Printers
Business inspection: Get a flying start in a new direction
The ability to adapt to a changing market can be vital to ongoing success, as Alphaset found.
Q&A: Dave Stones Group sales & marketing manager, Stirland Paterson
Dave has been in print for 18 years, and recently took up a new senior role at Nottingham’s Stirland Paterson Group in his “quest to make a difference and change the strategic future of the business”.
Overmatter: Googly hats
We’ve had [letterpress] printers and their cats, now, thanks to Google we have printers in hats.
60-seconds with: Awesome Merchandise
Awesome Merchandise started back in 2005 in founder Luke Hodson’s bedroom. “We were 19 and hoped to earn some pocket money by making pin badges. Armed with £300 and one of those Lexmark printers you...
‘I’d rather have been flying jet bombers’
Gary Arber isn’t what you would probably describe as our typical interview subject. He hasn’t bought a new press since the 1950s and you would probably struggle to get him to admit he’s passionate...
Step forward the Twitterati
To tweet or not to tweet? A question many in print are still no doubt grappling with. The most pressing question they’ll then face once they decide to take the plunge is who on earth to follow? Fellow...
Peninsula speeds up packaging pre-press with FFEI's RealPro Toolkit
Peninsula Print & Design has invested in FFEI's RealPro Toolkit to improve productivity and job accuracy at its fledgling packaging division.
PBL Print upgrades CTP to cope with increased short-run demand
PBL Print has invested in a new Heidelberg Suprasetter A75 platesetter to keep pace with the demand for short-run litho work produced on its two SM 52 Anicolor presses.
Q&A: Tracy Willmers
Account director London and north Home Counties, APS Group.
Interview: ‘If you can’t have fun, what’s the point?’
Being a digital innovator isn’t always easy, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. And that’s one way to describe starting a business with your first and only press delivered just a few days before...