Where to find your Office supplies?

Everybody knows that feeling, both at work and home, you have a really important document, letter or booking confirmation for a flight that you need to print and the printer won’t print. You’ve been ignoring the toner low, replace cartridge message not wanting to bother with office supplies and the printer has finally stopped. Well don’t wait till you reach that point, when you see the message, order online at Continua and get ink for printers before they stop working.

If you are looking for ink cartridges for your printer then you need to look no further than Continua. With the Ink Toners Search, ink cartridges for printers are really easy to find.

Simply select your printer and printer types from the wide range of printer ink we supply choose from major manufacturers such as Brother, Canon, Lexmark and Xerox.

Then select your printer type from Laserjet, Inkjet or ink for fax machines, the select your model.

Then take a look at the range of printer ink we have available for you to buy.

Continua stock a wide range of ink for printers from Brother to Xerox and all the major brands of printers. Whether you are looking on a larger scale for toner for a larger printer or fax machine.

Solid Ink is a new innovation in printing that leaves no waste, the ink cartridge resembles a wax crayon, it is inserted into compatible printers and there is no cartridge to recycle

Continua are specialists on Xerox printer cartrides from Xerox copier toner to Xerox phaser supplies, if you need any form of Xerox ink cartridge, Continua are able to provide them.

Whatever cartridge, toner or ink you are looking for the toner search will guide you to the right product allowing you to order from home with the printer model visible and saves countless trips to high street stores to exchange the cartridge that you picked up because it looked like the wrong one. Avoid the confusion and the fuss and get ink for printers in a simple easy way.

Say hello to Continua's new website!

Here at Continua our new website features 20 thousand products for your large or small office needs! Our products were chosen from the finest brands and prices available so that we could provide you, the customer, with your office needs from our online store. Continua is a multi-vendor company that offers specialist support and complete maintenance services to all printing needs and mailing operations. The business began in 1994 and now has highly trained personnel and engineers and specialists providing 24/7 maintenance services and technical support across the country.

Our desktop supplies vary from blotters, to staplers and phone arms, book racks and drawers, and desktop accessories. To help you organise your life and schedule, and pack for business trips, out diaries and planner section includes day planners, diaries, brief cases, and luggage, as well as, refill sheets. For your business correspondence, we have a large collection of Envelopes and bags that will provide for larger and small mailing needs. Our folder and filing supplies will aid in organising and representation for clients and ideas. There is a large variety of products for your filing needs that includes home filing systems, and larger archive drawers and storage boxes.

Our Labels section accommodates your printing and franking needs, while our Packaging supplies cover all things from grasping that package over your head with a stepladder, to DIY tools and security mailing pouches. The pads and books collection will help keep your finances in order create an easy address system with the address book, and we have electronic books, for those that choose to organise with computers.

The presentation department is your destination for all the items that are needed to impress and sell a client on your brilliant idea, and there are pads and clipboards to help keep your stock well organised. Our security, which includes safety supplies, can bandage a paper cut, extinguish a fire, secure a fire box, or keep your customers in-line. And our storage equipment is all you will need to finish organising your life.

With so many brilliant products to choose from, there’s no reason to put off getting your office organised. You do not have to imagine the perfect office; you can make it happen today. Log-in or register and fill up your basket. Please remember to return and give us your review. Our business is to help your business run more efficiently.

Continua supports direct mail productivity with the Pitney Bowes DPS 400

If you are currently looking to invest in or upgrade your existing mailing equipment then look no further! We currently have an ex-showroom Pitney Bowes DPS 400 mailer for sale in fantastic condition and at a very competitive price.

With both continuous and cut sheet input and 6 insert feeders, this heavy-duty envelope inserter is designed to withstand the most intensive demands of the direct mail industry. The high speed double gripper technology used on the rotary feeders increases the machine speed to an impressive 20,000 DL cycles per hour with the ability to handle C5 format material at up to 18,000 cycles per hour - it is an obvious choice when productivity is critical.

From firsthand experience we have found that when it comes to direct mail, businesses want something simple robust and effective, offering high productivity with a responsive service and support network in case of breakdown or mechanical faults. We understand the importance of reducing downtime and meeting our customer demands. Our service delivery model based on lean and TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) aims to work in partnership with our customers, such as Griffin Direct Ltd, to improve the overall productivity of their mailing and printing production floor.

The DPS 400 will provide organisations that are looking to broaden their service offerings with new exciting opportunities in the direct mail marketplace. For more information on the Pitney Bowes DPS 400 contact us at info@continua.ltd.uk or ring our sales office on 01582 578999.

Gareth Brown
National Sales Manager

Continua Install a Pitney Bowes Olympus Mailsorter in One of UK’s Largest Mailing Organisations

I am pleased to announce that Continua has recently installed a Pitney Bowes Olympus Multitier Mailsorter in one of our customer sites. The company, one of the UK’s largest organisations in the global mail, parcel and express sector, currently offers a comprehensive range of mail services to 250-300 customers (worldwide). The organisation required a solution to improve overall production efficiencies whilst reducing overall costs within its mailing operation.

With the expert help from our Equipment Sales team, the answer was simple - the Olympus Mailsorter. The sorter can process up to 24,000 mail pieces per hour and is capable of sorting outgoing mail into 120 different Post Office delivery sort codes enabling the company to access significant postal discounts. This discount combined with the mail volumes from its existing customers means that the organisation can now offer mail sorting services to companies whose run lengths would traditionally not qualify for postal discounts.

Automating this otherwise labour intensive process has numerous benefits including: operational efficiencies and improving tracking via ‘track and trace’ software. The Mailsorter’s small footprint, superior read rates and mail-tracking capabilities means that the product can grow in line with the company. At the current mailing volumes, we anticipate the company will have secured the return on the investment in just nine months.

