When a staff member goes above and beyond the call of duty consistently over the course of a year, while keeping us entertained in the midst of things, it's only befitting that they are awarded with a company's most prestigious honour. 

 

Unfortunately we couldn't decide who deserved this accolade as all our team are magnificently awesome and so by default, Chris who doesn't actually work for the company was recently awarded Employee of the Year by partner, Martin McAuley.

 

Cheap Online Printer

 

Don't panic! 

 

At Kaizen we have our own digital printers, so in some instances, we can offer a next day printing service. If your deadlines tight, let us know and we'll only be to happy to advise you on the options available.

 

For the quickest response please use our contact form or call our team on 028 9002 2474.

 

Next Day Printing

24 hour print service

 Cheapest online printing

Printers for Flyers

 

Last week, we were faced with the almighty task of printing 34 roll up banners for the Department for Employment and Learning. Thankfully we're more than equipped for such a task and a few days later all banners were ready for delivery.

Now go forth you soldiers and do your jobs! 

Grab you're own roll up banner from only £89 +vat

Poster Printing 

 

 

If you're reading this newsletter, then thank you. As our customers, friends and family, we would like to thank you, for helping us reach our 2nd year in business. Without your support, guidance and advice, we quite simply could not have gotten this far and it's greatly appreciated.

Now we'd like to give something back to you!

• 30% off Luxury business Cards - 500 for only £40
• 23% off our Roll up Banners - Now only £69
• 1000 Letterheads now only £100

All offers are subject to you wishing us a Happy Birthday when you place an order or wishing us Happy Birthday on our Facebook page www.fb.me/kaizenprint

Kindest Regards,
Connor 

 It's been a long time since I blogged on here to be honest. But the reason for that is two fold.

Printing is busy

I bought a second printer in belfast

But I will go into these all in much better detail over the next while 

Put a Spring in your step & keep the
pennies in your pocket this April

With infinite budgets, we'd all love to SPEND SPEND SPEND on our marketing materials. However in the current climate, most businesses are spending their money much more conservatively. We say, Rightly So!

This April let us help you revitalise your marketing activity with our fantastically priced

• Premium A5 Flyers
• Roll Up Banner
• Poster Printing Offers

All available at our extremely competitive everyday prices.

If you can't find what you're looking for on our website, please do not hesitate to contact any one of our team, who will only be too happy to assist.

Chat to you soon

Connor McAuley | Kaizen Print, Belfast
17a Ormeau Avenue Belfast, BT2 8HD
Telephone Number: 028 9002 2474

Also, don't forget about our
BIGGEST EVER Poster Printing SALE

• Flyer Printing
• Poster Printing
• A1 Poster Printing

• PVC Banners only £25 per metre
• Mesh Banner
• A0 Poster Printing

• Business Cards
• Letterhead Printing
• NCR Printing

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Double Sided Letterheads now available at Kaizen Print

 

A little customer research if you may?

How much in your local area, have you paid for the following poster printing

Sizes - A0, A1 & A2

Thanks

Connor

We're having a little discussion on the reasons for starting you business on our facebook page

 http://www.facebook.com/kaizenprint

Flyer Printing

Thats it! Our January Flyer Printing offer finishes at 4pm today.

 

 Hopefully you were singing that to a Total Eclipse of the heart tune. Nope, ok then….

Our turnaround times start when your order is sent to the printing press. For us this means:

1) When "print ready*" artwork is provided
2) Payment has been confirmed
3) Orders after 1pm are counted as following day

We'll always try and advise print timeframes for your deadlines. If we need to hurry things along, we may be able to provide an express printing service (on some products). Because we work to an extremely efficient printing system, speeding up your order means we will incur additional costs. This can reduce your turnaround to 2 days in most instances, but there will be a premium charge for this service.

If you really really need your order tomorrow, it may be suitable in some instances to Digitally print your order & where possible we can print your order in 24 hours (sometimes same day). It will be ready for collection at our offices the following day. Contact us for our digital prices.

