Me & My

For many printers, beta testing a prospective bit of kit is something akin to a Top Gear challenge. The kit is put through its paces on all sorts of different jobs, the data’s crunched and pored over,...

It’s fair to say that Gaby Purton has had a varied career. Once a midwife, before becoming a manager at a nursing agency and then a driving instructor, Purton now takes care of a very different kind...

When a print business only four years into its life has 20 staff, a rapidly growing turnover and a raft of machinery investments under its belt, you know it’s doing well.

Packaging is tipped as one of the next big markets to be addressed by digital printing. So a small packaging firm becoming one of the first in the UK to install a new machine based on new technology...

When vans across the local area are emblazoned with your signwriting handiwork, it’s important you ensure they look good for a long time. The key is finding the right vinyl range to use, with quality,...

Press installs come, for many companies, off the back of feeling their existing kit, while doing all right, is not quite competing anymore on the productivity and automation fronts. Most...

A lot has happened at GPS Colour Graphics since Joseph Smith founded the business at 34 High Street, Belfast, back in 1797. The company has passed through the hands of several different families, been...

Making print and packaging dreams come true for some of the world’s leading brands might seem daunting. But it’s all in a day’s work for London-based firm Gavin Martin Colournet, which also found that...

To the maxim ‘be nice to people on your way up, because you’ll meet them on your way down’, director of FE Burman Paul Regan would add another piece of advice: ‘Be nice to everyone you work with,...

In today’s marketplace it’s more important than ever that proofs and plates are produced accurately. Any problems on press result in wasted materials and lost time on expensive machinery. Clients...