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Protect Safety Signs in double Colorado buy

A supplier of temporary traffic management signs to the emergency services sector has improved its productivity and quality after taking on two Canon Océ Colorado 1640 printers.

Whistl rolls out PAM offering

Whistl is promising reduced data costs and a potential substantial uplift in reach with the official launch of its GDPR-compliant Partially Addressed Mail solution.

PrintWeek Awards' winners unveiled

Rapidity was crowned Company of the Year at last night’s PrintWeek Awards, where the industry celebrated the awesome power of print.

Killer app: TV psycho cuts a dash in jim-jams printed by Friedmans

In Knowledge Bank, we come face-to-face with plenty of Killer Apps – but rarely do we encounter actual killers.

Company of the Year: Rapidity

The numbers speak for themselves: a 20% year-on-year increase in revenue and 18% growth in pre-tax profits.

SME of the Year: Resource

The Leeds-based company’s strapline is ‘making it happen’ and over the past 12 months it has lived up to the billing.

Customer Service Team of the Year: Fox Group

Nothing is ever too much effort for this direct mail specialist which claims it is the “go to people” who “never say no”.

Book Printer of the Year: Kingsbury Press

Put simply, the judges were blown away by the high quality of Kingsbury’s entry.

Environmental Company of the Year: St Austell Printing Company

Put simply sustainability is part of this Cornwall-based commercial printers’ DNA.

Trainee of the Year: Jayleigh Price, Precision Colour Printing

When Price attended an apprentice open day at Precision Colour Printing just over three years ago she was the only female out of a 30 strong group of applicants.

Post-press Company of the Year: Curtis Packaging (Specialist Finishing Division)

The saying goes that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ and it’s something that Curtis Packaging knows all about, judging by the beauty brand samples it submitted.

Direct Mail Printer of the Year: The Lettershop Group, part of the YM Group

Lettershop’s submission included samples produced for the likes of Benenden Health, Macmillan Cancer Support and Shell, but the mailer that knocked the socks off the judges was a pack produced for...

Out-of-home Printer of the Year: Omni Colour

Where do you start with such an impressive entry? Omni Colour blew away the judges with its “stunning use of materials and impressive installations”.

Bespoke Magazine Printer of the Year: Park Communications

From an edition of WRAP that featured five original pull-out pieces of wrapping paper by specially commissioned illustrators, through to the metallic cover of Beauty Papers that boasted an arresting...

Label Printer of the Year: CS Labels

CS Labels has triumphed in this hotly contested category thanks to some “fantastic print and finishing that overcame some serious technical challenges,” according to the judges.