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Magazine Madness
Ever wondered how a magazine looks before it looks like a finished magazine ready to read?
- It starts life as huge flat printed sheets
- Then gets trimmed down to approximately the correct size of a double page spread
- Then gets gathered together in the collating machine
- Which feeds it into the stitcher unit (stapling machine to you and me!)
- Which feeds it into the fold & trim unit which folds it into a finished magazine shape and trims off all the edges to give you the perfect finished magazine.
See, it’s simple when you know how and have a huge machine called a stitch, fold & trim line!
A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
This famous slogan was created by Clarissa Baldwin, Chief Executive of The Dogs trust, in 1978 but is still as relevant today.
This little order contains 8 beautiful images taken by a local photographer of her littler of Golden Lab puppies, how could anyone resist buying one for charity?
We created the artwork and printed them onto a super silky 350 gram card to create a nice quality Christmas Card.
Tomlinscote School Young Chamber Of Commerce
An exciting new opportunity has recently arrived for students from Tomlinscote School to influence the future of the school, through the Young Chamber Of Commerce.
The idea behind the Young Chamber is to encourage young entrepreneurship by linking education with the local business community. It is a junior version of the Chamber of Commerce, a membership organisation that represents businesses within the national community.
Tomlinscote is currently the first and only Young Chamber in the whole of Surrey, which presents a thrilling chance for publicity for the events it is planning. Carol Jury, Projects Manager at the Surrey Chamber of Commerce, is helping the students to set up the new Chamber by putting them in contact with her business network.
I met 2 of the students at a networking event and am very pleased to be working with such a forward think operation, a great development idea to get the youngsters thinking like business owners.
We are working together to produce a cook book, the proofs are on the presses today!
Golfing Mad, 540,000 holes to be precise!
Today we have gone golfing mad. The presses are busy with 30,000 golf club score cards for a local club.
Three different 18 hole loops x 10,000 of each, that’s a lot of golf – 540,000 holes to be precise, that would cost me a lot in lost balls as I always get through a couple per round!
Stephens & George revealed as Royal Wedding Programme printer
Merthyr Tydfil-based sheetfed magazine printer Stephens & George has been revealed as the company responsible for printing the Official Programme for the Royal Wedding.
Details of the programme’s production were kept under wraps by the Royal Household until this morning, when it released a free electronic version in two formats, as a page-turning Ceros edition and as an Apple iBook.
Profits from the sale of the programme, which is priced at £2, will go to the charitable Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry.
Antalis McNaughton supplied the 17 tonnes of Novatech Coated Matt paper (250gsm cover, 150gsm text) used for the programme, while Stephens & George printed the 150,000 A5 copies that will be sold on the day at locations in Green Park, Hyde Park, St James’s Park and Trafalgar Square.
“In production terms the job was relatively easy – it’s 24 pages plus cover and 150,000 copies,” said Stephens and George group managing director Andrew Jones. “The main thing was that once the job went into production we had to be very careful regarding the security.
“So any waste sheets off the press and off the folders were cut up and put into our bailing system and then after stitching any waste or bad copies were cut up and put into our waste extraction management system, after that the product was shrinkwrapped in fifties to be delivered today.”
The programme was designed and produced by Haymarket Network, with reprographics by Haymarket Prepress, distribution by IVS Group and digital edition by Ceros.
See the full article here: http://www.printweek.com/Business/article/1067452/Stephens—George-revealed-Royal-Wedding-Programme-printer/
