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Q&A: Howard Forton, marketing manager, Irongate Managed Communications

Howard started his marketing and sales career back in 1981 and has been involved with print one way or another ever since: either specifying it, buying it or managing teams that either manage it, use...

Overmatter: runners' world

We are in awe of the printiverse folk who completed the 2015 London Marathon.

60 seconds with Hammond Bindery

Trade binding specialist Hammond Bindery was founded in 1976, and then acquired by long-established printer H Charlesworth & Co in the early 1980s.

Why Lord Sugar needs to sweeten his behaviour

Someone is not performing to an acceptable standard. They are for the chop and it’s down to you to administer the coup de grâce. Is this your Lord Sugar moment? Do you point the finger of doom with a...

Forward Finishing grows floorspace by a third as business expands

Fledgling finishing and assembly company Forward Finishing has invested in new equipment and is due to move to larger premises to cope with rapid growth since opening last year.

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.

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...