Star Product: Cron CTP 46 H+

A low-cost platesetter from an established Chinese manufacturer.

Hartley: “Nothing has beaten us yet... touch wood”

Me & My: Boomerang Boomer 6

Since it was founded, 50 or so years ago Newport-based Lexon Group has continuously evolved its business offer. The company started out providing vinyl tax disc holders to the motor industry in...

Christie: “In our opinion, Bobst is the gold standard for foiling machines”

Me & My: Bobst Visionfoil 104

Herbert Walkers’ fourth Bobst hot foiling machine has doubled productivity of embellishment for packaging, its fastest growing sector.

Friends and family: Tom is the fourth generation to run the business

Growing a new business

In his own words, Tom Willday has been part of his fourth-generation, family-owned printing business since he was in a pram. As a toddler he would regularly sit at the front desk of the...

Taxing times

Towards the end of the summer, HMRC announced a consultation on proposals which would radically alter how unincorporated businesses – sole traders and partnerships – are taxed.

The long march of Covid

There just seems to be no escape from Covid. For some, the viral grenade took the form of furlough, job loss, business turndown or failure. For many others, sadly, it meant hospitalisation and in the...

Having flexible friends

There’s no question that Covid has altered society. It’s trampled on civil liberties, seen vaccines rolled out in double-quick time, spurred on the deployment of information technologies, and it’s...

Killer app: Dorset Digital delivers silver service for snowy scenes

With an estimated one billion Christmas cards sent each year in the UK alone, printers up and down the country are kept busy in the run-up to winter producing suitably festive designs.

Q&A: Debbie Nedza, business director, HH Global

Debbie is “54 years young” and has spent 25 years working in print and marketing services. She is married with two grown up boys, and is “beyond excited” to have a first grandchild on the way.

60 seconds with Print Plus UK

Print Plus UK started life some 30 years ago in a small warehouse in the picturesque Little Germany district of Bradford, printing single-colour takeaway menus and the like. Since then the business...

Nichols: I dabble in crypto currency, trading stocks online and I have set up my own AI marketing bot

Rising Star: Chase Nichols, senior apprentice print and finishing, JDP

Chase is 20 and, come January, will have completed his third year of working in the industry.

Overmatter: A bunch of benches

Overmatter loves a good calendar. Countryfile, obviously. Perhaps something stylish involving lovely illustrations from Art Angels,  Angela Harding or depictions of beautiful manuscripts from The...