Printers
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.
Envisage invests £150k in wide-format kit and extension
Exhibition stand design and build company Envisage has boosted its in-house production capabilities after investing in a range of new wide-format machinery.
Lustalux aims to double turnover with new kit
Window film and commercial graphics company Lustalux hopes to double its turnover by moving into new large-format sectors after a recent expansion.
60 seconds with Bridson & Horrox
Bridson & Horrox started in 1933, it’s a family-owned company and Darren Horrox is the third-generation owner. During the early days it was just a winter business as the owner Marshall Bridson had a...
Is enough being done to attract young people into print?
"Printing is part of life, but it requires skills,” said HRH The Duke of York at The Printing Charity’s 188th Annual Luncheon earlier this month.
Filling the void: home schooling for print skills
All this talk of there being a shortage of skills in the print and packaging industries is rubbish, according to Label Apeel managing director Amy Chambers: “It’s not that there’s a shortage – it’s a...