Bocelli - Love in Portofino

We have recently been asked to produce a series of quad size posters to promote Bocelli's new film Love in Portofino. We produced the posters on a backlit material as they needed to be placed in lightboxes. We then supplied postal tubes inserted the posters and distributed to 230 cinemas nationwide.

FSC Chain of Custody

Just been told that we have passed our annual FSC chain of custody audit. This is great news as it allows us to print the FSC logo on a clients print job should they want us to assuming of course the paper comes from an FSC source. Chain of custody shows the journey of the raw material from a well managed sustainable forest to the paper mill, the printer and eventually the end user. FSC was originally set up by the furniture industry to stop illegal logging.

Two Sides challenges Google and others.

Two Sides the group set up to challenge false claims about paper has challenged Google with an open letter. You can read about it here. http://goo.gl/5d2kd

Mobile Usage

We printed a leaflet for Google just before Christmas which gave some interesting facts about mobiles and internet usage. It took 360 days for the iPod to sell 1 million units, 74 days in 2007 for the iPhone to sell the same, in 2008 the iPad took 28 days and last year in 2012 the iPhone 5 took half a day. Draw something received 10 million users in 10 days it took AOL 9 years to do that.

Mobile usage will continue to grow in the G20 countries it is predicted that internet connections will double between 2010 and 2015 and 80% of these new connections will be mobile. On Christmas Day 2011 7 million smartphones activated and 240 million apps downloaded.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Kopykat will close on Friday 21st December 2012 and re-open on 2nd January 2013. We would like to wish all our customers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Letterpress Printing- How times Change

Attached is a link to a video about letterpress printing this process was still widely used when I first entered the trade in the1970s my first job was letterpress printing how times have changed. The video link was supplied by our friends at the BPIF. vimeo.com/35688592

Lee Cooper - Devoted to Denim

We are pleased to have recently printed work for Lee Cooper a famous must have brand when I was growing up so it is good to see them still going strong and expanding with their slogan 'Devoted to Denim devoted to style'. They were founded in London's East End in 1908 by Morris Cooper and their products now sell in over 70 countries around the world. Long may they continue!