Kopykat has just achieved FOGRA certification which is an internationally recognised mark of distinction for sheet fed and web offset printers, when a printer achieves the FOGRA certification it demonstrates a printer's commitment to the highest standards in print quality, it is based on a measureable criteria for printing and proofing in a production environment, achieving FOGRA certification shows a printer has the internal controls to hit precise international printing standards, for print buyers and designers this means that a FOGRA certified printer will produce an accurate reproduction of their work.
Congratulations are in order to one of Kopykat’s clients Claire Price at Arts Alliance Media, Claire has just abseiled from the top of Canary Wharf in order to raise funds for the London Air Ambulance a very worthy cause, if you would like to make a donation to Claire’s chosen charity donate online at http://www.justgiving.com/pricetta
Kopykat appeared on the reality TV show shown on the BBC last night Out of the Frying Pan the guys in the show came in for printed menus so there was a few clips during the show that featured some of our staff. We will also be appearing in one of the Young Apprentice episodes that has just started when one of the teams pops in to have some leaflets designed and printed by us. We were also asked if we wanted to be featured in The Naked Office we politely refused, we couldn’t possibly put our clients through such a trauma.
I visited Cornwall for the Easter break staying just outside Newquay. I must admit I was worried about how the weather might turn out but couldn’t have picked a better week with sunshine all the way. We visited lots of different locations my favourite being St Ives which I hadn’t been to since 1978 so anyone who hasn’t yet been I would recommend a visit. I also managed to visit Rick Steins restaurant in Padstow and had lunch there, the set menu was £35 per head without wine, the food was as you would expect was first class especially my starter of tiger prawns and seared monkfish with a warm salad, followed by sea bass and a selection of vegetables and just to push the boat out homemade bakewell tart (www.rickstein.com) We also called at Jamie Olivers Fifteen in Watergate Bay, Newquay (Kopykat printed the original marketing material for the restaurant when it opened) but unfortunately we couldn’t get a table but the restaurant certainly looked very nice inside with great sea views. In the bay itself there seems to be lots of sympathetic building going on that will improve it further. if you are into extreme sports there is a hotel on the beach called The Hotel Watergate Bay and extreme academy which caters for all sorts of extreme sports; amongst them kite surfing, surfing, traction kite and wave ski. Visit www.watergatebay.co.uk, www.fifteencornwall.co.uk
Richard and Judy have a holiday home in Cornwall and in one of their newspaper columns they recommend The Crown Inn at Lanlivery, near Bodmin. They were spot on an excellent pub with good food although the only way in is through a series of country lanes with enough just for one car so be prepared. The Crown also has rooms available for rent. Visit www.wagtailinns.com
If you are in Newquay another place worth visiting for breakfast is the Lakeside Café overlooking Newquay boating lake. Some great breakfasts are served overlooking the lake parking, prices are very reasonable and much better than the average breakfast served in most places. They are based in Trenance lane TR7 2HX.
Although a website is coming soon (www.lakesidenewquay.co.uk ) they have now opened of a night as well. Finally, if you have children go to the Rashleigh Inn on Polkerris beach, near Par and have a bite to eat while the children play on the sand. The service was a little slow but to be fair lots of people had called in and the weather was unseasonally good so they might have been caught by surprise. (www.therashleighinnpolkerris.co.uk)
Kopykat recently printed the posters for Raqs Britannia, Europe’s largest bellydancing festival which takes place from Friday 25th June to Sunday 27th June 2010 in Sheffield City hall. The event will be hosted by the world famous Bellydance Superstars, the brainchild of music impresario Miles Copeland, former manager of The Police and Sting. The show features urban rhythms and electronic Arabic fusion music alongside more traditional styles of Egyptian Raqs Sharqi, Cabaret and Indian fusion. There are also bellydance workshops, open stage events, middle eastern souk, haflas, auditions and much more. For more information go to www.raqsbritannia.co.uk. Kopykat can confirm that their print machine operators will not be taking part perish the thought!
Kopykat has just printed some promotional material for City Limits Golf which has just opened in Worship Street next to the Broadgate Tower. There are 16 Floodlit bays, a Pro Shop and tuition by PGA professionals. At the moment there are lots of opening offers on so why not pay a visit to their website is www.citylimitsgolf.com and see all the great deals available? We wish Tony Sherman and all the team all the best with their new venture.
As well as printing the promotional material for Movember the guys at Kopykat decided to enter a team Tache of the Titans. We managed to raise over £1800 towards the Prostate Cancer Charity thanks to the generosity of clients and friends. We received donations from as far afield as Shanghai, Florida, Italy, Ibiza, Australia and New Zealand. When we started the fundraising effort we hoped we might reach £1000 but it easily exceeded that and we had a good laugh growing the moustaches as well, if you want to see the end result visit http://uk.movember.com/mospace/321872/
One amusing thing I noticed in Liverpool’s new shopping complex is that Everton FC have opened a new sports shop there and called it Everton Two so their postal address is Everton Two, Liverpool One. If only!
