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AROUND THE UK
Leicester-based Clinical Print Finishers has celebrated 45 years
in business. It was founded on 1 March 1975 as Senator Print
Finishers by Alvin Brown (right) with a £375 loan from his
father. Clinical managing director Jamie Court (left) said the
business recently held an internal party for its staff and sent a newsletter
out to its customers to mark the
occasion. Discussing his thoughts on
the company’s longevity, he told
Printweek: “We specialise in anything
awkward or complex and miniature.
We started off as pharmaceutical, but
we’ve now branched out to anything
that’s miniature; our niche is that
everything has to be specialist.”
Clays will be keeping on its Fujifilm Jet Press 750S following a
successful trial period. The full-colour B2 digital press arrived
at the book printer’s Suffolk site in July last year in order to
support an increasing amount of complex digital colour book
covers and jackets that Clays was seeing commissioned from the market.
Now, the company has announced it
will keep the four-colour machine
onsite. Operations director Ian Smith
said: “We are always looking for
ways in which we can streamline our
processes and also improve the
quality of our work. Fujifilm’s Jet
Press 750S has certainly offered that
and more.”
UTTERLY PRINTABLE SPECIALISED CANVAS INTEGRITY PRINT
Printweek April & May 2020
CLAYS
Integrity Print has installed a Canon
Varioprint i300 B3 cutsheet inkjet
press to beef up its same-day
mailing service. Arriving at the
beginning of February, the new 300 A4
impressions-per-minute addition has been
taken on at Bath-based Integrity, with a full
suite of Prisma workflow and colour
management software. It will support the
company’s Clarity Mail service, which aims to
meet same-day turnarounds for low to medium
volumes of daily post, run through software
free to download for clients. Integrity Print’s
UK-spanning group had sales of £60m last year,
with its secure mailing division alone
generating £10m in annual revenue.
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CLINICAL PRINT FINISHERS
RUFFORD PRINTING COMPANY PRINT-LEEDS
Rufford Printing Company has installed a Horizon creaser/
folder as the commercial and letterpress printer rises to the
coronavirus challenges to continue to support businesses and
its local community. The firm installed a Horizon CRF-362
Creaser Folder from IFS last month. The purchase was partly driven by the
need for better quality creasing on luxury packaging the firm produces for
a chocolatier based on the same Cedar
Farm retail and business park in
Mawdesley, Ormskirk. Brian Smith
(right) founded the four-staff business
in 1970, which is celebrating its 50th
anniversary this year, with an Adana
8x5 hand press which he learned to
use following a spinal injury in 1968.
Print-Leeds has been appointed by Black Sheep Brewery to
print all of its wet glue labels for its flock of bottled beers.
Eight of the brewery’s lines have already been produced by
the printer, and they can be
found in the shops now. The labels are
printed on high-quality, coated and
uncoated papers with the majority of the
designs being foil blocked. Black Sheep
sales and marketing director Jo Theakston
(left with Print-Leeds managing director
Rod Fisher) said: “A quality product is very
important to us and that doesn’t stop with
the beer – it’s everything and that
includes the labels we put on our bottles.”
Specialised Canvas has invested in
its second Zünd digital cutter with
the installation of a G3 3XL-3200
system. The machine added
3.2m-wide cutting capabilities to the
Chesterfield-based company’s offering, as well
as that of its sister companies Banner Box Print
Solutions and Flagmakers. It joined a Zünd PN
Series flatbed that has been running onsite for
13 years. Zünd’s G3 3XL-3200 digital cutter runs
on a 3.2x3.2m flatbed and comes with a wide
gamut of cutting tools to allow for a broad range
of material compatibility. Managing director
Paul Noble said: “The build quality, precision
and productivity these state-of-the-art cutters
offer is outstanding.”
Stationery start-up Utterly Printable
has introduced a carbon offsetting
feature for its online customers.
Producing stationery for events
including weddings and parties as well as
change of address cards and personalised
stationery, the London-based online platform
has partnered with the World Land Trust to
allow customers the option to offset the exact
carbon footprint of their order. A method
termed “micro-offsetting” by the company, it
automatically calculates all greenhouse gas
emissions generated by an order and adds a
small additional fee for the trust’s Carbon
Balanced programme, which protects existing
forest habitats and plants new trees.
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