McLays Printing Solutions

McLays Printing Solutions is based in Cardiff and was established in 1898. The company is an integrated print and mail solutions company comprising two divisions:

McLays Direct provides a comprehensive document management and direct mail service for critical print and dynamic product production. McLays Direct offers solutions for digital mail production, mailing and fulfilment and document management.

McLays Print offers complete litho production facilities under one roof, with a team dedicated to providing complete customer service. McLays Print offers print production including digital pre-press to plate facilities, 2 to 6 colour printing and coating and folding, stitching and perfect binding.

McLays Direct is the digital print division offering highly personalised and variable data laser printing in mono or full process colour utilising:

  1. 1 x Xerox DocuPrint 180 pages per minute 600 dpi PDF/Postscript print engines
  2. 1 x Xerox Nuvera 120 pages per minute 600 dpi PDF/Postscript print engines
  3. 1 x Xerox DocuTech 135 pages per minute 600 dpi PDF/Postscript print engines
  4. 3 x Xerox DocuTech 65 pages per minute 1200 dpi Postscript print engines
  5. 1 x Xerox DocuColor 6060 60 pages per minute 600 dpi PDF/Postscript print engines
  6. 1 x Xerox IGen3 100 page per minute 600x600 dpi PDF/Postscript print engine.

Our mailsorting and packing fulfilment division takes laser printed documents and fold them to DL, C5 or C4 which may be automatically enclosed with up to 12 additional printed items for variable insert enclosing via

  1. Bell & Howell Vitesse DL/C5 Mailing Line
  2. Pitney Bowes Flowmaster FX10 DL, C5 & C4 Mailing Line.

Document integrity is maintained via BCR and OCR scanning systems.

McLays Print offers sheetfed litho printing and finishing. We produce a range of print from base corporate letterheadings for overprinting and personalising through laser print engines, to six colour coated print for marketing literature.

Pre-press facilities include:

  1. PC/Mac platform
  2. Brisque RIP servers (PDF/Postscript workflows)
  3. Lotem 800 II platesetter.

Litho print facilities include:

  1. 1x2 colour B1 Heidelberg Press
  2. 1x5 colour plus coater B1 Heidelberg Press
  3. 1x6 colour plus coater Heidelberg XL105 Press
  4. Heidelberg Image Control

Comprehensive print finishing facilities include:

  1. 4xB1 Stahl Buckle/Knife Folding units plus stackers
  2. 3xB2 Stahl Buckle/Knife Folding units plus stackers
  3. 3 x Heidelberg Saddle Stitching units
  4. 1 x Muller Martini Perfect Binding unit.

We also have a range of ancillary equipment including hand stitching, drilling and shrink wrapping machines.