Features

Overhauling performance management cemented this company’s commitment to staff.

With more than 30 years in the printing industry under her belt, Fastsigns chief executive Catherine Monson is steeped in both print and the franchise model. She took over at Fastsigns five years ago,...

Of most importance to the majority of printers today? Undoubtedly keeping up with the ever-quickening march of technological change. Most, that is, but not quite all.

Originally the rapid growth of online sales didn’t seem that startling. It was, after all, coming from a very low base, so annual double-digit percentage growth didn’t seem that remarkable. But even...

Karl Smith set up Technique in 1997 after working in print for 15 years, from apprentice through to sales. His business partner Mark Foster was then a customer as a freelance graphic designer and the...

How apt that Terry’s work and family are located in St Andrews, the home of golf. Although his first love of sport was football and he played until he was 35, golf subsequently became his game and he...

From its origins as something of a cottage industry operating out of an old mill, Screenprint Productions has grown and grown and now occupies ‘three big factories in Brighouse’. Owners Martyn Hicks...

What harbours woodpeckers, deer, bats and newts, has been used to house British Museum treasures and war-time government offices, and costs £500 per hour to film? The answer: London’s iconic...

At its peak, the BAPC had 3,000 members, making it arguably the largest trade association in the print industry. While the past few turbulent years may have shrunk membership by a third, they...

Concentrating on core capabilities was key to Victoria Litho’s expansion into new sectors.

There is a perception in some quarters of the print industry that the battle with print management – that bogeyman of the printer – has now been won and those operators that once drove prices down to...

The favourite phrase of mums everywhere: ‘you can’t have everything’. Or sometimes: ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it.’ Until recently this was also a favourite of wide-format kit vendors, in...

Doug has been in print for 32 years, so he must have started in the business at a formative age. And even before that he spent his school holidays working on a Rotaprint. Ink runs in the veins of the...

Nick has been in around printing since he first got his hands on a photocopier at the age of 13. He still hasn’t grown out of his fascination, and admits he may just have developed an addiction to the...

Emma has spent 18 years in print, including a four-year spell as Nick Dixon’s PA. As well as being a director at Leicestershire print and marketing solutions company Print Monkey she also has two...