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PM congratulates inspired students
Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Gordon Brown
MP, sent his congratulations to all the
DIAR
Y
winners of PrintIT! 2008/9 as they
gathered with industry to celebrate the
fourth PrintIT! competition. Gordon
Brown also praised PrintIT! for its
engagement of young people and
industry.
He said: “It is vitally important that
young people get high quality work-
related learning to equip them with the
skills they will need as they step out into
Sign & Digital UK
the wider world. I have no doubt that the
28 – 30 April 2009
winners will go on to achieve great
things.”
Duplo and SPDI sponsored the “Best Use of Brand Across The Range” won
Nec, Birmingham
The overall winning entry was by Emma Banerjee from West Houghton High School
selected by a panel of judges from the
www.signuk.com eight category winners, which were the aim of promoting the varied career demonstrated in helping the teacher
singled out from the 25,000 students paths available within the print industry. deliver the PrintIT! course to the students
who took part this year. Laura This year the competition was extended in the classroom.
Whitehouse, a student from Beauchamp to include Year 9 students, aged 13 to 14, Chief executive of Proskills, and
College in Leicestershire, was presented as well as Year 10 and 11 students, aged member of the final judging panel, Terry
with the top prize of a portable MacBook 14 to 16, studying for their GCSEs in Watts, added: “It is inspirational to see so
Air laptop during the ceremony. product design and graphic products. many key industry players come
FESPA Digital As part of the curriculum-based This year, commercial digital and litho together to support a common cause and
PrintIT! course, students were challenged print company MPG Impressions was I would like to thank them for their
12 – 14 May 2009
to create a print-based campaign to awarded Best Industry Twinner, for the continued commitment to PrintIT!.”
RAI, Amsterdam
promote Fairtrade products in cafes, with commitment and enthusiasm it
www.printit.org.uk
www.fespadigital.com
Putting coating performance on
the spot
The Sign Show 2009
Printers and end users are benefiting
from enhanced quality and faster
22 – 24 September 2009 turnrounds from Coatings Direct as a
result of its investment in an SPS Vitessa
www.thesignshow.co.uk
XP1 UV screen printing line from Thieme
KPX. The equipment plays a vital role in
Coatings Direct's work, which includes
spot UV varnishing on book covers,
jackets and promotional material as well
as lamination and cutting and creasing.
Chairman of Coatings Direct, Jon Olley,
Sign & Digital Ireland
said: “This investment enables us to cap
and Print Ireland
manning and achieve a 50 per cent
greater output than before, safeguarding improvement in delivery times.
Coatings Direct's new SPS
Vitessa XP1 is used to
(incorporating Repro Ireland)
our competitiveness and enabling us to “Staff have found the SPS easy to
produce spot UV varnish on
justify the capital cost. We have found operate, although they have to work book covers for enhanced
23 – 24 September 2009
the quality faultless and we have applied hard with the more frequent job changes
reader appeal
spot varnishes with it to 130gsm book resulting from the higher productivity. As
Simmonscourt, RDS, Dublin
jackets through to 400gsm point of sale a result, it is running 24 hours a day, five
materials in a variety of formats. days a week.”
www.signireland.com
Customers have also noticed the
www.thiemekpx.co.uk
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