31.7.08

So what do we do?

As well as our blog being an interesting and useful spot to browse over morning coffee, it's also acting as a stop-gap whilst our website is offline for an overhaul. Until its relaunch later this year, we realise that there is nowhere for people to access our plant list or information on our services, so we've posted it here!

If you would like more detailed information on any of the equipment or services listed below, please give us a call...

Pre Press
Our team keep things sleek in the Reprographics Department, utilising an Agfa Apogee workflow with Digital Proofing through to CTP and Xerox Digital Printing. We can output pretty much any file type from both PC and Mac platforms, and also offer our own Mac-based artwork and type-setting service.

Print
Our dedicated and experienced minders work double day shifts keeping the following presses well oiled and running at an optimum...

  • Heidelberg Speedmaster 74-5 P prints 5 colours up to B2
  • Heidelberg Speedmaster 74-4 P prints 4 colours up to B2
  • Heidelberg GTOZ prints two colours up to sheet size B3
  • Heidelberg Cylinder, 22 1/2 x 32 1/4 -
    for die-cutting, perforating, cutting & creasing of folders & book jackets etc, up to a sheets size of B2
  • Heidelberg Platen, 10 x 15 -
    for creasing, die-cutting & perforating up to a sheet size of 10 x 15
Finishing
Having our own finishing department enables us to deal with the majority of our work in-house. Not having to rely on outside sources means we are well equipped to meet demanding deadlines. Our seven members of the finishing team manage the following equipment:

  • Stahl Folder folds numerous configurations up to SRA1
  • 2 Polar Guillotines
  • Muller Valore Saddle Stitcher with 4 collating stations and Cover Folder Feeder
  • Camco Stitcher
  • Perfect Binding Line
  • Shrink Wrapping
  • Wiro Binding
Our unique hand finishing abilites enable us to handle those quirky, complicated and fiddly jobs that other printers may laugh at! We also have years of experience in despatching books, magazines and various other forms of printed matter nationally and globally.

Deliveries
We have a recently updated, and eyecatching, fleet of vehicles which cover local deliveries up to a 100 mile radius. For those who are further afield we use a nationwide carrier for next day national delivery to any location throughout the UK.




Printing Business Cards | Postcards | Flyers | Leaflets | Letterheads | Compliment Slips | Stationery Sets | Posters | Brochures | Folders | Greetings Cards | Wrapping Paper...

7.7.08

Well Done Team!

Having recently completed production on over 7000 Clarks International Catalogues - A4 Landscape, wiro-bound with french folded, laminated covers and 152 pages of text with 9 tabbed dividers - and over 3300 Clarks Originals Catalogues - A5 Portrait, 78pp Text + 4pp Cover with pocket on the inside front cover & french folded back cover, plus A1 broadsheet folded to A5 (32pp) and inserted into pocket - it was incredibly rewarding to receive the following email from their Print Manager, which we thought we'd share with you...
"Hi Andy (May), we received the conference copies on time yesterday and everyone here is delighted with the result.

I know we have been extremely demanding on the whole of your team this year and this has impacted on nearly everyone in Maslands.

I am extremely grateful for your personal commitment and the time you have expended on our behalf as well as Andrew Jackson for rescheduling, Michael for retouching and amending on the hoof and Matt, Sean, Simon and Mike for working so hard and maintaining the high print quality standards we have come to associate with everything Maslands do.

Please be sure to thank everyone else I may have omitted for the incredible effort they have put in to make it happen for us again.

You said last week that you were proud of your Company. I think you have every right to be proud. You certainly provide a first class service to Clarks for which I am eternally grateful.

A great big thank you Maslands!"