Star Product: Cron CTP 46 H+
A low-cost platesetter from an established Chinese manufacturer.
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...
Me & My: Bobst Visionfoil 104
Herbert Walkers’ fourth Bobst hot foiling machine has doubled productivity of embellishment for packaging, its fastest growing sector.
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...
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...