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The printer unit of DE2, built from Babbage's designs

How Charles Babbage invented computer printing

Sitting on an upper floor of the Science Museum in London are hulking metal examples of a Victorian mechanical computer age that never actually happened. These are the invention of Charles Babbage...

Lincs lives and village vistas celebrated in charity calendar

An enduringly popular stocking filler, calendars continue to fly off the shelves every festive season and many are produced to raise money for good causes.

Silverman: "one of the last great characters in the envelope industry"

Tributes paid to George Silverman

Retired industry stalwart and ‘envelope guru’ George Silverman has died aged 72.

Paper tigers

These are changing times for pulp and paper makers. While mill and machinery closures across Europe and the UK have resulted in shrinking capacity, particularly for graphical paper grades, this has...

Stokes and some of the Bristol Labels team

Keep it in the family

In 2004 the sales manager of the then named Bristol-based Baronial Labels, Paul Stokes, undertook a management buyout of the business along with his co-workers.

Overmatter: Measurement misadventures

When is an €800,000 press actually a near-€2m press?

Maskell: no more drainpipe trousers

Q&A: Derek Maskell, sales consultant, Interket

Derek is bowing out and retires this month after more than 50 years in the industry. He’s 73 and has been in print-related employment since 1966. He’s married to Donna with two children and three...

WIndles: the ‘spiritual home’ of cold foil

60 seconds with Windles Group

Bruce Podmore, Windles founder and managing director, started out printing in a shed in Aylesbury. Originally printing on a two-unit machine, his business grew quickly and in 1984 he joined forces...

Salisbury: Coventry City, Gavin & Stacey and Twitter fan

Rising star: Luke Salisbury, account manager, Emmerson Press

Luke is 21 and joined Kenilworth-based Emmerson Press just over four years ago as an apprentice.

Sullivan: "It does what it says on the box"

Me & my: Ricoh Pro C9210

At the beginning of this year Positive in Mitcham, south-west London, invested around £200,000 in three new major pieces of equipment.