The new service, SNPprint.com, will be demonstrated to delegates at the political partys annual conference on 25 September.

SNP head of campaign unit Grant Thoms said regional SNP branches could access 40 campaign templates including posters, cards and leaflets and tailor them to carry the most relevant campaign information.

In the past, local organisations might not have had the DTP skills to enhance the partys image. This will help them to maintain that image, but not take away from the autonomy of the message, said Thoms.

He said each of the partys 73 local constituencies could still use local printers if they wanted to, but believed that by using FairPrint Design and PrintJob the SNP would get economy of scale. In this years local Scottish elections 25 of the SNPs 73 candidates used its national account with Kall Kwik.

In the first six months of this year the SNP has spent more than 250,000 on print. This will increase in the build-up to next years European elections.

PrintJob chief technology officer Nick Kulow said SNPprint would use version two of the full PrintJob ordering system. The system can be used by an unlimited number of people at each local organisation. They will be able to go online, edit and send to FairPrint for printing, said Kulow.SNP for online jobs

PrintJob software users
Save the Children
Flybe.com
The Training Network Group
Edwin Buckley
The Irongate Group
Severnprint
Foreign & Colonial
Investment Trust
Cantor Index
Cantor Sport

Story by John Davies