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Nick has spent 20 years in print, and has a familial connection to the industry. He loves all sport, particularly football and horse racing.

After he received his 50th or so rejection letter, Tony Hards could have been forgiven for thinking that perhaps finding a position as an apprentice compositor just wasn’t his destiny.

Printers spend the vast majority of their time producing eye-catching, creative printed collateral for their clients. They excel at producing consistently high standards of corporate communications...

Heather – or ‘Aitch’ as she was known by her school friends – has been working in the printing industry for the past 27 years, despite only joining it accidentally.

Those images on Monday 28 December were horrifying, and remain unforgettable. Like most people, Chris Milner had been tuning into TV news channels over the Christmas period, gripped with cold...

Imageco’s inception was over 15 years ago. Directors Nathan Swinson-Bullough (left) and Simon Harrison have since put together a team “with vast experience that has helped take us to and keep us at...

With Drupa 2016 just over the horizon but no new press announcements made so far, it’s time to ask: who needs B2 digital or bigger?

According to ONS figures released in December 2015, the UK unemployment rate has fallen to 5.2% – its lowest level in a decade. Economic recovery has boosted confidence, encouraging business...

In the early days of wide-format inkjet printing, the technology was held in check from encroaching on screen and litho markets by limitations in printing itself.

Datum started back in 1988 in Shoreditch, London, as a pre-press company supplying plates and proofs to the local litho printers. It left behind its London roots in 2000 when the business relocated to...

Ali Ridha Jaffar, sales director at Print Express (part of the Syncoms Group), does not like traffic.

After a short and (he says) less than glittering career in marketing, Chris got into print buying by accident and ended up doing it for 28 years.

Should a printer define itself by the equipment it uses or by its customers? Marketing theory would suggest the latter, but with the high prices and long pay-back times of presses there’s a risk you...

In 2006, Cathy Olmedillas set up Anorak, an independent and print-only magazine for children. It was well designed – you’d have been as happy to have the cover looking down at you off your wall as you...

Welcome to the Power 100, our 14th annual ranking of the industry’s power brokers. The 100 individuals in this year’s list make up much of the DNA of our great industry – from thoroughbred...