Most common sources of artwork delays
- Missing fonts.
- Wrongly sized artwork
- 72dpi or other low resolution artwork (files must be at least 300dpi!)
- Artwork with no bleed or the improperly sized bleeds (3mm on each side)
- Artwork with text or design elements placed too close to the trim line.

Flyer Printing

 

Just to let you know, our flyer printing offer finishes this week.

 

HD Printing - High Resolution Vs Low Resolution

The easiest way to describe this, is by comparing Blu-Ray DVDs with VHS Tapes. When you view one then the other, there really is no comparison. We print using the highest resolution settings and to get the best results we need your photos/images to be of the highest quality also.

To get a good quality image to print perfectly, it must be at least 300dpi at the size it is to be printed. Any less could result in pixelation as the image below shows

flyer printing

 


The question we get asked most, relates to bleed. The 'bleed', is the area outside of your design that we use to trim artwork to the correct size. We use this area to ensure that no critical information, or images are cut off when we trim the pages (with a guillotine the size of a small room). Make sure that any images that are to extend to the edge of your design also extend 3mm of the page edge (on all sides).

If you are creating your own artwork, please ask them to use our our templates for your design. This means, we can quickly confirm the readiness for print, saving time & money. 

In the image above the DARK grey area is the finished size of the flyer & the LIGHT grey area is the bleed on each side. To be extra careful, we would also ask designers to include a 3mm safe zone on the inside of the DARK grey area as a matter of best practice.

flyer printing

 Clan Wars 6: Kaizen Sponsorship

If you look closely in the background, you can see the Kaizen Print & Marketing branding on the octagon corner. This is the second Clan Wars event we have sponsored. Each being better than the last.

 

 

Next up is the Ulster Hall on Saturday 28th May

flyer printing

 

Social Media Marketing by Kaizen Print

 Just in case you haven't seen our facebook page you can click www.facebook.com/kaizenprint or the picture below to see our best offers, advice on printing & so much more. Become a fan if you want also please!

 TW Sports is a leader in local soccer coaching from toddlers to teenagers. Director and Head Coach Tim Wareing has over 15 years experience in coaching & holds the prestigious UEFA European ‘A’ Licence. 

Tims' attention to detail is second to none. Where other make do, Tim is a total perfectionist. He know what he wants and is a pleasure to work with.

Over the past year Kaizen have worked on a variety of projects. From Flyers to Posters, Welcome Packs to Wall Planners we've had the pleasure of designing and printing a variety of projects for TW Sports.

You can find out more by visiting www.ToddlerSoccer.Org & www.CoachTim.Org

Printing

 
Ever heard the story of the cleaner with the dirty home? Nope, must be a Lisburn thing then. The gist of the story is that the cleaner is too busy cleaning other peoples homes and offices that she forgets to clean her own. After a while the customers dry up and the only home she has to clean is her own.

The moral of this long winded story is that you have to make time to keep your own house in shape or else you could be spending a fair bit of time there.

At Kaizen Print, we try and blog once a week, check all prices monthly and post on our Facebook once a day (something like this post). Not only does this keep things fresh for your customers, but provides fresh content for google to see and hopefully rank you for.

Things you might like to try

1) Blogging once a day
2) Updating your pricelist monthly
3) Adding any news to your site weekly

Printing

 This is the first in our Printers Friend series of hints and tips to help our customers when deciding their needs for printing.

 

Keeping to standard paper sizes, reduces wastage and keeps prices at a minimum. We'll always advise you on the best size of print for your needs, however our most common print sizes are A3 for Posters, A4 for Letterheads, A5 for Flyers and A6 for postcards.

 

The diagram below shows how each paper size relates to the next. As you can see, each is proportionate to the next. A2 is twice the size of A3, which is double the size of A4 etc.

 

 

For any further information, please contact our Customer Service Team on 029 9002 2474

Flyer Printing

 

 

Our best value flyers just got better

Fabulous Flyers Buying Guide

It may be cold outside, you may be miserable for being back at work, but the Kaizen Team will make you feel warm inside with a great offer to kick start your 2011 marketing campaign.

