Bee for Battens website launched by Splash!

The team at Splash are delighted to announce the launch of the brand new Bee for Battens website. Splash are proud to be associated with this great Charity as media sponsor. The focus of the site was to highlight the amazing work that takes place in fund-raising for the charity and to inspire people to get involved and also to donate to this great cause.

We have worked closely with Tony Heffernan from the organisation on the project from the outset and Tony was delighted with the end product, “Splash & Printing.ie have simply blown us away with their energy & enthusiasm in supporting us all at Bee For Battens. In addition to providing us with a State of the Art website they are a one stop shop for all our promotional material. Our Humble Bee Logo has been redesigned into a fun & timeless Brand Identity. A Big Old Fashioned Thank You just does not sum up our appreciation of Splash & Printing.ie, as they continue to support our small Children’s Charity, and advise us in promoting our presence amongst the Social Media Sites & beyond. ”

Tony Heffernan - Charity Principal

Go to www.beeforbattens.org to visit the site and see the wonderful work being done, and if you can spare a few Euros why not make a donation to a fantastic cause.

Another Golden Spider Web Award nomination for Splash

Will Splash have the X Factor at this Year’s Eircom Spider Awards?

Farranfore based Web Company Splash has been nominated for another National Website Award ‘The Eircom Spider Awards’ for their website www.printing.ie. The Eircom Spider Awards are the most prestigious of the web calendar and are seen as the Oscars for websites in Ireland. This is Splash’s fourth time being nominated and ninth time overall in National Awards. The Printing.ie website was designed and developed in-house by Splash.

All entries were subjected to a rigorous judging process. On this occasion Splash are in the ‘Retail Excellence’ category, which is for a website that demonstrates excellence in providing online customer solutions and retail sales of products or services. There is tough competition this year from TESCO Mobile, Magee Clothing, DID Electrical, Smyths Toys and Merlin Car Auctions.

Commenting Stephen Beynon, Chairman of the Judging Panel and Group Managing Director Consumer and Small Business, eircom said, “As always the judges had a tough job. The quality of the entries was phenomenal and we really had a challenge to pick a shortlist for each category”.

The winners of the 2010 eircom Spider Awards will be announced at a gala dinner on Thursday, 18^th November in the Burlington Hotel. Well-known comedian and TV personality Jimmy Carr will take to the stage to host the event.

“It is what every web company aspires to, to be recognised at a National level for your web work” remarked Laurence, Head of Web Development, Splash. “We are in a growth stage with two staff being added to our web team in 2010 and a new tourism based site being launched in December” remarked Marc, Web Business Manager, Splash. “Businesses are turning to the web as another sales channel and it is a big market out there to avail of”, remarked Stephen, Managing Director, Splash. At present 92% of the company’s business comes from outside of Kerry through their website, they do this with no sales offices or sales staff outside of Kerry.

Eircom Spider Awards website www.eircomspiders.ie

Splash website www.splash.ie

Printing.ie website www.printing.ie

OLM Executive Travel - another great website from Splash!

The team at Splash/Printing.ie are delighted with another web site launch for OLM Executive Travel. OLM Executive Travel is the brain-child of Michael Guerin. Some 5 years ago, he envisaged creating a unique travel company that focused on providing high quality, customer-focused, executive travel for the discerning visitor to the Kingdom of Kerry and Ireland. His idea was hatched and in 2005 it became a reality.

To take the business forward and to bring his service to a wider audience Michael recently approached Spash with an idea for his website and following consultation with our web developers we were able to create what is now Michael’s brand new website - www.olmexecutivetravel.com.

Why not pay it a visit and let us know what you think? Maybe it will give you an idea for your own website - if it does that’s great. All you need to do to get a step closer to a new website is to do what Michael did - contact us to help make the dream a reality. Contact us on 1890 345678 or email sales@splash.ie

New Investment in Machinery & addition of 2 New Staff Members at Printing.ie

With all the doom and gloom in business today it is refreshing to hear a good news story relating to an Irish business. Printing.ie, based in the 4park Business Centre in Farranfore, Co. Kerry, has just announced the addition of 2 new full time staff members in its state of the art premises, as well as an investment of €50,000 in new printing machinery. Stephen O’Sullivan, the owner and Managing Director, has been in business for 14 years, and took the bold decision to invest in a new business premises at a time where most people were happy to hold what they had.

Today, 14 months after moving into his new premises in Farranfore, Stephen has had to take on 2 new full time staff to help with the expanding work load and client base that he has been able to grow both through working closely with local businesses but also by utilising his fantastic printing website www.printing.ie. Printing.ie is Ireland’s largest online shop for printing requirements, servicing a client base from all around Ireland. While most printers have their closing times and are off at weekends at www.printing.ie customers have the convenience of shopping securely online at a time and place that best suits them.

As well as the recent addition of 2 new full time staff, that now takes the number of employees to 10, Stephen has also invested in the latest printing technology to help meet the demands of an ever increasing client base. His recent investment totals €50,000, and will see production capacity at our Farranfore premises increase significantly.

