Features
60 seconds with Jameson Print Finishers
Jameson Print Finishers was set up in 1998 and celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Managing director Michael Berry’s interest in complicated folding such as maps and miniature folding resulted...
Q&A: Chloe Johnson Studio and production administrator, PMG Print Management
Chloe is 23 years old and has worked in print for 5 years. She has a two-year-old daughter who’s “a little whirlwind” and her hobbies include attending car shows
60 seconds with Mail Handling International
Founders Paul Brown and Alex Lawson came to Bristol after leaving university. Paul spent a year working for a print finisher before setting up a mailing house which soon morphed into a global...
Q&A: Victoria Hart Managing director, Print Search
Victoria is 39 years-old and married with two daughters. Her husband Kevin is production director at Aspen, which is also part of the DCB Group along with Print Search and Caspa. She’s worked in print...
Agile printers can make the world their oyster
This is the fourth industrial revolution, says Andy Cork from his hyper-connected printing operation. As such its engine room is powered neither by manufacturing nor automation, but silent software –...
Sparkling moments in print’s history
The UK printing industry’s favourite magazine launched in 1958 as The Litho Printer and, via a number of different guises, has for the past six decades covered every technological development; every...
The industry needs a better focus on gender imbalance
Writing the words ‘women in print’ feels clunky, uncomfortable and outdated. Surely in 2018, it shouldn’t even be a term or subcategory discussed in the media? However, as much as we dislike it, it...
‘I’m really excited about where the market is going’
Danny Clarke, managing director of Howard Hunt Group’s eponymous manufacturing business and Graft print management, is a passionate man.
Software superstars in the spotlight
There are a lot of different design programs around that can be used to place text and graphics in specific places, and to draw shapes and add effects such as transparencies or drop shadows.
Q&A: Mitesh Chouhan, managing director, Central Mailing Services
Mitesh is 37 years old and has spent 12 years in the industry. He describes his hobbies as “work!”. He and his wife Priscilla are expecting their first child in October.
Think green in every aspect of your business
Everything she said to Prince Charles struck a chord. The future monarch is an avid environmentalist and so is Simone Hindmarch, which is what brought them together this June in Buckingham Palace.
Learn to capitalise on your customers’ deepest desires
Let’s talk psychology. No, not the meaning of that awful recurring nightmare; the one where you’re running naked past the presses in a panic that you’ve forgotten to action your company’s biggest ever...
‘It’s a funny trade, it’s inherently relationship based’
Rapidity managing director Paul Manning might be fresher faced than your average print boss, but don’t let his appearance fool you – he’s learned many a hard lesson.
Strengthen your bonds with staff and customers
Businesses exist to make money. But in order for a company to turn a profit, its employees must be clear as to what is being asked of them, and motivated to work in the right way to achieve those...
60 seconds with DTGUK
DTGUK started in a back bedroom using a tiny vinyl cutter and a secondhand heat press, subsequently expanding into its current 372sqm warehouse.