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UK WEB OFFSET PRODUCTION FOR ELLE COLLECTIONS

Tuesday 02. February 2010 - The leading fashion publication Elle Collections has been printed web offset in the UK for the first time. Publisher Hachette Filipacchi awarded production to Polestar Chantry, after a change in format of the publication warranted a move from sheetfed. The bi-annual title has gone on sale this week.

Polestar Key Account Director Steve Campbell says: “We have an excellent relationship with Hachette Filipacchi through the production of Red and Elle at Polestar Chantry and we were delighted to be chosen to produce this extremely prestigious title. It is ideally suited to the high levels of quality for which Polestar Chantry is renowned.”

The text pages were printed on the M600 press at Polestar Chantry, whilst the cover and three sections on specialist stock were produced by a sheetfed preferred supplier, before the 188-page product was perfect bound at the Wakefield plant.