Just paid a visit to Liverpool and booked in at the Staybridge apartments right next door to the new Echo Arena. The City has gone through an amazing transformation over the last 3 years, the Echo Arena holds 11000 people and is on the banks of the Mersey right next door to the historic Albert Dock and has leading artists appearing there. There is also the BT Convention Centre to compliment it, if it’s retail therapy and nightlife you are after the new Liverpool One shopping complex has it all, over 45 acres of land has been redeveloped and pedestrianised with all the leading brands having a base there, a number of leading hotel groups have also opened new hotels around the complex with the Hilton opening this month. Finally, if it’s champagne and luxury you like try Champu opened by Herbert of Liverpool, best known as the celebrity hairdresser, where you can be served with champagnes ranging from £60 to £1200 per bottle. Another great place is Alma de Cuba winner of the best bar, best restaurant and UKs best venue 2008. It is set inside the magnificent conversion of the former St Peter’s Catholic Church.
Kopykat has recently had a few visits from different TV production companies so sometime next year we will feature in one of the leading reality TV shows albeit briefly, we can’t tell you what show until it’s been shown, last week we had a Nike advert shot and they wanted to film a poster being printed, we were happy to oblige in fact we told them to JUST DO IT, cheesy I know but we couldn’t resist it, then we had a visit from another TV show plate expectations who ordered menus and posters. Find out more on http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/comingup/plateexpectations/. It follows up The Restaurant series two runners up Alasdair and James, as they go it alone as event caterers always minutes away from disaster in the show, they have since been taken under Raymond's wing, learning the trade at one of his top restaurants. Now it's time to see whether they can tell their caviar from their calamari as they cater for a different event each week.
Rumour has it that Vince at Kopykat has applied for an equity card as he’s now featured on all three shoots!
Kopykat
has just printed all the promotional material for the Movember annual
month long celebration of the moustache, highlighting men’s health
issues, specifically prostate cancer. The annual event started when 30
Mo Bros got together in a pub in Melbourne, Australia and took part in
Movember. Mo Bros supported by their Mo Sistas start from November 1st
clean shaven and then have the remainder of the month to grow and groom
their moustache. Each Mo Bro effectively becomes a walking billboard
for men’s health and via their Mo, raises essential funds and awareness
for Movember’s men’s health partner – The Prostate Cancer Charity. At
the end of Movember, a series of Gala Parties are held to thank Mo Bros
and sistas for their fund raising efforts.
Last year across the globe 173,000 Mo Bro & Sistas got on board,
raising more than £14 million across Movember’s men’s health partners
globally. Over £30 million has now been raised globally for the fight
against prostate cancer and depression in men. It will make men aware
going forward of the risks they face, thereby increasing early
detection, diagnosis and effective treatment.
September 1st saw the launch of an organisation called 1010 who’s aim
is to get everybody in the UK to try and reduce their carbon emissions
by 10% by the end of 2010. The team behind the hit environmental film
The Age of Stupid are behind the new campaign and Kopykat, having
worked with the Age of Stupid team earlier in the year, were asked to
produce all the promotional material for the launch at the Tate
Gallery. The items needed included posters, 4 kinds of leaflets and
checklists which suggested and help monitor how businesses and
individuals might attempt to reduce their carbon footprint. The printed
material was turned around by the team at Kopykat within a 3 day period
including deliveries on August Bank holiday Monday. The material used
was recycled stock and printed using vegetable inks without the use of
alcohol on press. The event at the Tate attracted over 3000 people and
also included a number of leading politicians and celebrities who
support the new campaign. To find out more visit the website www.1010uk.org.
Kopykat are now members of a certified FSC chain of custody
scheme CU-COC-807273-AM, we are able to show the FSC logo
on your printed items promoting your environmental credentials,
printers who do not have chain of custody are not able to
display the logo on your behalf.
Chad Lilley, a Kopykat employee has recently passed his
modern apprenticeship run by the British Printing Industries
Federation, Chad works in the pre-press department at Kopykat
on the Macs and helps plan and make plates ready for the
print machines.
It was nice to see Liverpool’s star striker Fernando
Torres getting married at a low key ceremony, it makes a
change to some of the high profile football weddings seen
over the last few years especially in these credit crunch
times, he seems very down to earth, of course being a Liverpool
fan I might be slightly biased.
As part of our process of continual improvement with regard
environmental issues Kopykat is pleased to announce that
alcohol has been completely eliminated from the printing
process, use of alcohol in the printing process is one of
the biggest causes of ground level ozones, it also dulls
gloss and affects colour, it is a dilutent that attacks
the ink and it causes press operators to carry a heavier
film of ink on the rollers, eliminating alcohol results
in sharper quality dots, better solids and mid-tones and
results in a higher quality print job for the client. Kopykat
also uses reverse osmosis which controls the PH and quality
of the water leading to a more consistent printing process.
Just spent the
last week in Ibiza with the family and the season is just
starting to warm up out there with all the opening nights
of the clubs, being too old for all that now I could only
watch in awe but it brought back memories certainly Es Paradis
Terrenal looks as good as ever, sad thing is I even know
the manager and could get in for nothing but those days
are gone, my teenage son didn’t believe I knew any
of the club owners until they came up and welcomed us, even
he had to admit he was marginally impressed – respect.
