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George Clooney lookalike Andy first stepped into the world of print when he started work at Plastic Card Services 18 years ago.

No one likes reading the manual. Whether it be electronics, toys or furniture, the huge accompanying instruction booklets are usually largely left untouched. And even when instructions are followed,...

Miles Linney takes a “lucky coin”. That’s because at trade shows and exhibitions luck can be a big help. Visiting shows, insists Linney Group’s chief executive, is a must, even if attending a big...

You might recognise Chris from his recent appearance in illusionist Derren Brown’s Pushed to the Edge TV show, where we’re happy to report he refused to push a man off a building to his death. Phew!...

Just 15 years ago, the whole ethos surrounding superwide-format print centred around a market sector where size was far more important than quality. To be clear, the term ‘superwide’ ought to cover...

Printers assemble! It’s time to don your capes and masks and head for your print-mobiles – Fespa Digital is almost upon us and it’s set to be the biggest and best to date.

Digiprint is an award-winning local independent design, print and signage company offering small and wide-format printing since 1987.

One of the theories on the origins of life on earth is that of the ‘primordial soup’, which posits that chemicals dissolved in water when hit by ultra-violet (UV) radiation from the sun reacted...

When Scott Pearce and business partner Mark Gamble bought what was then called Datumpress in an MBO in 2008, due to the retirement of boss and company founder Alan Willis, it had a relatively small...

Picture the scene. Mrs Print Boss has just opened her copy of PrintWeek’s annual Top 500 survey. She notes her own company’s performance with quiet satisfaction, then realises that a peer and – worse...

Print Me It started trading in 2008 as an online print company. It initially outsourced to trade printers, but over the past five years has brought digital printing and wide-format printing in-house.

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.