Printers

60 seconds with Nottingham Trade Finishers

Nottingham Trade Finishers was founded in 2006 by proprietor Richard Anstock (pictured). Richard was joined by Ian Holt as production manager and wife Emma as fellow director. The business began work...

Q&A: Ross Docherty, assistant manager, Bell & Bain

Ross is 19 and has already been working in the industry for three-and-a-half years, under the watchful eye of his father, MD Stephen Docherty. He lives in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow and was named...

Poll positions: what the parties mean for industry

For the second time in two years the electorate is being asked to decide the shape of government. While some think Theresa May is lacklustre and grey, she certainly knows how to throw the cat among...

Printers’ parties in ascendency again

Printers like to party, and for over 300 years the industry’s social gatherings have been referred to as a ‘waygoose’ or ‘wayzgoose’. Originally an evening feast with entertainment, the waygoose was...

60 seconds with Myprint Partners

Back in 2014, Myprint Partners co-founder Richard Green approached Ian McCloskey (pictured) who was working as sales manager within the industry, with an idea to set up a new printing company.

Q&A: Nicholas Russell, managing director, Cambridge Printers

We think Nicholas must be one of PrintWeek’s longest-standing readers as he’s been reading the magazine (and its forebears) for more than 50 years. He started out as a management trainee at the...

Me & my: Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 LE-UV

When Superior Creative Services installed a Muller Martini Concepta 8 web offset press to handle its growing document business, this led it to also replace its 10-year-old sheetfed Komori press with...

60 seconds with Windmill Print

Windmill Print has been passionate about producing the finest quality print since it was founded in 1975. “Perfection is the standard we’ve always sought to achieve with every job we produced, and our...

Make friends in profitable markets

Plastic Card Services (PCS) recently teed up another overseas contract, a three-year deal with one of Scandinavia’s biggest supermarkets, Coop Denmark.

Turn your specialist subject into a fruitful proposition

All printers are constantly on the lookout for an edge – that little bit of something that lifts them clear of their competition. One way they can achieve this is by targeting a specific niche market....