I've had some amusing conversations and email exchanges over the past few weeks about my original post on this topic, and some of the individuals namechecked therein.

Time for a little update as a few more candidates have been brought to my attention. Back in 1993 Brian McBride was appointed European sales director at Crosfield Electronics. If memory serves me correctly he subsequently moved up to take overall charge of the once mighty pre-press manufacturer. His career since has followed a rather more glittering trajectory than that of his erstwhile employer, and after executive roles at Madge Networks, Lucent, Dell, Virgin Mobile and T-Mobile he's now managing director of Amazon's UK business. I imagine McBride is rather more open to innovations such as the e-book than his predecessors at Crosfield were to desktop publishing and PostScript.

Chris Pavlosky, the silver-tongued Polestar chief operating officer who departed when the group's board was downsized back in 2004, is now to be found in the same role at troubled furniture retailer MFI whose private equity owners are reported to be urgently on the hunt for an injection of fresh equity. Funny old world, eh?

And who remembers Frank Ball at Oakley Press? One of the great characters of the industry, and also one of the great hairdos, his quest for ultimate print quality was something to behold. I recall visiting Oakley's Bristol factory (I can't remember the precise year, but it was probably getting on for 20 years ago, shriek) to find him trying to print using the tiniest possible stochastic dots - and this was prior to CTP and first generation dots. I've been reliably informed that Frank is now involved in a scheme to redevelop Hastings Pier.     

Last but certainly not least, many thanks to Southernprint's Adrian Clark for supplying this "where are they now?" image of BPCC's newly-formed commercial sales team, sometime in the early 1990s. Some familiar faces are present, can you name them? An additional point if you can recognise the factory they're standing in front of, too.