Clear plastic envelopes have become an item of stationery which is commonly seen in most establishments. These are found in businesses, offices, receptions, doctor’s surgeries, schools and even homes. With so many uses and at such an affordable price, many individuals and businesses purchase them in bulk so that whenever the need arises, they have a constant supply. In our house for example, I have a pack of cheap clear plastic envelopes and whenever paperwork of any importance comes into the house, I get one out, label it and file it away. So basically, I have one which I use to store my wage slips, one used to store our family NHS cards, passports and a very handy one which I use for storing receipts until I know it’s safe to chuck-em-out!

There are so many more uses which you may find handy however, take a look at the list below:

• Storing product guarantees and manuals.
• Separating bills i.e. bank statements, credit card statements, mobile bills, utility bills, council tax etc.
• Storing children’s school reports
• Storing awards and certificates for safe keeping
• Storing letters and postcards
• Keeping your children’s special artwork and homemade birthday cards safe
• Keeping seeds ready for next spring!
• Storing photographs
• Storing newspaper clippings
• Keeping your car details safe (licence, tax and insurance documents)
• Storing vouchers and coupons

The list is endless! See what idea you can come up with, or share with us what you already use your clear plastic envelopes for by commenting on this article, we’d love to know your thoughts!

A great example of our cheapest envelopes is the 5 Star A4 Polypropylene wallets featured to the right. These premium quality envelope wallets are made from colourful, translucent polypropylene and are sealed with a press-stud closure which provides added security for your contents. Each wallet accepts 150 sheets of A4 paper and a pack contains 5 envelopes! For just £1.54 inc VAT, that really is a snip, so why not consider stocking up? If you’d like to discuss bulk orders with us, why not get in touch either by replying to this post, or calling a member of our team on 0870 766 1722!

We use cork boards in so many different environments and no modern invention seems to have come into place that suitably replaces them. It is actually quite staggering that in this day and age, a true technological era, that they still exist let alone that they’re still as popular as they are! But I’m not just talking businesses here, we’re talking people homes, schools (and other educational facilities), public buildings; they’re everywhere! It has been proven that verbal reminders just aren’t effective enough, physical, visual notes, papers, posters and general notices always work best. That’s why the cheap cork noticeboard is such a popular invention.

There are a few different options available and in that way the cork board has advanced. The typical tan cork board is very cheap indeed. Notices can be hug on the board with the use of push pins, the holes will automatically heal when the pins are removed. Fabric boards work much in the same way; they’re simply cork boards with a fabric coating enabling them to look a little more classy is more ‘suave’ areas. You will also find foam options which are lightweight, durable foam that can be cut to size! Finally there are our framed options which can be any of the above (aside from foam), with the difference that they have a choice of different frames. These frames tend to be made of aluminium or wood and give the board added durable making them last for longer periods of time.

In 1890 a German company produced the cork particles which were simply waste materials and together with the use of a clay binder, cork board was produced. It was initially used as a form of insulation however in 1924 the cork noticeboard was patented by George Brooks.

Our favourite board at LA Office is the 5 Star Cork Noticeboard featured.

• Resilient cork pinning surface
• Pine frame
• Supplied with fixing kit
• WxH: 900 x 600mm (3’x2’)
• RRP - £24.10 – Our price just £5.96 inc VAT‼

And as the board is made by 5 Star, you can be sure of its quality, absolute value for money and not to mention is guarantee! So for more information, bookings and bulk orders you can visit our site, or call us on 0870 766 1722.

Every single one of us has sat and stared, hopelessly, trying to read a dry wipe board (or whiteboard) which is smeared in the previous 5 years worth of text and illustrations. They tend to come featuring ‘a handy whiteboard cleaner’ however some of the time these simply move the dried ink to another area of the board! In time this can clog to an unbearable level where anything written on the board from that moment is frankly illegible. We need to be considering drywipe board cleaners.

With a little squirt and a rub down, your board can be restored to its former glory meaning that any text written upon it will stand out and will be clearly legible. A messy board only leads to a distracted eye and inevitably wasted time. When the solution is as simple as investing in whiteboard cleaners, why go on attempting to struggle through the mess?

An excellent example of a cleaning solution is the 5 Star Drywipe Wipes featured below.

