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SEPTEMBER 2021 QUICKPRINTPRO.CO.UK £4/€5 PRINT TRADE EXPO ALWAYS OPEN OPEN FOR 365 LAST YEAR AND NEXT HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ALL OUR EXHIBITORS AND VISITORS Quick Print Pro: The print trade journal for news and views, new products and suppliers information since 1998 Sharing Best Practice in Print with Digital Printers, Copy shops, On-Street Quick Printers and In-House Print Rooms, online and on your desk QPP September 2021.indd 1 20/08/2021 17:01 FREE E-Commerce Website Win New Business and Increase E-COMMERCE Your Revenue Stream! 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Conventional printers specialising in On-Demand, Short Run, Variable Printing, CRDs (Corporate Reprographic Departments), OPEN for 365 last year and next. 34 READERS SCRIBES PSPs (Print Service Providers), Graphic Arts Businesses, Sign Peter, if you’ve got it, flaunt it, Foulkes These jokes are on you Suppliers and CAD Bureaus. QPP is available online and on your desk. www.QuickPrintPro.co.uk Sign-up for free to our newsletter and discover all the latest news in print, upcoming events, special offers, SUBSCRIBE new product launches and innovative trade and end-user campaigns. Just visit: www.quickprintpro.co.uk The law on workplace pensions has changed and every employer in the UK must put certain staff into a pension scheme and contribute towards it. Check out our demo site here: demo.no-minimum.co.uk This is called ‘automatic enrolment’. It’s important that you understand what you need to do — and when you need to do it. This will depend on your circumstances and those of your employees. To work out what you need to do and when you need to do it contact our auto enrolment scheme advisers on: 0800 132100 or email [email protected] Help is on hand from the Printing Industry Pension Scheme which has been running since 1986. Meridan Financial LLP is the appointed advisers for the Printing Industry Pension Scheme (PIPS) and are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Not all Auto Enrolment services are regulated by the FCA. QUICK PRINT PRO • SEPTEMBER 2021 3 QPP AD.indd 1 10/05/2018 10:02 QPP September 2021.indd 3 20/08/2021 17:01 NEWS COUNTRYSIDE ART BOOSTS COLOUR WITH MIMAKI With its design, print and manufacturing located under one, solar panel clad roof in Lincolnshire, Countryside Art has added to its in-house capabilities by investing in a Mimaki TR300-1850C textile coating machine. Designed for pre and post treating textiles for printing with pigment inks, the TR300’s small footprint and on-demand operational benefits appealed to company director, Lawrence Chapman as he strived to optimise the performance of Countryside Art’s cotton printing. With customers ranging from schools and charities to globally renown retail clients and visitor attractions, Countryside Art’s portfolio of UK made products holds universal appeal. “We’re able to offer small minimum runs, short lead times, competitive pricing and superb quality,” states Lawrence, as he discusses the company’s range of tea towels, cushion covers, tote bags and aprons; all printed on a bank of Mimaki Tx300-1800 textile inkjet printers. “We work with clients to turn their design ideas into reality across a multitude of products that represent our core ethos of delivering high quality, bespoke giftware with an expert, personal approach.” Simple to use, the TR300 roll-to-roll unit applies a coating to the fabric to improve print results, and once inserted into the coater, the fabric passes through a padder, where it is saturated with the necessary chemicals before passing through squeeze rollers and a dryer, and finally being rewound onto a roll. Countryside Art invested in the TR300 through authorised Mimaki partner, RA Smart (CAD & Machinery) and the company’s Magnus Mighall is confident of the opportunities the new machine presents. “The versatility of the Mimaki coating a pre-prepared fabric offers. “We are now able to coat textiles as and when machine means Countryside Art can offer their customers the opportunity to we need them,” Lawrence describes, “The ability to enhance our colour yield use specific fabrics, which up until this point would not have been cost effective has made a significant difference to colour matching, which for our corporate to coat using an external supplier.” customers is especially critical,” he continues. “From a technical perspective, it’s also possible to enhance the finished Countryside Art sports substantial direct to textile printing capabilities, product with a range of treatments, be it pre or post print – aiding the wash and thanks to its five Mimaki TX300-1800 wide format printers, running Mimaki rub fastness and even adding fire retardant or waterproof coatings,” Magnusl water based pigment inks and printing direct to a variety of cotton base continues. “We’re proud to have Countryside Art as a long standing customer, cloths, all woven specially for the company to ensure the highest quality and with their first investment in a Mimaki textile printer some five years ago, and we an ethical and sustainable supply chain. From design, through printing and continue to enjoy seeing the amazing work they produce.” onto machining and finishing, the company prides itself in offering a complete The new Mimaki TR300 has enabled Countryside Art to achieve higher colour solution to its customer base. yield and reduce its lead times, thanks to the improvements that printing to www.hybridservices.co.uk 01270 501900 ANTALIS MARCHES FOR MIND PROFILE OF THE MONTH: Antalis UK raised an impressive £3,214 SOVEREIGN SCREEN for mental health charity, MIND, TRADE PRINTER through their walking challenge. Your sticky Earlier this year the Antalis team walked customer questions the distance from Dublin to every single solved: Can you one of their sites – 1,614 miles! For every brand my plant? Are mile capped, Antalis donated £2 to MIND, your labels super a charity who provide advice and support tough? Can you to anyone experiencing a mental health produce multi- problem. information labels? The challenge commenced in Is there a specific conjunction with Mental Health artwork spec to stick to? I want my brand to travel, how Awareness week, and was then extended do I do this? to the rest of May for National Walking Discover frontline print answers to best advise your Month. After speaking to his team about customers by getting to know one of our favourite QPP the effects of COVID-19 on their mental preferred trade suppliers.