The school summer holidays are fast approaching which means that you teachers have some organising to do! Aside from all the planning and preparation needed in order to ensure that the new school year and class get off to a good start, you’ll also need to consider your supplies. Cast your mind forward; do you have enough paper to see you through the year? How are the colouring pencils looking, running low? Have you lost one too many pencil sharpeners and now finding one when you need it is a mission? Have the children snapped the rulers and how are the erasers looking? Printer cartridges run low pretty quick, have you stocked your store cupboards? The list of supplies is never ending.

Your class are likely to create project books; do you have enough treasury tags? Have you checked your glue sticks recently, are they looking dried up? It’s impossible to address an entire class without a whiteboard or blackboard; do you have the chalk or markers?

Office 365 is a website which caters to all your school needs. We really do have everything you need and more besides. From your trimmers and guillotines, to staplers and staples, we even have a great range of electrical’s for your convenience! Office 365’s range even stretches to furniture so that you can purchase classroom desks, receptions furniture, canteen tables and even lockers at the same place you’ll find your filing supplies so that ordering can be done with just one company; us!

But it doesn’t stop there! We’ve carefully considered further incentives so that we can be sure that we’re bringing you the best deal and a service which far exceeds that of our competitors! We’re so confident of our low prices that we even offer a price match policy! Further to this, if you’re ordering from a school we can accept official purchase orders faxed to our FreeFax 0800 612 9524 or sent via email with the order attached to sales@office365.co.uk! Ordering in bulk can often mean you’ll qualify for further discounts too, so don’t forget to ask.

Finally, all new customers will earn an additional 10% off their first order, plus every order over the value of £60 qualifies for a free chocolate gift! Think of it as bribery for the school kids! You can pay using credit or debit cards, or even using PayPal when you buy online! However if you’d like to discuss payment methods further, then do feel free to contact us on 0870 766 1624.

In 1991 Xerox created a revolutionary new printing method which they named Ink Sticks. The new method solved all of our complaints and met all the requirements we thought were too much to ask. However still, the economical and colourful sticks remain in the shadows due to simple lacking in communication! The world is still to discover this phenomenal new creation.

And how does this new printing process actually work I hear you ask. Try to imagine the cycle of a printer and the various tasks which are completed within moments. With Xerox Ink Sticks as the printing process begins, the long life roller in your printer will quickly apply a microscopic layer of silicone oil to the heated drum for reliable ink release. The print head will then apply all colours while a sheet of paper is rapidly fed between the drum and a roller, transferring the ink onto the sheet. It is thanks to this innovative method that no fuser is required; one less expense already! As the ink on the drum transfers to the paper, it soaks into the paper fibres which means no mess, as opposed to the spreading of liquid ink jets or the toner scattering of laser. The ink will then cool and solidify immediately forming a strong and permanent bond to the paper; all this in as little as 5 seconds!

Take a look at our Xerox Black Ink Sticks (Pack 3) featured.

• Inkjet Cartridges for use with Xerox Printers
• Model: Phaser 8500/8550
• Page life: 3000
• Packed 3
• Black
• Just £52.20 inc VAT
• Also available in yellow, cyan and magenta.

Xerox Ink sticks produce stunning full colour results and create virtually no waste at all in comparison to other printing methods! In fact it actually produces 90% less waste than a typical colour laser product. It is thanks to these huge reductions in waste that ink sticks are the number one environmental choice! Xerox Ink Sticks colour printing technology give you the most value for your money; the solid ink produces brilliant and vibrant prints on a wide range of media, plus is the easiest technology on the market to use! Why not try it for yourself!

It’s that time again; we’re fast approaching April and the end of the tax year which means plenty of work for all businesses out there! You’ll need to file your Employer Annual Returns; form P35 and forms P14, which is normally done online, so don’t forget to register for the PAYE online service from HM Revenue & Customs, late returns will incur penalties! You will also need to organise new payroll records for your employees and to calculate all the obvious without error including statutory payments, student loan deductions, expenses and benefits, plus finalise the figures on each employee’s payroll record. The list goes on and on and on, and all this work can only mean one thing; calculations!

With the right programs and the right people for the job, the end of the tax year does not need to be difficult! And with the right calculator, the job is easier still. Here at Office 365 we have a great range of different calculators for all different tasks, walks of life and users. Take for example our tax calculators; the perfect example for businesses small and large.

A great example of a decent tax calculator is this Casio Tax Desktop Calculator featured to the right. This Casio calculator has the advantage of a 12 digit display and also enjoys other unique features such as 4 key memory, function command signs, 4 constants, large alignment key, 3 digit comma markers, auto power off, 3 key memory, tax function, exchange function, sign change, decimal point settings and backspace key. So if you’re looking for a machine that does more than most, and will see you through this April’s tax calculations, this is the one for you!

