This Should Help…

Your first step to understanding this is to know that ‘gsm’, is Grams Per Square Meter. It is a measurement of how heavy or ‘thick’ the paper is. So in short, the fewer the number, the lighter or ‘thinner’ the paper, there for the greater the number, the heaver and ‘thicker’ the paper will be. For example, 80gsm (standard) is relatively thin paper, but 100gsm would be thick. We normally associate the thicker paper with quality and durability. More detailed information on Paper Weights here

Featured opposite is the Cannon Bright Paper Recycled 80gsm.

This is a premium recycled paper made using 100% reclaimed waste!
It is ideal for all office correspondence, reports or presentations and perfect for home use too.
So with Canon you get the confidence of a 100% recycled paper that produces excellent results on all your home and office machines.

• Size: A4
• 80gsm
• 500 Sheets
• White

For a look at Office365′s variety of paper available in all different paper weights, take a look at the site – hopefully this will have helped you to understand what exactly you are looking for.

At Canon they believe that in order to work towards a harmonious accord between people, technology and nature, all corporate activity must take the environment into consideration, and that a company incapable of environmental assurance does not deserve to continue operations. Canon believes it can make a useful contribution to society by becoming a leading “eco-tech” corporation. They strive to achieve harmony with ecology and the environment, the two fundamental components of Canon’s “E” concerns.

When We See Or Speak Of Tape, We Think Sellotape Right?…..

Of course we do, Sellotape have been around since the 1930′s and is a tape we have come to rely on. Sellotape® has a product to meet hundreds of sticking needs around the home and small office, including gift wrapping, sticking, mounting, decorating and repairing, that’s why we stick with Sellotape…er hem…sorry.

High quality, easy to use and the stickiest tape you can buy – no wonder it’s Britain’s favourite tape.

Sellotape Original has been helping to stick things for nearly 80 years! From envelopes to books and parcels to presents, almost everyone uses Sellotape at some point in their lives.

But Sellotape Original is not only handy to have around the home, its also best for the environment too! The cellulose film used to make Sellotape Original is made from a natural wood pulp product. This wood is sourced from sustainable forests and because it is natural, the film is completely biodegradable.

Sellotape Original’s natural origins also provide other benefits of being naturally easy tear and naturally static-free, so it won’t tangle.

Sellotape Original provides a range of tapes in various widths and lengths to perform hundreds of uses around the home.

The above featured product for example, is Sellotape Clear Tape Carded 19mm x 66m [Pack 8]. This is the standard and most common width of tape, and we all tend to have this one lying around. However there are a variety of Sellotape sizes available at Office365.

Smaller widths such as 25mm x 33mm is commonly attached to the dispenser for easy dispensing…no more loosing that stubborn end! Having said this however, Sellotape Original cellulose tape is slightly thicker than many other clear tapes so that on running one finger around the roll, the end is easy to find.

Various Sellotape Widths;

• 18 & 19mm tapes
• 24 & 25mm tapes
• 38+mm tapes
• 50mm tapes

You’ve Heard All About Our Remarkable Pencils – Now Here Are The Pens…

Remarkable Pens (Recycled Car -Ball Pen) Assorted Ref 05 PNCPAS10B10 [Pack 10]

Remarkable is not just the brand name for these astonishing pens, can you believe they are made from more than 50% recycled materials! These colourful pens have been created from old recycled car parts! In a variety of bright colours, these ball point pens have black ink and a twist mechanism.

These unique pens can be bought from Office365 for a ‘Remarkable’ £6.43 – and that’s for a pack of 10! This is a saving of £2.08 – 24% off!

You can take a look at more ingenious pens made by Remarkable on the site; bare in mind also, they don’t just make pens – Check out Remarkable on the site too!

The Green Bit

By highlighting what an item was in its previous life, Remarkable are showing what can be made with UK waste - and so they are generating a positive interest in recycling and environmental issues. Using the fascination of what an item once was is a new and fun way of communicating the recycled message. In brief, they don’t want people to think that recycling is dull. It can, in fact, be very cool!

Prices correct as of 28/04/09

More From Our Offiec365 Best Range…

Well of course, it had to be Bisley who make the Best Filing Cabinets. But what exactly is it about Bisley that make them the Best? Bisley’s added features make them by far the safest, but also the best quality. With this comes peace of mind.

