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In December First Colour achieved the coveted Quality Management System ISO9001 accreditation as well as the Environmental Management Standard ISO14001. In the UK less than 10% of printers have both accreditations.
The ISO 9001 system aims to recognise and promote high standards of Company management and is a standard that is recognised around the world as the symbol of a well run and responsible company. • Establish a set of procedures that cover all key processes in the business; • Put in place a monitoring processes to ensure they are effective; • Checking all of our output for any kind of defect, with immediate corrective action where necessary; • Regularly review the individual processes and the quality system itself for effectiveness; and facilitate continual improvement The ISO14001 enviromental management is about quantifying and controlling how Companies such as ours impact on the environment and along the way ensuring that we comply in every way with applicable laws and regulations. To achieve this aim we were required to :- • Produce an environmental policy that was specific to the First Colour operation • Quantify the impact of supplying our products and services on the local environment • Create our own environmental objectives specific to First Colour • Provide an ongoing improvement programme that will continue to reflect First Colour’s genuine concern for the environment and what seems to be happening to our World
Last Years Milestones…………… First Colour continued to make great progress in 2008 despite the current economic woes. Jan 2008 – First Colour acquired a further 3000 sq ft at its W1 – Newman St – print centre June 2008 - A new five colour Heidelberg press was acquired and installed in the printroom in W1 to work alongside the existing two other Heidelberg presses. The installation included a ‘chemical free’ plate maker which along with our use of vegetable based inks supplied by Heidelberg makes our press room one of the cleanest in London and helped significantly in gaining the environmental ISO14001. December 2008 – Awarded both ISO9001 - Quality Management and ISO140001 - Environmental Management. December 2008 – Upgrade of our colour digital print operation with the purchase of two Xerox ‘high end’ digital printers. These new digital presses give us much better quality at a faster speed helping us to cope with those ever decreasing deadlines A bit about us….. First Colour is a fast response, super fast turnaround, printer based at two locations in Central London. Newman Street in W1 and Tothill Street in SW1. We print for a wide variety of customers from National Retailers to Government Departments as well as many, many local and small to medium sized companies in and around our centres in Central London. For streetmaps click here. We are unusual in that we cover both the traditional press ‘litho’ printing sector as well as being one of Central London’s foremost digital print operations. But above all we offer a great service at competitive prices. First Colour is has been established for almost 10 years and in that time we are proud to have built a £2m+ turnover business with around 650 active customers and 18 skilled staff. Our continued investment into staff and equipment has enabled us to become one of Central London’s most popular and capable business printers. Our determination to do whatever it takes to deliver your work on time, on spec and on budget remains as strong as the day we started, and we pride ourselves on the working relationships we’ve built with our clients.
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