Go Beyond Celebrating Earth Hour With Green Business Practices

This Saturday, March 26 marks the fifth year of celebrating Earth Hour. At 8:30pm local time you are encouraged to turn off your lights for an hour. The goal of Earth Hour is to raise awareness against climate change. This year’s campaign aims to get you to think beyond the hour and encourage you to take actions to make the world a better place throughout the year. Here are some ideas to take your business beyond the hour.

Print green
When it’s time to print your marketing materials work with a printer that employs green printing practices. Look for local printers that use recycled paper and a sustainable supply chain, and does everything possible to minimise their impact on the environment. Consider printing reports double sided.
Give green
If your company uses branded, advertising specialty items, choose products that show environmental stewardship. Reusable coffee mugs and water bottles reduce the amount of plastic and Styrofoam in our landfills.

Go green
This may sound obvious but recycle at your office. Just about everything from paper to computers can be recycled these days and many recycling services make it so you don’t even have to sort. Find a company and encourage your staff to participate.
Green speak
While your efforts to go beyond the hour will be appreciated, don’t miss out on an opportunity to capitalise on your efforts. Several people search for businesses that take actions towards helping the environment.

Minuteman Press - The Most Loved Business in Town!

Thank you for all those clients who have left a testimonial on The Best of Bath, we have been awarded the accolade of the Most Loved Business in Town.

"This is great news, Minuteman Press Printers in Bath have always sought to be the best at everything we do and we can not thank all those who have helped make Minuteman Press the printing company that it is today."

Dave Dixon, Sales Director, Minuteman Press

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Business Cards Digital and Litho

Business card printing these days is cheap, fast and effortless. Although cards can be ordered online, the printing is still best done using professional printing machines – either traditional lithographic, or the newer digital presses.


Litho printing is a two stage process which involves offsetting the ink from plates onto rubber rollers, and then onto card. Unlike web-fed presses, which use rolls of paper, card presses are sheet-fed, making them slower. Added to this, they are complex to set up. For this reason, digital printers are preferred for business card printing. They have several advantages over the traditional method. For a start they are fast and easy to set up, requiring no printing plates. The card is created in digital form, using templates or an existing card design, and saved as digital file. This information is then uploaded to an ink-jet or laser-jet printing machine, which prints the cards direct using heat or UV-cured inks or toners.

Digital business card printing allows an on-demand service to be offered, with short print runs and a rapid turnaround time. It’s the ideal answer for small businesses, as card details can be altered with just a few clicks, and multiple designs can be stored – for example, a single design can be customised with the details of each member of a sales team. Cards may be single or double-sided – the latter being the ideal way to portray extra information in an uncluttered manner. With modern businesses having web, e-mail and postal addresses, as well as landline, mobile and fax numbers, this has become a necessity.

Although there are internet-commerce firms specialising in business cards which the customers design themselves from online templates, the best quality business card printing is that offered by “clicks-and-mortar” companies, such as us at Minuteman Press Bath.

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Minuteman Press Bath are the most loved printer in the UK as voted by local people on The Best of!

Check out what our customers have to say here.

Reports!

8 large reports jobs ordered today for super quick turnaround. Well that's just what we do I suppose. All needed in a Minuteman!

Business Cards - Special Offer

DOUBLE SIDED BUSINESS CARDS FOR
THE PRICE OF SINGLE SIDE

Presentation is everything and now there really never has been a better time to order Full Colour Business Cards with our
FREE Reverse Offer!

Offer is available on any quantity up to 5,000 Full Colour Business Cards printed on 400gm Card. Offer does not include double sided lamination.

Offer ends 30th June 2010

Look at this example price:

500x Business Cards
Full colour double side
on 400gsm FSC Matt Artboard
£60+VATthis is a saving of £35+VAT off our usual retail price!

Contact us today

Email: info@minutemanbath.co.uk

Tel: 01225 44 2000
Web:  www.minutemanbath.co.uk

Hot hot hot.. deal of the week!

Our presses are running hot today and if the weather is anything to go by will be hot all week.

So come and get your flyers this week, literally hot off the press and we will discount 20% off our usual price.

How does this sound?

1000x A6 Flyers
Full colour double side
on 140gsm Silk
£99 (usually sold at £125)


Turned around within 24 hours! Sign off your proof by 2pm and these will be ready by 2pm the following day!

Offer valid until Friday 28th May 2010. On all digitally printed full colour flyers. Quote HOTFLYER when ordering!

Print Deadlines

When producing company literature such as newsletters or magazines, meeting printing deadlines is essential in order to avoid costly mistakes, but in some situations your company may be working right up to the wire and there is a fine balance between having the most up to date information in your company literature and missing the printing press deadlines. You only need to look at the newspaper headlines on the morning after the election to see that the deadlines of the country’s printing press meant that the newspapers struggled to meet the public’s need for the most up to date information possible. Headlines were uncertain as Britain faced a hung parliament but, as results were still trickling in, the newspapers could not call for certain what was happening before they had to go to press and some relied on speculation.

Businesses in Bath should know the benefits of working with a local printing company in Bath, rather than a larger printing house, when looking to get their news out to consumers in order to build up a strong relationship and receive a more personal service. You may not be on such tight deadlines as the national press with the whole nation hanging on your written word and expectations high for the most newsworthy scoop, however, for a professional appearance, your company information must be as accurate as possible. Building a close relationship with a local printer will ensure co-operation should you need to work to extend deadlines or negotiate on costs.