• Drywipe Wipes
• Pre-moistened biodegradable wipes
• Designed to remove drywipe marker ink and ghosting from all boards
• Non-hazardous
• Non-flammable
• 100 wipes
• Just £3.97 inc VAT

These wipes are not only priced so that anyone with any budget can buy them, but they offer all the features you’d expect from a more highly priced brand. Made by the renowned 5 Star, you can feel assured of their quality too as each of their products come with a 12 months no quibble guarantee! There’s no doubting that you’ll be more than satisfied with the results you see on your whiteboard; if you’d like to purchase a bulk order of these wipes, remember to call us for a quote – 0870 766 1722.  

The most efficient and easy way to buy your labels is in rolls. Being the most popular choice of general use home and office labels, each individual label is easily dispensed by simply unravelling the roll a little. Also known as continuous feed labels, they not only come in rolls, but in rows of just one on folded, perforated paper too. Label rolls can be continuously fed through a printer when using label printing software and many people also use specialist label makers in order to print on these labels.

For basic home and office use, we recommend the 5 Star option. Not only is it unbeatable in terms of value, but it also comes in the handy roll design which is very useful for dispensing. Their unique dispensing boxes are ideal for various different applications: 

• Desktop Use – For labelling files and folders, addressing envelopes, office property and even food and beverage items in the office kitchen!
• Home Office Use – For addressing envelopes, files and folders, storage boxes, photo albums, children’s work, books and so on.
• Home Kitchen Use – Very useful for labelling food for the fridge and freezer so that you do not risk consuming items which are past they’re best!

Our 5 Star Continuous Roll Labels featured are one of our best selling labels, which isn’t surprising when you consider they’re price!

• 250 self-adhesive labels
• Continuous roll
• Convenient dispenser box
• Size: 89 x 36mm
• White
• Just £0.96 inc VAT!

But of course they’re brand name is also a major selling point! 5 Star are our number 1 brand in terms of best supplier for price and continued to serve our every need at a price we can all really afford. The brand are firmly established as one of the best-known office products brands in the UK and have a very respectable 15 years experience behind them! Experts in their field, 5 Star even offer a 12 month no quibble quality guarantee! With simply unbeatable price and quality across the most popular everyday product lines, it’s no wonder they now boast one of the most widely available ranges of office products!

These days many individual and businesses opt for the laser printer in their homes and offices. With many companies’ now printing text and graphics it’s more important than ever before to achieve the quality that a laser printer gives. Businesses now print their own envelope designs and flyers rather than outsourcing the work, they create CD Labels and headed paper and they even send glossy print outs and photographs. And of course you have your everyday colour printing requirements such as charts and graphs and various presentation paperwork.

Thanks to inkjet, laser printers have not only a higher resolution, but they boast a higher print speed too. What’s more, when the print is complete, the ink won’t smear or bleed either, as it sometimes does with inkjets. The common misconception is that laser printers cost a fortune in ink in comparison to inkjet varieties; however it actually costs less per page to print with a laser printer as a single toner cartridge can actually last for thousands of pages!

At LA Office, not only can you get your hands on a great selection of Laser Printers, but we also have a large variety of Laser Labels too! Available from brands such as 5 Star and Avery you can choose between quality budget and superior perfection. Designed to work in sheet-fed laser printers, you can be confident in the perfect results you’ll receive.

We have a variety available in clear which are great when using coloured or patterned envelopes, plus we also have various other colours too, like blue, white, green, red, yellow, silver, neon red, fluorescent yellow and neon yellow! But that’s not all, the list goes on further! Our laser labels also come in permanent or repositionable adhesive too, along with other options such as Jam-Free, Quick-Peel, Recycled, Blackout, Price Gun, Block-Out, Anti-Tamper, Name Badge, No-Peel, Triple-Bond, Weatherproof and Pre-Printed. Phew! So before you shop, we suggest you decide specifically what it is you’re looking for!

If you’d like some help choosing, please don’t hesitate to get in touch! You can contact us on 0870 766 1722.

In the run up to Christmas we will be talking a great deal about the festive period and the effects this has on business. During this time here at LA Office we see some dramatic changes in the way our customers shop and the products they buy. Our sales of paper, envelopes, ink and labels go through the roof as companies are busy sending out promotional newsletters and offers to their customers. In accordance with this change we make sure our supplies of these items are greater so that we can meet customer demand, and what’s more, we bring our prices right down so that we can be sure that we’re ahead of the competition.

One of the best sellers is our Enveloping Machine Envelopes. With the dramatic increase in outbound mail during this season, businesses resort to envelope filling machines as they save time and of course resources. Using an envelope machine will free up people power leaving your staff to work on more trying matters than stuffing envelopes! What’s more, the envelope machine will do the job faster, without error and minus the paper cuts!

