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Ordnance Survey – Great Britain's national mapping agency

Ordnance Survey Print Services

We can provide an all-inclusive solution to your requirements.

We can provide an all-inclusive solution to your requirement

As the print resource behind Britain's national mapping agency, we are the market leaders in quality map production.

But our expertise doesn't stop there.

We offer a range of specialist services in large format sheet production, not just for mapping.

State-of-the-art technology

Our Southampton print centre has state-of-the-art technology to supply all kinds of bespoke orders from business, industry and government.

We are committed to excellence, from the initial plannning stages through to final delivery.

Contact our customer services team

Print Services
Ordnance Survey
Romsey Road
SOUTHAMPTON
SO16 4GU
United Kingdom

Telephone: 023 8079 2803
Fax: 023 8030 5192
ISDN: 023 8070 2404
E mail: PrintCustomerServices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk

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Plant List

Plant List

Our modern and extensive in-plant facility allows Ordnance Survey Print Services to provide its clients with a one-source total solution.

Design and prepress

  • High Specification Mac and PC based DTP systems
  • High resolution scanning to 297 mm x 395 mm/8128 dpi
  • Agfa Avantra 25 Postscript Imagesetter to 450mm x 635mm
  • Barco Megasetter scanner/plotter. Maximum output to 1612 mm x 1200mm, 1270-4000 dpi
  • Barco Mercator Digital Cartographic system
  • Barco Kaleidoscope and Gretag Macbeth colour management
  • Contract proofing
  • HP Design Jet 3500 colour plotters Maximum width 1370 mm 600dpi
  • Large format darkroom and daylight contact frames and automatic 48 inch film processors
  • Aerial photography processing services

Office reprographic services

  • A3 Canon Colour Laser 100S
  • Kodak Ektaprint
  • Danka Lionhart digital copying system
  • Xerox 5080
  • Document finishing systems

Printing

Printing

  • KBA Rapida 130A - 5 colour with IR drying and Densitronic colour management Maximum size: 965mm x 1300mm
  • Nebiola Colora 7000 - 4 colour Maximum size: 1100mm x 1620mm
  • Heidelberg GTO - 2 colour Maximum size: 360mm x 520mm

Finishing

Guillotining

  • Polar 115 EMC – Jogging & Trans-O-Mat handling – maximum paper size: 1 150 mm
  • Wohlenberg 185 MCS 2 TV – Jogging & Baumann remote handling – maximum paper size: 1 850 mm

Folding

  • Stahl T 142s with Mabeg suction feeder – 4–10 buckle configuration on two units plus knife unit – maximum paper size: 1 420 mm by 1 650 mm
  • Stahl T142 with falt pile suction feeder – 4–10 buckle configuration plus knife unit – maximum paper size: 560mm by 930 mm
  • Heidelberg td78 – Round pile feeder 4-4-knife – maximum paper size: 780 mm by 1 280 mm

Map casing

  • Hunkeler Type KF

Cutting and creasing

  • Heidelberg double crown – maximum paper size: 560 mm by 770 mm

Gather, stitch, fold

  • 4 station saddle binder — maximum output: 64 pp

Hand finishing

  • Bespoke large-format map mounting, laminating and encapsulating

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