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Pureprint are delighted to announce that today we are celebrating being awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the UK’s highest accolade for business success. We have received our award for Sustainable Development which is in recognition of our sustainable practices within and beyond the printing industry. This is the 3^rd time we have won this award (previously in 2003 and 2008) which demonstrates our commitment and success to ensuring sustainability is underpinning our whole business.

The judges said: 

‘A Sustainable Development Award is made to Pureprint Group Ltd for showing that sustainable printing is affordable and promoting sustainable practices within and beyond the printing industry. Since winning an Award in 2008, the company has continually improved internal environmental management, extended its approach to responsible supply chain management and, through continued service development, encouraged and advised customers on reducing carbon footprints.’

The judges also said:

‘The company is an impressive example to others, inside and outside the sector, of commitment to embedding sustainability.’

Richard Owers, Marketing Director said “Since our first Queen’s Award in 2003 we have increased our turnover by nearly 400% and now employ over 200 staff. The Queen’s Award has been an inspiration to us for 15 years and has shown us that in the best businesses long term development is based on all the aspects of sustainable best practice. To receive our third Queen’s Award this year is not only a great honour but is further encouragement to us, and hopefully others, to embrace and promote sustainable development.”

The awards are made annually by HM The Queen and are the highest official UK awards for British businesses. They are made on the advice of the Prime Minister after examination of applications by an Advisory Committee composed of leading individuals from industry, commerce, trade unions and government.

Find out more about our sustainability from Richard Owers on 07711 687 408 or email on rowers@pureprint.com.

Read more about our sustainable business practices

Read more about our other awards 

We have now achieved membership of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), proving our expertise and rigorous methods in our end to end direct marketing processes. This achievement highlights the existing work we have been doing with many of our clients handling their direct marketing communications.

DMA membership means all our processes have been stringently checked against criteria which covers data handling, confidentiality and security to name just a few. The DMA’s role is to help lead the way in direct marketing and help the industry do better business including lobbying, providing professional development and a consulting service for its members. We now have access to the DMA’s great services and support as well as having the ability to share our learnings and expertise with the association.

Julie Geraud, DMA's director of membership, says:

"DMA membership is the sign that a company operates to the highest standards of industry best practice. We welcome Pureprint into the DMA and look forward to providing professional support and assistance to help them achieve their business objectives."

We provide a full end to end service for our clients covering design both visual and conceptual, data management, print including fully personalised mailings on our digital presses, fulfilment and fully integrated communication re-engineering on multiple platforms and media.

If you would like to know more about our direct marketing services please contact Matt Rees at mattr@pureprint.com call him on 07725 259 131.or  

Fairtrade Fortnight ran from the 25^th February to the 10^th March and for the 3^rd year running Pureprint supported the campaign with the supply and management of the supporter’s materials.

The contents of the packs ranged from leaflets, pin badges and the infamous blow up banana used for consecutive years all of which Pureprint sourced. These packs help supporters raise awareness of the Fairtrade Fortnight campaign for better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.

The packs are fully customised involving a choice of 100 items all ordered from Fairtrade’s website and managed by Pureprint. The packs are available throughout the year with a peak of 200 orders a day covering up to 7,000 items a week in the run up to the campaign.

It’s a great success, as 3 years ago Pureprint solely supplied printed items for The Fairtrade Foundation and now completes the end to end process of storing, printing, sourcing of items, fulfillment and distribution.

If you would like to know more about Pureprint's campaign management expertise please contact Paul Beech at paulb@pureprint.com or call him on 01825 761 205.

We would like to welcome Alan Ball who has joined us as Sales Director and Derek Fulton who has been appointed as Account Director.

Alan Ball joins Pureprint after 20 years as Sales Director and General Manager at Fulmar Colour. His main focus will be expanding the group’s business and managing part of the sales team.

Alan said:” It’s refreshing to see Pureprint’s positive take on the print industry. I look forward to working for a privately-owned company which not only has a vision for the future but also the courage to invest in new technology despite these difficult economic times.”

