Services for staff
Central reprographics service
The Central reprographics service undertakes bulk photocopying, colour copying and digital printing (colour and black-and-white), on behalf of University faculty and administrative staff. We currently produce around 5 million photocopies and 250,000 colour copies per year.
We offer a range of finishing options including folding, stapling, punching, laminating, comb binding and thermal binding (suitable for dissertation submissions). Please see our Standard price list of guide prices for in house print and reprographics services.
We can often offer discounted rates on larger print jobs - please email us for an estimate.
If you have particular requirements not covered by the price list please email us or call extension 8216 to discuss them.
Managed Printing Service
The Print Unit provides a one-stop-shop service for the supply of all printing work. This includes leaflets, newsletters, folders, brochures, magazines, etc. - if it is made of ink or toner on paper, we can source it for you. Work which we cannot produce cost effectively within the Print Unit is undertaken by external, University-approved suppliers. There are currently 20 approved suppliers of print, who have been selected after a tender exercise which ensures they can deliver good quality, service and value for money. Between them they can handle the vast majority of print work which the University requires.
The Print Unit manages the process from initial enquiry through to delivery of the finished job, freeing the requestor from the responsibility of:
- Sourcing print quotes and selecting an appropriate supplier
- Checking the artwork and ensuring it is correctly formatted before going on press
- Booking the job in with the relevant supplier and raising a purchase order
- Liaising with the supplier throughout the production process to ensure the job progresses smoothly and on schedule
- Receiving the finished job and performing standard quality checks
- Addressing quality or supplier performance issues where required standards have not been met
- Checking and settling the final invoice
For providing this service we apply a service charge of ten per cent of the value of the print job (capped at £100 per job) when recharging the requestor.
Where artwork is supplied in any format other than print-ready PDF, a minimum file handling charge of £5 per file will apply. Any pre-press work which you ask us to undertake as part of the project, for example formatting supplied files to make them print-ready, is charged by time taken at £40 per hour.
We can also provide typesetting and page layout services if your project requires it. If you need us to create artwork for you from scratch, it will be charged by time taken at £60 per hour.
You are free to manage your own print projects if you wish, provided that you follow the University's regulations for procurement and use a supplier from the Approved supplier list. More details about approved suppliers is available on the Procurement website.