Offset quality business cards for £65 plus vat - It can't be true

We are running a special promotion from September 2011 whereby on the 3rd Monday of every month Kopykat will print high quality offset litho business cards on 400gsm board with matt laminated finish for only £65 plus vat for 250 or £95 plus vat for 500 (single sided) all you need to do is supply a high resolution PDF 1 full working day before, we are encourging clients who cannot normally afford a card of this quality to place their order at the same time, we print in bulk this in turn keeps the cost exceptionally low not much more than the cost of the plates to do the job, the only pre-requisite is that all clients have the same material and finish and all are printed in CMYK. Typically cards printed in full colour at a different time of the month will cost more than £200 if printed offset litho. Definitely an offer you shouldn't refuse!

Manic Mondays - Low cost A5 leaflets

Just another Manic Monday

From September 12th 2011 we will be printing 2.5k A5 leaflets for £140, 5k leaflets for £165 and 10k for £220, these rates only apply on Manic Mondays which are the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month, the idea is to encourage as many clients as possible to place an order at the same time, the leaflets will be printed on 200gsm gloss in full colour and will be top quality offset, all you need to do is supply a print ready PDF at least 1 full day before.

If you have a leaflet that requires a different weight, size and material our rates will be more expensive than Manic Mondays but still very competitive, there is no restriction on when these can be printed.

Perfect Binding for perfect results

July saw the installation of a PUR Perfect binding machine at Kopykat from Intelligent Finishing Systems of Perivale, the new machine uses a super strength glue that is the best on the market, the new machine is used in conjunction with the digital print machines for short run booklets a client can have 1 copy for a pitch or a few hundred depending on their needs, it is also suitable for students who need academic binding, we now have a number of options available at Kopykat for booklet finishing that include fold, stitch and trim (2 staples on the spine) PUR Perfect binding (square spine finish) wire binding for PowerPoint presentations and pitch documents which are popular with financial companies and fashion retailers, we now have a range of options to suit most clients requirements.

Read all about it! Read all about it!

Kopykat has recently installed a new printing press and we have had a couple of reviews about the new installation and the reasons why we have installed the machine and the benefits to our clients you can read the reviews here

http://www.printweek.com/news/1081615/

http://www.worldofprint.com/us/meldung2.php?NID=10537877

Skiathos, Greece

I have not written too much about travel for a while on the blog but I recently visited Skiathos in Greece for a week and found the island well worth a visit, it was a very picturesque island with some beautiful beaches such as Koukounaries with good facilities, it is worth hiring a car to get to some of the more off the track beaches, Skiathios Town is the hub of the island with lots of restaurants to choose from it has a friendly laid back atmosphere, a restaurant worth eating at is The Windmill which has fantastic views over the harbour as you dine outside on a series of terraces high above the town, photo opportunities galore. If you stay in Skiathos Town you have to travel to the better beaches although their are beaches local to the town, if you stay near the better beaches the nightlife is more low key tavernas and you can catch a regular bus into Skiathos which takes 30 minutes although taxis are easily found.

Letterheads, leaflets, brochures, postcards and business cards

Many clients do not know the full range of services Kopykat provide probably our own fault for not getting over the message about what we do, we originally started life as a stationery printer in 1985 producing letterheads, compliment slips and business cards and as our clients requested more items we evolved so that today we produce high quality brochures and marketing material such as newsletters, leaflets and postcards, what we print is very diverse and we have a strong presence in the recruitment industry but also work for many large City firms clustered around Liverpool Street who are in the legal and insurance fields as well as many high profile charitable organisations, we now have a strong digital printing presence for fast turnaround and while you wait work for many of the local bars, restaurants, design and internet based companies in and around Shoreditch  today for example we produced a series of large format posters within a 4 hour period for events happening over the weekend in around the Shoreditch and Hoxton areas we can offer a print solution that is responsive and competitive.

Two Sides To Paper

The print industry can often get a bad press with regards the environment but in reality it is very ethical, a campaign has been set up to try and redress the balance called Two Sides, a few quick facts are that for every tree logged in managed forests three to four trees are replanted and as young trees grow, they absorb Co2 from the atmosphere, as a wood product paper continues to store carbon through it's lifetime.

As industries go paper making is a large scale undertaking and you would expect it to generate some pretty frightening statistics, it doesn't, on average it takes 500 kilowatt hours of energy to produce 200kg of paper this being the average amount of paper each of us consume per year, 500 kilowatt hours is like powering a computer continuously for 5 months or burning a lightbulb for 1 year, it is also what a typical household leaving its electronic equipment on stand-by for 1 year might consume.

Jonathan Porrit Chairman of UK Sustainability Development commented 'There aren't many industries around that can aspire to becoming genuinely sustainable. The paper industry, however, is one of them; it is inherently sustainable'.  Visit www.twosides.info