Not only that, but because flyers are generally zero rated for VAT, you don't need to worry about the tax man. We'll keep you right anyhow!

For those who require top quality design, we capping the price at £60 for this offer only, saving you another £90.

Not content with our fantastic flyer offer this month, we've also created our first free Buying Guide.

Make use of our vast and varied marketing knowledge, to help you efficiently and effectively target your flyer campaign.

No more "I wish I had done A or B....", we cover the main bases to help you create the most successful campaign ever!

You can view our Fabulous Flyers Buying Guide here

 Flyers or Leaflets are amazing. No really, we love them and sell more flyers than any other product… for good reason. They are the essential marketing tool, allowing our customers to get their message to a massive audience at a super low price.We like to think that we know a thing or two about marketing with flyers and so have put together our buying guide to help you create the best flyer campaign possible.You've heard of the 5Ws right?Who, what, when where & why - these are the basic principles of marketing. Do you know who your potential customer is? What type of customer are they - business, consumer, retail? When / Where are you targeting them - at home, at work, during leisure time? Why are you marketing to them? Answering these questions alone will help you greatly in targeting your potential market.Tell us why?We don't presume to know your business - yet! So tell us your motives for using flyers. Is it to get more business? Maybe you want to retain current customers or increase the profitability of certain products. You could possibly be announcing a change of location……we all dream of that office in the Bahamas too! If the success of this flyer was measured in one specific goal, what would it be?Make it Special!You know the difference between a good and a bad leaflet right? Below are two examples of leaflets we have seen in the last few months. Don't worry, we have permission to show them both. Which one are you more likely to act upon? On the bad example (we presume you know which one that is), there is little more than basic contact details and a few of the services the company provides. On the other example, this company make best use of both sides, has a clearly targeted offer and has included a timed incentive. Which do you prefer? I Want it, What Now?That's it, you've got them hooked. How does the customer find our more, or purchase this offer or service? Really spell this out for them. "Ring us on 0208 XXXX XXX for more information." Call into our showroom for a test-drive." These examples give definitive next step for the customer.How Do I Get the Message Out?You will laugh at this, but we have had customers who didn't want to give out their flyers because they cost too much. Thankfully when they became our customer this issue was resolved. There is any number of distribution options available: There are discounted mail companies who provide highly targeted distribution to your customer database. This is probably the dearest option (bar driving around the country yourself). Kaizen Print have teamed up with The Distribution Network to provide low cost flyer distribution throughout Northern Ireland. From as little as £65 per 1,000 we can deliver your flyers to specific postcodes throughout the province, quickly and securely. Talk to us.Designed by DesignersWe're not electricians, and for the most part we'll never touch anything electrical. Though we have been know to struggle with lightbulbs for the most part. Kaizen Print started life as a design and marketing agency and that is where our strength lies. Design is so critical in your flyer campaign, it can mean the difference between success and complete failure. Failure costs you money, success makes you money.Next Steps?If you've decided that a flyer campaign is right for you, the first thing to do is to speak to us. We'll ask you pretty much everything above and grasp a great understanding of your needs and wants. After that if you're still happy, we'll get the design brief to you. The more information you present to us, the better we're armed to create you flyer. Test 

 Spent all of the Christmas break working on Marketing ideas for Kaizen Print. Expect some great offers, small business marketing ideas, print/design studies and loads more. And if you know anyone looking flyers in January, please point them in our direction. I'll announce our flyer offer tomorrow!

Flyer Printing

 

The Kaizen Print and Marketing finally has a new home. No longer are we confined to our home studios, but rather have a fantastic "loft style" office, right in the heart of Belfast City Centre, complete with a baby grand piano due to go on tour with the world renowned artist Herbie Hancock.

Where else would you get it?

For those who want to drop in, for a coffee, chat, or even just a nosey, our new address is:

Kaizen Print & Marketing
Alexander House
Faktura Offices - 17a Ormeau Avenue
Belfast
BT2 8HD

See you all soon

Kaizen

October's Special Offers

October is a month of change. Darker nights, colder mornings and of course, Christmas looms even closer. With that in mind, we'd like to cheer up your Monday morning with some fabulous, up to 50% off Christmas Card offers.