• 4 key memory, function command signs, 4 constants, large alignment key, 3 digit comma markers, auto power off
• Digits displayed: 12
• Memory: 3 key
• Tax function
• Exchange function
• Function command signs
• Sign change
• Decimal point settings: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, F
• Backspace key
• 3 digit comma markers
• WxDxH (mm): 105 x 170 x 27
• Battery: 2xLR44, product code 189137 (2)
• Just £18.76 inc VAT!

The Green Bit

In 2002 Casio launched its Casio Green Products campaign to promote the creation of environmentally friendly products which will meet rigorous standards, based on the results of a product environmental assessment; these products were to be certified as “Casio Green Products.” The company set a goal of having Casio Green Products account for 80% of total product sales by fiscal 2009, and met it ahead of time! Going one step further, Casio then established an internal committee that decided to identify the most environmentally friendly of the Casio Green Products as Casio Green Star Products. This committee set a new goal in fiscal 2010 of 30% of total sales coming from Casio Green Star Products by fiscal 2013.

In order to reduce CO2 emissions in the logistics process, Casio is promoting the following three action plans;

• Shortening transport distances
• Promoting direct shipping to customers from logistics centers in and outside Japan
• Promoting a modal shift
• Actively using modes of transport with low environmental impact such as rail for transport between sites
• Improving loading efficiency and reducing transport volume
• Improving the packaging design of electronic dictionaries and musical instruments, and reducing the volume of packaging

At Office 365 we pride ourselves on our many services we offer making the complete ordering process easy, fast and stress free with us. We have a huge variety of stationery and office supplies available to both businesses and individuals alike with products such as office electronics and their consumables, furniture, desktop accessories, stationery as well as cleaning and catering supplies. We offer a price match guarantee which means if you find any of our products elsewhere for cheaper, we will match that price! Many of our customers are schools, NHS trusts, GP’s, government departments and locals government organisations, and we understand that when ordering for a company such as this, different procedures must be complied with, which is why we allow for purchase orders to be faxed over where necessary!

Many of our customers find that we offer an unbeatable service in terms of delivery and price and so prefer to order their item in bulk so that it lasts the entire office for a year. We take great pleasure in offering a bulk order service where we are able to give you a quote where products are ordered in larger volumes. Here you can either add the item to your basket and then select ‘get a quote’, or you can call our team on 0870 766 1624 where a member of our team will be more than happy to help.

We offer the secure Mastercard Worldwide payment service which is unbeatable in terms of security and peace of mind and accepts cards such as Visa, Visa Electron, Mastercard, Maestro, American Express and Solo. However if you prefer, we even offer the ability to pay via PayPal now! We prefer you to place orders online, however if for whatever reason you need to speak to our team, our lines are open from 9:30am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday, or alternatively you can contact us via our email address info@office365.co.uk where we will also be able to help you.

If you order before 4pm, thanks to our dedicated ordering process, you will receive your items for next day delivery! The process is carried out in a fully automated pick and pack warehouse to ensure that we can deliver your most popular items within 24 hours, however if your item is urgent, we do suggest that you call to check stock!

Finally, we pride ourselves on being an environmentally aware company and offer our customers a great variety of Green Products which are recycled and recyclable! We also offer a variety of Breast Cancer Awareness products which when purchased donates money directly to Breast Cancer research! Our entire order process has been designed to have as minimal affect as possible on the environment from efficient logistics and packaging solutions to electronic invoicing to our ability to source the best environmentally friendly products for our customers. You will find that our Blog features various environmentally friendly articles offering advice on our green products and how your office can be green. However if you can help us be more eco friendly, we’d love to hear from you, so please do get in touch!

Last Christmas we told you of the almighty Hercules, God of all paperclips. We let you into the secret of the great paperclip escape and how every year since then, as a commemoration to the scared Hercules escape and the new found freedom of the enslaved paperclips, all paperclip Nationwide plan their own mighty missions, their own plans to leave their torturous captivity. Paperclips still today campaign for their rights, fight for their freedom which they can still only achieve by breaking free. Still today paperclips fight for the opportunity of a free life, one that will not enslave them at any point and force them into situations where they must revolt and break laws….all this thanks to you Hercules, oh lord almighty.

