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Anglia's green and pleasant printer Anglia Print probably has the smallest environmental footprint of any print business, not just because it’s a small business because when it comes to sustainability, the company acts big Issue Date: March 2010
Anton, John Knight Anton’s strategy of continuous investment has improved efficiency, increased capacity and is providing the basis for a company planning to double sales in the next five years Issue Date: September 2008
Beacon and Pureprint: a happy marriage Mergers are going to be very much to the fore in the next year or two as companies park their pride and realise that, in order to progress, greater resources are needed Issue Date: January 2009
Bottleneck breaker Nuffield Press has become the first printer in the UK to operate MBO’s highly automated T800 folder and has improved productivity as a result Issue Date: October 2009
Breaking the commodity trap with digital Total Print! Expo has evolved out of Digital Print World, attracting more traditional industry suppliers as a result. Does this indicate that digital printing is running out of steam? Robert Stabler, UK country manager for HP Indigo does not think so Issue Date: October 2008
Building on a reputation J Thomson Colour Printers is the best printer in Scotland, by its reckoning and those it works for. But it is not immune to change and has had to adapt to different market conditions in recent years and now is preparing a period of expansion Issue Date: March 2008
CFI proves itself a well researched venture THREE YEARS AGO, service point was an operation which had a wide geographic spread, but concentrating on what is called the AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) sector, it could offer little depth. Three years ago Chris Fowler International was an independent sheetfed printer in the shadow Issue Date: March 2009
Colouration targets growth through sales In its eight years, Colouration has flown under most people’s radars, but during that time the Wimbledon printer has consistently grown its business. Michael Barnett asks managing director Tony Dennington how he has done it Issue Date: June 2008
Crossing swords with cross media Printers should beware the glistening baubles that make cross media so attractive – at least until they have a proper understanding of marketing Issue Date: November 2009
GDP mines a rich seam Garnett Dickinson moved to a brownfield site three years ago and endured the teething problems associated with the move. But it has recovered and is running one of the greenest and most efficient web offset operations in the country Issue Date: November 2009
Life after broadsheet Bob Steadman tells Andy Knaggs that bringing circulation and production together in a single department at The Guardian paved the way for a smooth change to the Berliner format Issue Date: July 2008
Linney looks to the future A company with a history stretching six generations is one that is among the most progressive in the country Issue Date: June 2008
Litho joins digital at Altaimage Altaimage was always a prepress house with print as part of the service. Now litho has joined digital on the menu of services offered, Rob King explains to Gareth Ward Issue Date: March 2009
Opportunity knocks at PPG Phil Payter has an unorthodox approach to running his business, but it is one that seems to be paying off for PPG Issue Date: June 2009
Paragon succeeding on service-led print As a printer and print management operation, Paragon is not dwelling on its long history as it shapes up to meet the changing requirements of what has always been operational print Issue Date: April 2009
Payne broadens horizons with uv It was a gamble to install a uv press, but one that has paid off handsomely for Maurice Payne Colourprint Issue Date: February 2009
Printwell, Hussein Ghor Printwell is seeing the benefits of a web to print implementation where the internet application is bow-linked to the company’s back end MIS Issue Date: September 2008
Quality reflected in the finish As a finisher, Reflections has never been one to settle for the accepted ways of doing things. From its founding to the present, the family-owned business has looked to ways to stand out Issue Date: February 2010
Real Digital is the real deal To visit Real Digital’s factory is to step forward in time. The company has combined print technology, customer focus and data management to bring its ideas of how print should be produced in the 21st Century to life in a factory in Croydon Issue Date: December 2008
Ship-shape and Taunton fashion Having an accurate map at sea is even more vital than having a road atlas, for every sinking, every change in sea lanes and port priorities makes a chart out of date. It also keeps the UK Hydrographic Office busy tracking and plotting these changes and in printing the endless array of new and update Issue Date: July 2008
Side by side Digital and litho presses sit next to each other at Ortek, a configuration that is proving a success for the midlands printer Issue Date: April 2008
The day of Redlin Redlin is a B2 sheetfed printer in Essex that has sharpened up as the pressure has increased. At the heart is the way that it uses MIS to underpin the running of the business Issue Date: November 2009
The Italian way with the internet Pixart is growing quickly as the internet moves on from being an information medium to a means of smoothing the purchase of print and allowing a business based near Venice to operate anywhere in Europe Issue Date: February 2010
The transformation of Labute Labute wants to become less of a printer and more of a communications provider and problem solver to its customers. It’s an approach that is working Issue Date: September 2009
Think commodity Printers may like to see themselves as specialist craftsmen, but they are wrong because technology has in the main, replaced these skills. The future depends on recognising this and exploiting what technology can offer Issue Date: November 2009
Vario Press targets £5 million sales Vario Press has built a strong business by following its customers’ needs and by staying away from the middlemen Issue Date: November 2008

