We Have Winners!!!!

At last! Announcing the lucky winners of our biggest giveaway to date, so with no further ado....

HP LAPTOP

Catriona G, Fort August.

BROTHER QL-570 LABELLER

Anthony B, Peterborough.

RUSSELL HOBBS ESPRESSO

Carl S, Sheffield.

Jackie O'B, London.

BROTHER DCP-197C PRINTER

Neil P, Reading.

SPACEWORX LETTER RACK AND TRAY

Amanda S, Abercynon.

Daniel P, Strensall.

Deborah W, Shropshire.

IXL STRONGBOX

Peter N, Biggleswade.

Elizabeth F, Shrewsbury.

PENTEL ENERGEL PEN

Jenny M, Brackley.

Wilf J, Southampton.

Sean S, Montrose.

Edward A, York.

Ernest W, Penrith.

We will be posting out all your exciting prizes today! Well done to all our winners and watch this space we will be doing it all again soon!

Registration prize draw - the goodies!!!!

WOW! Here we have the list of prizes we have to give away on the 15th November to fifteen lucky people! As you know from the email, you don't have to purchase anything to be in with a chance. Because everyone is having to reregister (and we know its a pain!) we wanted to offer something that would make it more bearable for you! So with no further ado lets have a look at the goodies!! First up is the big one, a HP LAPTOP! It is a HP G62-a22SA laptop PC. The spec is really quite impressive, it features: Windows 7, Intel Pentium Processor P6000, 3GB memory, 250 GB hard drive, 15.6" HD Brighview LED screen, wireless networking, Bluetooth and a webcam. Value is £399, we have 1 to give away!

Next up a Brother QL-570 Labeller. This is a really amazing labeller. It supports barcode printing, has an automatic cutter, prints 68 standard labels per minute, there are different label widths available and it is SO easy to change the reels. I speak from experience, we have one in our office and it has blown me away (and I am not so easy to impress!) We even use it for printing shelf edge labels over a meter long! Value is £109, we have 1 to give away.

Russell Hobbs Caffe Torino Espresso. This is a 15 bar pump pressure espresso maker. It has a 1.1 litre capacity, with removable water tank, detachable drip tray and a steam nozzle (for frothing and warming milk for cappuccino). There are also two espresso cups provided! I like this machine, you can get a good strong cup of coffee and you can use the milk cold straight out of the fridge and still get a good froth! Value is £79.99, we have 2 to give away. DCP-197C All-In-One Printer. What can I say, this is our most popular printer BY FAR. It boasts a compact size for your desktop, 27ppm colour printing and 33 ppm mono printing. Up to A4 borderless printing and takes individual inks (black, cyan, magenta and yellow) saving you money by only replacing the ink that you need. It has a high resolution colour scanner and you can print direct from camera via the PictBridge connection. USB Host and Media Card Centre (print and scan) and includes FREE document management software. And last but certainly not least it is EnergyStar certified meaning lower energy usage. We have put this printer through the rigours of a busy office enviroment and it has never let us down. Value £73.80, we have 1 to give away.

Spaceworx Wood and Metal Letter Tray and Letter Holder. Ok I confess I love having really nice things on my desk (I'm a girl what do you expect!) I saw these and fell in love with them. Now my desk looks pretty and yours can too. I have to add they are not girly so looks good on a mans desk as well! Value approx £30, we have 3 to give away.

IXL Strongbox. Polycarbonate constuction, key retaining lock, removable coin tray and removable document holder. If you have to transport valuables do it safely, I even took one of these on our recent trip across France (see post further down). Value approx £15, we have 2 to give away.

Pentel Energel Sterling Liquid Gel Rollerball Pen. This is a really nice pen, it is 0.7mm medium rollerball with quick drying ink and its refillable. I recently went to a seminar and used this pen and I didn't get that fatigue you get from writing non stop all day! Value approx £8, we have 5 to give away.

So there you have it, I hope you like the selection and it just remains for me to say a sincerely heartfelt thank you for putting up with all the changes and I hope you like the new design. Please do get in touch if you have any problems and good luck with the prize draw! I will post a list of the winners here on 15th November.

New Brother Cartridges.

LC-985. Available individually and in a quad pack. I like the new designs of the packaging, with the moon, sun and earth.

New HP cartridges.

Hp 301 Black and colour. Once again the colours are in a block cartridge (all in together) so if one runs out you have to change the cartridge. When will they learn?

New Canon cartridges.

The large black is PGI-525 and the small black and colours are CLI-526.

Finally the new release cartridges are all here!

Autumn is always an exciting time of year with all the new cartridges for all the new printers being released just in time for Christmas! As always I will do individual posts for each brand. Epson have three sets of cartridges out that at first glance seem to be the same cartridge but in three different sizes (medium, large and extra large) but BE WARNED, this is not the case, there are only a couple of printers listed that take different sizes.
Not sure about the packaging on this one! I don't fancy Mr Fox looking daggers at me! I quite often get customers asking for the picture on the front and the colour (i.e a black duck) so now I will be asked for a pink fox!

Very Garden Of Eden. Blue apple anyone?Lots of discussion on this one. John is adamant that it is a reindeer even though it is blatantly obvious it is a red deer. If you are phoning us and get to talk to John just say "it's a red deer ok" it will make his day!

