Our Printing Credentials

FSC - Forest Stewardship Council

Why chose FSC?

The FSC label guarantees that the trees that are harvested are replaced or allowed to regenerate naturally. Parts of the forest are protected entirely, in order to protect rare animals and plants.

FSC ensures that the forest owner must use local workers to run the forest, provide training, safety equipment and a decent salary.

FSC is the only wood certification scheme endorsed by the major environment charities, including WWF, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the Woodland Trust.

Every link between the forest and the consumer is certified to make it clear which wood is FSC certified and which is not.

So with all this in mind you can rest assured that your choice will guarantee that future generations will be able to enjoy the benefits of the forest.

For more information visit www.fsc-uk.org

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PEFC - Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes

The PEFC is built up of several different national forest certification schemes. They build upon the promotion of sustainable forest management, which is supported by 149 governments covering 85% of the world's forest area.

The PEFC scheme accounts for more than 200 million hectares of certified forests producing millions of tonnes of certified timber to the market place and making PEFC the world's largest certification system.

For more information visit www.pefc.org

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ISO 9001 - Quality Management

The ISO 9001 is the internationally recognised standard for the quality management of businesses.

ISO 9001 ensures that the needs of both customers and employees are met, resulting in satisfied customers and a content workforce.

To hold ISO 9001 means that Orchard Press is committed to high standards and will seek continual improvement.

For more information visit www.bsi-global.com

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ISO 14001 - Environmental Management

The ISO 14001 is important to both existing and potential customers. This means we have focused on good working practices with environmental issues, so you can be assured of the absolute minimum of impact to the environment throughout the printing process.

For more information visit www.bsi-global.com

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ISO 12647-2 - Standard

ISO 12647-2:2004 standard has been created as an international standard that sets a series of tight guidelines for reproducing colour across the reprographic and printing workflow. The specifications can be bought from the International Standards Organisation at www.iso.org. It contains detailed information to instill confidence in this standard, and allows print managers and publishers to convey exactly how they want their project to be reproduced. This keeps the workflow running smoothly from creative to pre-press to printing, where all too often misunderstandings can crop up and cause interference. The result is an improvement in colour consistency and less waste as digital information, proofs and printing are all brought together.

Specific parameters have to be followed and verified. The specification has targets and measurement settings for every process including different paper types. Manufacturing variables have been taken into account when defining each target.

The latest ISO printing specifications uses the CIElab model and Spectrophotometry to target solid colour measurement readings, to replace density weights which is traditionally used on press ink measurement.

The main reason for this change is to tackle the differences in printing with different inks, as they all have differing properties.

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