Work experience students welcomed at Burwell Print

This year we are once again welcoming and supporting students from local schools to gain some work experience with us.

For the next couple of weeks we have Ben from Soham Village College and Matt from the Kings School, Ely.

Training Printers to use the Unibind Machine

Today we printed 12 copies of a tractor user manual. The customer then telephoned us to ask if we could bind each copy together without putting holes in them. This sounded like an ideal job for the unibind machine. Janet and Peter had not used the machine before so Mel showed them how to operate it. The end result looked great. The customer was very pleased, he said "They look splendid".  

We have a new Ringbinder

Our old ringbinder was getting difficult to use and as we were having more customers wanting ringbinding we have bought a new machine. Although the new one looks very similar it is far easier to use, as the cutting mechanism is electric which makes it more Printer friendly. Today Chris and Elliott are ringbinding 85 prospectuses for Burwell Village College.

Waitrose Cheque Presentation

Yesterday Janet, Alex, Vaughan and Mel went to Cambridge. The visit had two purposes.

Firstly, as a result of Sarah Bevan nominating Burwell Print we were one of the organisations that Waitrose in Fitzroy Street collected for. We met with the store manager who presented us with a cheque for £125.00. A big thank you Waitrose and their customers.

We then went to Rowan's private view of their Photography Exhibition. Several of  Rowan's students have been doing a photography course and the exhibition was the result of weeks of learning and experimenting with photography. We printed the photographs at the Print Centre so it was great to see them on the wall in the Rowan gallery. Janet thought the exhibition was "very good and great to look around Rowan's studios".

Get set for summer!

Jen and John looking at our window display at Tina's shop in Burwell, and the theme this month is 'Get set for summer'.  Many thanks to Steven, Sarah and Vaughan for putting this together.

We have all been working very hard today to complete a fast turnaround job - 38 hoodies for students from City of Ely Community College who are going to New York at the weekend. Here Usman is quality checking, folding and packing the hoodies ready for collection.

Another job well done at very short notice!

Elaine Ellis at the Strategic Health Authority contacted us on Monday of this week to ask if we could print more than 12,000 sheets and then collate into 200 delegate packs for a conference on Thursday of this week! We checked to make sure this was achievable and thankfully we were able to fit this job into our work schedule on Wednesday! We’re not always able to do this BUT it’s always worth asking.