Features

Celebs' printed gaudy getups

Overmatter: Good Will Dunkings

The ins and outs of American football are a mystery to Overmatter. But the hoopla around the annual Super Bowl event is always something to behold.

Ink in the veins

Q&A: Chris Pertwee, production director, Baddeley Brothers 

Chris has worked in print since 1992. He started at the Financial Times newspaper aged 21 “which was quite the experience and baptism of fire into the world of print!”

Would love to be an influencer

Rising Star: Becky Young, apprentice pre-press operator, J Thomson Colour Printers

Medicine’s loss is print’s gain! Becky is 19 and has been working at Glasgow-based J Thomson Colour Printers since April 2022.

New brand launching

60 seconds with Surf & Turf

Surf & Turf is a family-owned business, established in 2001, and best known for its custom-printed gazebos. The company’s journey began in an outhouse in founder Simon Lunt’s backyard.

Targeting tax efficiency

A story of tax tails & investment dogs

There’s an old adage in the world of accounting: ‘don’t let the tax tail wag the investment dog’. In essence, we, whether as individuals or in business, shouldn’t make moves to minimise tax that might...

Packaging regulations

EPR: is it workable?

The trade is well aware – or should be so by now – of the government’s Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (EPR) legislation that aims to move the full cost of managing household waste onto...

What makes a great leader?

The route to success

For any one of a myriad of reasons, certain people manage to rise above others. But what makes a great leader – someone who is successful in their chosen field, a person that is revered and admired,...

Giant building wrap

Embrace wraps up at Merry Hill

Merry Hill shopping centre near Dudley has been undergoing a five-year, £50m metamorphosis. One of the largest such centres in the country, it features over two hundred shops, a bus station and a...

Best of British

Coatings clean & green

Nu-Coat prides itself on being the world’s first carbon-neutral manufacturer of self-adhesive products for the sign and graphics sectors. Only set up in 2018 and despite the challenges of lockdowns...

Photography

Reliving the colours of an earlier world

It’s easy to think of the past in black and white. The family photographs, movies, books and magazines we see from 100 years ago or older, are resolutely monochrome. We know that people of the times...

A speedy alternative to compact ‘baby flatbeds’

Star product: Axzyra AX-Ultra

A single-pass printer for boxes, paper bags, tote bags, folders, canvas frames and more. It runs at speeds that set it apart from the competition and boasts a price point that makes it difficult to...

Online personalisation

Me & My: Zakeke visual commerce platform

Online personalisation can be big business in difficult times, if you approach it carefully. The early promise of personalised photobooks disappeared into the clutches of big suppliers who can use a...

Mega press review

Me & My: Koenig & Bauer Rapida 145

Back in March Offset Print & Packaging started the complex installation of the latest, whizziest iteration of Koenig & Bauer’s large-format Rapida offset press, the 145. This is the first one in the...

Profile

60 seconds with Packaids

Packaids was founded in 1967 to offer the application of adhesives to flat sheets of paper and board. That could be re-moist gum, self-bonding latex or even heat seal varnish, all of which were...

'Kilts compulsory'

Rising star: Paul Bisland Offset press operator, Tradeprint

Paul was highly commended as a finalist in the Trainee of the Year category in the Printweek Awards 2023. He’s 36 and has been working at Tradeprint, based in Dundee, for just over a decade.