What is your nickname?
Scrub – When I was born, the midwives thought I looked like a scrubbed rat, with eyebrows to my bum! (My mum calls me Scrubby)
What is your dream bit of kit?
Specialized S-Works Tarmac
What would you most like to print?
Polling cards for a snap election this year!
What is your favourite TV show?
Love Island – I have two teenage daughters
Sweet or savoury?
Sausages
Who do you hate the most?
Trump and Boris
Who do you admire most in the industry?
My Dad. Chas Hewitt of Hewitt & Sons. He’s retired now, he gave me the opportunity when I was young and taught me so much, most importantly, to be a good person, do your best for others and to have fun along the way
What is the strangest job you’ve ever done?
My dad met a guy in the pub, after a while he asked dad if he could print a small magazine for him. Of course, no problem, he said, but what turned up wasn’t what my dad expected – it was a fetish magazine for middle aged men who like to dress up as fairies. No problem, each to their own, but when he told my dad he was the cover shot, I don’t think he was that impressed
What is your favourite book?
100 years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. I read this on a surf beach in Mexico between playing the tambourine (later relegated to a triangle) and surfing, while staying in a commune full of travelling dudes. A fantastic time and place to read a book like this.
Cat or dog, or…?
Our studio dog, Pepper, a Mini Schnauzer
What is your greatest ambition?
To win a Printweek Award [Achieved! Generation Press is our reigning Book Printer of the Year]
Most embarrassing moment?
Stopping a football match to save a butterfly. I thought no one would notice but they thought I had gone down injured and stopped the match. The trainers ran on to see what was up. The butterfly lived
Your worst fashion disaster?
A green embroidered sweatshirt (circa 1987)
Who would be your favourite party guests?
Björk, Molly Ringwald, Elvis Presley, Bobby Moore and all my family
Where would you go if you could time travel?
1966 World Cup Final
What was your childhood obsession?
Football and climbing trees
What is the worst kind of print?
A reprint
What was the best business deal that you’ve pulled off?
The next one
Life is…?
A laugh!
