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Boxing legend Barry McGuigan
We had a pleasant surprise today when boxing legend Barry McGuigan walked through the door, a really nice guy who told a great boxing story about the time when he knocked a fellow boxers gumshield out and it flew into the audience about 30 feet back never to be seen, until that is about 5 years later when he was signing autographs and a guy walked up to him and said remember this? he was the guy who caught it in the audience so Barry duly signed it. Barry pictured above with our very own Darren. |
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London Olympics 2012
We are expecting an increase in print orders relating to London 2012 from marketing departments and events companies that we deal with due to our proximity to the Olympic stadium, just for the record we are only 2 miles from the site of the games, we also have the added advantage that 5 of our staff drive to and from work passing the Olympic stadium every day so deliveries can be flexible. |
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Colour Poster Printing
We recently printed some colour posters for a client in the charitable sector at short notice they gave us a nice email reference:
Thank you very much for printing and delivering our urgent order. Everything is perfect and even better than we expected! As always KopyKat proved to be the best and the most reliable company!
We have had a relationship with this particular client since 1987 so it is rewarding to see that we are still meeting their needs 25 years on.
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Twitter Facebook SEO
You can follow Kopykat on twitter @kopykatprint we mainly tweet about print with the odd football tweet about Liverpool Football Club being from Anfield I cannot resist it, you will also find us on facebook.com/kopykatprint, on our Facebook page we have tried to give some tips that might help you with your print jobs, if you want to find out more about tweeting visit http://goo.gl/hFuln which gives some tips about what might work to build up followers, you will also find some good articles on search engine optimisation on the same link |
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Happy New Year
May we take this opportunity to wish all our clients a Happy New Year, lets hope the economy picks up duirng the Olympic year, it would be nice to think it will but I am sure there will be bumpy times ahead, at least we will have the olympics to take our minds off it, hopefully there will be a splurge of olympic printing related jobs to come in given that we are only 2 miles away. Stay positive! |
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Booklets
We thought we would outline some of the various finishes for booklet making.
Saddle stitching A method that binds one or more printed sections together it uses two wire staples (stitches) on the spine.
Perfect binding Generally Perfect binding is used when the document to be bound is too thick to saddle stitch it has a spine which is ground to give a key, hot melt adhesive is used to hold the pages together.
PUR Binding Very similar to perfect binding but the glue used is stronger than hot melt, the spine does not deteriorate with age.
Loop stitching is used for items that need to be put in a ring binder it can be done ith 2 wires or 4, the loops are on the spine of the printed booklet.
Wiro binding A series of holes are punched and a continuous wire is inserted into the holes on the binding edge, commonly used for handouts, price lists, training manuals and financial type reports.
Other finishes include comb binding mainly used for internal office documents, corner stitching normally a collated document with a staple in the top left hand corner, stab stitching which is often used on for NCR pads, Invoice pads and often hidden by a tape on the spine, finally for some documents you can actually use binding screws, holes would be drilled and the binding screws inserted this has the added advantage of being able to update a brochure quite easily by inserting or taking out a page, normally only suitable for smaller print runs.
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Christmas Close Down
We will close at 2pm Friday 23rd December and reopen Tuesday 3rd January 2012 at 8.30am |
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Busy week of Printing
Been a mad busy few days in the run up to Christmas we produced a digital booklet for one client 122 pages printed in colour with a gloss laminated cover and PUR bound, the client gave a great reference which follows
Gentlemen - thank you very much for this. Since my first initial contact you both have been incredible, and particular massive thank you to Aaron for his constant dedication and going beyond what was expected to fulfill my needs. This last proof hit the nail in the coffin and I hope the recipients feel the same way. Hope you both have a wonderful Christmas.
We cannot mention the company name but it is one of the largest consultancy groups in the world it makes all the effort worthwhile when someone takes time out to say thank you.
May we take this opportunity to wish all our clients a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year
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First Aid Training
Attended a course yesterday in Chigwell, Essex provided by Frinton First Aid with colleagues from Kopykat, it was very comprehensive for a 1 day course and we learnt a lot, if anyone is thinking of going on a course I can recommend them as a provider contact info@frintontraining.co.uk |
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The Farm - Justice Tonight Tour
The Farm band led by an old friend Peter Hooton from Liverpool best known for the hit 'Altogether Now' are doing the Justice Tonight tour to help raise awareness and support for the families who lost loved ones at the Hillsborough disaster, they will be performing in London on the 8th December playing with The Clash's Mick Jones, they are playing Liverpool on the 9th and Glasgow on the 10th, keep up to date with what they are doing by following them on twitter @thefarm2011 Being from Liverpool I would like to wish Peter good luck as he is regularly featured on LFCTV and still goes to the the LFC games, if you want to support the families the the twitter address is @HJC_official |
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BoxPark Shoreditch
Boxpark Shoreditch situated by Shoreditch station opened today and some of the Kopykat staff ventured along meeting Dizzee Rascal in the process, they said the atmosphere was buzzing so get yourself along Boxpark is a welcome addition to Shoreditch follow them on twitter @boxpark |
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Work Experience Student joins Kopykat
This coming Monday December 5th we have a work experience student starting with us for 1 week, Celina Hernandez is coming down from Maghull on the outskirts of Liverpool to work with the Kopykat team and enjoy the delights of Shoreditch life, we have work lined up and ready to go although I can't work her too hard as it's my goddaughter! Wire binding here she comes! |
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Booklets and Brochures
We seem to have an influx of booklet work at Kopykat at the moment currently we are producing a series of information booklets for an event at The House of Lords to do with drug policy, we have also had an order for 23 different brochures for a conference next week covering different sectors of the economy, most of the print runs are under 250 so all the work is being printed digitally with a mixture of fold, stitch and trim and PUR Perfect binding , if longer run lengths come in we would automatically put it on one of our offset litho presses, typical run lengths on these machines are 500 to 10,000. |
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Christmas cards
We have a wide selection of Christmas cards to choose from at Kopykat supporting Cancer Research UK and a number of other leading charities, contact us and we can send you a link with the range of cards available, alternatively you might wish to design your own card and we can print digitally or traditionally using offset litho, send your card as a high resolution PDF we can produce a proof before print commences. |
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A2 posters in colour
We have the facilities to print posters either digitally or traditional offset litho a client visited yesterday and urgently needed 30 A2 posters, we recommended offset printing as it worked out less expensive than printing digitally this is one of the bonuses of using a company that has a number of different print solutions under one roof as we can always recommend the most sensible and cost effective option for you printing needs. |
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Flyers and posters
October was a busy month for flyers and posters we printed close on 1 million items for a local government campaign at short notice, at one stage printing 450k leaflets in the space of 3 days the order was placed on a Friday and we had everything printed by the Monday afternoon. |
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A5 Leaflets
Just a reminder to anyone visiting our website that the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month we have our Manic Monday promotion whereby we will print A5 double sided leaflets at £140 for 2500, £165 for 5000 and £220 for 10,000 a great value way of promoting yourself |
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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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Recycled Paper Ideas
We recently came across an interesting 100 % recycled paper made using post consumer waste collected from schools and businesses around the UK, no bleaches or detergents are used when cleaning the paper, special ingredients are added ellie poo and rhino poo, grass, banknotes, denim and straw, it has a lovely natural look to it and whilst it might not be ideal for every type of job it could be used on invitations, leaflets and letterheads with a matching business card, the paper company who makes the paper supports a charity which helps Elephants and people so all very ethical. |
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