Our range of Envelopes For Automatic Envelope Filling Machines are available from the brands 5 Star and Postmaster giving you the choice of value for money or the quality you expect from bigger brands. However there isn’t much between the two and since Christmas is such an expensive time for us all, maybe it would be worth considering the 5 Star variety. Take for example these 5 Star White DL 90gsm Window Gummed Mail Machine Envelopes;

• 5 Star Mailing Machine Envelopes
• Oversized for machine insertion
• Biodegradable window film
• Trapeze style flaps to aid insertion
• Size: DL, 114 x 235mm
• White
• Packed 500
• Just £23.34 inc VAT!

At such great value for money and all the features and quality you would need and expect, why pay more? These envelopes are the ideal choice for sending out business mail; however they are also available in C5 size too for when you’re sending out greetings cards, brochures or documents that shouldn’t be folded more than once. If you’d like some assistance in choosing your perfect envelope, please do not hesitate to get in touch; call our offices on 0870 766 1722 where there is always someone on the other end of the phone more than happy to assist you.

Whiteboards feature in many different environments from offices, training rooms, meeting and presentation rooms, function rooms, schools, educational facilities, hospitals, doctors surgeries and so on. They provide a convenient and bold way of recording information visible for all. For example, in the office the whiteboard could be used to jot down targets, incentives, team holiday tracking, individuals progress and more, in the training room it is used as an educational tool, in the meeting room it is used to demonstrate key points and to accentuate important information and in the school or educational facility it is used to help demonstrate the subject you are trying to tech. In hospitals and medical facilities it can be used to point out waiting times, available beds, ward information and doctor availability. The list is truly endless.

However if the whiteboard is dirty it can be very difficult to read what is written upon it. Remember back to the old school days (that is if you’re young enough to have experienced whiteboards at school!). Maybe it’s because I’m a bit OCD about cleanliness, but I found it so frustrating when the teachers just wrote upon a dirty board! Sometimes there would be so many marks on the board that you could barely focus on the text. When you are writing upon a white back ground, everything stands out, so make sure the surface is clean – use whiteboard cleaner!

Using this 5 Star Drywipe Cleaning Pump Spray you can be sure of perfect gleaming white results every time!

• Pump Spray
• Safe on all boards
• Non-hazardous formula
• Removes ghosting, drywipe marker ink and soiling on boards
• Non-flammable
• Use with absorbent wipes
• Size: 250ml

There are various brands you could choose for whiteboard cleaning fluid, however there really is no need to go for the most expensive brands. 5 Star’s above featured product is every bit as good, does the job effectively and is just a fraction of the price of other similar products on the market. For just £2.66 inc VAT, you can get 250ml of whiteboard cleaning fluid, which should last you some time!

5 Star products are now firmly established as one of the best-known office products brands in the UK and with 15 years experience behind them, they are now experts in their field and even offer a 12 month no quibble quality guarantee! They deliver unbeatable price and quality, across the most popular everyday product lines, plus they’re also one of the most widely available ranges of office products. With over 22,000 products on offer, our customers are always happy with the selection as well as the value of the items they are ordering.

Each 5 Star product now has attractively designed packaging for clearer product display and product information, plus they also have a fantastic choice of ‘Green’ options for those who are economically aware.

An invaluable asset to any home or office, the cork board has many different uses! Despite its rather drab appearance, the cork board is a timeless tool still finding its way to most every office across the globe! But let’s face it; is its appearance of any importance at all? I mean, it’s going to be pinned and covered in notices, so that all we’ll see is a flurry of paper and words!

Never underestimate its power; the cork board draws in its prey, like a peacock opening its tail feathers, it catches the eye of passes by and can somehow keep this fixation enough to lure them closer. Take advantage of its predatory skills by pinning you’re notices on it, your reminders, your photographs even. Whatever is pinned to the mighty cork board is sure to get noticed!

The board consists simply of a wooden or aluminium frame or border which surrounds the cork it’s self, that’s it; unless you opt for the combo option which is half cork and half whiteboard. If you find its less than pretty decor unpleasing, you can - with a little imagination and creativity - ‘liven it up’ a little. Try painting the boarder, adding a ribbon trim, whatever suits the current style of the room, this way you can adjust the style accordingly.

However cork boards are not only good for pinning notices; we’ve found a few other uses which you may find interesting!

• Place Mats – Use your old cork boards to make place mats out of, they prevent heat damage to your furniture and prevent slipping! You could even use a cork mat under your keyboard or lap top to prevent that from slipping too!

