
60 seconds with Acorn Web Offset
Acorn started business in 1979 initially producing coldset newspapers and general print.

Rising star: Thomas Barrie, pre-press apprentice, Authentix Security Print Solutions
Thomas is 19 and has recently passed his first anniversary of starting to work in the printing industry at Consett-based security printing specialist Authentix SPS.

Overmatter: Shuttleworth’s shelfie
Overmatter is delighted to see The Warple Press in Louth finding fame on X courtesy of legendary singer-songwriter John Shuttleworth.

Business inspection: Bringing in new talent
Standfast & Barracks is synonymous with Lancaster.

Seeking an even balance
We may be three quarters of the way through 2024, but stereotypes of jobs and the sexes still exist with, in many cases, women still having to break through a theoretical glass ceiling.

Buy right or buy twice
New technologies may have found their way into the world of print, but ultimately, it’s people that make any business in the sector work.

Don’t byte off more than you can encrypt
The highly digitised world we inhabit would be alien to someone sitting on the Clapham Omnibus 20 years ago.

Killer app: Vale Press makes Intermission its mission
It’s rare to see a printed magazine launch these days – but at retro film TV channel Talking Pictures TV, nostalgia is stock in trade.

Sector suffers six months of misery
While company insolvencies and the merry-go-rounds that often accompany them happen in every sector, the last few months have felt like a particularly torrid time for print.

Dealt a challenging hand, Printing United comes up trumps
The Las Vegas Strip was made for salespeople, by salespeople. Cash is king; and judging by the number of Elvis impersonators, demand for The King is high.

Pre-pack sales are here to stay and done right, can be a force for good
It seems insolvency practitioners are trying to give the term ‘pre-pack’ a makeover, instead preferring the wordier ‘SIP 16-compliant sale’ because, funnily enough they think the shorter variant has...

Your October and November issue covers the usual smorgasbord of business topics, with the cover feature looking at best practice for bringing in a new leader and the risks of getting it wrong…
As usual the magazine opens with our news briefings which this time look back at Printing United and look forward to Power of Print, before analysing the worrying spike in industry insolvencies –...