Features
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.
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!”
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.
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.