPM Shotton’s state-of the art paper mill.

In the afternoon 47 senior school students were invited to a sustainability workshop and mill tour as recognition for their participation in the Make It in Manufacturing Challenge in which UPM Shotton was chosen as the regional manufacturing partner.

The events were part of the UK’s largest newsprint paper mill’s silver jubilee which took place over three days recently, marking 25 years of sustainable manufacturing on the former British Steel site. In May 1985 the Shotton Paper mill commenced operation. Since that date it has received continued investment helping it win several awards including the Queen’s Award: Sustainable Development in 2009. In January 2010, the mill announced a £17m investment to build a materials recovery facility.

Owen Evans, BiTC said “It’s fantastic that UPM Shotton were able to provide such an opportunity for young children

to engage in science and engineering on a practical level. The paper making workshop was extremely popular. It is highly encouraging to see companies like UPM Shotton working closely with schools and the local community.”

David Ingham, General Manager UPM Shotton said: “We’re delighted to be able to host such an event as part of our 25th celebrations. These children are our future employees, customers and readers of the newspapers we supply newsprint for. Getting to see how we do it, and how sustainably we work, is extremely important for us.”

UPm shotton materials reCovery FaCility taKes shaPeUPM Shotton’s Materials Recovery Facility has taken a step further with main steel work being put into place, marking a major milestone for the £17M investment.

Announced earlier this year, the Materials Recovery Facility will be able to sort up to 250,000 tonnes of comingled materials sourced from across the UK once fully operational. 120,000 tonnes will be newspapers and magazines- providing 20% of the recovered paper used as raw material in the mill’s paper production. Surplus recyclable material will be recycled by other reprocessors as required.

The materials recovery facility has been designed to allow UPM Shotton to sort dry recyclables such as plastic bottles, cardboard, newspapers, magazines and metals. The investment is supported by the Welsh Assembly Government with a GBP 1.7m Single Investment Fund grant and will have up to 150 people working on the construction phase of the facility.

Undertaking the construction work is Eric Wright Group (www.ericwright.co.uk) UPM has also appointed Machinex (www.machinex.ca) for the supply and installation of sorting equipment and lines. When complete the facility will be the keystone of UPM Shotton’s recycling

service setting new market leading standards for quality, value and service.

Mr David Green, UPM Project Director for the facility build said: “We are extremely pleased to be able to reach this

significant milestone in our project. By choosing good quality and experienced partners such as Machinex and Eric Wright Group, we believe that we have best possible platform to reach future milestones and start up in January 2011. Eric Wright Group has excellent credentials as a sustainable company which mirror our own values.

The Machinex design will allow the materials recovery rate will be at least 99%, setting a new high standard for materials recovery” he added.

UPM Shotton is part of the UPM, a global forest products business and Europe’s biggest recycler of newspapers and magazines. It recycles 700,000 tonnes a year – equivalent to 95,000 double decker buses. UPM Shotton is the largest newsprint mill in the UK, producing newsprint for the national and the regional press, with capacity to produce 500,000 tonnes a year. Following the investment of over £120million to create the world’s biggest single line recovered fibre pulping facility, UPM Shotton now creates newsprint from 100% recovered paper sources.www.upm.com

bUsinesses that are concerned about the environmental impact of their offi ce equipment can now print and copy documents carbon free, following Toshiba TEC Imaging’s decision to roll out a carbon off sett ing initiative across the UK and Ireland.

Aft er a successful pilot programme last year, carbon emissions produced during the design, manufacture, distribution and everyday use of Toshiba multi-function printers (MFPs) in the UK can now be off set through a scheme that helps villagers in Kenya reduce their own carbon footprint. Even the paper and toner that the MFPs use is off set.

The African Energy Effi cient Stove project, which is run through an independent British organisation called CO2balance, supplies domestic stoves that cut the use of fi rewood by more than half. Each cooker typically prevents three tonnes of CO2 emissions every year – equivalent to the emissions produced by an average UK car doing 9,000 miles a year.

Four thousand Kenyan households have already switched to this energy effi cient method of cooking thanks to Toshiba carbon-free MFPs — and the scheme’s success means that 30,000 stoves could be installed by the end of this year. Combined with further innovations in the products themselves it

means that carbon savings are made in both the UK and in Africa.