Now one year on since revealing the story, Hercules is now more famous than ever! THE most talked about paperclip, Hercules is still an ‘A’ list celebrity in the stationery world, and some are worrying that it may have gone to his head a little! Wonder of all wonders, you’ll even find ‘pin ups’ of him in some young staples bedrooms, despite the fact that staples have a deep resentment towards paperclips (as unlike them, paperclips are able to bind papers AND be individual, staples do so hate the fact they come bound so tightly together in strips, they’re so unbelievably envious of the paperclips independence). But all is not well with Hercules…

We’ve gathered since the paperclip ‘awakening’, that Hercules is no standard wire binder. He has a certain intelligence which is unusual in a stationery item of his type. We’ve all here’d that calculators have it and that even Post-it notes have something pretty special (how are they able to stick and stick again and stick again and not fall down?), but a paperclip? To find the brainpower to conjure up such a plan, goodness only knows how something without a head has such wisdom! However, with Hercules new found freedom and fame, he has been led astray, exposed and has seen things that no paperclip should ever be exposed to. Loving the celebrity lime light he threw himself into it, making it to every party going, every grand opening, and even found himself on various TV shows such as CBeebies Mr Maker and ITV’s, A Touch of Frost!

The demand was high and the pressure was great, Hercules was beginning to buckle. He formed a nasty drug habit and ended up in rehab. Within weeks of being released he turned to booze. You may wonder how on earth a paperclip could consume anything; however you haven’t considered Hercules intelligence! He discovered that paperclips are not solid at all, in fact, they are relatively straw like. If you examine a paperclip under a very, very, very, very strong microscope, you will find that it is in fact hollow, with the tiniest hole running through the very middle of the paperclips length.

Goodness knows what will become of Hercules now, he doesn’t appear to be showing any signs of corrosion or wear, but then he is coated in day glow pink with green stripes which could be protecting his outer’s.

Hercules spent this Christmas rather alone, reflecting on the time that has elapsed since his great escape, and secretly (although he’ll never admit it), missing his life in the office, where everything was routine, everything was safe and where he knew exactly what each day would have in store for him. We shall re-visit Hercules next Christmas and with any luck, he may even give us an interview. Until then, from all of us here at Office 365, we wish our Hercules all the best and can only hope he finds his old strength and makes a full recovery.

From all of us here at Office 365, we’d like to wish you a very Merry Christmas! This will be the last blog from me to you, until next year, but what a year we’ve had this year! After re-launching our site, we’ve been dedicated to giving each and everyone one of our products their own little write up so that our customers have all the information they need at their finger tips. Of course this is an exceptionally long task and it is not yet complete, however you will already be enjoying the new easier to navigate site and as ever would love to hear your feedback.

Today is your absolute last chance to order from us for delivery before Christmas, however we absolutely must stress that for all important, urgent orders, please call our team on 0870 766 1624 to check stock availability; we absolutely hate to disappoint our customers! If you’re a first time buyer at Office 365, we’re offering you a very festive 10% of your order, plus for all our customers, if your order comes to more than £40, we’ll give you free, super fast, delivery!

Hurry, while stocks last, we’re giving you tonnes of tasty treats! Until December 30^th we’re giving away these chocolatey treats free, on all orders over £60! They’d make perfect festive treats around the office, or alternatively, take them home to fill your children’s stockings! This is just our way of saying thank you for sticking with us, through site re-launch and all!

Speaking of Christmas, we have so many great stocking filler ideas here! From calculators to pencil sharpeners, staplers and hole punches, you can even find a fantastic assortment of artist & graphic supplies! Is the recipient and organised stationery fiend or maybe they’re the arts and crafts type? We have chocolate and sweets, Christmassy biscuits and more so that you can give those tasty festive treats, these are also popular for boosting morale to those working in the office over the Christmas period! Fill their stockings with erasers and correction fluid, tapes, pens and pencils; when one door opens so do many more! Within pens you’ll find those fancy types in chrome, metal and gold, highlighters in wallets and desk sets, fineliners  for kids and more! Our snazzy gel pens are great for kids who want to accessorise their pencil cases with the coolest stationery, but there’s so many more, just come along and see for yourselves!

So a very Merry Christmas from us all here and a Happy New Year, when our site will be complete with an abundance of information on all of your favourite products! Remember to call for urgent requirements and remember to tell us what your little ones thought of their Santa treats!

We have just 10 days to go before Christmas, don’t you think it’s time you get into action! Those ideas you’ve been planning, now’s the time to put them into motion. Many people use Office 365 are their go to for Christmas presents; as the cheapest online office and stationary retailer (backed up with our price match guarantee), we have a huge assortment of different products which are not just aimed at offices.

