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Polestar celebrates printing 1.8bn pages in six days
Print firm Polestar is celebrating a bumper holiday season after printing 1.8bn pages of Christmas TV listings in six days.
Publishers H Bauer, BBC Magazines and IPC Media turned to the supplier to produce a combined total of around 8.65m magazines including Radio Times, TV Choice, TV Easy, TV Times and What's On TV.
The magazines were printed on 22 presses and stitched using 16 binding lines at six Polestar sites between December 4 and December 9.
Neil Dunning, customer services director at Polestar Petty, said: "Achieving this each year is a monumental effort from all within Polestar in close coordination with our customers.
"The planning begins in March and the execution of such a critical production plan involving multiple sites is done with military precision."
Polestar recently won a contract to print Hotline, Virgin Rail's 100pp monthly title produced by Ink Publishing.
Dunning: monumental effort
Comments
Giles Print - 07 January 2009
Way out of my league but I have to say it does sound impressive! Well done all.
I wonder if they were all delivered on time?
Roger Clark - 07 January 2009
well done lads gravure and litho working well together
Simon Murray - 07 January 2009
Back in the 80's we used to print 10m copies of the Radio Times alone, all at BPC sites. There were longer lead times of course, but this is nothing new, still fairly impressive though I suppose!
Richard Smith - 07 January 2009
Print Print Print Print - what about the poor sods in the bindery! All those inserts, pages and tip ons - nice to see the kit still works !
arron wade - 09 January 2009
nice smile neil, i wonder how many people were smiling on the shop floor after the 'monumental effort' when they said 'thanks for the xmas editions, oh and by the way.....'
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