Derek Fulton has been in the print trade for the last 24 years with most recent positions at Montgomery Litho Group as UK Sales Manager and Beith Printing. Derek was attracted to Pureprint partly because of its recent investments in B2 HP Indigo technology and will be developing our business in the design agency and corporate print sectors.

Derek said: ”Pureprint has an excellent reputation as an award-winning printer and is renowned for its long-standing environmental focus both of which are becoming increasingly important aspects in selecting a print partner.”

NEWS RELEASE

Pureprint Group to enter next phase of digital print with HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press beta

Benefits of new B2 format press include new applications, increased productivity and features for sustainable printing 

Uckfield, 4th July 2012 - Pureprint Group has announced its agreement to be one of the two British companies to beta test the new HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press, driving the development of this highly productive, versatile press and spearheading the introduction of new applications, not previously addressable by digital printing.

For large, high-end commercial printers, like Pureprint, the launch of a B2-format HP Indigo Digital Press is significant as it takes digital print deeper into the production mainstream.

“Digital has played a big role in Pureprint’s recent expansion,” said Aaron Archer, technical director, Pureprint Group. “Our HP Indigo presses have enabled us to achieve 50 per cent year on year growth in digital print production for each of the past three years. The 10000 press will enable us to extend our digitally printed portfolio to include a range of new applications.

“New size formats for brochures, folders, posters, book covers, and packaging applications will now be possible, as well as cost-effective, higher-volumes of other commercial products,” Archer continued. “This is important because against a background of shorter print runs, we’re able to achieve more for our customers.”

Pureprint’s broad customer base includes over 50 per cent of the FTSE 100 companies, graphic designers, luxury retailers, fine art publishers, universities, charities and other companies requiring image conscious printing.

“'This new press will be an integral part of our expanding range of marketing services, providing targeted personalised printed output for variable data publishing and multi-channel analytic-driven campaigns,” said Archer. 

The press, formally launched at drupa 2012, has a 750 x 530mm format and produces up to 3450 B2 sheets per hour (4/0) or up to 4600 B2 sheets in Enhance Productivity Mode, the equivalent of up to 2 million B2 sheets per month. It significantly moves the cross-over point⁽¹⁾ to about 2300 pages, almost double the cross-over point for the HP Indigo 7500 Digital Press.

Leading the way to a sustainable future

“The Indigo 10000 press looks to be the next significant development in the production of bespoke, personalised printed communications, not only from productivity and print quality perspectives, but for its sustainability benefits as well” said Richard Owers, director at Pureprint Group. “A B2 press with variable data capability that also prints pure colour reproduction and reduces environmental impact is highly attractive to us and our clients.”

Responsible printing strategies are on the increase, according to Owers as customers look for ways to achieve higher returns at lower environmental and financial cost.  For Pureprint, this is familiar territory and has been key to its industry-leading list of environmental achievements. In 2002 Pureprint became the first CarbonNeutral® printer in the world, it received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development in 2003 and 2008 and became the first printer to receive Graduate Status from the WWF Global Forest and Trade Network for responsible paper purchasing in 2011.

One of the HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press’s environmental features that interests Pureprint is minimal start-up waste, which maximises the proportion of sellable prints. Other environmental advantages are: consumables designed for waste reduction; use of recycled and recyclable materials; energy management and recovery; and imaging oil recycling.

Pureprint Group plans to install the HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press in September 2012 and test it until mid-2013.

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(1) Compared to the HP Indigo 7500 Digital Press. The cross-over point is the number of copies below which it is more cost-effective to print digitally. 

For more information contact:

Pureprint Group

Aaron Archer

Technical Director

01825 768 811

We were fortunate enough to work with Stewdio and It's Nice That at the end of last year to print 30,000 variable data cards which are now sitting inside 30,000 coloured balls that are circulating around a huge "Word-A-Coaster" within Selfridges' main store window. The project has featured on at least 8 different media blogs and magazines and if you get down to Selfridges soon you will still see the installation which is really fascinating. See our blog for more details http://www.pureprint.com/blog/ 

Following a successful 2011 we have continued to invest in equipment, personnel and plant to enable us to continue meeting our customers needs and providing them the wide range of services required. Our extended mailing and fulfilment centre will help us expand our services in this area and firm up our position as a single source provider for all business communication collateral. Click on the article to read more.