The reason for all this at a time economic uncertainty is simple as Stephen explains;

“Our business is split across printing, graphic design, large format printing and website development. We have diversified over the years so when one sector goes down another sector may increase so we can concentrate on developing this sector further and we can react to the marketplace better with the mix of services we offer. Our new HP printer is the most environmentally friendly printing solution on the market. This is a huge selling point especially when we use recycled material we can offer a truly green product which is a big plus today.

We are looking to add a further 10 jobs in the next stage of our expansion in 2011. These jobs will be created in the website development and wide format printing sectors of the business.”

One of the latest websites launched by Printing.ie

Killarney Horse & Carriage Tours (www.killarneyhorseandcarriagetours.com) is one of the latest websites launched by Splash, the web development arm of Printing.ie.

Based in the beautiful town of Killarney the website is the result of the amalgamation of 14 individual Jaunting Car Tour operators, with over 3 generations and 350 years of experience behind them. They came to us with an idea of what they wanted and not only have we been able to design and provide them with business cards and brochures, but through our web company Splash we have been able to design and build a website to the high standards associated with all our web work.

Some of the people behind the website have had dealings with Printing.ie before and were very happy with the handling of the project from start to finish. Michael Sweetman said, “Personally it was not my first time dealing with Splash/Printing.ie, so I knew what to expect with regard to  the level of service they provide. However, for some of my colleagues in Killarney Horse & Carriage Tours who had not done business with them previously, they were all delighted with the service provided from designing the site and getting it up and running. A top class service was provided with everyone very helpful and there were never any issues in getting someone if there were questions. It was great to have the benefit of their knowledge and experience as they were able to guide us along the way. We have nothing but the highest of praise for Stephen and his staff, and would have no hesitation in recommending them to other businesses.”

Great feedback from another happy customer. You too can be one of our very happy customers. All you have to do is contact us on 1890 345678 or email sales@printing.ie and we will be happy to discuss how we can help get your website off the ground.

Printing.ie nominated for “Best Online Trader” at the Irish Internet Association’s Net Visionary Awards.

Printing.ie, Ireland’s largest online print and design company has been nominated for “Best Online Trader” at the Irish Internet Association’s Net Visionary Awards. Printing.ie provides customers nationwide with all their printing requirements such as business cards, letterheads, brochures, to list just a few of the products as well as Signage, Trade Show Solutions and Graphic and Web Design. You can check out the extensive list of items available on www.printing.ie

The Net Visionary Best Online Trader Ireland Award recognises an individual or company who has demonstrated the potential of the internet to trade effectively and efficiently online from Ireland to the national and international marketplace.

Stephen O’Sullivan, Managing Director of Printing.ie said, “This is our 4th National Website Awards nomination to date for our website www.printing.ie and we are hoping with the support of the people of our many friends and customers around the country that we can win the award. We are asking people to support us by going to www.iia.ie/net-visionary/vote/10 and adding their vote for Printing.ie, and pass on the link to friends and family so they can lend their support as well.”

Printing.ie launches another new website

www.selfbuildmunster.com - our latest website launch.

Not everyone knows that Printing.ie is more than just a print and design company. We also design and develop websites, which are done in-house by our web company Splash. With over 10 years experience in the design and development of websites we can offer customers anything from an Entry Level Brochure website right up to E-Commerce solutions designed to meet your specific requirements.

We designed and built www.printing.ie, so we have the expertise and experience of designing and building a successful online business - why would you not want to consider talking to us about your website? We know what works and this invaluable knowledge is available to help you avoid the many pitfalls that are out there when you are looking to develop your site.

John Carroll from Self Build Munster decided that the expertise and guidance that we could provide was too good to turn down and has been delighted with how his site - www.selfbuildmunster.com - turned out. He even gave a glowing reference of the work and help provided during this project;

“My contacts in Splash were Stephen, Ray and Laurence. The Professionalism I found at Splash in one word; “Excellent”. Ray guided me through the initial design, Stephen was clinical with his direction and input as to what the website should be to have maximum impact and Laurence who was my main contact in designing the website and was absolutely indispensible as he brought me along in the design process to maximise its potential. I am extremely happy with the service and will be recommending them.”

The launch of the NEW www.printing.ie website - Coming Soon

We’ve exciting news that we wanted to share with everyone and that is that www.printing.ie is undergoing a revamp and we are within touching distance of launching our new site.

While always looking to stay ahead of the competition and offer customers the best deals around, the team at Printing.ie have been working on a new site for our clients that will make the whole experience of buying stationery, large format printing, signage and trade show stands easier on you. As well as all the products that you are used to having us offer we are adding an extensive range of Booklets, Signs and Trade Show solutions.

We’re almost there with the new site so keep a check on www.printing.ie to see the new and improved No.1 online printing website in Ireland.

Blast from the Past, Tralee Office Opening!

Another set of images out of the archives. They are from when we opened our Tralee office in 2007.  Former Tánaiste Dick Spring was kind enough to perform the official opening.

Outside the Tralee Sales office are staff members Paula, Sinead & Declan

Blast from the Past, Killarney Office Opening!

I dug these images out of the archives. They are from when we opened our Killarney office in 2003.  Jackie Lavin and Bill Cullen from TV3’s “The Apprentice” were kind enough to do the honours and perform the official opening. The extra space from this new office move allowed us to enter the wide format printing marketplace. Also pictured are Stephen and Sinead O’Sullivan, directors of the company.