It's also time to think about your New Year promotions & pre-christmas sales activities. If we plan ahead of our competitors, we are in a fantastic position to gain extra sales, revenue and customers throughout the Winter period.

For those in the services industry, don't forget to stock up on your Gift Vouchers. These can be a massive opportunity to give customers a chance to share your services with friends and family.

Each week, the Kaizen Print team print thousands of our high quality flyers / postcards for the hospitality and service industries. This service has become so popular, we have now introduced a second flyer run each week. To ensure we maintain our cost effective & prompt level of service, we would like to introduce a more structured routine to our (batched 350gsm silk) flyer run. Of course, if you don't make the deadline, the standard 5 day lead time will still apply.

 

Flyer Printing

Print Schedule

Monday - Order placed by 12pm & payment made
Tuesday - Print Ready artwork received by 10am
Friday - Delivery by 5pm (just in time for the weekend)

And if you need us to help with the design, then we'd like to know about your order on the Thursday prior.

  

• Flyer Printing
• Poster Printing
• Large Format Posters

• Rollup Banners from £69
• PVC Banners only £25 per metre
• Mesh Banner

• Business Cards
• Letterheads
• NCR Printing

  If you can't view this email, please click here. www.kaizenprint.co.uk | 028 9002 2474 Newsletter - September 2010

Happy Birthday Kaizen Print

More Good News

On the 21st September 2010, Kaizen Print and Marketing will be celebrating its first birthday. It's been an absolutely fantastic rollercoaster of a year and we would like to extend the biggest Thank You to our customers, friends and families who have supported the business and continue to do so daily.

We really couldn't have done this without you all and your support, guidance and friendship is appreciated more than you'll ever know.

Connor (Mr Kaizen Print himself) has been shortlisted for the Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2010. We know, we couldn't believe he was under 30 also! But he is and he is currently in the "Hot 40" shortlist from thousands of entries throughout the UK. We'll keep you up to date with all the latest happenings in the event and hope you'll join us in wishing him Good Luck.

Let's get Physical... Sorry we mean Social!!

This month, the Kaizen Print and Marketing team completed a number of absolutely stunning custom Facebook Pages. From worldwide audio brands to local restaurants, we are extremely happy with the finished products.

Check out the Pages below:

• Denon 100
• Clarins & Me
• Made in Belfast

We think they look stunning and would love to hear your thoughts too. Kaizen Print Fan page

Marketing throughout Quarter 4.

"Brrr it's cold in here, must be some Marketing in the atmosphere...." 10 points if you get the quote.

The schools are well and truly back and attention has turned to close of the year. It really is time to start thinking about Christmas Cards, Wall Planners, 2011 price lists and January Sale Posters.

Don't forget Gift Vouchers too!

As always, if you fancy a chat, or want to go through any marketing ideas, give our team a call on 028 9002 2474 or email customer.service@kaizenprint.co.uk

 

  

• Flyer Printing
• Poster Printing
• Large Format Posters

• Rollup Banners from £69
• PVC Banners only £25 per metre
• Mesh Banner

• Business Cards
• Letterheads
• NCR Printing

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Sometimes, you just can't decide on a business letterhead. What colours to use, what text to include, what text to exclude? It all gets very serious if we're totally honest.

If you want a little help designing your letterheads give us a call. But for now, here are some of the worlds classic letterheads from people we aspire to be or to work for including:

Pixar


Shirley Temple


Potato Corp - Classic American style


And after all this, if you decide to check out our Letterhead prices please click here

 

 

 

 

We love our Corporate Stationery so much, we know you'll fall in love too. Printed on 120gsm FSC Certified premium paper, our Letterheads and Compliment Slips are the perfect way to promote your company and add professionalism to all outgoing communications. 

 

Buy our fantastic value Letterheads here

 

Well not quite new, but I have just added the product to the site on the request of customers. To be completely honest, it was an oversight on my part, as Tri Fold Brochure Printing is literally one of our most purchased products.