In December we took delivery of our 3rd HP Indigo 7500 to help deal with a growing demand for our digital printing service. Once again we have had this one fitted with the thick substrate kit (enabling up to 450mic thickness) and the White ink unit, enabling us to continue providing creative print solutions. Follow our blog at www.pureprint.com/blog to see some of the latest projects we've been involved in.

We have opened up a London sales office in Clerkenwells design district to ensure we are able to offer the support our London based customers require. Being right on the doorstep means we are quickly able to drop in to discuss briefs and provide samples or present paper swatches which has been a great advantage.

We also invested in new prepress to enable smoother and more efficient workflow through that environment. Click the image to read the full news clipping.

Pureprint were recognised for their continued ability to produce printed material of exceptional quality. This years submissions for the Fine Art Printer of the year included 4 beautiful books that were well received by the judges, leading them to award us this accolade for the 5th time in the last 6 years.

Printing professionals from all around gathered together at Buxted Park Hotel for an exclusive VIP event. Held by HP to highlight the benefits of their HP Indigo digital presses, the event featured speakers from HP, alongside Simon Cooper our Business Development Director, before all were invited back to the Pureprint Group site in Uckfield to get a close up view of our first rate digital department and to see our two Indigo 7500s in action.

Pureprint Group were recently ranked fifth in the UK book printers league table with £17.8m turnover, just behind MPG Books Group and Lightning Source UK, with Clays (St Ives) in second and CPI UK topping the table, with all figures taken from PrintWeek Top 500 accounts.

Pureprint Group has a made a trio of appointments in a bid to strengthen its corporate print team. Simon Carrington and Lloyd Bromhead have joined the group's sales team whilst Andrew Drummond will lead the client services team, all having arrived from St Ives Westerham Press. We hear from Carrington on why joining the group was an attractive prospect, as well Chief Executive Mark Handford's comments on the appointments and the reasoning behind them.

Hosted by Mock the Week star Hugh Dennis and with entertainment from ventriloquist Paul Zerdin and Oompah Brass, the PrintWeek 2010 Awards was a great night for Pureprint Group who gained the biggest trophy haul notching up a hat-trick of top prizes in the Environment, Fine Art and Book categories.

Pureprint’s commitment to environmental improvement in the face of adverse economic conditions has meant we stood head and shoulders above virtually everyone else to win the hotly-contested category of Environmental Company of the Year 2010.

In addition to purchasing two new HP Indigo 7500 presses and XMPie software, Pureprint has invested in a new six-colour plus coater Heidelberg XL 105 B1 press to be installed in January 2011, taking total investment in 2010 up to £3million. As well as this, more change has occurred with the appointment of former Precision Printing Executive, Simon Cooper as Business Development Director whose role it is to develop the Group’s digital solutions and integrate marketing communications with digital online media.

Pureprint Group continues its aggressive investment strategy by boosting its litho capacity with a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 105. Pureprint’s Chief Executive, Mark Handford explains the reasoning behind the decision, which takes investment to over £3million in 2010.

Pureprint has spent £1.3m on two new HP Indigo 7500 presses to the meet the growing demand for digital print. Technical Director, Aaron Archer talks us through the reasoning behind the investment and what it will mean for Pureprint.

Pureprint Group has appointed David Crompton and Ronan Daly as Sales Consultants to help expand the Group’s presence in the luxury and corporate market segments. Both join with a wealth of experience with Mr Crompton previously holding positions at Midas Press, Butler & Tanner, Fulmar and Wace, and Mr Daly having previously occupied roles at Park Communications, MPG Impressions and St Ives Westerham Press.