Installing the more effi cient stoves doesn’t just benefi t the environment: it also helps reduces the 1.6 million deaths each year that the World Health Association identifi es as associated with smoke inhalation. In fact, the WHO states that cooking on an ineffi cient ‘3-stone fi re’ is the equivalent of smoking 2 packets of cigarett es a day.

As environmental considerations are already built in to Toshiba’s products, the MFP Carbon zero scheme is just one part of the company’s commitment to social and environmental concerns. Toshiba MFPs already feature cutt ing

edge functionality that helps users reduce their environmental impact.

Nonetheless, however seriously organisations take their environmental responsibilities, some level of CO2 emissions are the inevitable consequence of the manufacture, design and use of offi ce products. Toshiba’s carbon zero programme allows customers to off set such emissions in full, including servicing and consumables, for fi ve years of the product’s life, or one million copies.

Steve Hewson, Marketing Director for Toshiba TEC Imaging says: “Most organisations these days would claim to care about their social or

environmental impact, but even the practical ways they try to achieve their ambitions — by recycling, or encouraging employees not to print documents unnecessarily — can only go so far. If you truly care about running a greener offi ce, cutt ing your costs and helping the environment, you have to make sure the products you use have sustainability ‘built in’ and that any residual CO2 emissions are off set — completely.”

“The African Energy Effi cient Stove project delivers savings on two continents and means that as well as contributing to your own environmental eff orts, you can make a very real diff erence to the lives of people in East Africa.”

bUsinesses that are concerned about the edge functionality that helps users reduce their

Toshiba’s Carbon-Free printing makes kenyan cooking more sustainable

NEW PROFIT CENTRE


PRINTING PLASTIC PARTS FROM POwDERUsing laser printers and powder to craft crucial and complex components for aeroplanes and cars could become common practice thanks to work being carried out at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU).

A £750,000 project, involving DMU’s world-leading Rapid Manufacturing and Prototyping Group, will develop a new machine which can produce complex plastic parts on demand.

The project, called Selective Laser Printing of High Performance Polymers (SPRINT), will explore selective laser printing (SLP), an additive manufacturing process where fine polymeric powder is printed and then fused together to make complex parts essential to industries such as the aerospace and automotive sectors.

Additive manufacturing techniques, where objects are made without a mould, are increasingly used in industry but they are unable to produce parts with properties that match those which have been made traditionally by injecting plastic into moulds.

The project, which is part funded by the Technology Strategy Board, is led by rapid manufacturing specialists MTT Technology Ltd, with other partners being Renishaw Plc and Parker KV.

A previous project at DMU explored the possibilities of SLP – SPRINT promises to realise its full potential by developing a compact, energy-efficient machine along with a range of high-performance polymer materials that can be used in the process.

The SPRINT machine will precisely deposit powder using an adapted industrial laser printer before the entire layer is fused with an infrared radiant heater. The process will create less waste than other additive manufacturing techniques as it allows the powder to be laid only where it is required rather than across the entire build area.

Jason Jones, who is leading the project at DMU, said: “Selective laser printing has the potential of competing with the quality and speed of conventional manufacturing techniques without the requirement for expensive moulds.”

Although additive manufacturing was first introduced as a way of making prototype parts almost 20 years ago, the current commercial units are too slow and are unable to produce parts that can reliably withstand impacts and general wear and tear as well as moulded parts.

DMU’s Professor David Wimpenny, who originally conceived of the process, said: “The limitations of existing additive manufacturing systems prevent the most challenging and commercially rewarding applications – the production of precise complex parts using high performance polymers – from being exploited.

“The machine we are developing will produce parts with outstanding mechanical properties because every layer is fused using controlled heat and pressure. The process also has high processing speeds and excellent resolution.”For more information please contact the De Montfort University Press and Public Relations Offi ce on 0116 207 8353.

Print white and CMYK inks together with one pass fast

Users of DTG direct to product ink jet printers will have a colossal advantage over their competitors in the future with the launch of One Pass Fast. This new development will revolutionise the industry having achieved what everyone thought was impossible, to print the white and the CMYK inks during the same pass.