Uses our Customers have had for such a product:

• Take Away Menus
• Company Brochures
• Price Lists for Beauty or Nail Salons
• Political Party Mandates

Over the past few months, the amount of flyers we have printed has increased tremendously! And with that we are offering great prices! I know, shameless plug.

Thanks

Connor

As someone who should know a little bit about printers, the home printing market is completely unknown to me. In fact today saw the momentous occasion of the purchase of our first HP Wireless Printer for home use.

 

 

The Kaizen Print Design studio has just uploaded and signed off our newest creation. Hooray! Web Design & development for Quay Gate House.

The custom built site utilises 3 galleries, contact form and an array of behind the scenes cms magic beans.

Have a look and let us know what you think

Quay Gate House

 

Leaflet printing is one of the most effective ways of promoting your business. Many companies throughout the province use a variety of activities, with leaflet design, print and mailing at the centre of marketing focus. Throughout the last few months, we have worked on a number of high profile leaflet campaigns for a wide variety of markets; however, none are as prominent in our mind as the projects completed for TW Sports. If you are not aware of these guys and you have children, you definitely want to check out their summer schools for some of the best coaching available on our “wee” island.

We started our first leaflet project for TW Sports Easter Schools and provided an initial consultation, to ascertain the key messages to be portrayed in this project. This was followed by design of the A5 leaflets & posters used to promote the events.

Not only were we on hand to provide sound advice, as well as affordable design and print, but also through our distribution partners, we were able to save TW Sports considerable time and money on the posting of over 5000 leaflets.

Our help and support throughout this first project has led just this month, to the completion of our second major project for Tim and his team. 

The TW Sports World Cup Summer Camps, for children between the ages of 2 & 13, start on the 5th July and are being held in 14 locations around throughout province. Please visit TW Sports or visit them on Facebook for more information.

Tim Kindly provided the following testimonial of our work:
Kaizen Print & Marketing provide high quality, sensibly priced marketing materials and business stationery. Working to the tightest deadline & budgets, Kaizen Print are only just a call away.

Here is our June Newsletter - Click the image below to see it

Thought MMA was hard work? Well after finishing a little flyer printing for the guys in the IFS MMA camp, I was invited to join their class for a training session. Thankfully there was no photographic or video evidence to show I was there, but I can assure you, that these boys mean business! It's now Thursday evening and I'm still feeling the effects of 2 hours solid training. Thats a good thing right? While we cant take the credit for the fantastic designs (credits to follow), we can confidently shout from the "cage" that these flyers were awesome when printed. Spec: 350gsm Silk, Colour 2 Sides. Check out our flyer printing prices

 

 Evening all,

Just wanted to upload another bit of print we have been working on this evening. While we cannot take the responsibility for the absolutely fantastic logo, bringing all the design together in the form of a roll up banner is all our work. We're putting the finishing touches to the banner tonight, but we'll have no doubt the Vintage Rocks team will be over the moon with the finished product

 

 

 Morning All,

Well what a month May 2010 was! We got some absolutely awesome new clients and furthermore some great projects to print and of course design. This post is to showcase some of the work we are finished and in the middle of completing for Draynes Farms. If you haven't heard of the company, thats a crying shame, because they are the only dairy farm in Northern Ireland who still milk their own cows, pasterise & bottle the finished product. This allows them to monitor the quality at every level!

For Draynes, we developed the slogan "Where Happy Cows Live" as happy cows make nicer milk. This will be rolled out throughout all marketing literature and their forthcoming website which we are also developing.

First up, the Roll up Banner

Printing Belfast

Printer Belfast

Printing Dublin

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After 8 months of starting up Kaizen Print, I decided I needed a little RnR. I have honestly worked harder in the past year, than ever before in my life! But that of course has its rewards. And that was a a week long break to Lanzarote.

True to form, I was scouting out business card designs and negotiating flyer printing with local club owners. It has to be done, doesn't it. Well the answer quite frankly is No, it doesn't! 

