Printers

Poll positions: what the parties mean for industry
For the second time in two years the electorate is being asked to decide the shape of government. While some think Theresa May is lacklustre and grey, she certainly knows how to throw the cat among...

Printers’ parties in ascendency again
Printers like to party, and for over 300 years the industry’s social gatherings have been referred to as a ‘waygoose’ or ‘wayzgoose’. Originally an evening feast with entertainment, the waygoose was...

60 seconds with Myprint Partners
Back in 2014, Myprint Partners co-founder Richard Green approached Ian McCloskey (pictured) who was working as sales manager within the industry, with an idea to set up a new printing company.

Q&A: Nicholas Russell, managing director, Cambridge Printers
We think Nicholas must be one of PrintWeek’s longest-standing readers as he’s been reading the magazine (and its forebears) for more than 50 years. He started out as a management trainee at the...

Me & my: Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 LE-UV
When Superior Creative Services installed a Muller Martini Concepta 8 web offset press to handle its growing document business, this led it to also replace its 10-year-old sheetfed Komori press with...

60 seconds with Windmill Print
Windmill Print has been passionate about producing the finest quality print since it was founded in 1975. “Perfection is the standard we’ve always sought to achieve with every job we produced, and our...

Make friends in profitable markets
Plastic Card Services (PCS) recently teed up another overseas contract, a three-year deal with one of Scandinavia’s biggest supermarkets, Coop Denmark.

Turn your specialist subject into a fruitful proposition
All printers are constantly on the lookout for an edge – that little bit of something that lifts them clear of their competition. One way they can achieve this is by targeting a specific niche market....

‘We focus on areas that we excel in’
Kirk Galloway describes himself as ‘the hirer, firer, tea boy and the cleaner’ of the family-run Derbyshire magazine printer he leads.

Elanders UK buys Speedmaster long perfector
Elanders UK has purchased a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106-8-P long perfector to increase its ability to handle long-run print work for the educational, publishing, automotive and brand marketing...