Before you can print a coloured t-shirt using the ink jet method you must fi rst put down a layer of white ink, just as with screen printing. The soft ware decides where the white ink should be and, on the fi rst run, prints ONLY the white ink onto the shirt. It is on the second run, or pass, that the CMYK ink is laid down and the coloured image produced. With One Pass Fast these two passes are combined into one, eff ectively halving the print time. As you can well imagine the distributors for UK and Ireland, Your Embroidery Services Ltd., are over the moon with this amazing addition to the already extensive DTG catalogue. A spokesman said “we are completely bowled over by this development. Our technicians together with those from DTG have been quietly working away in the background on this. We like most others in the industry never imagined that it would ever be possible to print white and CYMK inks at the same time but we were obviously wrong. It just goes to show what can be achieved when you have management and technical staff who are never satisfi ed with what they have got”. The latt er statement could not be truer as DTG and ‘YES Ltd.’ never seem to be satisfi ed with their lot and are always looking for the next development that will give their customers the edge with One Pass Fast though they are not just off ering them a small step forward but rather a gigantic leap in both technology and production. In eff ect DTG users will be able to produce up to double that of other similar printers or, to put it another way, halve the unit cost. Apart from the eff ect this will have on the immediate market it could also have a ripple eff ect on other industries because if the increased competiveness. The good news doesn’t end there either as One Pass Fast is patent pending so the technology will remain in the sole domain of DTG users.

Since it fi rst appeared ink jet technology has been the subject of disbelief. Putt ing ink directly onto cott on – disbelief: developing a white ink suitable for ink jet printers – disbelief: curing the white ink without using heat and without moving it from the printer – disbelief. With each of these though the disbelief has been shatt ered with Your Embroidery Services Ltd. and DTG at the forefront of every development but this latest advance tops all that has gone before. Where this is concerned incredulity could easily replace disbelief but it wouldn’t matt er because, once again, ‘YES Ltd.’ and DTG have come through for their customers.

One thing is for sure, if you want to be up there with the leaders in this type of technology and compete at the highest level then you will have to use DTG One Pass Fast because nothing else on the market can keep up with the level of production that can be achieved using this system. For more information about the DTG One Pass Fast please contact Your Embroidery Services Ltd on 01623 863343 or e-mail them at [email protected] you can also get details via the web at www.yesltd.co.uk

yes, a picture paints a thousand words. Where can we get an ice cream?This image on our new trade supplier Hampshire Flags, 3 metre tear drop

product sells for between £150 and £190 and can be purchased by CSN readers for only £99. Contact Graham Wilkinson 0845 6443129

Fancy an ice cream?Fancy an ice cream?


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Flags are upoUr summer festivities include fl ying the fl ag for our new product range of promotional advertising banners and fl ags. Thanks to Steve and Anna for sett ing such a positive example!

Customer reaction so far has seen beaming smiling enquiries from our regulars and new faces too, all united with that usual response to our marketing eff orts, “I didn’t know you did those!”

Sales are fl ying high, join in this summer and set some new standards in instant print.www.hampshirefl ag.co.uk

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Printers Colour Recipe Cook Book – Colour Recipe Request yoUr help please. As part of our marketing this year CSN wants to provide you all with some real scenario book artwork to produce tasteful samples to show off your POD capabilities. We are in the market to collect your most colourful food recipes as we prepare a print industry colourful cook book.

blaCKCUrrant sUmmer PUddingINGREDIENTS• 4 tablespoons blackcurrant cordial

(or Crème de Cassis)• 225g red fruit compote• 6 medium slices white bread with

crusts cut off

method1 Mix the first 3 ingredients and leave

for 5-10 minutes. If using defrosted fruit tip in some of the juice too. Meanwhile line a 1.2 litre pudding basin with cling film, leaving an overhang. Cut a circle of bread to fit the base, then quarter the rest

2 Drain the juices from the soaked fruit into a bowl, dip the bread in until soaked. Layer up the fruit and bread, pour over the remaining juices and cover with the overhanging cling fi lm - weigh down with a small plate and a couple of cans. Chill in the fridge until ready to eat. Turn out and serve with single cream.

mango FrUit sKewersINGREDIENTS• 1 large ripe mango• 2 large oranges – peeled• 2 large bananas – peeled• 250g small strawberries – hulled• 1-2 tablespoons butter• 1 tablespoon lime juice• ½ cup honey• 1 cup vanilla yoghurt• 12 wooden skewers

METHODSoak skewers in cold water for 20-30 minutes. Cut mango and oranges into 3cm chunks. Cut bananas into 3cm slices. Thread fruit onto skewers, alternating the varieties, and place on

an oven tray. Combine butter, lime juice and honey in a small saucepan and stir over low heat until butter has melted and mixture is smooth. Pour mixture over fruit, turning to coat.

