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Kingsline was set up seven years ago in a converted milking parlour by David Saunders with the objective of offering a targeted bespoke mailing service. Since then it has developed into a full-service...

Last year, Dave Broadway, managing director at CFH Docmail in Bristol, took delivery of a new car – a Tesla Model S. The slick-looking saloon is fast and powerful, but crucially, it’s got a whopping...

One clue of how important touch is as a sense, is in how closely the language of emotion is entwined with it. When we talk about emotional states, we talk about ‘feelings’.

As one of the biggest brand-side print spenders in the UK, Sky’s head of print management Mark Cruise in many ways bears a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

Sales are vital to any print business. The hum of the presses may be the heartbeat, ink may be the blood, but sales is the fuel that keeps the whole body of production moving forward.

Regardless of size, one thing that every print business should bear in mind at all times is how profitable a job is likely to be as, after all, making profit is essential for any company that wants to...

When television sets started to become ubiquitous in the aftermath of the Second World War people warned that they heralded the death knell for radio. When CDs were launched in the 1980s they were...

Once upon a time print was the only mass media around. If anyone wanted to convey information or ideas – whether fact or fiction, for business or pleasure, or selling and telling – then print was the...

Established as a small stationery printer in 1953 by the eponymous Frank Hickling & Frank Squires, the company was bought by Mike Wells in 1982 and subsequently acquired by his son Richard Wells and...

Joe has spend five of his 26 years in print, and when not relaxing in front of a mini-series with his partner and their white Westie Maisie, can mostly be found cycling – long hilly rides on his road...

The hardest part was the change in mindset.” Two years ago, Simon Tabelin was managing director of a five-staff print business operating out of a basement in West Hampstead. Today he is managing...

A universal “ooooh” of delight and appreciation. That was the reaction from the assembled group of Kingston University final-year illustration and animation students, as a particularly luxe print...

Not only is he the driving force behind Precision Printing the circa 120-staff, £20m-turnover group that is one of the UK’s leading exponents of mass customisation, he’s also a BPIF board member and...

Pavement was formed in February 2013 when Shea Kelly (right) and Bill Greenwood decided to build a company “we’d like to work with as clients”. The firm is continually looking at how things can be...

Longridge Print sales director Mike Penfold is forthright about one shortcoming of print companies. “We work in communications yet many of us are rubbish at communicating,” he says. “We produce...