With no laptop and very limited internet access, this left me to the worst possible thing; my thoughts. Weird and wonderful ideas sprung up from many margaritas on the beach and most importantly I came back rested and with a renewed sense of energy. That plus 546 emails to respond to. At time of writing this, I am down to 49, and this is not including the emails the rest of the team looked after.

When I get these emails replied to, the following projects are top priority for the Kaizen Print Team.

Canvas Printing Service
Memorial Cards
Flyer Distribution.

These are all services we have provided from Day 1, however, as a new customer recently pointed out - because our services are so varied and wide ranging, we need to talk about hem more often.

Secretly, I'm glad to be back in the office and I know the rest of the team share my sentiments......

 

 At Kaizen Print we try and do our little bit to help our customers and their good causes. With this in mind, we have been working with the team at Candy Plum, a fantastic boutique in Hillsborough on a project called Viva La Glam.

Remember this is being written by a 27 year old bloke

Viva La Glam is a ladies night to support the S.A.M Charity. It is being held on the 2nd September, which is just before the annual Hillsborough Oyster Festival. We have supported the organising committee with, design, poster printing, flyer printing and tickets for the event.


A bit more about the event rom the organisers

Viva La Glam is this years fashion event at The Hillsborough Oyster Festival!
Viva La Glam is a ladies' ultimate girly night out! 
With a fabulous fashion show lined up with amazing retailers such as Candy Plum, Una Rodden, Wish Bridal, Grainne Maher Millinery and Angelo Designer Handbags.
The very talented Shane Bennett is creating an unmissable 'Showgirl' hair finale which will ned to be seen to be believed!!
If gorgeous fashion and stylish hair isn't enough then fear not............ we will also have the crowning of 'Miss Oyster Pearl 2010', judged by the lovely Tracey Hall and Lisa Harrison.
Ladies will also have the chance to discover and shop the latest beauty secrets from Temple Spa and Senna Make-Up as well as the chance to put the finishing touches to their outfit with some gorgeous jewellery from Shannon's Jewellers in Lisburn!
As well as a gorgeous West Coast Cooler drinks reception, ladies will be treated to scrumptious delights provided by The Plough Inn in Hillsborough, which i'm sure you can all agree, is indeed, a treat in itself!!
This ultimate Ladies Night Out is indeed all for a very good cause - to raise some much needed money for S.A.M - Struggle Against Muscular Dystrophy.
S.A.M is this years selected charity for The Oyster Festival. S.A.M is indeed a Hillsborough based charity and the money raise from this event will help the charity to ultimately improve the treatment, quality of life and long term outlook for persons affected by Muscular Dystrophy through awareness, research, education and advocacy.

Ticket Price: £25
All of the above is included in your ticket price.
Tickets can be purchased from Candy Plum in Hillsborough or from www.hillsboroughoysterfestival.com

We look forward to seeing you all there! xo

 

Printing London

Long Time no update!!!!

I know its been a while, but the Belfast & Dublin Printing markets are in full flow at the minute and if you don't jump on it, well you get left behind.

This week, we have been working for a number of lifestyle, fitness and grooming businesses. Seems everyone wants to get fit for summer, preened and pruned and these smart companies are capitalising on it.

We designed everything below and like the true artists we are we'll go into a little more detail

 

  

Project: Tone n Ten Summer Bootcamps

A5 Double Sided flyer on 170gsm Gloss paper

We created this flyer for the guys at Tone n Ten, who needed a great quality yet low cost mass marketing leaflet to be distributed throughout the Banbridge area. 

 

 

Project: Man & Woman Flyers

A6 Flyers on 350gsm Silk

As part of our flyer batch (we print 80,000 flyers a week now), we designed and printed the above flyers for the team at Man & Woman. They have two stores, Lisburn and Belfast. Our brief was to create very clean flyers, prominently promoting the new Summer offers.

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A little update about Kaizen Print activities this month - We have had a series of orders from our website www.kaizenprint.co.uk this month. After 7 months of no orders through the site at all, this is a very welcome relief. We have had lots of 

No not me, but very topical news for myself and Kaizen Print

 

Eighty-one jobs are to go in east Belfast after a printing company stopped trading after just five months in business.

