Interview

Q&A: Gill Tress, Business services director, SF Taylor

Gill recently celebrated a special landmark – 40 years of working at SF Taylor. She’s married with one son, Dominic, and her hobbies include travelling, socialising with friends, trying new foods and...

From repro apprentice to technology innovator

After almost a half-century in the industry, former Branded chairman Alan Wright looks back on a career that encompassed the golden days of repro, and has evolved into cutting edge packaging pre-media...

"You need to love this industry. It’s not very difficult to love it, but it’s mandatory"

Winding down a love affair

When Rainer Hundsdörfer took over as boss of the industry’s largest press manufacturer five years ago, the world was a very different place.

Creating a culture around the art of innovation

In late February, when Brexit was still, just about, our biggest economic concern, Printweek partnered with HP Indigo and brought together a group of business leaders to discuss the topic of...

It's crystal ball time again...

So begins a new decade of opportunity for print

As the decade drew to a close, Printweek took the opportunity to ask some of the wise men and women of print what were their highs, lows and key learnings of the past 10 years.

'I think a UK firm with sales of £100m is possible'

He might have been a relative latecomer to print, but Northside Graphics managing director Gary White has certainly made up for lost time with his multi-faceted award-winning digital print business.

"It has been a long but very enjoyable journey”

Over the summer Precision Colour Printing managing director Alex Evans announced he would be standing down from his role in February next year, after a near 40-year career at the Telford web offset...

‘We’ve got so many irons in the fire now’

Having notched up more than 20 years with Kodak, Print Systems Division president John O’Grady, has lived through the well documented highs and lows of the firm.

‘It’s about how you change and adapt’

Almost 10 years ago to the day, Bluetree managing director Adam Carnell and fellow director and founder James Kinsella set up their online print shop in a borrowed office with a bank of inkjets from...

'We should celebrate and be excited about our products’

He runs what is arguably the UK’s biggest single-site print operation – a giant 55-acre campus that is home to the 75,000m² Prinovis UK factory.