We have a great selection of surprising items such as artists supplies; pastels, watercolours, organisers, headphones, DAB radios, tins of biscuits, special chocolates and more. Many come to us to create their own Christmas hampers.

Here at Office 365 we have all the tools you could need to make a stylish, exciting and fun Christmas hamper for just about anyone! Simply follow the steps below.

1)      Choose your box – We have so many different boxes to choose from here, in various strengths and sizes. All you have to do is pick the most appropriate size and strength for your Christmas hamper.

2)      Case sealing tape – Now that you have your box, you must seal the bottom for protection. You may be packing some heavy items into your box, so make sure you apply appropriate tape to add strength and durability.

3)      Find your protective foam filling – Choosing a loose filling such as this one means that the recipient can rummage around in the box, easily retrieving whatever gifts lye hidden inside! You know that your purchases are safe and well hidden too!

4)      Choose your gifts! – Now for the fun part, you can have your own bit of fun, sifting through our site choosing yourself some colourful little treats and surprises for the recipient.

Popular hamper choices include mechanical pencils, electric pencil sharpeners, chocolate biscuits, good tea, correction fluid, highlighter pens and felt tipped pens, diaries, calendars, staplers, chocolates, printer cartridges and so much more! Take a look through our site; you may well be pleasantly surprised at our staggering selection of everyday items and fabulous gifts!

Remember, right now for first time customers, we’re offering a generous 10% off their orders! And then to add that further little treat, we’d also like to throw in some freebies. Until the 30^th December, we’re giving away free chocolates for all orders over £60!

People are becoming increasingly annoyed at the poor performance of their ink cartridges. With so many possibilities on the market today; reconditioned, compatible and original manufacturer, if you don’t know what you’re buying, you can often end up with something that you feel is letting you down. The cost of ink seems to be ever increasing, while the cartridges appear to be failing us more and more! We’ve even here’d of stories where a person has purchased a cartridge from their stationery supplier, and then moments later their printer is running on empty again?!

However, we’re at Office 365 we strive to find you the best of the best and will always do our bit to ensure we’re kind on your pocket too! We found Lexmark – a company that exceeds our expectations and boasts qualities such as;

• Continuous improvements in their pricing and performance
• Continuous convergence in technology between printers, scanners, copiers and fax machines into single, user friendly integrated all-in-one devices
• Huge developments in digital photography giving you the opportunity to print digital images on your own printing devices
• Higher colour output in business
• The ability to drive more pages to be printed by when and where it is convenient

After receiving some fantastic feedback of the quality of Lexmark cartridges, how could we possibly fail to tell our customers the good news?! Our Lexmark No. 16 and No. 26 Colour & Black Inkjet Cartridges (Page Life 685pp Ref 0080D2126) featured are a perfect example of a complete cartridge set which will do you proud.

• Combo Printer Cartridge Pack
• Genuine Lexmark cartridges generate optimum print quality using pigment-based ink for text that is water resistant and fade resistant for document storage
• Black and colour
• Our price just £53.71‼

However we have plenty more to offer with a full range of Inkjet Cartridges available online now! If you’d like any help or advise in choosing your appropriate ink cartridges, then get in touch with us on 0870 766 1624 and a member of our team will be happy to help!

The Green Bit

Lexmark is committed to acting as a socially responsible company in their global community. This means that they will fully comply with the laws, rules and regulations of the countries in which they operate.

It also means that Lexmark will go further by continually evaluating their business practices using the principle of sustainability – balancing economic, environmental and social needs of the world today without compromising the opportunities of future generations.

We want Lexmark to always be associated with a respect for human rights, safe work conditions, and environmentally sound business practices, for it’s own organization and those with whom they partner.

Send Back Your Empty Cartridges!

As a provider of printing solutions and an ongoing stream of consumables, Lexmark has a unique environmental responsibility. Each year, Lexmark produces and distributes millions of supplies for Lexmark printers.

By returning the empty cartridges to Lexmark, you ensure that they are reused and recycled with the most optimised processes that conserve the resources of our planet.

Lexmark’s focus on reducing landfill waste has meant millions of toner cartridges have been recycled or otherwise reused through cartridge collection programmes, rather than going into waste stream.

The Lexmark Cartridge Collection Programme provides free of charge and easy to use methods of return, both for laser and inkjet cartridges.

It really is time we stepped out of the 80’s and ensured that we finally hung up our old telephones for good! So many of us still use those corded phones and I too am guilty of this with one sat in my living room window, in fact it’s the only landline phone in the house *cringe*. Those things couldn’t be more inconvenient if they tried, with their corded hand pieces and bulky design. They quite literally limit you to one room, to one space! Whenever I take a call on the landline, I have to sit on the floor by the window; I cannot go anywhere for privacy or quiet and I certainly can’t get comfy for a nice long chat!

