National Stationery Week (NSW) is a celebration of paper products and the power of the pen. Taking place on April 24-30, it aims to ‘Get Britain Writing’ by encouraging people to rekindle their love of pen and paper. Leading writing instruments manufacturer Sheaffer has been involved with the event since 2012 and will sponsor NSW again this year. Nicola Shepherd, trade marketing director at Sheaffer,...
Stationery manufacturer Sinclairs, the UK manufacturing home of Silvine, is providing a selection of Silvine’s Marlene West ‘Summer Garden’ notebooks for the goody bags. Silvine has provided generations with their dependable stationery and today there are over 300 Silvine products fulfilling a variety of stationery needs. The Summer Gardens range of A4 and A5 wire-bound notebooks is available...
Jet Tec, Europe’s leading brand of re-manufactured inkjet and toner cartridges, is adding a 10% discount code to this year’s goody bag. The first 500 bags will also include a toy London bus. Jet Tec is using the iconic red Routemaster bus in its new branding to symbolise and promote the company’s British heritage. The bus featured on Jet Tec’s new packaging – one of the very few still in...
To celebrate the launch of its new Sit-Stand desks and platforms, Fellowes is giving office workers the chance to win one – for full details see the ?yer in your goody bag. The office products company warns that too many hours spent sitting at a desk could be damaging to your health. Its new Sit-Stand Workstations and Work Platforms are designed to make it easier for you to add movement to your working...
Antalis has launched digital versions of its popular range of Arjowiggins Creative Papers. Branded Arjowiggins Digital, this colourful collection brings together best sellers from Arjowiggins Creative Papers’ iconic brands – Conqueror, Curious Collection, Keaykolour, Rives and Pop’Set – as well as its Delos and Butterfly papers for creative packaging. The extended range is compatible with...
Royal Mail has announced plans to make it easier for customers to post and return parcels at Customer Service Points in Delivery Offices nationwide. From April 2017, they will be able to print delivery and return labels at all of Royal Mail’s 1,200 Customer Service Points. Royal Mail’s new self-service Labels to Go solution sends an email containing a unique QR code to any customer wanting to...
As local authorities move to the cloud, their print estates are being left behind with worrying consequences for productivity and efficiency warns managed services provider (MSP) Annodata. Results of a Freedom of Information (FoI) request issued to 79 local authorities throughout England show that while 58% of councils are using cloud-based solutions to some extent, only 6% have implemented any form of cloud-based printing. Rod Tonna-Barthet, chief executive officer at Annodata, said: “Cloud has a great deal to offer the UK’s public...
Postal packaging expert Blake is continuing to diversify its product offering with the launch of its frst polythene packaging products, a range of high quality polythene bags for financial and banking institutions. Designed to be resilient and secure, the quick pay deposit bags are constructed from reinforced polythene, include tamper evident seals and provide easy visibility of bag contents. As the...
Wacom has developed a system that embeds brainwave data into handwritten digital ink and presents a visual display of the user’s emotional state. The software analyses EEG data using Emotional Spectrum, an algorithm developed by the California-based biosensor technology company NeuroSky to measure the intensity and pleasure of emotional activity. This data is then combined with digital ink data...
Our choice of the best new crowdfunded stationery and office products. Don’t sit still Designed to negate the effects of sitting for too long at work, Officiser is a footrest that encourages constant leg movement. The device consists of a small platform with two foot rests that slide backwards and forwards and rotate side to side. Officiser is due to start shipping to its backers in March. www.officiser.com Charge...
