Inline die-cutting saves jobs!

"Using Kocher+Beck's inline die-cutting system has saved us a fortune, as well as helping secure people's jobs here at the company". That's the clear opinion of Tony Edmonds, director of online, web-to-print business, Azimuth Print based in Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol.

Established in 1989, Tony and his brother Mike have built Azimuth into a solid internet based print business. With the latest offset presses and digital production supported by full design facilities as well as extensive finishing services, they cover just about anything the modern customer needs, from business cards to full colour brochures as well as large-format posters and exhibition display modules.  

"It's tough out there at the moment and adding value to our products helps sustain our business. We've been kiss-cutting self-adhesive labels and die-cutting using IOC from Kocher+Beck for over two years now. Our press minders find die-cutting relatively simple. It's given them a new challenge and has really helped us because we don't know from one hour to the next what might be ordered by customers on the internet. We're flexible.

Before we did any die-cutting in-house we had to travel 20 miles to get it done outside, but now we handle it all here, along with all of our finishing. Using the IOC system means we can produce document folders either in bulk, or short-run. We even pre-score blanks to go through our Konica digital machine for ultra short runs. A customer can have 10 or 10,000 folders, it doesn't matter."

Azimuth offers graphic design
and variable data print

Azimuth Print is launching a new graphic design and variable data printing service as part of its online print delivery business. With the new service customers can benefit from high quality graphic design work with the ease of online ordering.

Azimuth offers a complete design package from concept to finished product, with fixed pricing to avoid nasty shocks. The approach to design is fresh, simple and effective.

The new service is ideal for start-up companies that require a corporate design for company logo and stationery. For established businesses Azimuth can provide a marketing communications package covering design, website development and print materials all at a fixed and highly competitive cost.

Azimuth is also now able to offer personalised variable data printing using the very latest software and digital printing techniques. Customer databases can be merged with print documents to create personalised messages that command attention. Using digital print output Azimuth can also offer unrivalled price value on very short print-runs.

Managing Director Tony Edmonds says, We take pride in our dedication to delivering projects on time and at a fixed cost. Our latest graphic design and variable data print services provides customers with a one-stop-shop for all their marketing communication needs. Coupled with the ease of our online ordering and our commitment to quality we anticipate strong demand for the new services.

Azimuth beefs up its B3 line up with Heidelberg

Azimuth Print is adding a Speedmaster SM 52-5 to its B3 line up. Specified with a high pile delivery which suits the 300gsm work it is commonly asked to handle and with an infra red dryer to make work and turn faster, it is the ideal press for a response driven printer.

Already the company attributes 90% of its sales to online ordering and now it has added two additional web sites with e-commerce capability: envelope-printing.com (making the most of a new envelope feeder it has bought in from America) and eco-friendly-printing.com (which enables it to promote its recently acquired FSC Chain of Custody status).

Work is generated from throughout the UK with some export, primarily from ex-pat communities. This will keep the new press well fed with brochures, leaflets, folders and other general commercial work.

The SM 52-5 replaces a four-colour machine, the fifth unit giving it the flexibility of offering a special colour or seal.

“This is our first press with CP 2000 controls which we expect to make it easier to operate and more automated. The operators are very excited about its arrival on 23 February,” says managing director Tony Edmonds.