In the office when each desk has a corded phone, we’re able to enjoy the comfort of sitting at the desk when we use it, there’s no need for privacy and headsets mean that the sound travels straight into our ears and so background noise isn’t too much of an issue. We set up extensions so that we can transfer calls to each other without having to hand over the phone which makes things so much easier. However, you can have all this with a cordless phone and more! The problem with passing calls to each other in the office via transfer is that when they are not at their desk they’d have to sprint to take the call. You see it often; I’ve worked in a busy call centre and there was an awful lot of running for phones! With a cordless, you can simply find them in the break room or walking through the office and hand them the phone! You can speak to the caller while wandering the office trying to find them which reduces hold times!

Buying cordless phones doesn’t have to be expensive. Here at Office 365 we have a great selection from a number of brands, all on at affordable prices; however the best has to be the BT Elements Cordless Telephone below. Just check out its wide array of useful features!

• BT Elements single digital cordless phone
• Freedom to garden with this fantastic weather resistant phone
• Phonebook 50 name & number directory
• Ringer/volume control
• 10 polyphonic ring tones
• 50 SMS message store (total)
• Backlit LCD screen
• Speakerphone function
• 1 KM outdoor range
• One handset included
• Caller display function if subscribed to the BT Caller Display Service
• Handsfree function
• 1 year warranty
• Weatherproof to IP54
• Torch
• Keypad lock
• Auto Talk/standby
• PABX Access Code
• Calling Line Identification (Caller ID): For Caller ID to work this must be activated with your service provider; please check with your service provider that this service is available from them and will work with this device (Caller ID may be associated with an additional fee from your service provider)
• Just £70.55 inc VAT!

Remember, one of the best parts about offering the service we do is that we feel confident in the value we bring to our customers. So much so in fact, that we offer a price match guarantee! What’s more, if you’d like to set up one of these phones at every desk in your office, we might just be able to bring the price down further, so just get in touch and ask for a quote! 0870 766 1624‼

Are you ready to try something new when it comes to the world of printing? Are you fed up with your current printing arrangements, shocking ink prices and mediocre print outs? Is it enough to drive you mad when your printer jams (again), leaving you thinking “there must be another solution by now?” Well you hit the nail on the head! Born is a new era of printing and its all thanks to thenew Chinese brand, Pantum, a Seine technology brand.

Pantum’s aim is to provide the global market with a reliable, affordable and to top it all, environmentally friendly printing solution. By applying new ideas and concepts, they are able to create value-added laser printers and multi-function devices with durable, robust features, whilst also concentrating on environmental concerns. Designed with sturdy printing engines that will provide a much longer working life together with a higher monthly workload output than other printers on the market, Pantum printers are ultimately designed to please with their unrivalled user friendliness and unbeatable money saving concepts.

Their environmentally friendly design has been created to produce significantly less toner generated waste from printing processes, and coupled with lower power consumption, this range of printers takes our generation into a new world of printing products which will protect our planet and eventually save us a fortune in total printing costs.

With focus on providing single function laser printers, MFPs and colour laser printers for both the consumer market and business market, Pantum will continuously strive to develop their products to move closely with the market trends and customer needs so that they can be the only one-stop printing solution brand.

Here at Office 365 we are taking on the launch of Pantum’s new range of printers and will proudly supply their brand of products from November this year! Specifically, we are all excited about listing the P2000 model printer which boasts the following attributes:

• Robust, affordable and reliable
• Monochrome laser
• Focus on printing with smart size
• First print out time – less than 10 seconds
• Print speed 20ppm (A4) / 21 ppm (Letter)
• Up to 1200*600 dpi
• A high monthly duty cycle of 20,000 pages,
• 2 to 4 times longer than competitive products
• Connectivity – USB2.0 Full-Speed
• Memory – 8MB

Each printer comes with the following: Printer, 700 Page Toner Cartridge, USB Interface Cable, Power Cord, CD-ROM and Quick Setup Guide. This innovative new line of printers will also provide you with:

Eco-Friendliness, Protecting the Environment – Low carbon footprint, less waste toner residue and low ozone emissions.

Cost Effective, Affordable Operation – High quality long life performance, high yield cartridge, with very low operating costs and lowest cost of ownership in its class.

Built to Last, Easy to Use – Long term benefits of technology and durability, to emphasise output quality and printer designed with security and reliability.

Metal Instead of Plastic Frame – Solid steel roller bar instead of plastic bar and hard rubber rollers, plus longer engine life.