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Me & my... Taopix 2.5.8 photobook creation software
25 May 2012The year is 1881, and brothers Herbert and Burgess Headley have just set up a printing press in a small room above their father's grocery shop. Their main aim is to print vegetable bags for the grocers, but they hope to also make a bit of cash by pri...
Me & my... RedTie RTT W2P system
18 May 2012While the franchise model is by its very nature fragmented, a unified message and appearance is imperative for the system to work - what would McDonalds be without the golden arches or KFC without The Colonel?
Me & my... Casematic H46 Pro
11 May 2012But for one of printer ABC Imaging's construction firm clients, bidding for a contract with Chester Zoo, this was just the result they were after.
Me & my... Edale Alpha label press
04 May 2012Going on a diet at label printer Customark must be tough. Alongside the more perfunctory barcodes, health and safety and toolbox labels whizzing through the company's machines, there's also an onslaught of images of delicious-looking cakes and gooey ...
Me & my... Xerox 770 Digital Color Press
27 April 2012Louise Hodge and her husband Simon, co-owners of self-styled 'single-source marketing agency' Fidelity Solutions, are in a fortunate position. While printers across the country are rushing out to buy in design skills to increase margins with some add...
Me & my... Kodak Prosper 1000
20 April 2012Being an early adopter of technology is not always the easiest position to be in. Take those who rushed to be the first to hold an iPhone 4 back in 2010 only to find that 'holding' said phone was actually the last thing you should do if you wanted to...
Me & my... Morgana DocuMaster Pro
13 April 2012In some ways, David Whiteway, managing director of printer Pinders, has been left holding the baby - albeit a baby that this year reaches the grand old age of 74. Founded by his grandfather in 1938, the Sheffield-based Pinders print business has been...
Me & my... Océ VarioPrint 6200 Ultra Line
05 April 2012The 20th century fostered several great double acts: Lennon and McCartney, Morecambe and Wise, Astaire and Rogers, and one you might not have heard of: Phillips and Hickey. That last pair, Adrian Hickey and Winfrod Phillips, are co-founders of South ...
Me & my... Ferag UniDrum
30 March 2012Christmas telly is a matter of grave importance. A second missed of Great Expectations and your dad will be asking plot-related questions for the next two hours. Perhaps more pressingly, "Look, Doctor Who is on!" is the perfect escape from another ro...
Me & my... TyreF Coating Blanket
23 March 2012We all tend to enjoy a whinge about the morning commute to work, but DS Smith print manager Steve Harkins would appear to have a far worse ordeal than the vast majority and so more cause to complain: he does not even live in the country in which he w...
Me & my... HP Indigo WS4600
16 March 2012It's not every day you're offered a free jaunt to a posh town near Barcelona, but that's just what HP had in store for Readyprint managing director Syd Reading and his son and employee, Stewart. Granted, it was November so they probably didn't have t...
Me & my... Matrix 370 laminator
09 March 2012Lady Gaga, Jessie J, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and... Media Design and Print partner Michael Beckinsale. That's how the guest list at the MTV European Music Awards being held at Belfast's Odyssey Arena last November should have read. However, as the ...
Me & my... Tharstern Primo
02 March 2012For a young David Lewis, the question 'what do you want to be when you grow up' may have been slightly tricky. When your dad has named his printing business after you and your sister Ruth, you probably feel at least slightly obliged to go into print.
Me & my... Heidelberg Diana X 115 folder-gluer
24 February 2012If you want to sell a new machine to Vince Breary, operations director at Aylesford-based Offset Print and Packaging, a slick demo in the showroom followed by some triangle sandwiches isn't really going to cut it.
Me & my... Inca Onset S40
17 February 2012"We went to Belgium, Barcelona and... Ramsgate," reveals Richard Blueitt, operations director and co-owner at Wiltshire based retail printer Superior Creative. "In fact, we went to Belgium twice."
Me & my... MBO K800 folder
10 February 2012Imagine lugging around a total of seven or eight tonnes of paper every shift at work. While not something the average office worker, cosily sat at their screen with a mug of coffee and digestive in hand, could ever contemplate having the stamina for,...
Me & my... Kern 2600 inserter
03 February 2012Many customer-manufacturer relationships have been sealed over a brisk 18 holes on the golf course, but few partnerships then decide to make the fairways and putting greens a permanent, annual feature. The Coventry Building Society and mailing and pa...
Me & my... Roland DG VersaUV LEJ-640
27 January 2012When Dan Smith's father started Smith Signs on the island of Guernsey in 1970, it was a relatively small operation.
Me & my... Petratto Metro
20 January 2012With finance houses refusing to budge on credit, many companies are finding big spends impossible. However, that is good news for manufacturers of kit at the less expensive end of the capital investment scale. For example, printers are looking at the...
Me & my... Ryobi 755G
13 January 2012Heart-warming stories about the amicable coexistence of electronic and print marketing communications are always reassuring to hear, and mailing company (and now holistic marketing communications provider) The Herald Chase Group can certainly offer o...
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