“I approached Michael Thompson the production manager with a simple plan, I knew I could fix this ‘bike with no brakes’ and we left the company together and started Print Library in October 2001. We bought a new Heidelberg 52 four- colour with coating and a Polar Guillotine and off we set.”

Where are you based? 

Print Library is based in an industrial park on the outskirts of East Belfast. We started off renting one unit, within two years we rented a second, in 2008 we moved to the largest unit within the park

How many staff do you have?

22

What does your firm do? 

We started as commercial printers, servicing local ad agencies and designers. Over the past five years we tapped into new markets and migrated a lot of our commercial work to packaging. We produce sleeves, cartons and promotional marketing material for smaller food producers to larger retail producers

What’s your typical customer?

An artisan food producer who needs help, from concept and design to printed goods around their product

Which geographic areas do you serve?

Ireland and the UK

What’s your USP?

Our experience with bespoke projects enables us to advise on added-value finishing techniques and our technology allows us to compete on small volumes with quicker turnarounds

What equipment do you run?

We are a Heidelberg house and we are now onto our second XL75 complemented with a full finishing suite

What’s been your proudest achievement in the past few years?

We have had many achievements, though we seek to improve and better them tomorrow

What’s your team’s favourite biscuit?

It depends, Monday to Wednesday dunking digestives, Thursday and Friday it appears anything goes