Anglia's green and pleasant printer

Anglia Print probably has the smallest environmental footprint of any print business, not just because it’s a small business because when it comes to sustainability, the company acts big
Issue Date: March 2010

Anton, John Knight

Anton’s strategy of continuous investment has improved efficiency, increased capacity and is providing the basis for a company planning to double sales in the next five years
Issue Date: September 2008

Beacon and Pureprint: a happy marriage

Mergers are going to be very much to the fore in the next year or two as companies park their pride and realise that, in order to progress, greater resources are needed
Issue Date: January 2009

Bottleneck breaker

Nuffield Press has become the first printer in the UK to operate MBO’s highly automated T800 folder and has improved productivity as a result
Issue Date: October 2009

Breaking the commodity trap with digital

Total Print! Expo has evolved out of Digital Print World, attracting more traditional industry suppliers as a result. Does this indicate that digital printing is running out of steam? Robert Stabler, UK country manager for HP Indigo does not think so
Issue Date: October 2008

Building on a reputation

J Thomson Colour Printers is the best printer in Scotland, by its reckoning and those it works for. But it is not immune to change and has had to adapt to different market conditions in recent years and now is preparing a period of expansion
Issue Date: March 2008

CFI proves itself a well researched venture

THREE YEARS AGO, service point was an operation which had a wide geographic spread, but concentrating on what is called the AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) sector, it could offer little depth. Three years ago Chris Fowler International was an independent sheetfed printer in the shadow
Issue Date: March 2009

Colouration targets growth through sales

In its eight years, Colouration has flown under most people’s radars, but during that time the Wimbledon printer has consistently grown its business. Michael Barnett asks managing director Tony Dennington how he has done it
Issue Date: June 2008

Crossing swords with cross media

Printers should beware the glistening baubles that make cross media so attractive – at least until they have a proper understanding of marketing
Issue Date: November 2009

GDP mines a rich seam

Garnett Dickinson moved to a brownfield site three years ago and endured the teething problems associated with the move. But it has recovered and is running one of the greenest and most efficient web offset operations in the country
Issue Date: November 2009

Life after broadsheet

Bob Steadman tells Andy Knaggs that bringing circulation and production together in a single department at The Guardian paved the way for a smooth change to the Berliner format
Issue Date: July 2008

Linney looks to the future

A company with a history stretching six generations is one that is among the most progressive in the country
Issue Date: June 2008

Litho joins digital at Altaimage

Altaimage was always a prepress house with print as part of the service. Now litho has joined digital on the menu of services offered, Rob King explains to Gareth Ward
Issue Date: March 2009

Opportunity knocks at PPG

Phil Payter has an unorthodox approach to running his business, but it is one that seems to be paying off for PPG
Issue Date: June 2009

Paragon succeeding on service-led print

As a printer and print management operation, Paragon is not dwelling on its long history as it shapes up to meet the changing requirements of what has always been operational print
Issue Date: April 2009

Payne broadens horizons with uv

It was a gamble to install a uv press, but one that has paid off handsomely for Maurice Payne Colourprint
Issue Date: February 2009

Printwell, Hussein Ghor

Printwell is seeing the benefits of a web to print implementation where the internet application is bow-linked to the company’s back end MIS
Issue Date: September 2008

Quality reflected in the finish

As a finisher, Reflections has never been one to settle for the accepted ways of doing things. From its founding to the present, the family-owned business has looked to ways to stand out
Issue Date: February 2010

Real Digital is the real deal

To visit Real Digital’s factory is to step forward in time. The company has combined print technology, customer focus and data management to bring its ideas of how print should be produced in the 21st Century to life in a factory in Croydon
Issue Date: December 2008

Ship-shape and Taunton fashion

Having an accurate map at sea is even more vital than having a road atlas, for every sinking, every change in sea lanes and port priorities makes a chart out of date. It also keeps the UK Hydrographic Office busy tracking and plotting these changes and in printing the endless array of new and update
Issue Date: July 2008