Featuring the classic;

Bisley BS5E Filing Cabinet Flush-front 5-Drawer Goose Grey

H 1511mm (59.5″)

W 470mm (18.5″)

D 622mm (24.5″)

Features

• 7 year Bisley guarantee
• 100% extension drawers (0.56m linear capacity)
• Fully welded carcase without bolts or rivets for greater strength and cleaner line
• Backs and sides are pierced to enable units to be bolted together
• Filing cabinets can be fitted with compressor plates
• Mastered lock, 200 differs
• Approved to BS EN 14073: pts 2+3 & BS EN 14074

What’s more, when you buy through Office365, you get the best deals around – just compare our prices. Let’s not forget our price matching policy too! More Filing Cabinets stocked by Office365.

Bisley Office Furniture is a UK manufacturer of steel storage for the office. Operating from Bisley, Surrey and Newport, South Wales and employing nearly a thousand people, Bisley cabinets are renowned world wide.

Bisley realise that all manufacturing has some effect on the environment, especially that of steel. With this in mind they have made it their policy to make themselves aware of this and to conduct business in ways designed to reduce adverse effects and maximise favourable ones.

Their capital investment in plant and machinery has had a major impact on the efficient production of our products; state of the art machinery has reduced waste, improved quality and increased safety. All steel off-cuts and other scrap metal is recycled and manufacturing waste bi-products disposed of by licensed contractors.

Office365 Quality Discount Range ’5 Star’, bring you;

5 Star Clear Tape 33m x 12mm [Pack 12]

I have a challenge today, it has been requested that I tell you about our 5 Star range of 12mm tapes. This may sound easy enough but when you have previously written a blog about ‘Cellotape’ and you don’t want to sound repetitious, the job is not quite as simple as it sounds. However, I have no concern about sounding repetitious when it comes to 5 Star. Okay, so it’s sticky and so useful to stick things together…. But what makes this tape different from the others is its Price! With 5 Star tapes, you get quality products without the price tag! You can get the above tape (that’s a pack of 12) for just £2.97! So buying 5 Star through Office365 saves you £6.93, that’s a whopping 70% off!

• Easy tear tape
• Made from polypropylene
• 40 micron easy tear film
• Size: 12mm x 33m
• Clear
• Packed 12

For more ‘interesting’ clear tapes in various sizes, why not visit our site and if you are unable to find what you need, just contact one of our sickeningly friendly team (as they’re probably bored and waiting for your calls) and they will be very happy to help!

Well, we’ve all heard of these different pencil shades; HB, 2B, 4B, 5B etc, but what do they actually mean?

I’ve had to do a little research on this one myself as I’ve never understood it. I understood that some were softer and darker than others but only buy experimenting. For the keen sketchers out there, wouldn’t it be handy to know how to use these pencils without the trial and error? Here go’s;

EXPLANATION

HB Stands for ‘Hard Black’ this is your standard pencil, the one we all having lying around. Simply, the H means hard and B means black. H pencils, because they are hard, leave less graphite on the paper, so are lighter. B pencils are softer, so leave more graphite on the paper, and so are darker. F means Fine Point, and it is quite a hard pencil – easy to keep sharp, but generally a bit too hard for general drawing. When we get to the number’s for example, 2B, 4B, 5B etc the progression in number means the softer the pencil so in this list 5B would be the softest (and there for blackest) pencil.

So, to sum it up lead from softest to hardest is 6B, 5B, 4B, 3B, 2B, B, HB, F, H, 2H, 3H, 4H, 5H, 6H, 7H, 8H & 9H.

We have a selection of Art Pencils at Office365, take a peek online or just select the link to take you straight there.

Only Alba could bring you such a perfect office clock…

Alba now known as Harvard International is a group of companies. Many of these you will already know such as; Goodman’s, Grundig, Bush and so on.

Office365 bring you a rather clever clock; Alba Clock Quartz Legible from 30m Distance!

This is an every office must have. Surely there can be no more excuses with this beast in the building! With its 600mm diameter face, it can be seen from a distance of 30m! So those of you working to targets and deadlines or even for the general larger office, this has got to be the perfect clock. With a viewing distance like this, one clock will work for all.

• Perfect time legibility 30m away
• Ideal for large open spaces
• Requires AA battery (not included)

There is an extensive range of Wall Clocks at Office365, so if the featured item is unsuitable, I am sure that you will find what you need on the site. You can view them from here by selecting either Alba Wall Clocks, or alternatively view our entire list of Wall Clocks.

The First Suspension File Range With A Lifetime Guarantee….

