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(manchester area
resource centre)

28 Edge Street,
Manchester M4 1HN.

tel 0161 839 0839
fax 0161 839 0840

email
info@marctheprinters.org

Opening Hours
Monday to Friday
10am - 4.30pm

DIY print service
Tuesdays, Thursdays
& Fridays

printing at marc  


marc provides access to inexpensive printing. We have a full range of equipment to enable the majority of print jobs, A3 posters, flyers, booklets, annual reports. If it will fit on an A3 sheet, we will probably be able to print it. Spot colour (one or two colours) can be printed using soya based inks. Full colour work is printed using a laser printer.

The Service
We offer two ways of getting your printing done. Our main printing service is for us to print it for you (service printing). We are very competitive in price for short to medium print runs, as our set up costs are very low.

If you are a member of a community group, charity or other voluntary sector organisation, you can book our Risograph machines and print it yourself (DIY printing).


Do It Yourself
If you wish to do printing for a community group, charity or other voluntary sector organisation, you can book one of our Risograph machines and print it yourself. (DIY printing). This avoids all the charges for staff labour and makes printing very inexpensive. Professional help is always on hand to lead you through the printing process.
You can also use our finishing equipment to produce booklets, guillotine paper and card, or fold your finished printing.
Risograph printers are the modern equivalent of the old duplicators. Today they are clean, easy to use and produce a much better quality finished product. They use soya-based inks and we have a very wide range of recycled paper and card. This is ethical printing at its best.
You must book DIY printing in advance, in person or by phone (not by email or fax!) - it is only available on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and to bone fide v
oluntary and community groups. Full colour printing cannot be done as DIY.


Charities and Community Groups
Community Groups, charities and other voluntary sector organisations can use our services in two ways:
DIY printing (described above) where groups do the printing and finishing themselves (with professional help!).
Service printing where the marc staff do all the work and charge for their labour.
We prefer our customers to use our soya-based inks on recycled papers and card, but we do have a full colour digital copier for when nothing else will do!
Community Groups, charities and other voluntary sector organisations can become members of marc. This entitles the group to a 5% discount on printing and finishing work. Marc is managed by a committee elected annually from within the membership.


Businesses and Individuals
We offer a quick and inexpensive printing service for businesses and individuals. Although they cannot use the DIY service or become members of marc, these customers are vital to the continued existence of marc. Now that we no longer receive any grant funding, the money generated from this commercial printing pays the rent - and our staff! We are a not for profit organisation. Whether you need letterheads, newsletters, business cards, annual reports, posters, flyers or CD covers, get them printed at marc. Using soya based inks on our environmentally friendly printing machines to produce one or two colour printing is ethical printing at its best. We do have a colour digital printing machine for those occasions when only full colour will do. Support your independent local printer.