In a nutshell expertly buy, manage and deliver quality print solutions to customers across many sectors and in many parts of the world. How we do this will depend on your sector and your existing levels of expertise, whether you need us on-site or off and how much of our technology you want to use in the process. Whether you want to buy some office stationary or a large marcoms campaign across the continents we want to talk to you. Here are some of the ways we could help.

Audit

Your Buying

Via our PrintAudit tools we can audit your print spend to tell you what you are buying well, and what less well. Most importantly for many, we can also show you - almost instantly - where you can make savings and how to do it. The breadth of audit covers all aspects of printing from small digital through to gravure (overseas) so you can finally see saving possibilities across your entire spend simply through efficient buying.

 

You can easily look at production options locally and overseas too. This might offer improved saving opportunities, and our import specialists (both here and overseas) can talk to you through the pros and cons of both.

 

Your Suppliers

If you want to check the compliance of existing suppliers independently, we can help. Worried about the environmental performance of your printer? Or want to benchmark their performance against the industry average in Australia, across Asia or globally? We can help too! Contact us now.

Organise

Many of our clients have a varied print requirements, and we help them bring it all together making things simpler and more cost effective for them.

 

Our technology helps too. With tools to help give price comparisons almost instantly and which can look across the industry at qualitative print statistics – your printing has never been more organised. Your brand is as important to us as our own and we can help you control it across all production platforms and regions in which you operate.

 

Our specialists are familiar with production standards across the world, and can calibrate your print production values no matter where your customers are. So your logo will look the same in Alaska as it does in Zambia*. (*We don’t actually print in Zambia yet, but we might one day. We just thought the A-Z wordplay worked quite nicely).

 

Leverage

By bringing things together, you save. Catalogues, magazines, point of sale, stickers and even your stationery. Let us aggregate all of this, give you one invoice (instead of a handful) and the number at the bottom becomes smaller. And our systems make all this very easy for you, in many cases delivering double digit savings which increase with the amount of products you can bring together. Our print expenditure helps too – our buying power becomes yours, as do the savings.

 

Manage

Our project management people will manage your production from design to distribution without fuss. Our years of experience can count for a lot when things go wrong (as they do eventually in any manufacturing environment) and these are often the times when we can add the most. We have dealt with almost every eventuality from missing artwork to delayed paper deliveries to customs clearance hold-ups and everything in between. Our productions rarely go wrong, and our supply-chain well chosen for their attentions when they do.

Market

We don’t just tell you what we’re doing – we tell you what the market is doing. We have a close eye on our industry and have blogs and newsletters, which can tell you what’s around the corner. This can be useful for our clients in many ways from paper lead-time forecasts to printer amalgamations here in Australia through to what’s happening in China or Singapore. Want to know about digital press web-equipment, or what the latest is in flip-book technologies? We can help.

Asia Pacific Outsourcing

Just less than 50% of the dollars we invest in printing is spent overseas. This is for a variety of reasons including different technology available in Asia or the US, localised productions to suit clients with a global print requirement or simply cost savings.

 

We know more about offshore sourcing than most, and would love to share our expertise with you. Our import specialists will talk you through every detail and our contracted shipping channels among the most efficient in the world. Timelines may be less than you think and the savings often significant - so it can be worth considering.

 

We can also look at centralising your productions globally. If you have a spend across multiple regions of the world we may be able to pull this together under a centralised production agreement (usually in Asia) and distribute to your channels from there. Want to know more? Contact us now.