Features

60 seconds with Webmart
Print procurement business Webmart was set up in 1996 and celebrated its 20th anniversary in April. Founder Simon Biltcliffe “saw the market was changing” and negotiated his exit from BPC...

Die-hard litho firm learns to love digital
Keith Whisson was not always a fan of digital print: “There are too many fools buying digital presses who don’t know much about print. It has brought the value of print, which used to be a prosperous...

Sleeve specialists get into a groove
Last year was a watershed moment for sales of vinyl records in the UK. Just over 2 million LPs were purchased in 2015 – a 64% increase on the previous year and a 21-year sales high, according to...

Q&A: Danny Kirk Director, Push Print London
Danny has spent 27 years in the “wonderful world of print”, a whopping 22 of them being in sales. He’s married with three boys, and his interests include managing his son’s football team and “trying...

Techie tips to back up your presses
A printing business is a technology business, with many elements vital to its smooth operation – from fast networks and file storage systems, to security and e-commerce platforms. PrintWeek asked a...

Q&A: Geoff Neal, chairman, Geoff Neal Group
Geoff has spent 52 years in print and set up the eponymous London business that still bears his name in 1976.

Set up a sibling to assist a new endeavour
Peerless is almost peerless, and that was the challenge. The plastics and coatings company is one of the UK’s largest and best known specialists in creating UV-cured hard coatings for plastics that...

Drupa stand highlights: show highlights
If the layout of the halls looks a little unfamiliar this time around, it’s probably because the whole of Hall 17 has been taken over by HP, bumping some of the other exhibitors into other halls. With...

The transformation Drupa is in town
After months, even years of preparation, feet are finally in the starting blocks at the global print Olympics. ‘Drupa 2016: Touch the future’ is under starters orders at Messe Düsseldorf, with an...

Ground rules for shooting for the stars
No one aspires to run a shrinking business. As everybody’s favourite tycoon Donald Trump once said: “If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.”

‘In five years 50% of print will be digital’
Author, book collector, college professor, historian, museum director, technology expert and friend of the rich and famous and printers everywhere. Frank Romano has many hats, but in print circles...

60-seconds with TT Litho
Established in 1975 by the Fogarty family, TT Litho Printers has been established for over 40 years and has a reputation for high quality service. Starting out in a shed in the late Tom Fogarty’s...

Q&A: Thomas Berwick, apprentice, Point Control
Thomas has been in the industry for about 18 months in his apprentice role at Accrington-based print finishing business Point Control, where his father Richard is one of the firm’s founding directors....

A job’s not finished until it’s finished
Gone are the days when finishing could be called ‘the Cinderella of print’. While today’s industry mourns the commodification of print, there’s a greater awareness that it is the post-print processes...

A timely buy can expand your abilties
Peter Llewellyn and his team are good at filling gaps: first it was the town, then it was digital print. Now it’s foiling.