Bretonside Copy

Many thanks to everyone who applied for our recently advertised position for a Digital Print Assistant and Designer. We have been so overwhelmed by the response to this advert that we have now decided to close the post to new applicants.

JOB VACANCY: Digital Print Operator & Designer
We are looking for an efficient and competent member of staff to join our small team based within our shop on Bretonside in Plymouth City Centre.
Please visit https://www.bretonsidecopy.com/jobs/ for more information, or to apply.

Just a quick update on Bretonside Design, Print & Copy activities over the past month. April was a very busy time for us as we were faced with the installation of a new printing press whilst we were handling the annual demands from The University of Plymouth students for hard and soft back versions of their dissertations. Fortunately, we managed to meet all student hand-in date deadlines without any major issues and the installation of our new Xerox Versant 180 press went a...s smoothly as it possibly could have. This new press has opened new opportunities for us in its ability to produce highly accurate back to back print alignment.This in turn has enabled us to automate many of our workflow processes resulting in even faster turn-around times for finished products. e.g. same day business cards anyone? In addition, the press can also produce a 6 page A4 folded brochure on 300gsm card which is ideal for Estate Agents wishing to promote and advertise particular homes for sale or rent. By the way, If you are friends with Estate Agents please let them know! Finally, I would like to thank David, Jess, Luke and Rose (The Bretonside Team) for their great assistance as usual but especially over the past month which has sometimes been a difficult but mostly successful time for us.
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Digital Hot Foil Printing on Hard-Backed Books with a Thermal Resin & Steel Crimped Binding
With the acquisition of two new machines, we have now expanded our digital hot foil printing and thermal binding capabilities. This means that we can produce beautiful foil printed hard-backed bound books in-house with a resin and steel crimped spine binding feature…… perfect for dissertations, thesis, reports presentations and photo books of up to 340 sheets. We offer a choice of foil...ed text (including logos) printed directly onto the hard-backed front cover and spine in either Gold or Silver foils all with a two or three day turn-around and for your peace of mind, we can edit previously bound books by re-heating the book to remove original sheets or add new. We can also foil print onto business cards and a wide range of other business stationery products all without the need to pay for expensive foil stamping print blocks. Please call for further information.
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Woodland Trust Just to let our friends know that Bretonside Copy have for sometime now been doing our bit for the environment in the shape of our participation in a scheme operated by the Woodland Trust. Their Carbon Capture Scheme is dedicated to planting trees on behalf of members who purchase paper and board from an environmentally sustainable source such as that operated by our prime supplier "Premier Paper". Each month the amount of paper and board that we purchase counts towards a financial donation to the Carbon Capture Scheme. If you would like to know more about this Scheme then please click on the link below. Each month we post an interesting newsletter which updates the work performed by the Woodland Trusts' Carbon Capture Scheme.

Just in case some of our arty friends are a bit concerned about the continuing quality of our fine art printing following the sad demise of our previous faithful Canon iPF printer ......................we have now had a few days working with its replacement, the all new Canon Pro 4000 (the only one in the South West of less than 25 in the UK) and we are really impressed by the clarity and high quality of the prints that we are already producing. All round it produces fine art prints of even better quality than before and if you are looking for semi gloss or gloss photographic work then in our view this printer is unsurpassed.

Just thought that our clients might appreciate that this year we signed up to The Woodland Trust Carbon Capture Scheme. This scheme plants new woodland in the UK, dependant upon the amount of paper that is purchased by scheme members who contribute a small price premium on each purchase. Please see attached our certificate for the past quarter which states that we contributed 9.55sqM of new woodland planting which in turn removed 382Kg of Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere. Not bad but with your help we could do better!

We are trying to gauge the level of interest that we may expect from from potential clients if we were to widen our printing processes to include printing onto fabrics / textiles. If you have an interest in sourcing printed fabrics / textiles from a local printing company then please "like" this post and if you would like to discuss your requirements then please call or email us.

Thinking about buying Large Format Posters? Read our latest review of the product by KW.

Sad to say we didn't win the prize that our staff deserved but we can all be proud that we were amongst the top three printers in the country. The top prize went to a Company called Photoshop but we think that our faithful artists will be happy to carry on using what we believe is the best in the West because the winners hail from Canada! A really good experience and an enjoyable evening just not the right result......but just like Arnie.....we'll be back!

Great news just received.... Bretonside Copy has been short listed as a finalist in the Fine Art Trade Guilds' 2016 Digital Printer of the Year competition. The awards ceremony is taking place this week-end in Stratford-upon-Avon and we"ll keep everyone posted on the outcome. Many thanks to all of our artist friends who have supported us over the years and in particular we would Ike to offer our appreciation to Rich Stevenson, Tom Bird and Jenny Evans for allowing us to use their art for the three giclee prints required by the Guild to enter this competition. Keeping our fingers crossed !!!

Thinking about buying A4 & A3 Posters? Read our latest review of the product by Alix H..

I just wanted to share this with everyone.... what a great place we live in and how lucky are we!

Wow, it's that time of year again already! We would like to wish all friends and clients of Bretonside Copy a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2016.
We will be closing from 2pm today (Christmas Eve), and will reopen on Monday 4th January.

Check out our new front-of-house signage! Looking fresh for the new year! 👍