It's Thursday, but it feels like a Friday because of the upcoming Easter weekend, and in PrintWeek production schedule terms it's actually Monday.

Suitably confused, it seemed an appropriate time to catch up on the "print pub pursuit" quest from a couple of weeks back, which was inspired by a picture of the defunct "Printers Devil" in Bristol.

The closure theme continued via Douglas Connor from Garnett Dickinson, who said: "The printers where I served my apprenticeship in the centre of Glasgow, (Wm Hodge Ltd, North Fredrick Street), became a print-themed pub called The Old Printworks a couple of years after we closed in the mid-nineties, sadly it closed last year. It had been a printers since the early 1900s. The other side of the street is the Glasgow College of Building and Printing."

Rob Turner at AST Print Group in Cardiff chipped in with a fond recollection from thirty-odd years ago: "Back in the day - the late '70s - as a young hot metal comp, I ended up in Torquay on a mystery coach trip, where we found the nearest watering hole to be the 'Printers' Elbow'."

A chirrup of suggestions came via Twitter: Leicester-based Mulberry Square suggested a rather luxe looking bar called The Print Room in Loughborough. "Not a pub per se but certainly on theme." Apparently the printing connection is probably through a link to Wills & Hepworth printers who founded Ladybird books during the first World War in the town. Mike Willis proferred the Free Press, Cambridge; while PrintWeek columnist Caroline Archer pointed to The Rising Sun in Watford, built on the site of the old Sun Printers; and also the Columbia Press in the same town "named after the press imported by John Peacock in 1823".

Russell Hicks at Genesis Markeing also proposed an addition to the beer on offer, with some Hicks' Special, brewed in the West Country. I'm not sure whether the Hicks in question are related.

And Ripware's Paul Foster neatly summed up the sentiments of a number of correspondents with this: "Pubs with a printing connection? I would have thought that this would be every one that a person from the printing industry has visited. That surely means most of them. Anyway, surely the pub with the most connection to our printing industry will soon be the Wetherspoon pub at the NEC during Ipex!"

Thanks to all for the entertaining responses. It's almost lunchtime and perhaps a trip to Hammersmith's famous Dove will be in order, Kelmscott Press founder William Morris did after all live next door.