What is still recommended though is sunset at The Cafe
del Mar, Mambo or Savannah all next door to each other in
San Antonio very chilled and a mixed age group, the drinks
are a touch expensive but the setting makes it worthwhile,
an impressive addition to the San Antonio waterfront is
a new promenade that runs for a couple of miles around the
harbour and leads around to the three bars, carry on further
around the headland after the 3 bars and there are a couple
of hotels with bars where you can also view the stunning
sunsets.
Pay a visit to Tropicana bar in San Antonio show your
face there a few times and Stuart originally from Bethnal
Green 30 years ago will surely sort you out with passes
for the clubs, this bar was made famous by the boys from
Wham, George and Andrew drank there regularly in 1982 when
they released there song Club Tropicana and the video was
filmed at nearby Pikes Hotel, yours truly was invited but
overslept so I’m gutted every time I see the video
and see all my old mates in the background having a drink.
Ibiza Town is well worth a visit everything still based
around the Zoo bar and port area but do if you visit try
and take a walk up to the old town the D’Alt Vila,
you can go to the top in the early evening and get some
great photos there are also some great restaurants inside
the walls of the old town.
If you are looking for a nice family friendly resort then
Cala Vedella should fit the bill as it is quite small and
hasn’t hardly changed in 30 years with safe bathing
although it occasionally it has jellyfish, if you visit
have lunch at Cana
Sofia overlooking the beach, the chef has just been
named the 5th best chef in Spain and the 2nd best in Ibiza,
in all the years I’ve visited the food has always
been good and the service excellent.
Another great restaurant is at Es Torrent on the beach
you need a car to visit and it is on the pricey side but
the John Dory fish is first class as again is the service,
you can pick up the signs for Es Torrent on the San Josep
road heading towards Porroig, not far from here also is
the famous Blue
Marlin at Cala Jondal often visited by celebs.
Another place to feast is Es Mirador on the San Josep road
just after you leave the village heading towards San Antonio
just been taken over by some Dutch people we visited on
the 2nd night it was open so some dishes weren’t available
but it had a nice atmosphere and overlooked a valley to
the sea in the distance but the people who run it were very
keen to please, San Josep itself is a typically ibicencan
village and worth spending a couple of hours some great
little tapas bars are based in the village.
Finally if you are feeling adventurous catch a ferry to
the neighbouring island of Formentera from Ibiza Town, hire
some bikes in the port and cycle along the tracks that lead
to Playa Illetes azure seas and white sand await as near
to the carribbean as possible but don’t forget the
sun tan cream, if all that cycling makes you hungry Juan
& Andreas restaurant on the beach awaits, this is
quite a famous restaurant in Spain on occasion frequented
by the Real Madrid football team.
The Age of Stupid
is a film warning of the dangers of climate change and how
the planet might look in 2055 if we do not do anything about
it, the film stars Pete Postlethwaite who plays a man in
a devastated 2055 looking back on old footage of 2008 and
asking why didn’t we do something when we had the
chance, the film is directed by Fran Armstrong and produced
by Lizzie Gillett of One Off Productions.
Kopykat was recommended to produce all the promotional material
for the film at short notice to the team at Stupid by Friends
of the Earth who passed on our details due to our environmental
commitment; well it was certainly a challenge print wise!
The premier was on Sunday 15th March with a premier in
a solar powered tent at Leicester Square with simultaneous
people’s premiers around the UK, we received the first
print files on the Wednesday before the screening and needed
to produce 7 different jobs made into Action packs and to
be distributed to all the cinemas round the UK showing the
film, the jobs varied from 50,000 leaflets to Tell a Friend
leaflets in batches of 10000, they needed to be perforated,
folded, trimmed and delivered by our van or overnight courier,
we didn’t panic honest! Some of the team at Kopykat
worked Saturday and Sunday printing and delivering right
up until an hour before the premier, in fact the last print
file was received 2 hours before the premier started, needless
to say all went according to plan, everything arrived on
time, the weather was glorious and the film received glowing
acclaim, all the materials used for the promotional material
was recycled stock, Kopykat also used vegetable inks and
printed alcohol free and delivered in an LPG vehicle.
You can contact the team at Not Stupid if you would like
to organise a private showing of the film www.ageofstupid.net
Kopykat recently
printed the film listings for May and June for a new venue
just opened at Bermondsey Square SE1, the design was produced
by The Church of London design company near to where we
are based, Shortwave is a cinema with a bar/cafe with outside
seating in the square, well worth a visit if you get the
chance, they also have a classic kids club on a Saturday
and classic screenings on a Sunday.
Kopykat achieved
Green Mark accreditation after an audit by the London Environment
Centre a part of London metropolitan University, the standard
recognises good environmental practice in a number of different
areas and that an environmental management system is in
place, Kopykat will strive to have a process of continual
improvement and will be audited on a yearly basis by the
London Environment Centre.
A perfect
binding system for perfect binding results. Phil
Moretti-Greene, 11 March 2008
Perfect binding
system also ordered from Morgana for the binding of items
printed digitally. A minimum order of 1 book can be made.