In line with our unique multi vendor service offering Continua will service the Mailsorter utilising our on- site service support. This customer will now enjoy the financial and operational benefits of Continua serving its production printers, mail inserters and now the Olympus Mailsorter.

Interested how we can help your organisation – please call to find out more.

Mark Cannons

2011 is the year of Total Productive Maintenance

Firstly, I would like to thank everyone at Continua for their hard work over the past twelve months. We have had a successful year with the business securing significant service and maintenance accounts resulting in an 8% revenue increase year-on-year.

The positive response from the market indicates a growing demand for multi-vendor support and maintenance within the printing market sector and that customers see the value of a service that saves them money whilst allowing them to improve productivity. As I mentioned in my last blog entry, thanks to TPM, Antony Rowe CPI has been able to achieve over 10% OEE improvement on its key production line in just 10 weeks.

Although we had a great year, I suspect that due to the market conditions this year our growth could be more modest. To counter this, from the 1st January we started a programme that allowed customers to receive an even higher level of service from their Continua engineers. Now customers who have a dedicated on-site engineer can benefit from a range of workplace management practices – allowing them to drive productivity within their businesses.

As well as developing our services, we are keen to help our staff achieve their full potential. Congratulations are in order for Dean Outram, who was voted ‘engineer of the year’ by his peers at Continua. Dean was provided with the award at our yearly kick off meeting on the 27th January. As well as being singled out by his colleagues for his excellent work Dean received great customer feedback.

So what are my plans for 2011? My aim is to continue to refine the service we offer our customers. Currently we are the UK’s only multi-vendor maintenance service provider that delivers nationwide 24x7 support. I truly believe that our approach of supporting our customers with a locally-based network of over 70 multi-vendor trained engineers means that we offer customers a unique service in the sector. If we can continue providing high levels of service support to our customers while expanding into new service markets, 2011 could be a very exciting year for Continua. My advice – watch this spot!

Antony Rowe CPI achieves 10% OEE improvement with the Total Productive Maintenance strategy

Hello everyone and welcome to my first blog as the acting Managing Director at Continua. Brian Cuddy has done a fantastic job guiding Continua over the past few years and has left to take up a position at our parent company, Xerox. I first joined Continua in July 2007 as National Sales Manager after working for Xerox for over 20 years in numerous roles and positions. I am very much looking forward to the coming months and the great opportunity the role provides.

When I was asked to pick a subject for my opening blog it was easy following the success the team has had deploying the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) strategy at Antony Rowe CPI.

The scheme has been a huge success helping develop closer relationships between equipment maintenance and Antony Rowe CPI’s operations team. The TPM strategy has been highly effective in improving equipment maintenance at the site. With our customer operations teams working all stages of the production line staff are able to action issues quicker with instant productivity improvement. The need for call-outs has also been avoided, as the scheme requires a focused approach to continuous improvement and improved predictive maintenance with the introduction of the ‘Mean Time To Repair’, which helps staff to map where key parts and technical documentation are kept on-site.

By tackling the root causes of common issues and having a more collaborative approach to resolving them we have been able to work with CPI to further enhance the efficient and excellent service we offer our customers.

So how do you measure the benefit I hear you ask? The TPM allows us to measure OEE by the ratio of availability, performance rate and quality rate which in time will enable businesses to access whether their production line is efficient overall.

The results are clear. Antony Rowe CPI has achieved over 10% OEE improvement on its key production line in just 10 weeks of the strategy being implemented. 80% of all problems were actioned on site due to the ‘Mean Time To Repair’ process reducing call-out charges and machine downtime. Additional successes secured can be seen in the improved supplier relationship, the reduction in fix times and total machine down times and the true partnership approach that can now be taken.

Furthermore I am happy to report that Antony Rowe CPI are looking to the future and continuing to work with us to extend the TPM programme to other parts of the business, maintain the continuous improvement of OEE at a management level and further develop the use of TMP lean tools. All of which we are extremely keen to help build upon and continue the success that Antony Rowe CPI has seen so far.

New Monthly Blogs from Continua

Hi everyone, welcome to the first edition of my monthly blog. It’s been another busy month at Continua. Despite the current economic climate, the team continues to go from strength to strength with every division of the company securing excellent wins this quarter, all of which has allowed us to grow our total revenue year on year.

Our maintenance division has won a number of new contracts with some of the UK’s leading print and financial institutions, meaning that we have surpassed all previous results. One example is Alpha Education, who have chosen Continua to support their fleet of IBM 4100 Continuous Feed printers. We also have some good news on our supply division as it has also grown by 28% and I am confident it will continue to grow at a steady rate in 2010, especially with the launch of the new range of Xerox alternative cartridges for HP printers. Our product sales are also up a staggering 1069% year-on-year as the market responds positively to our range of new and refurbished finishing and printing equipment.

That being said, we are keen not to rest on our laurels and have launched our Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) strategy. The aim is to develop a closer relationship between maintenance and our customer operations team, allowing us to raise the overall equipment efficiency (OEE). We know that our customers will see the value of it and the initial feedback we have had to date has been excellent.

So what can we expect in the coming months? This morning’s polls show Labour has 314 seats while the Conservatives have 259 – making the likelihood of a hung parliament a real possibility. The economy is still recovering, although very fragile, so indecision in Westminster is not what anyone needs in these times. That being said, I am optimistic about the outlook for the coming year. Our customer feedback shows that our range of services and products is really valuable to them, and our customer base is continuing to expand.

Finally, with IPEX just around the corner, the team is very busy. If you’re thinking of attending why not call by the Xerox stand 7-CD450 for a chat and tell us what you think of the TPM? Or maybe what you think of the newly launched Xerox CF Printer technology.