The Essex-based print management and multi-media creative services company, which was only set up last year, will combine its two services print and CD creation for the project.

Sales and marketing manager Emma Healey said: "Most of our clients are split. For half we do design and print and the others we produce CDs. This joint service is an area well really be pushing from now."

The 4,000 packs amount to 48,000 CDs, all of which are programmed and duplicated in-house.

The litho printing and packaging has been outsourced to MPS London, but Epsilon has yet to finalise the screen printing supplier.

MPS will print the 6pp folder on its five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster 74 with coater. It will be coated to stop set-off from the fluorescent double-hit print, which is used for colour clarity of image.

Senior MPS sales executive Gary Griffin said it was the combination of this technique, the right kit and experience in 3D packaging that secured MPS the contract with Epsilon.
The educational packs, which will support A level and GNVQ study, will go out to schools and colleges across the UK in May.

Epsilon, which only has two full-time staff, along with three designers and six preferred printers, is aiming to achieve a turnover of 800,000 this financial year.

Story by Rachel Barnes