Cook skewers on a lightly greased grill plate (or barbecue) until warm. Cool and serve with yoghurt • Bring on your Lemon Chicken cooking instructions and favourite recipes for Blueberry Muffins or a Red Thai Curry. For starters, the more the merrier please. Mains from all over the world, sweets, buffets, you choose, it’s your recipe book. This may be the first collection of food celebrating the addition of colour. [email protected]

Group savings for allMore CSN readers schemes are on the cards, so please do check you are up to date with your print industry preferential pricing plans. Through the economies of scale you should already be saving on everything from leasing to electricity. Power to the print people!

we have been working with perfectly matched suppliers

who value our group membership standards and want to be part of developing our club benefi ts. These now include AXA, through our introduction through CSMA Insurance specialist Lucas Fett es. Over the summer months we will be requesting your input on how and when ‘off the peg’ insurance delivers short of expectations. Our bespoke requirements mean we are not a good fi t into other types of business insurance. On the main we are not well served when off ered pure shop, offi ce or industrial cover. Awkward as we are, our determination to not pay for adding all these categories together is about to pay dividends. It is not just the cheek of paying for so much irrelevant cover, more importantly it is the worry of not being able to fi nd the cover we specifi cally require. It is all down to the measurements, just like the requirement for a proper brief before print.

Today’s professional printer has unique buying criteria when it comes to many things, no more so than

proper print business insurance. Many meetings in, we are now nearing our first draft policy proposal and would welcome your appraisal of the summary of cover. Now, time is money and we are

aware that our request for a steering committee should include a reward for investing individual businesses time for the greater good of the membership. We have lined up some useful print

related goodies, starting off with some perfect pantone guide presents for those involved. Please help [email protected]

Now what more can we all do together that will save us all in overheads?

Fuel at discounted prices?... On the cards watch this space.

Phones, broadband etc… see in panel below.

Spicers Stationery Club…get on board [email protected]

Professional print recognition and accreditation…Work in progress.

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Utility Warehouse which is operated by Telecom plc, a British company listed on the London Stock Exchange, provides over 300,000 customers throughout the UK with substantial savings on a wide range of utilities, including phones, broadband, gas and electricity.

It doesn’t have a direct sales force, which means it can charge customers less. It relies on customers letting friends and family know about its services, and since CSN first introduced its services many readers have switched both their company and home utilities to UWDC.

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wHOOPSA salesman was leaving the offi ce one evening when he found a product manager standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand.

“Listen,” said the manager, “this is a very sensitive and important document here, and my secretary has gone for the night. Can you make this thing work for me?”

“Certainly,” said the salesman. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start butt on.

“Excellent, excellent!” said the manager, as his paper disappeared inside the machine. “I just need one copy...”

USEFUL PHRASES FOR YOUR COPY SHOP CONTER

1. Thank you. We’re all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.

2. The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.

3. I don’t know what your problem is, but are you an Architect?

4. Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.

5. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don’t care.

6. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.

7. As the customer, you must think you’re right‽

8. I’m not being rude. You’re just insignifi cant.

9. I’m already visualising the Duck Tape over your mouth.

10. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.

11. It’s a thankless job, but I’ve got a lot of Karma to burn off .

12. Yes, I am trained to do the impossible.

13. No, the image you stole off the net will not blow up to A2

14. How about never? Is never good for you?

15. I’m really easy to get along with once you people learn to listen.

16. You sound reasonable. But I am not a magician

17. I’ll try being nicer if you’ll try being smarter.

18. I’m out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.

19. I don’t work here. I’m a consultant.20. Who me? I just wander from room to

room.21. My toys! My toys! I can’t do this job

without my toys!22. It might look like I’m doing nothing,

but at the cellular level I’m really quite busy.

23. At least I have a positive att itude about my destructive habits.

24. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.

25. I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.

26. Someday, we’ll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.

CAMERA CRAZYThe photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fi re. Smoke at the scene was too thick to get any good shots, so he frantically called his home offi ce to hire a plane. “It will be waiting for you at the airport!” he was assured by his editor. As soon as he got to the small, rural airport, sure enough, a plane was warming up near the runway. He jumped in with his equipment and yelled, “Let’s go! Let’s go!” The pilot swung the plane into the wind and soon they were in the air. “Fly over the north side of the fi re,” said the photographer, “and make three or four low level passes.” “Why?” asked the pilot. “Because I’m going to take pictures! I’m a photographer, and photographers take pictures!” said the photographer with great exasperation. Aft er a long pause the pilot said, “You mean you’re not the instructor?”

