If you are at Drupa today, don’t miss the HP Eco Leadership Forum taking place at the HP tent at 15:45. Focusing on improving performance, Pureprint director Richard Owers will join other sustainability leaders to discuss how the printing industry can move forward on key environmental issues. Digital Printing is currently the biggest growth area in print because of its ability to communicate personalised messages and reduce both waste and costs.

Pureprint will be talking about how they are adding value to various web to print projects including a personalised prospectus system for the University of Portsmouth while at the same time reducing environmental impact by producing less but more targeted pages. Watch the relevant video on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5yZFMxQt3s&feature=plcp and register your attendance to the forum on https://h30599.www3.hp.com/us/en/schedule?jumpid=ex_R10931_go/drupa/socialmedia

Pureprint appoints James Parker as chief technical officer

Parker has more than 15 years’ print-based technology experience, having started as a data programmer at St Ives Direct, before founding his own data management company and then joining Intelligent Print Solutions, which was later bought by Charterhouse Print Management. He then joined Dialogue Solutions, now part of the Lateral Group, as group software development director, where he led a 25-strong team and was a member of the board.

His role will include improving workflow efficiencies and optimising job turnarounds, in addition to expanding the company’s range of marketing services beyond traditional print.

Parker said: “My strength lies in solving problems though technology and I am delighted to have joined Pureprint at this exciting time.”

One of Parker’s first tasks is to achieve the ISO 27001 standard for an Information Security Management System.

“ISO 27001 is all about adopting a methodical approach in managing confidential or sensitive information across all processes and IT systems within our business. This will allow us to diversify our service further,” Parker added.

Pureprint chief executive Mark Handford said: “We are extending the business to provide a comprehensive marketing service that makes a tangible difference to our customers. James’s role will be paramount in this process and I am confident that his knowledge, experience and skills will be a great asset to our business.”

This year the children are putting together a local news magazine and were keen to learn more about magazine print production.

We were delighted to take the children on a tour of the factory and explain the process of printing and how it has progressed over recent years from an analogue and largely manual process to a fully automated digital one. When showing them around the HP Indigo 7500′s, one of the highlights was no doubt as we opened up the side of the machine to show off the inner workings. “Whoa!” they all cheered, we distinctly got the impression that they felt it was like something out of Transformers.

The serious bit of the day apart from showing how the print industry worked was to make a little dent in dispelling the myth that print is “bad” for the environment. The children were impressed to find out that Pureprint are the first company in the UK to have graduated from the WWF’s Global Forest and Trade Network, meaning that over 95% of our paper is sourced from FSC certified forests. They were also fascinated to discover that the forests in Europe have grown by 30% since 1950 partly as a result of environmentally conscious printers such as Pureprint who became the first carbon neutral printer in the world in 2002.

The children left the visit with a photo board to commemorate their trip and with plenty of ideas and enthusiasm to continue their magazine publishing journey.

Pureprint were selected to print the Arup Journal, the many beautiful photographs within the project have been perfectly reproduced on our Heidelberg presses. The whole project has been satin coated to ensure the print is protected and also to make sure that the photographs maintain clarity.

The latest Arup Journal is a special edition devoted to Arup’s multidisciplinary design contribution to Marina Bay Sands, the astonishing resort complex in Singapore designed by world-famous architect Moshe Safdie, developed by Las Vegas Sands Corp, and outshining any comparable holiday destination in Vegas itself – or anywhere else, for that matter.

Over 400 Arup technical specialists and managers contributed their talents and time to the creation of Marina Bay Sands and its iconic features. These include the 340m long Sands SkyPark, poised aloft on the three 55-storey hotel towers.  At its north end, this culminates in the world’s longest habitable cantilevered observation deck, where the public enjoy the 150m long “infinity pool” which, at 200m up, is also the world’s most elevated swimming pool. Below, on a promontory into Marina Bay, stands the ArtScience Museum like a giant white lotus. Not content with these two amazing structures, Marina Bay Sands also features a pair of major theatres, extensive shopping, two “Crystal Pavilions” built in the waters of Marina Bay, promenades, and a massive expo and convention centre that contains South East Asia’s biggest ballroom.

