The Imaging Centre

Were recruiting at The Imaging Centre, we have a number of roles available on both our day and night shifts, for more information about joining our growing team please get in touch.

We are delighted to be a proud sponsor of The Henries – which takes place in London this week. The Henries Awards are the ultimate accolades in greeting card publishing, and each year some 14,000 cards are entered! The Henries award categories span from humour to cute, art to children’s and everything in between.
We hope to see some of you there on Thursday!

We are delighted to have won the Enterprise Award for Best Short Run Greeting Card Printer in the South East 🤩 A huge thank you to our fantastic team for everything you do, and also to our wonderful customers.

Our MD Adam is doing a sponsored walk support the MDN Association, with a group of others who are all associated with the greeting card and gift industry.

By sponsoring your money will help people affected by Motor Nerone Disease.

If you can, please donate her:

Adam's Cardgains Charity Challenge 2023 Help Adam Short raise money to support Motor Neurone Disease Association

The Imaging Centre are celebrating 25 years of quality and innovation, and are proud to announce we have updated our company logo to reflect our modern, dynamic and innovative approach to print solutions. The refreshed logo is part of our commitment to continually evolve and develop 🙌🏻

We would like to please encourage you to find 2 mins to complete this Royal Mail survey, which the GCA have commissioned.

https://shorturl.at/iwL45

We’re asking this for three reasons:
- We feel there is no bigger single issue affecting our industry than our end customers’ ability to send the cards they’ve purchased. If last Christmas taught us anything, it was that we shouldn’t take this ability for granted.
- The GCA is currently considering one of our largest spending initiatives in recent history, purely to safeguard related industry interests. Your insight is key.
- Your responses give the GCA team a massive mandate for the lobbying they undertake in the background every single day, and it’s working! Late on Friday we learnt that messages we’ve recently championed made it onto the Labour Party’s policy priorities.

Team IC and GCA

Fill | GCA Royal Mail Survey We’ve received feedback that the Royal Mail strikes, the recent inflation-busting price rises, and Royal Mail’s threats to put their Letter (including Large Letters) delivery business into administration have been causing widespread disruption and concern for both businesses and consumers since ...

Today we were filmed by IPIA, who are producing a video of The Imaging Centre story and how we work closely with our suppliers to continue our growth. Video will be posted here over the upcoming weeks 😊

It’s Fantastic Feedback Friday! We wanted to share these lovely comments sent to us following last week’s InPress Seminar at our HQ. We are delighted that our attendees enjoyed it 🤩
For more information about our FREE InPress Seminars to learn all about the Wonderful World of Greeting Cards, please contact our customer success team on [email protected]

We love looking through positive feedback from our clients 😍

High quality printing and remarkable customer service are what makes us stand out!

Order cards as and when you need them!

Our IC Simplicity Publisher is designed to help you save time AND money, all whilst helping the environment. Your prints can be produced on demand, in short runs, meaning no more stock-piling or upfront ordering of thousands of cards 🙌

At The Imaging Centre, we are committed to sustainability and managing our operations in an environmentally aware manner ♻️

▪️ We are proud to be FSC® Certified

▪️ All of our presses are carbon neutral

▪️ Our offcuts are all recycled

Find our environmental statement on our website: https://theimagingcentre.co.uk/environmental-statement/

We loved welcoming the GCA to our HQ today, to see our carbon neutral presses, as well as our pre-press, finishing and customer success departments. It was great to have you 🤩

Great to see GCA members cards being printed today. Thank you to Adam and Simon for being terrific hosts.

Just a reminder that our HQ will be closed over the Bank Holiday weekend, but the team will be back refreshed on Tuesday 10th to answer any of the queries you may have sent.

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Did you know that all of our IC Simplicity members get 30 FREE proofs per month?!

See your new designs come to life before you begin a new print run. Your April Proof voucher code will be landing in your inboxes shortly!

Keep your eyes peeled 👀

Our IC Simplicity Centre makes creating greeting cards accessible for anyone and everyone!

Simply follow our step-by-step guide and upload your design to our online portal. It's never been easier to print on-demand 🙌

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Do you have a new idea for a design in 2023? 💡

Using out IC Simplicity Centre, you can upload your design and order high-quality printed products on-demand!

https://theimagingcentre.co.uk/the-ic-simplicity-centre/

♻️ How are we reducing our carbon footprint?

At The Imaging Centre we strive towards sustainability and to be the most environmentally friendly printing company as possible. All of our cards sold through IC Simplicity Retail are plastic free and are accompanied with recycled envelopes and paper banding.

Happy new year to all our wonderful clients, staff and friends 🎆

Here's to an exciting 2023!

From our family to yours, wishing you all a very Merry Christmas 🎅

Our IC Simplicity Centre allows you to print your designs on demand. Whether you are a greeting card pro, or are creating just for fun, you can upload your designs and order them there and then from our online portal.
..and we don't just print cards! Check out our range of corporate stationery for you to upload your designs to and live your branded stationery dreams 🙌

https://theimagingcentre.co.uk/the-ic-simplicity-centre/

What's great about the IC Simplicity Publisher...

👉 Print and place orders on demand - from greeting cards to notebooks, there's no more need for warehouse space when you can print and place orders anywhere and anytime time.
👉 Deliver to retailer - this not only saves you time, but also reduces your CO2 footprint (a win-win)
👉 Focus on your passion - using the IC Simplicity Portal allows you more time to concentrate on designing new artwork for your next collection of greeting cards.

There are 690 publishers using our IC Simplicity Publisher Portal, so don't get left behind!
https://theimagingcentre.co.uk/ic-simplicity/

We have installed the UK's first Duplo DC-20K B2 cutting system! This new cutter will help us react quickly to help our publishers.

You can read more at https://www.printweek.com/news/article/the-imaging-centre-installs-uk-first-duplo-b2-cutter

As a family-run business, we take pride in establishing good relationships with our designers, publishers and retailers, and always strive to go above and beyond their requirements 🚀

Our team are always happy to help, so don't hesitate to get in touch today: https://theimagingcentre.co.uk/contact/

❔ Why digital?

Digital print is an environmentally friendly and cost-effective printing solution with fast turnaround times, shorter print runs, and allows retailers to choose from a wider selection of cards.

👉 So the real question should be... why not digital?