SIGN OF THE TIMESSign on company bulletin board: “This fi rm requires no physical-fi tness programme. Everyone gets enough exercise jumping to conclusions, fl ying off the handle, running down the boss, fl ogging dead horses, knifi ng friends in the back, dodging responsibility, and pushing their luck.”

A sign posted in a Dentist’s offi ce said:“Please be nice to our dentists. They

have fi llings too.”Sign seen in a veterinarian’s offi ce.

The doctor is in. Sit. Stay.I saw a sign that said “Speed Bumps”. I thought, my how times change!

Speed used to kill.SICK DAYS: We will no longer accept a

doctor statement as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are still able to come to work.

SURGERY: Operations are now banned. As long as you are an employee here, you need all your organs. You should not consider removing anything. We hired you intact. To have something removed constitutes a breach of employment.

PERSONAL DAYS: Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year. They are called Saturday and Sunday.

HOLIDAYS: All employees will take their holiday at the same time every year. The holiday days are as follows: Jan. 1, May 3rd & Dec. 25

OUT FROM YOUR OWN DEATH: This will be accepted as an excuse. However, we require at least two weeks notice, as it is your duty to train your own replacement.

TOILET USE: Entirely too much time is being spent in the toilet. In the future, we will follow the practice of going in alphabetical order. For instance, all employees whose names begin with ‘A’ will go from 8:00 to 8:20, employees whose names begin with ‘B’ will go from 8:20 to 8:40 and so on. If you’re unable to go at your allott ed time, it will be necessary to wait until the next day when your turn comes again. In extreme emergencies employees may swap their

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time with a co-worker. Both employees’ supervisors in writing must approve this exchange. In addition, there is now a strict 3-minute time limit in the stalls. At the end of three minutes, an alarm will sound, the toilet paper roll will retract, and the stall door will open.

LUNCH BREAK: Skinny people get an hour for lunch as they need to eat more so that they can look healthy, normal size people get 30 minutes for lunch to get a balanced meal to maintain the average figure. Fat people get 5 minutes for lunch because that’s all the time needed to drink a Slim Fast and take a diet pill.

DRESS CODE: It is advised that you come to work dressed according to your salary, if we see you wearing £350 Prada sneakers and carrying a £600 Gucci bag we assume you are doing well financially and therefore can afford a pay cut.

INTERVIEw GUIDANCEThree guys go in for a job interview, all at the same office. The first one goes in for his interview and the interviewer says, “What’s the first thing you see when you look at me?” The guy says, “That’s not too hard, you’ve got no ears.” The interviewer says, “That’s it, get out, you’ll never be seen around here again.” The second man takes his turn and is asked the same question. The applicant replies, “Uh, you’ve got no ears.” The interviewer throws the guy out, cursing and yelling that he’ll never get a job with his company. As he is leaving, the second guy warns the third guy, “Listen man, whatever you do, don’t say he hasn’t got any ears. He’s so touchy with the ear thing.” “Okay,” said man 3 on his way into the office. Once inside he is told, “Name the first thing you notice when you look at me.” The guy answers, “That’s easy, you wear contacts.” The interviewer was flabbergasted, “How on earth did you know that, son?” “What? Are you stupid? You can’t wear glasses, you’ve got no ears!”

HAIL DRIVERPassenger in a taxi leaned over to ask the driver a question and tapped him on the shoulder. The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb, and stopped just inches from a large plate glass window.

For a few moments everything was silent in the cab, and then the still

shaking driver said, “I’m sorry but you scared the daylights out of me.”

The frightened passenger apologised to the driver and said he didn’t realise a mere tap on the shoulder could frighten him so much.

The driver replied, “No, no, I’m sorry, it’s entirely my fault. Today is my first day driving a cab. I’ve been driving a hearse for the last 25 years.”

BRAIN POwERA young man at this construction site was bragging that he could outdo anyone based on his strength. He especially made fun of one of the older workman. After several minutes, the older worker had enough.

“Why don’t you put your money where you mouth is?” he said. “I’ll bet a week’s wages that I can haul something in a wheelbarrow over to the other building that you won’t be able to wheel back.”

“You’re on, old man,” the young man replied. “Let’s see what you’ve got.”

The old man reached out and grabbed the wheelbarrow by the handles. Then nodding to the young man, he said with a smile, “All right. Get in.”