L’Oblique AZ®, the leader for suspension files, has joined forces with Canson®, the leader for exceptional paper and has invented ULTIMATE® Kraft manila suspension files range. A product assortment with unparalleled strength and durability: exclusive new Canson® card 100% virgin pulp, reinforced by ultra strong cotton fibres and still assembled using L’oblique AZ’s unique system by metal rivets…

• L’oblique Suspension Files
• Made from 240gsm orange manila
• Rigid flat steel suspension bar for heavy loads
• Metal rivets for linking files to prevent mis-filing
• Extra long label holder for easy identification
• V-base
• Capacity: 100 sheets
• Size: A4
• Packed 25
• Orange

Office365 have a range of L’Oblique suspension files available, each of them renowned for their strength and durability, and ease of use. They too are an environmentally aware company and have a variety of eco friendly suspension files on offer. For a wider selection of L’Oblique suspension files and other L’Oblique products, visit the site and enjoy our fuss free shopping!

More of our BEST range from Office365….

Acco brands are the high achiever and take the title again and again for so many of our products. They are by far the best producer of Drywipe boards – namely, the Nobo Drywipe board. Here at Office365, we believe they have earn’t this title through quality, affordability, individuality and let’s not forget, the ‘Green Factor’.

This particular board stands out from the rest due to its hard wearing melamine surface and durability. It’s lockable security feature for ‘sensitive information’ and 10 year guarantee all helps in giving us faith in this product.

Nobo Confidential Best Whiteboard

• Glossy hard-wearing melamine surface guaranteed 10 years
• The two front hinged boards are drywipe both sides, giving five working surfaces
• Lockable front panels supplied with two keys
• Pen tray at base of board
• 120 x 90cm (240 x 90cm when open)

WEEE Directive

Although the Acco Nobo Board is not an electronic product, Acco is an environmentally friendly company. Office365 understand that supporting companies who are environmentally aware is essential and we think it’s great that where they can, they do their bit!

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) aims to minimise the impact of electrical and electronic goods on the environment, by increasing re-use and recycling and reducing the amount of WEEE going to landfill. It seeks to achieve this by making producers responsible for financing the collection, treatment, and recovery of waste electrical equipment, and by obliging distributors to allow consumers to return their waste equipment free of charge.

As a producer of Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Acco UK Ltd (Acco) has

• Identified which products fall within the Directive.
• Collated all the product data (volume and weight), for each EU country, necessary to submit to the controlling bodies to establish its recovery obligation.
• Complied with the WEEE product marking obligation by marking all products manufactured from 13th August 2005, with the crossed out “Wheelie Bin” symbol.
• Registered with Valpak’s Producer Compliance Scheme our “unique producer number” is WEE/HB0045SY

Trexus Classic Desk Radial Panel End Left-hand

Another classic solution brought to you by Trexus. Wow, they just keep popping up don’t they? It’s got to tell you something though, right? Trexus are also home to other brands such as Sonix, Adroit and Elysium, all of which are part of the Trexus family and are available at Office365.

Whatever your desking needs you will find all you require within the Trexus range. This high quality product is available in three different styles – Traditional four leg, a contemporary Cantilever and a Classic panel end. There are also four lively finishes to blend well into any environment, blond Oak, warm Beech, a cool Maple, as well as a more traditional Olde Oak finish.

This is a classic radial desk made using hard-wearing material and has an 18mm thick top. Nobody can argue that it is excellent value for money but yet stylish and top quality.

Classic Radial Desk With Modesty Panels Only £153.15 (you save 43%!)

• The timeless appeal of solid panel-ended furniture brings classic style to your office.
• The panelled sides emphasise the visual appeal of the wood finish.
• These desks come with modesty panels and cable access ports.
• Radial desks will accept fixed pedestals.
• Left-hand.
• Dimensions; WxDxH: 1600x1200x720mm

So what is a Modesty Panel I hear you ask? Well I had a little trouble figuring this one out myself thinking it was a desk screen or something of the sort. So, after a few attempts, by boss finally managed to explain it in terms that actually ‘went in’ and hey presto, now apparently I’m qualified to tell you

A modesty panel is NOT a desk screen; it is quite literally the panels ends of the desk. So instead of the desk having four legs or the equivalent, it is completely boxed in with panels all around, giving you a little privacy – hence the name ‘modesty panel’. Take a look at the featured desk above, it’ll all make sense to you then.

We have plenty more desks of all sorts under ‘furniture’ on our website; Double L & R Hand, General, Left Handed, Pedestal and Right Handed. So if this featured product is not what you are looking for, browse our other desk options and I am sure we will have something that meets your requirements.

Prices Correct as of 17/04/09