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Ambassadors for print must step up

This edition of PrintWeek has inadvertently become another apprentice issue; and I don’t mean the ‘you’re fired’ kind before you wonder.

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...

Q&A: Martin Nestor Production director, First 4 Print Finishing

Martin officially ‘retired’ from First 4 at the end of October, but we hear he’ll still do about four months a year at the Blackburn company, which recently carried off PrintWeek’s SME Company of the...

Print apprenticeship completion rates are above the national average

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.

Don’t let aged files byte the dust

There’s a fine collection of old Macintosh computers in my attic and garage. A 1988 Mac SE, a 1995 PowerBook laptop with tiny mono screen, a 1996 Performa 6200 and a huge metal G5 from 2002. They all...

Star product: Mtex Blue

This is an entry-level textile machine with in-built fixation.

Me & my: Kluge EHF

Ding, ding! All aboard! Plenty more space, move along down the bus please. An old London Routemaster bus is the most unusual thing on Alpha Colour Printers’ kit list. And it was all aboard in the...

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...

‘Growth is vital, but we’re not about chasing a number’

Geoff Neal Litho was founded in 1976 by managing director Sam Neal’s dad, Geoff, almost by accident.

Killer content will click with customers

Prior to the internet if a company wanted to order some printed collateral they would typically pick up a copy of the local Yellow Pages and thumb through the alphabetised list of printers in the area...