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Q&A: Phil Wright, managing director, Paramount Labels & Tags
Phil has spent all his working life in print, and got into label printing 21 years ago. In 2008 he set up Cannock-based trade label printing specialist Paramount Labels with a friend, now sadly no...
Business inspection: building on your digital successes
A wide-format investment opened up lucrative new applications, including vehicle wraps.
60-seconds with: Ruddocks
Ruddocks has been going since 1884 and lays claim to being Lincoln’s largest commercial print business. Since the forebears of current chairman Henry Ruddock took over the business it has grown from a...
Q&A: Cassie Moulton, director, Moulton Printing
Blackpool-based Moulton Printing was founded in 1927 by Cassie’s grandparents, Bob and May Moulton. Her father, David, took over the reins in 1965. Cassie and her sister Helen form the third...
Inkjet technology drives sectors other than just print
If ever a simple adjective could cause confusion in the world of print, it’s ‘industrial’. The term has been cropping up with increasing frequency of late in relation to wide-format machines, meaning...
Interview: "We saw digital for what it was and set out to be experts"
As managing director of PrintWeek’s reigning SME of the Year, clearly Prime Group managing director Jon Tolley knows a thing or two about running a successful business. However, it seems that one of...
60-seconds with Dawkins Colour
London-based Dawkins Colour was formed 23 years ago when Ian Dawkins of IC Dawkins Typesetters and John Bodkin of Precise Litho & Scanning amalgamated their respective businesses.
Q&A: Adam Kill, account executive, Print 4, Nottingham
Adam has spent 17 years in print and has been with his partner Karen for a year longer than that, and they have three boys.
Business inspection: Adapting to touchy-feely demands
Adding B2C to existing B2B services boosted revenue, but was not without its challenges.
Success with fabric may be cut from a different cloth
Fabric is both a synonym for textiles and the word for discussing the very essence of stuff. So it’s something of a paradox that in all the talk of printing textiles, the materials themselves are...
Internships can deliver much more than just the tea
From Monica Lewinsky and that infamous cigar, to the ongoing debate around cheap or even unpaid labour, the subject of internships can be controversial. There have been plenty of headlines in recent...
Interview: ‘When you’re young, you think you can do anything’
By her own admission, Glossop Cartons sales director and de facto figurehead Jacky Sidebottom-Every is a natural born worrier. However, that hasn’t prevented her from building a 53-staff, almost £5m...
Transporting files takes off with latest workflows
That’s the trouble with doing well. Excel at making some decent margins from a certain area of print, and it inevitably won’t be long before others are jumping on the bandwagon – and in the case of...
Textile machines toughen up for harder work
That dye-sublimation is an excellent process for many types of textile application is widely accepted wisdom in fabric printing circles. Increasingly it is becoming widely accepted among general...
WF sector plays catch-up in web-to-print stakes
It is a truism that wide-format printers lag behind their commercial counterparts in the adoption of productivity software, such as workflow, colour management and MIS. And the same seems true with...