Profile

Rising star: Ruby Marshall, apprentice designer, Paragon Customer Communications

Ruby is 19 and started her apprenticeship at Paragon CC’s Nottingham site in Sutton-in-Ashfield in June 2021.

60 seconds with Kingfisher Labels

The company was established in 1996 by managing director Martin Jackson with a three-colour Mark Andy label press.

Q&A: Giles Foden, managing director, Quantum Print & Packaging

Giles has been in the print and packaging game since 1989. He’s 55, married and has a daughter. His hobbies include tennis (Quantum is a sponsor of the ITF World Tennis Tour W100 tournament in...

60 seconds with Cotswold Letterpress 

After a career in print sales Pete Roberts started his own business hand-printing letterpress stationery, and slowly grew to become the town printer ending up with a five-colour litho press and all...

Rising star: Brandon Smith, HP digital printer and ABG finisher, Harkwell

The electrical trade’s loss is print’s gain. Brandon is 20 and has been working at Poole-based Harkwell, which specialises in labels and pouches for a wide range of customers, since the spring of...

Rising star: Daniel Hutt Trainee field service engineer, InkTec

Daniel is 25 and has been working in the printing industry for five years. He joined the Witney-based supplier of large-format printers, inks and media last year.

Q&A: Paul Hewitt, owner, Generation Press 

Paul is a fourth-generation printer and left School at 15 to take on printing apprenticeship, “my teachers thought that would be better for them!” He’s married with two teenage daughters who “may or...

Rising star Matthew Kenyon, number 2 printer, MM Packaging

Matthew is 21 and has been working in the printing industry since January 2020. He was a finalist and highly commended in the Trainee of the Year category at the Printweek Awards earlier this year

Q&A Gail Duncan Team manager, Marqetspace – the trade printer

Gail is 40 years old and lives in Manchester with Amy, her wife of five years, and their two cats and one dog. She has worked in print for 19 years and says: “I’ll have to bake a cake for next year!”

"Embrace change and feel the feel"

Q&A: Lucy Swanston, managing director, Nutshell Creative and Topic Heroes Charity

Lucy has reached “the grand old age of 45” and has been working in the print and agency world for 27 years.