Polestar offers Europe’s most complete range of printing and associated services. From the newspapers and magazines you read to holiday brochures, catalogues and direct mail you receive, the name Polestar is never far away.
Of all the markets we serve, the newspaper
colour supplements market is probably the most time-critical. Our
multi-site operations offer flexibility in pre-press, printing and
finishing, enabling us to deliver high volumes on time, every week
of every year.
Polestar also has the facilities and expertise
to handle value added products, such as promotional videos or CD's,
in-line glue applications for questionnaires, sachets and response
cards, as well as advertising Post-It Notes. Our high-speed
wrapping facility, can wrap each bundle in clear or pre-printed
polythene
Polestar prints more magazines than any other UK printer, including
such popular titles as Now!, TV Times, Woman, Woman's Own and the
British institutions that are Country Life and Radio Times.
Our facilities enable us to offer perfect
binding, saddle stitching, personalisation and mailing, as well
as loose inserting and Post-It Note application. And we have a well-deserved
reputation for high quality, cost-effective production.
A prerequisite of working with the travel industry is the ability to incorporate last minute price changes in travel brochures and have them available to customers as soon as possible thereafter.
Polestar’s digital workflows and expansive production capabilities enable us to process last minute information and still deliver on time.
The retail sector is one of the largest and most diverse industry
sectors served by Polestar. Product requirements are infinitely
variable, from tabloid style give-aways packed with special offers
and redeemable vouchers, to square format spine glued brochures,
stitched or perfect bound retail catalogues carrying complete product
ranges, to customer loyalty magazines, all brimming with colour,
last minutes changes to prices and product, and pack shots which
demand accurate reproduction in print.
Such diversity is always at home in Polestar.
Our own diverse range of services ensures that we can easily match
the process and the technology to meet our customer's requirements
for their products.
With confidentiality at the heart of the business, Polestar understands the need for discretion, security and accurate communication.
Operating from secure sites throughout the UK, Polestar provides a full service of project consultancy, data management, digital reprographics, up to six-colour printing, in-line gluing and perforating, personalisation, finishing and mailing. We regularly produce direct mail packs, forms and stationery, brochures, envelopes, annual reports and handle transactional mailings for leading financial institutions.
The growth of mail order in recent years has resulted in catalogue production becoming a core business for Polestar, acting as a catalyst for much of the investment in new technology and equipment within the Group.
Key to the success of a mail order business is a faithful representation of the goods they are selling and in particular the colour. Significant investment in digital reproduction and colour management enables Polestar to support the needs of this industry.
ISIS ISIS is a modular browser based publishing solution which automates, streamlines, standardises and centralises the following processes:
Flatplanning
Advertising workflow
Editorial workflow
Reporting
Httprint Httprint is a browser based print procurement solution which automates, streamlines, standardises and centralises the following processes:
Request for Quote (e-sourcing)
Purchasing
Supplier management
Reporting
Marketing and Stationery Our online template based solutions provide our customers with significant time and cost savings when managing content and creating marketing collateral and business stationery.
Print Services We provide our clients with the benefits associated with centralising and simplifying their print sourcing, procurement and management processes. This may involve outsourcing all or some of these processes and may span all or some of the print portfolio - from stationery through to brochures, magazines and packaging.
Polestar’s client list includes many of the best known academic publishers, industrial and automotive companies, all of whom are benefiting from the skills and services offered, from design, data management and page manipulation through to printing, binding and finishing. Whilst maintaining its enviable reputation for quality combined with excellent customer care, Polestar continues to invest in new technology for these markets, from web and sheet fed presses through to colour and mono digital technology.