SALES JOBReaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Officer asked a young salesman fresh out of the training school, “And what starting salary were you looking for?”

The salesman replies, “In the region of £125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package.”

The interviewer enquires, “Well, what would you say to a package of 5 weeks holiday, 14 paid sales trips, full medical and dental insurance, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a new company car every 2 years say, a red Porshe?”

The salesman sits up straight and says, “Wow! Are you kidding?”

And the interviewer replies, “Yeah, but you started it.”

BEST PARkING PRACTICEBefore going to Europe on business, an American businessman drives his Rolls-Royce to a downtown New York City bank and asks for an immediate loan of $5,000.The loan officer, taken aback, requests collateral. “Well then, here are the keys to my Rolls-Royce,” the man

says. The loan officer promptly has the car driven into the bank’s underground parking for safe keeping and gives the man the $5,000. Two weeks later, the man walks through the bank’s doors and asks to settle up his loan and get his car back. “That will be $5,000 in principal, and $15.40 in interest,” the loan officer says. The man writes out a cheque and starts to walk away. “Wait, sir,” the loan officer says. “You are a millionaire. Why in the world would you need to borrow $5,000?” The man smiles, “Where else could I find a safer place to park my Rolls-Royce in Manhattan for two weeks and pay only $15.40?”

THANk YOU FOR YOUR LOYALTY TO OUR COMPANY.

We are here to provide a positive employment experience. Therefore, all questions comments, concerns, complaints, frustrations, irritations, aggravations, insinuations, allegations, accusations, contemplations, consternations or input should be typed up in an easy to absorb typeface and placed face down in the shredder. Have a nice week - Print Shop Management.

END OF TERM GIFTSIt was the end of the school year, and a nursery teacher was receiving gifts from her pupils. The florist’s son handed her a gift. She shook it, held it overhead, and said, “I bet I know what it is. Flowers.” “That’s right!” the boy said, “But, how did you know?” “Oh, just a wild guess,” she said. The next pupil was the sweet shop owner’s daughter. The teacher held her gift overhead, shook it, and said, “I bet I can guess what it is. A box of sweets.” “That’s right, but how did you know?” asked the girl. “Oh, just a wild guess,” said the teacher. The next gift was from the son of the liquor storeowner. The teacher held he package overhead, but it was leaking. She touched a drop off the leakage with her finger and put it to her tongue. “Is it wine?” she asked. “No,” the boy replied, with some excitement. The teacher repeated the process, tasting a larger drop of the leakage. “Is it champagne?” she asked. “No,” the boy replied, with more excitement. The teacher took one more big taste before declaring, “I give up, what is it?” With great glee, the boy replied, “It’s a puppy!” SURPRISE!

THE GYNAECOLOGIST wHO BECAME A MECHANIC

A gynaecologist had become fed up with malpractice insurance and NHS paperwork, and was burned out. Hoping to try another career where skilful hands would be beneficial, he decided to become a mechanic. He went to the local technical college, signed up for evening classes, attended diligently, and learned all he could.

When the time of the practical exam approached, the gynaecologist prepared carefully for weeks, and completed the exam with tremendous skill.

When the results came back, he was surprised to find that he had obtained a score of 150%. Fearing an error, he called the Instructor, saying, “I don’t want to appear ungrateful for such an outstanding result, but I wonder if there is an error in the grade?”

“The instructor said, “During the exam, you took the engine apart perfectly, which was worth 50% of the total mark. You put the engine back together again perfectly, which is also worth 50% of the mark.” After a pause, the instructor added, “I gave you an extra 50% because you did it all through the exhaust pipe, which I’ve never seen done in my entire career”.

MONEY MINDEDA salesman opened the door of his BMW, when suddenly a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off completely. When the police arrived at the scene, the salesman was complaining bitterly about the damage to his precious BMW.

“Officer, look what they’ve done to my Beemer!” he whined.

“You salesmen are so materialistic, you make me sick!” retorted the officer, “You’re so worried about your stupid BMW, that you didn’t even notice that your left arm was ripped off!”

“Oh my god”, replied the salesman, finally noticing the bloody left shoulder where his arm once was, “Where’s my Rolex!”

A salesman came in to work with both of his ears bandaged.

When his boss asked him

what happened, he explained: “Yesterday I was ironing a shirt

when the phone rang and I

accidentally answered the iron instead of the phone!” “Well,” the boss said,

“that explains one ear, but whatabout the other?”

“They called back!”

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