Whilst trains, planes and roads the length and breadth of the country ground to a halt yesterday, the printing presses continued to run as the nation’s printers struggled into work. According to reports, the cost of the disruption to UK business was more than £1bn.
However, staff at London-based Jane Press managed to make it to work, despite the majority of the city grinding to a halt, with stoppages and severe delays experienced across the underground and bus services.
In West Sussex, where 15cm of snow forced 125 schools to close, East Grinstead-based Eden River Press reported that it was fully staffed and open for business.
This could be down to the fact that we are keen cyclists and mountain bikes can travel when cars can’t, a spokesman said.
It was not just the UK that suffered from extreme weather this week, however, as an extreme heatwave in Australia has cause computer circuits to melt and birds to fall from the skies, according to one New Zealand-based printer.
Lee Shaw, an ex-pat living in Auckland, New Zealand, told PrintWeek: "I’m sure there will be a blanket warping on the cylinder somewhere, or damper systems boiling and ink frying in the ducts."
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Printers press on as snow stops UK PLC
Printers and print suppliers from across the country are successfully combating the "extreme weather conditions" this week, with many reporting that there had been no major disruptions to service despite the heaviest snowfall for 18 years.
