Current owner Derek Knoll was working for HPC at this time and subsequently bought the company in 1978. Since then five members of the Knoll family have joined the firm too.

Where are you based? 

As the name suggests, Hastings!

How many staff do you have? 

We have 35 staff

What does your firm do? 

We still produce posters, leaflets and programmes for the entertainment industry. We also service the magazine market, printing some 30 titles from fortnightlies to quarterlies. The rest is high-end corporate literature

What’s your typical customer?

We enjoy taking the germ of a customer’s idea and working with them to deliver a beautiful printed product, which they are proud to show and use. We like working with the whole process and not just being given a PDF and print order, although we take them as well!

Which geographic areas do you serve?

Mostly the South East, but we do have clients in the US and Russia. We also dispatch, on a weekly basis, products all around the world

What’s your USP?

We’re a family firm with family values, we always want customers to be part of our ‘print family’

What equipment do you run?

Agfa pre-press, an eight-colour KBA Rapida 105, B1 and B2 five-colour Komori Lithrones. In-house finishing and mailing on site

What’s been your proudest achievement in the past few years?

Reaching our 100th year

What’s your team’s favourite biscuit?

Anything that contains chocolate: chocolate digestives, chocolate chip cookies, etc