Printers

60 seconds with Datum

Datum started back in 1988 in Shoreditch, London, as a pre-press company supplying plates and proofs to the local litho printers. It left behind its London roots in 2000 when the business relocated to...

The speed demons: printers who race against the clock

Ali Ridha Jaffar, sales director at Print Express (part of the Syncoms Group), does not like traffic.

Killer app: Wood Richardson helps garden book to bloom

Following a personal recommendation, self-publishing author Phil Ogden entrusted York-based printer Wood Richardson with the printing of his new botanical book, Ogden’s Garden.

Minuteman Press in Bath expands services with Xerox 1000i buy

The Bath-based branch of Minuteman Press has invested in a Xerox 1000i to enable it to take advantage of gold, silver and clear inks.

Peter Scott Printers increases capacity with Speedmaster buy

Peter Scott Printers has boosted its production capability after buying a secondhand B1 Heidelberg CD 102 six-colour press.

Q&A: Tim Messom owner, Save Tim from Bankruptcy

Tim’s claim to fame is that he saved his Notts business using Facebook and the above business name. It went viral and he ended up on TV in two countries. “I had my 15 minutes of fame for being broke,”...

Overmatter: festive film stars

A seasonal hat-tip goes to Precision Printing in Barking, and in particular to group marketing manager Emma Thompson.

60 seconds with Hedgerow Print

Hedgerow Print was founded in 1989 by John Leach and was based in the Old Ambrosia Rice Pudding factory in Mid Devon. Current managing director Gary Radford joined in 1994 as an apprentice printer and...

Carbon Balanced Paper relaunches in the UK

Carbon Balanced Paper, the initiative that enables printers and their customers to boost their environmental credentials, has been reintroduced in the UK.

Impression boosts productivity with wide-format and digital investment

Bolton-based wide-format printer Impression has invested more than £150,000 in a DYSS X7-1624C digital cutting table with Superhead and a Konica Minolta bizhub Pro C1070 digital press.