With a comprehensive range of quality papers for digital print applications, extensive industry knowledge and experience, and a commitment to environmental sustainability, Premier Paper Group is a reliable guiding hand for its customers.
The Premier Paper Group is the UK’s leading independent paper merchant and through its business divisions and nationwide branch network, provides its customers, print businesses and end users, with a wide and extensive range of product offers for every type of digital print application.
Coupled with its specialist knowledge and extensive experience, reliability of service and continuity of supply to customers across the UK, this enables the Premier business divisions to offer a high level of guidance and advice, specifically tailored to each market sector. Its print customers can therefore be provided with a reliable, quality service and guaranteed delivery, backed up with technical expertise and knowledge.
Premier Paper has 24,000 tonnes of paper held throughout its branch network, offering some 5500 different product items, from many of the world’s leading paper manufacturers, including the UK market’s widest selection of media for digital printing. There are some 200 ranges, and 1600 products available for digital print applications, with all products OEM guaranteed.
Premier Digital
The Premier Digital product range offers the most comprehensive digital product range available in the UK, and is dedicated to providing the best quality products for the most consistent print results every time. Premier works closely with digital press manufacturers and paper mills, to provide up to date knowledge, support and advice to customers, together with a wide range of innovative digital papers and digital print media products, all available through its UK network of branches.
New products
This year has seen Premier expand its extensive product offering to include additional new products within the Essential Wide Format range.
The new Essential Wide Format range includes an extensive choice of aqueous wide format media, together with a wide range of solvent, eco solvent, latex and UV inkjet media as well as a selection of lamination materials.
The new range of products is suitable for many different applications such as roll-up banners, pop up banners, point of sale displays, posters and many more printing wide format print applications. Monomeric and Polymeric self-adhesive vinyls and matching laminates will also be available.
All products within the Essential Wide Format range are stocked and available for next day delivery. Product selectors are also available, with trial reels available on every quality stocked.
The new Essential Wide Format range includes:
Aqueous Media – available in 11 finishes including high resolution matt, photo super gloss and satin, along with roll up and pop up media and much, much, more.
Solvent Media – available in more than 25 finishes including a satin and gloss poster paper, a choice of four banner materials, five types of roll up media and two types of pop up media. There is also a range of monomeric and polymeric self-adhesive vinyl’s exclusive to Premier Paper. Additionally, laminates – monomeric PVC, solvent based films – are also available in two finishes, 100 micron gloss and crystal, and in a multitude of reel sizes.
In a further indication of Premier’s desire to expand its product offering to customers, the company announced only last month a joint venture with Vivid Laminating Technologies, to enhance its position and offering to the Wide Format Inkjet market.
Adding to their wide range of Aqueous, Solvent, Eco-Solvent, UV and Latex media, Premier revealed that as part of the deal it will also be distributing Vivid’s Boss range of Premium Brand Laminating Films to add to its ever-expanding portfolio.
In addition to a wide array of products for the digital and wide format sectors, Premier also provides hardware, which includes two high quality roller banner cassettes; each roller banner cassette comes complete with twist feet, storage bag and either a snap rail or self-adhesive graphic fixing.
Additionally, Premier has also made further exciting product introductions, to their ranges, including; Multiloft, a product that enables thick, rigid board products to be printed digitally, and offers an exciting new way to create business cards, greeting cards, wedding announcements, menus and much more. Multiloft’s sandwich capabilities add an extra dimension to the finished product (up to 20 mm thick!), whilst its easy handling qualities ensure that it is compliant with digitally print, foil print, debossing and die cut processes.
Another product development that has been added to Premier’s portfolio is Mohawk Lay Flat Panoramic, with its unique cohesive on the reverse side, which is the perfect solution for brochures, flyers, leaflets, photobooks and calendars and many more applications where it is required for images to be printed across the fold without colour matching or binding problems.
Double Thick Reveal Card offers a unique, interactive way to engage with the end-user. It is perfect for any kind of promotional material application, through to invitations, vouchers, competitions, business cards and much more.
From flat to 3D print in minutes, the Creazy range offers customers a quick and easy way to print and produce promotional material and packaging for a wide and varied range of print applications, such as business cards, promotional material packaging, wine boxes, tent cards, mug boxes and pillow boxes.
The Color Copy product ranges are all FSC certified with special and high gloss surface finishes available, providing excellent sheet reproduction, and brilliant colours, for a wide variety of digital print applications. Color Copy also carries the EU Ecolabel, whilst the production is CO2 neutral. Color Copy Indigo guarantees 100% ElectroInk adhesion, and is also HP Indigo approved, and has received the highest performance rating (three stars) for the HP Indigo digital press.
The Pro Design range from International Paper is another range within Premier Digital, with its Pro Design Reels being another new addition to Premier’s portfolio of products for Xeikon engine presses. Providing exceptional print quality and superb finishing properties, Pro Design reels are also FSC certified.
As a result of its close relationships with the digital press manufacturers and paper suppliers, Premier Digital can offer leading edge paper solutions across the four main colour production presses, from HP Indigo, to Xeikon, Colour Laser and Wide Format inkjet.
Environment
The environment also plays a big part in Premier’s business activities, as a company and as a service to its digital print customers. So, as an environmentally conscious company, Premier became the first paper merchant to achieve ISO 14001 certification in 1997, and holds Chain of Custody certification for both Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) accreditations, providing customers with the reassurance and peace of mind that its products are sourced from suppliers that operate to sustainable forest management practices.
As a leading independent paper merchant group, Premier offers one of the most comprehensive ranges of recycled papers and boards, from 75% to 100% recycled content, including FSC 100% recycled. All of Premier’s FSC certified papers and boards carry the Mixed Credit or a percentage claim, whilst all of Premier’s PEFC certified papers and boards carry a minimum of 70% PEFC certified pulp.
Premier is careful to source its products from reputable and responsible suppliers, all of whom have enviable environmental credentials.
The Carbon Capture programme is just one of the initiatives provided to customers, with Premier Paper offering its print customers and end users the opportunity to capture the CO2 emissions from their paper purchases, by planting and conserving native woodland right here in the UK. As a corporate partner of the Woodland Trust, Premier Paper signed up to its UK Woodland Carbon Code. This programme sets a new standard for Carbon Capture, removing it from the atmosphere through the creation of native woodland across the country.
Premier recognises that planting trees not only helps to absorb carbon dioxide but also helps to create a diverse natural habitat that is rich in wildlife for all to enjoy.
The Carbon Capture scheme operates under the Government’s Woodland Carbon Code, a voluntary standard for woodland creation projects in the UK. The independent certification to this standard provides assurance and clarity about the carbon benefits of these sustainably managed woodlands. It is calculated that 25m² of native UK woodland will capture and store one tonne of CO2 and creating large areas of new native woodland, will, over time, remove hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
There are a wide range of products within the Premier Digital, all of which can have their CO2 emissions captured from the paper purchases.
So when it comes to the widest range of products for digital print, coupled with excellent service and expertise, look no further than Premier’s network of UK branches. For reliability, quality, and delivery, guaranteed.
