Features

Overmatter: Where there's merch, there's brass
Overmatter wonders whether any prescient printing industry folk have manufacturer merch worth thousands of pounds squirrelled away at the back of the wardrobe?

Q&A: David Warwick, platemaker and stock controller, H&H Reeds
David, also known as ‘Pez’ is 61 and has worked H&H Reeds for 45 years – we reckon he must be print’s longest-serving punk!

Rising star: Robyn Benham, creative designer, Coveris
Robyn is 26, and has been working in the industry since 2021. Her focus at Coveris is on sustainable packaging.

Business inspection: Partnering with a franchise to enhance your business
Few, if any, businesses have survived the economic maelstrom of the last few years by sheer good luck.

60 seconds with... Orchard Press
Orchard Press was established 36 years ago and was owned by the Rowley family for 27 years. In 2014, Jason Grubb was approached with an opportunity to buy the business.

Data protection: All change again
The UK’s data protection regime that came about following the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the subsequent new Data Protection Act (DPA), is around five years old...

Mind the (tax) gap
With the cost-of-living crisis placing financial pressures on all of us, many individuals and businesses are looking to develop new sources of income or maximise the income that they already receive.

Aged, but not out
The UK has managed to avoid recession for the moment even though it’s suffering an unpleasant bout of inflation.

Striking at the heart of business
Strikes are in vogue and it seems that with every week comes either the threat or the call for strike action. The disputes of the last year or so are less than ideal, but the reality is that they’re...

Lighting the way
We’ve built up quite a library of Best of British stories now, but Crawley- based UV lamp maker GEW (EC) might just claim the title of ‘most British’ to date.

Making connections: assessing the UK’s MIS landscape
Management information systems or MIS, is a fairly loose and fluid group of computerised financial, production and sales support tools.

Overmatter: miniature marvels
What have we here? Teeny tiny replicas of 8in floppy discs and a 1:12 scale model of an Epson RF 80 FT dot matrix printer, complete with punched computer paper. Remember them?

Q&A: Graham Webster Business development executive, Tradeprint
Graham has worked at Tradeprint for five years, and also plays part-time professional football for Montrose FC.

60 seconds with: King Print
In a coronation year, what better than to feature King Print of Kingsbridge? The firm started life in 1992 as a print and copy shop “with the first colour copier in town”, and the following year added...

Rising star: Jay Patel Senior digital press operator, Micropress
Jay is 26 and started out as an apprentice at Micropress Printers in Reydon, Suffolk in September 2020.