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Good luck to everyone today expecting their GCSE results! On what has already been a record breaking day with an expected 1 in 12 exam-entries achieving an A*, we’re sure there were plenty of sleepless nights last night and many a nail bitten down to the finger ends! Hopefully all your sons and daughters (and all friends and family members!) can now breathe a sigh of relief as they achieve the grades needed to get into their preferred college, sixth form or profession!

For those of you who missed our latest e-shot on one of the best A4 printers on the market (in our opinion), we thought we’d  dedicate this post to the Brother Pocket Jet 600 series and give you a quick recap.

Brother Thermal Printer: PJ600 Series

The Brother PJ 600 series boasts the ability to print at speeds of up to 6ppm and the PJ-662 and PJ-663 have smart phone capabilities via Bluetooth and the ability to store templates. It also promises that printed pages can be stored and viewed up to 5 years after the printed date.

The printer itself is 26cm long and only weighs 470g, so would be ideal if you require A4 printing on the move. Business expansion or ever-changing requirements? There are also a variety of accessories available to purchase as and when you require them.

As a Yorkshire based company we feel that August 1st - aka Yorkshire Day, wouldn't be complete without a mention for our partner Charity YDMT (Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust). They always have lots of exciting Yorkshire related activities planned to help raise awareness of the Yorkshire Dales and the great days out it has to offer. Please feel free to relax for a few minutes with your freshly brewed Yorkshire tea and read all about their latest activities.

Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust

They’re currently busy enjoying ‘Hay Time’. As summer hots up, YDMT are full of activity harvesting ripe wildflower seed from species-rich hay meadows in the Yorkshire Dales, which will be spread onto specially prepared 'receptor meadows' in need of improvement.  By the end of the summer, YDMT will have added seed to an impressive 200 hectares of upland hay meadow across the Dales and surrounding area, as well as significantly improving their management. This is ultimately great news for insects and other wildlife, as seed addition and traditional management help the lucky meadows chosen to receive YDMT’s tlc to become more botanically diverse over time.

Continuing along the charitable route, YDMT also invite everyone to visit the Flowers of the Dales festival. Back for its third year after popular demand, the festival offers a stunning range of wildflower-inspired events taking place in picturesque locations across the Yorkshire Dales. Many visitors have already sampled the delights of the festival but if you’ve missed earlier events --fear not – if you still want to get involved, there are still almost 40 events taking place between now and October. This may be especially helpful for parents looking for something fun, yet educational to enjoy with their children during the school holidays – there are craft events, botanical identification resources, photography and butterfly walks (to name but a few) on offer. To download your free festival programme and decide which day you’d like to come along please visit the YDMT website.

YDMT are working to protect Yorkshire Meadows

To find out more about protecting internationally important and scarce habitats, please click here. Renovotec are committed to supporting YDMT and adhering to our promise to ‘turn brown boxes, green’. For every cardboard box we’re able to re-use to send out either orders or repairs, we’ll donate £1 to the Dales-based charity.

Apologies to all those who were expecting a device-filled blog post but rest assured, the next two posts will be filled with the latest handheld devices, printers, PDAs or truck mount computers from Psion, LXE, Zebra, Toshiba and AML, that we think you’d like to hear about.

 In the mean-time if you’d like to speak to us about RFID or scanning please email us or call us on 0845 293 0450.

While the nation was puckering up last week for National Kissing Day, our directors were in London, soaking up the delights of the UKWA awards. The event - and especially the 'singing waiters' were praised by our directors – they’re already looking forward to next year! Our directors were also lucky enough to attend the Lombard 150th Anniversary celebration, where a speech by Sir Steve Redgrave left a lasting impression last Tuesday! 



We were pleased to share the 150 Year Celebration



Congratulations are also in order for the Beckhams! The name they chose (Harper Seven) for their new arrival was met initially with a few puzzled looks, however after careful consideration we’ve decided that actually we wouldn’t expect anything less from our golden couple – surely a ‘mainstream’ name would be a bit of a disappointment!? All that’s left now to be revealed is whether she’ll inherit her parents’ love of fashion or plump for the pitch over Prada!



David's Stunning Photo of Victoria a few days before the birth of Harper Seven.

 Success for our Customers at the UKWA Awards in London

Congratulations also to our customers, Century Logistics who won warehouse manager of the year and employee of the year, Toyota Tsusho who won best new member and Expect Distribution who won team of the year and the coveted Customer Service Award.

Latest Special Offer from Psion: £175 for the New Psion Omnii XT15

Psion Omnii XT10

If you purchase and receive an order of 20 or more Psion Omnii XT10 devices before the end of Q3 (13th July until 30th September 2011), when the Psion Omnii XT15 is released we’ll offer an upgrade to the latest device for only £175 when you order the same configuration. Please note alternative configurations are available but will be chargeable. Psion also recommend that when you upgrade to the XT15, you also purchase a new battery at your standard discount rate. The £175 is standard and no discount can be offered on this price. Please call 0845 293 0450 or email [email protected] for full details.

 5% off  Only Rugged when you use the provided code We’re offering a special offer of 5% off Only Rugged when you enter code WLN5PC at the checkout. Please contact us on 0845 293 0450 to chat about the Psion Omnii XT15 offer or for details on taking full advantage of the 5% offer on Only Rugged. 

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Well it’s that time of year again -- snow, ice and disruption on the roads...as December approaches and everyone is busily preparing for the...anniversary of Sir Francis Drake’s voyage around the world (he set off on his epic travels on the 13th December 1577), we were hoping you could take a moment out to listen to our latest offer.

Brief history lesson over: back to business.

The Datalogic Elf



To celebrate the festive period, we’re proud to announce a 10% price reduction throughout December on the Datalogic Elf. Please enter FestiveElf at the checkout to redeem your discount.

The Datalogic Elf is ergonomic, compact and robust. It features a 3 megapixel autofocus camera with flash,an integrated HF RFID reader,  256 MB RAM / 256 MB Flash memory and a XScale™ PXA 310 @ 624 MHz processor. For a full list of features, options and accessories please Click here.

Renovotec also provide a prompt, expert repair service and technical support, WEEE compliant disposals and RFID consultancy. To enquire about a repair or to explore barcoding or RFID capabilities within your business, call us on 0845 293 0450 or email us at [email protected].