The directors of C & R Print, which was set up in October, closed the Alanbrooke Road business on Friday.

The company bought the assets of Graham & Heslip in a pre-pack administration deal three months ago.

Graham & Heslip, which traded from the same premises, went into administration on December 2 after 83 years in business.

Two weeks later it was bought for £100 by C & R, which had been set up by Diarmuid McGarry, managing director of Graham & Heslip, and Adrian Glenn, director of Impression Print & Design.

However, it has emerged that suppliers owed large sums of money by Graham & Heslip refused to do business with the new company.

Insolvency practitioner John Gordon of Napier & Sons, who is advising the directors, said: “It is a very unfortunate. The new company bought the assets of Graham & Heslip and took over all its employees. But suppliers of Graham & Heslip refused to do business with them and effectively blackballed them.”

Mr Gordon said he had looked at the possibility of making around 40 of the workforce redundant and continuing trading but said an increase in the cost of paper was “the final straw”.

He said he was filing papers to enable the company to petition the court to go into liquidation.

It is understood the company owes around £900,000, including £500,000 in redundancy, pay in lieu of notice, arrears of wages and holiday pay.

The wage inspection team of the Department for Employment and Learning is expected to go into the company premises tomorrow to carry out an inspection.

The directors are also understood to have given personal guarantees over the lease on the Alanbrooke Road premises and over some of the machinery.

David Kerr, the chief executive of the Insolvency Practitioners Association, said the failure of C & R Print demonstrated the potential problems of a pre-pack arrangement.

“Pre-packs or any sale in administration can be a useful means of rescuing good bits of a company and of ensuring the preservation of jobs. But any pre-pack company, whether its management are the same as the old company or not, can only get going if the suppliers will do business with them. That hasn’t happened here.

“But at least an attempt is made at a rescue. If a pre-pack company goes into liquidation, employees and suppliers may be no worse off than if the original company itself went into |liquidation.”

Graham & Heslip went into administration owing £3.1m to unsecured creditors with the largest debt of £790,370 owed to McNaughton Paper.

Suppliers interviewed by the Belfast Telegraph hit out at the sale to C & R. One said: “The suppliers caught up in this mess have been left high and dry.”

First Minister Peter Robinson attended the opening of Graham & Heslip’s renovated £2.5m premises on Alanbrooke Road just two years ago, where he was met by Mr McGarry and chairman Ken Cleland.

Think your marketing starts once you open your doors? Think again. At Kaizen Print, once we realised we wanted to go into business, our marketing plan went into full swing.

Pretty much like Berlins’ first frozen yohgurt shop Yoli. They have spent considerable time creating the concept for their store, and while it is being perfected inside, they have a visualisation of their dream printed and placed on the windows of their store.

We think it looks amazing!

Kaizen Print Printer in Belfast 

Today marks a momentous occasion for me. Not only is it our 6 month and 2 day anniversary, but today Kaizen Print sold our 1 millionth flyer and by heck I am over the moon. If only they were £1 coins sold for £2....or £5 notes.

As milestones go, this is one we are pretty proud of, as we design and print a hell of a lot of the Belfast & NI Club Scene promo material. 

Todays Business Thought

March saw an epic growth in our flyer printing sales and thus hitting the 1 million milestone, for two main reasons

1. We had a special offer for 5000 A6 flyers on 350gsm silk, colour 2 sides - ONLY £100
2. A a business, we are starting to get a pretty good reputation for our standard of print, quality service and turn-around times, meaning customers are coming back time and time again.

So, if you can, think of a promotional offer for your products or services that will not compromise the final result and ensure absolutely everyone knows about it. And of course, that you can deliver the goods/service you promise.

Connor - Kaizen Print, Printer Belfast

 

 

As an effort to do something different, I am going to post some of the designs that inspire my own work in the hope that they generate ideas for other users of the Livewire Network. 