The detailed technical story of Arup’s design contribution to the entire project is contained in The Arup Journal special edition 1/2012, printed by Pureprint.

The project was handled by Kevin Smith and Andrew Drummond @ Pureprint

For more information on any aspect of this project call 01825 768811 or email kevins@pureprint.com

It turns out It’s Nice That had been tasked with promoting Selfridges’ “Words, Words, Words” initiative designed to promote slow communication and celebrate the inspirational and creative power of words and literature. How delightful that a printed product was still considered the best way to encapsulate this.

Stewdio created a custom in-browser Javascript which hopped around Wiktionary collecting thousands of adjectives which were then converted into “fortune phrases” with help from the Adobe Illustrator plug in http://scriptographer.org/each one with a unique font.

A large wooden “Word-A-coaster” built by Atom http://atomltd.com/ dispenses a plastic ball containing your unique fortune for 2012.

This is such a fantastic display of creativity and one that we’re so pleased to have played our part in. Now lets all get down to Selfridges to have a look!

However 25000 lucky Invesco clients will be replacing the run of the mill calendar with a beautifully printed and embossed calendar produced at Pureprint.

The description of the project from the client really explains everything we worked to achieve.

“With the Invesco Perpetual 2012 calendar, the idea was to create an
attractive offering that our clients would primarily find useful and
attractive to have on their desks, but one which also clearly reflected
something about Invesco Perpetual as an investment company. We looked to
achieve this through the use of quality materials and a real eye for
detail in its design and construction. A simple and elegant use of
typography and print provided space for our company’s visual icon (the
Himalayan mountain, Ama Dablam) to be beautifully embossed and remain the
hero.”

The calendar is 165mm x 120mm. The calendar pages are produced on Naturalis absolute white matt 250gsm from GF Smith. Each month has been printed in black and pantone 8400 and then each month is embossed with a different mountain design.

The images below show the extremely detailed embossing plates used for the project.

The tent card was produced using 350gsm colorplan from GF Smith, this material was selected due to its strength and rigidity, therefore it can be creased and folded to work as a stand for the other pages.

Once the tent card has been creased, the calendar pages are collated into order, then the pages are wiro bound with the tent card using silver wire. The calendar is then complete.

The project was handled by Lloyd Bromhead and Jonathan Darchez @ Pureprint.

For more information on any aspect of this project please call Pureprint on 01825 768811 or email lloydb@pureprint.com

10,000 Digital Paintings from FIELD on Vimeo.

SVK at the printers from BERG on Vimeo.

Our client, YCN, beautifully put the piece together which intelligently considered what London’s commercial property market would look like in 5 years’ time by highlighting how much had changed in the preceding 5 years as follows:

“In 2006, no one owned an iphone, Lehman Brothers’ market capitalisation was $40 Billion and Bear Stearns’ was $20 Billion, Iceland had a triple A credit rating, Twitter signed up it’s 50th tweeter in July – think how different the world will be in five years time…”

It got us considering how much had changed here at Pureprint in that same time frame. For starters 5 years ago we didn’t have a single digital printing press, we now have 2 x Indigo 7500’s and projects with exceptionally high quality requirements and challenging designs such as this book are being printed on them.

The Knight Frank book is 185x245mm, portrait. It is printed on SHIRO Echo, White (50% FSC and 50% recycled) which is supplied by Fenner paper and has a “natural” off white shade and works well with the illustration and text. The book is made using two text weights 160gsm for the three throwout pages

and 100gsm for the main text made up of 45 “French Folded” sections.

The casebound book is covered in dark grey bookcloth and is hot foil blocked in silver.

We printed the job digitally and it’s a great testament to how fantastic this technology is now. Particularly on uncoated stocks we feel the results are arguably better than what would have been achieved through the litho process. Every one of the 300 copies was stamped and individually numbered by hand.

The project was handled by Simon Cooper and Keith Marley @ Pureprint.

For more information on any aspect of this project please call Pureprint on 01825 768811 or email simon.cooper@pureprint.com

Art Direction & Design: YCN, Infographics: Chris Clarke, Illustrations: Samuel Green, www.ycnonline.com

Material by fenner, contact Justin@fennerpaper.co.uk or follow his blog http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.com/