• Umbrella Stand – Use your old corkboard to line an umbrella stand, it’ll soak up all the moisture!
• Storing Accessories – Decorate your cork board and use it with pins to hang jewellery and accessories from. You could hang it on your wall, or maybe inside your wardrobe doors.
• Incentives/Rewards Chart – Tape sections on your cork board and using pins instead of stickers reward your child accordingly.
• Teenagers Bedroom – Every kid would be pleased as punch to have some way of pinning up their photo’s and treasured memories. Give them a cork board and a pack of pins and let them pin away! Of course this could also be used educationally for study purposes!

Have you ever;

• Suffered the burden of a ‘sticky’ or worse still ‘silent’ keyboard key?
• Wasted a morning (or afternoon/evening) trying to get the dust and general gunk out of your keyboard (or any other computer peripheral nook)?
• Taken all the keys off your keyboard so that you can clean it?
• Damaged your keyboard by pushing dust and grime into is orifices?

Well worry not, technology has come on leaps and bounds and the value of our electronic goods has gone through the roof. Manufacturers have come up with various concepts which will help us to maintain the condition and working order of our gadgets and now you’ll find a great selection of cleaning products from many manufacturers. Here at LA Office time and time again we feel that our value brand 5 Star – although a budget brand – really holds its own. When it comes to computer cleaning requirements, do we really need the top brand, surely that’s just a waste of your money?

S Star are good competitors, they provide all the quality you need, they meet the current trends and designs and what’s more, they suit every ones pocket! 5 Star are now firmly established as one of the best-known office products brands in the UK and with 15 years experience behind them, they are now experts in their field! You can feel confident in their quality with a 12 month no quibble guarantee, plus they’re also one of the most widely available ranges of office products with over 22,000 products on offer!

Take the 5 Star Air Duster featured for example. This HFC free compressed gas can is carefully designed so that it can reach all the most difficult to reach places.

• Use on all printers, keyboards and office equipment
• Compressed gas to remove debris and dirt from hard to reach areas
• Extension tube included HFC free Flammable
• 400ml can
• Just £1.86 inc VAT

It’s very hard to find a negative side to 5 Star, they even have attractively designed packaging for clearer product display and product information, plus they also have a fantastic choice of ‘Green’ options for companies and individuals who are economically aware. If you’d like any more information about 5 Star or about air dusters for that matter, please get in touch on 0870 766 1722.

The amount of times that at home, you spend a good our typing out a perfectly worded letter to say, your insurance company, the bank, etc complaining or amending details, only to finish and find you have no envelopes; it can be very frustrating! So you run down to your local newsagents or corner shop and buy whatever they have available there, only to find that they only stock cheap and badly made envelopes. Naturally you buy them anyway as you have no choice, but the price!!!

This scenario however just cannot happen in business; companies need a constant supply of envelopes in order to keep their business running smoothly and effectively. Without envelopes, vital communications grind to a halt, invoices are unsent, bills remain unpaid and your business ultimately suffers. This is not an option – always ensure you have surplus stock of envelopes, preferably the DL variety as they are most widely used in business communications.    

Here at LA Office we have a very popular selection of cheap DL envelopes made by our 5 Star brand. 5 Star are one of the best-known office products brands in the UK and with 15 years experience behind them, they are now experts in their field, even offering a 12 month no quibble quality guarantee! Offering the cheapest prices on stationery in the UK, why go for more expensive brands when you can have 5 Star with a guarantee! 5 Star have over 22,000 products available, so the chances are, you’ll always find a 5 Star option. What’s more, 5 Star products come in attractively designed packaging for clearer product display and product information, and come in a fantastic choice of ‘Green’ options for those who are economically aware.

Take our 5 Star White Press & Seal DL envelopes featured for example. Featuring;

·         Lightweight

·         80gsm Envelopes

·         Suitable for all kinds of general correspondence and mailings

·         White with blue opaque interior for security

·         Press Seal

·         Wallet style

·         Size: DL (110 x 220mm)

·         Boxed 1000

·         RRP £72.54 – Our price £12.48 inc VAT!!

If you’re looking for DL envelopes with windows, we have a 90gsm white wallet press and seal variety priced with us at £15.08 inc VAT for 1000, RRP £103.65!! What a saving! So if you’d like to save yourself a small fortune and keep your business in supply of envelopes, you’ve come to the right place!

If you need more information about Envelope Formats and Dimensions then EnvelopeSizes.info can be useful.