Todays lesson - design does not need to be cluttered and logos do not need to be half the size of the design to be noticed

 

 

Printing Belfast

 If the printer belfast you normally use has lately been on the blink then you may be looking into acquiring a new one. Or maybe the one you have is too slow, or could it be that you just simply need more features on a printer rather than the basic black print?

If so, don’t worry. There are countless printer stores in printing Belfast that offer a range of different printers with a variety of features. Keep in mind that these will usually cost you a bit extra, but if you need them that badly for your business, then you shouldn’t have to think twice about going out and purchasing the ideal one.

If you are working in a company that needs to produce coloured print outs then evidently you will require a colour printer. For instance, you work in a primary school or with children of a very young age and need coloured print outs of animals or alphabetical letters to decorate the classroom. A colour printer gives the best quality of such images and really brightens up a room let alone the sheet of paper itself.

A built in photocopier would also come in useful for school teachers as you may need to make copies of homework, a pupil’s work or even copies of pages from novels and text books. If you think about it, this can ultimately save a lot of money on the cost of texts purchases annually if students are given print outs rather than the physical books.

Schools normally have a set budget when it comes to their annual expenditure rates and this doesn’t differ when dealing with the simpler things like a brand new printer as opposed to uniform sizes and school dinners.

As stated, working in such a versatile environment (one minute you could be working with basic spreadsheets with an I.T. class, the next you need colours and copies in an art class) it will work out better if your printer has as many features and qualities as possible.

So when it comes to working in a school and being given a set budget to go and purchase an essential printer, my advice is to find one with the most features. A printer that offers additional value in the form of scanning, photocopying and colour. You have to always remember that when working within school or college premises, a variety of tasks can arise every day, some more unexpected than others. If it’s merely printing off a spreadsheet or piece of English coursework then that’s one thing, but perhaps an Art student needs fully coloured print outs of images from the likes of Van Gogh to Decamps in order to make the grade.

Either way, in the long run this will prove effective due to the adaptable environment a school surroundings has. By choosing the most appropriate printer Belfast, you won’t regret it.

 The sole reason any company or business generates flyers through flyer printing is to enhance sales and profit through promotion and advertising. Flyers need to have certain elements in order too woo the customer. You can’t get away with just printing a few random words and your company name in black on white paper, handing it out to the public and immediately assume your work in promoting your company is done.

Flyers need the correct features and have to come across as interesting and colourful so that customers will be easily drawn to what it is you are advertising. In other words you need to find your target audience and come up with a decent plan and design for your flyer printing Belfast so that is speaks to the said audience.
For starters the flyers must take heed of a customer’s questions and enquiries by being able to provide answers and solutions to such queries. The flyer must give details of how the customer will gain an advantage by having such an item. For example, if your company is offering a particular a deal, maybe it is a good idea to include it on the flyer. Or if your company gives customers the chance to get something off a sale by using the flyer, have it stated clearly so that they can read it, i.e. ‘10% off every order over £30 with this flyer.’

The substance within the flyer must not let the customer’s interest wane at any times either. Keep it simple and straight to the point. Use short words and sentences. Use colours to help draw eye contact, leaving some of the most important matters in a brighter colour than others. Just don’t use too much colour as it can then end up difficult to read with all clashes.

Another useful technique is to break up what it is your company offers. One of the prime examples of this would be to use bullets or numbering. Often bullet point viewing is more appealing to look at. It is significant that the most important deals your company offers should be put in bullet point form, that way it stands out even more so.

Using a photograph or image is always a bonus too, particularly if it is indeed a certain product you are advertising. This way the customer has a clear idea of what it is you are offering to them without having to conjure up an image in their head. There is nothing else that helps a flyer warrant more attraction than a compelling photograph of something relevant. Just make sure the solution is okay before printing the flyer otherwise it can affect the overall appearance. If the image is out of sync this can be easily fixed using Adobe Photoshop.

With this vital information taken on board then you shouldn’t have any problems with it comes to your flyer printing. Remember, it is all in the planning beforehand. Usually, creating the flyer is the easy part.