Sorry for the silence....

I am sorry that I haven't been putting up the winners every day like I promised, but there have been a couple of hiccups that took over slightly! Don't worry we are still sending out the Kodak Digital Photo Frames and Papermate pens every day, we have nearly run out and we are deciding what to do for our next giveaway! Exciting stuff!!

Posting prizes.

Putting a Kodak 7" Digital Photo Frame in the post to Northern Ireland. We are giving away Papermate pens with any order (while stocks last) and a photo frame once a day. All you have to do is place an order to be in with a chance! Hurry we will only be running this for one more week!

Mondays winner is...

Mrs M from Belfast! Congratulations, a Kodak 7" Photo Frame is on it's way to you. To find out more see http://www.kc-inks.co.uk/

We have our first winner!

The first winner of the Kodak 7" Digital Photo Frame is......

Mr P from Seathwaite!

Congratulations, check back to see if you have won after the next draw on Monday!

The next wave of freebies is here!

Ok so we are on the next lot of goodies! For any order placed you will receive a Papermate Flexigrip Gel 0.7 pen (blue ink).

The best bit is........... every day we will put all order numbers into a draw. One lucky person's order will be drawn and they will receive a Kodak 7" Didital Photo Frame! Completely at random - get your orders in!

We made it home!

What an adventure! We saw lakes...

Drove on beautiful avenued roads....

Went up high mountain passes ( I am ashamed to admit that I cried - 7,500 feet, the road the width of the car and no barriers...)

Even above the clouds...

Down into ravines...

And over scary bridges...

There will be a video of the Col du Turini soon!

A short break...

I will not be writing anything for the next ten days or so because I am off on my holidays! John and I are going on a big adventure, we are driving across France to Monte Carlo......... in a 1974 Ford Granada! That makes the car five years older than me, and with John being on crutches I am the lucky person who gets to mend the car if it breaks down! I don't know how! So if you don't see a new post in just over a weeks time it will be because we have broken down on top of the Alps. Wish us luck!

Price Comparisons

Here are some price comparisons you might find interesting! These prices are correct on 07/09/10. All comparisons are for the Epson T0715 genuine (as pictured above) and compatible quad packs.

First up the genuine cartridge comparison.

Asda £34.47 + £4.95 delivery = £39.42

Tesco £34.98 + £5.00 delivery = £39.98

WH Smith £37.76

Viking £33.47 + £3.40 delivery = £36.87

KC INKS £34.23 FREE FIRST CLASS DELIVERY!

Even without delivery we are cheaper than everyone else! You can't count Viking because you HAVE to order and have it delivered with them! Our free delivery is first class, you should get your parcel the next day!

Now the compatible price comparisons (remember this is for a quad pack 1 black and 3 colours)

Asda £18.92 + £4.95 delivery = £23.87

Tesco £20.99 = £5.00 delivery = £25.99

WH Smith don't do compatibles.

Viking £26.78 + 3.40 = £30.18

KC INKS £14.99 FREE FIRST CLASS DELIVERY!

WOW! Now that really is a lot of savings! Our compatible cartridges generally contain more than double the amount of ink compared to the genuine cartridges. And remember we haven't lowered our prices to make them look more attractive to you, these are the prices that we have held at this level for most of this year! So happy shopping....

Brother

KC Inks Ltd are a Brother Approved Independant Retailer. I thought you might like to know a little background and why we chose Brother and not somebody else. The information about Brother is taken from their own website.

The company was incorporated in 1934. Based in Nagoya, Japan they now have offices throughout the world and manufacturing plants in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, America, Malaysia, Ireland and the UK. Brother has operations in 28 countries and is sold in more than 100 countries.

The UK subsidiary began in 1959 in London, but moved to Manchester in 1968, into a sewing machine factory (Brother don't just make printers you know!) The Manchester office is the headquarters of Brother Europe. Brother also has a factory in Ruabon, Wales making typewriters. The Manchester office also provides sales, marketing, technical support, warehousing and distribution and a customer support call centre. I think that the British call centre is SO IMPORTANT - speaking to somebody in this country who understands relieves so much of the associated frustration!

Brother also has an ISO9001 which is an internationally recognized standard for Quality Management Systems which includes; quality of service and repair, consistency of order processing, operational controls and customer liason procedures. They recently won the Microscope ACES award for "Environmental Company of the Year" Brother were the ONLY printer manufacturer to be nominated. Another accolade was scoring 100/100 in the "Ethical Company Organisation Good shoppong Guide" for the fourth year in a row!

There are a couple of reasons why KC Inks chose to affiliate with Brother. First of all customer service. I firmly believe that good service (with a smile) is the way forward in any business. Make everyone happy! I have found Brother to be very good to deal with.

Secondly from my own experiences. A long time ago I bought a Brother fax machine, not very expensive, just to plod away at the back of the office. Then one day I printed out some holiday snaps on it.... and they came out really well! Then I did a photo album for a friends birthday, again very good results. Which I thought for a little fax machine was rather good. Since then we have gradually replaced all the printers (inkjet and laser) in the office with Brother and we are of course very pleased with them. All because of that first little fax....