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Firms celebrate Queen's Awards

Five print-related businesses are celebrating Queen’s Award for Enterprise accolades.

Q&A: Matt Galloway, sales and business development, Galloways Printers

Matt started out in engineering at 18, but quickly realised that sitting in front of a computer screen working on large scale jobs such as schools, stadia and large industrial units wasn’t for him....

60 seconds with Telford Repro

Telford Repro was formed in 1994 and has grown from its origins as a copy shop and plan printing specialist into one of the leading short-run digital print specialists in the West Midlands.

Overmatter: happy birthday, hot stuff

It’s been a while since Overmatter has had a nice print-related cake to write about, so thanks goodness for Systematic Print Management, which has saved us from our slough of sponge-deprived despond.

Creating your own mailing super site

Setting up an entirely new factory, effectively from the starting point of a blank sheet of paper, is a luxury afforded to few print bosses and one that would be a dream for many.

Tips for a surer footing in the buyer’s balancing act

Buying print is not easy. Even with a working knowledge of the complexities of putting ink on paper, there are always going to be trip wires hidden in the shadows.

Heir line pilots: How to navigate a successful route to your next leader

To outsiders it seemed a natural succession: the young Scottish leader had been successfully running a rival, although much smaller, operation in the neighbouring county to that of the grizzled...

The promise of sci-fi fibres

As the recent woes of merchanting giant Paperlinx show, the paper industry is under pressure. Like the print market it serves, the onslaught of alternative media is shrinking demand for its core...

Star product: Xerox Rialto 900

A quick and compact device for churning out A4 documents.

Me & my: Shuttleworth MIS

Discreet trade services for packaging and large-format point-of-sale work are the speciality of Swanline Print in Stone, Staffordshire. The confidentiality part is why the company bills itself ‘the...