Digital

Impress Digital has merged with local rival Eaton Press Print to create the Icon Print Group, a single service point for both digital and litho print with a turnover of almost £2m.

The merger between the two Liverpool-based printers is part of a move to create cost savings, of which £100,000 are predicted in the first year.

Barry Hodgson, former managing director of Impress Digital and joint managing director of Icon Print Group said: With the current economic conditions, the merger will help us to save money.

We’ve been working with Eaton Press Print for several years, sending litho work to it so recently we decided to put our heads together and the savings we worked out were mind-blowing.

Eaton Press Print’s nine staff – and a kit battery that includes a B2 Komori, a two-colour B3 Ryobi and a single-colourHeidelberg GTO – moved into Impress Digital’s 1,300sqm Brunswick Business Park site last weekend (23 August).

They join the 11 staff at Impress Digital, which runs a Kodak NexPress 2100, JV3 Mimaki and mono copiers among others, in a bid to create a ‘one-stop shop’.

Icon Print Group anticipates a growth in turnover to the £2.5m mark over the next 18 months. Hodgson takes on the role of joint managing director of Icon along with Shaun Kearon, managing director of Eaton Press Print.

We both have strong client bases which we can build on, said Hodgson.