Profile
Q&A: Emma Moore, client services director, Print Monkey
Emma has spent 18 years in print, including a four-year spell as Nick Dixon’s PA. As well as being a director at Leicestershire print and marketing solutions company Print Monkey she also has two...
Q&A: Tony Bates, managing director, Fast Graphics
Tony has been in the business for 15 years and says his job title is “managing director and chief grump”. He also describes himself as “grumpy”... We are beginning to see a theme here. He’s an...
Q&A: Jon Lancaster, managing director, Falkland Press
Hatfield-based Falkland Press was established 35 years ago, so it’s been around for five years longer than Jon himself. He joined the family-owned printing company eight years ago, a process that...
60 seconds with: Remous
Remous founder Graham Bunter started off writing and publishing a magazine about stock cars, which he printed in his garage. More and more people asked if he could supply print for them, and the...
60 seconds with: The Marstan Press
This is a highly appropriate 60 seconds with because on 1 October The Marstan Press started its 60th year in business. The firm started off in letterpress, before moving to litho and then adding...
60 seconds with: Cambrian Printers
With a history dating back to 1860 when it was a regional newspaper publisher and printer, over the intervening years, Cambrian Printers has refined its offering and used its printing expertise to...
60 seconds with: Duraweld
Duraweld began life in 1959, mostly making plastic book covers for libraries and sleeves for telephone books. In 1970 it merged with Mac Plastics, run by Richard Senior.
In March 2010 the company...
60 seconds with: Central Colour
Central Colour was set up in 1996, and was acquired in an MBO by directors Andy Baxter, Richard Limer and David Fortune nine years ago. Between them the trio have racked up a whopping 75 years’...
Buyers share their print perspectives
You don't often get a group of print buyers from a range of disciplines together in the same room, but that's exactly what happened after the judging session for the PrintWeek Awards quality...
Q&A: Steve Miles, gravure sales director, Polestar
Steve joined the industry 41 years ago, because of the three potential jobs on offer print was the best-paid at £11 a week. He’s been married to Mrs Miles for 36 years, they have two daughters and are...