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60 seconds with Packaids

Packaids was founded in 1967 to offer the application of adhesives to flat sheets of paper and board. That could be re-moist gum, self-bonding latex or even heat seal varnish, all of which were...

'Kilts compulsory'

Rising star: Paul Bisland Offset press operator, Tradeprint

Paul was highly commended as a finalist in the Trainee of the Year category in the Printweek Awards 2023. He’s 36 and has been working at Tradeprint, based in Dundee, for just over a decade. 

A problem parked

Overmatter: Van-tastic cost savings on hotel horrors

Overmatter recently looked into a simple overnight stay at a Premier Inn, but found the price tag blench-makingly higher than anticipated. 

Premises

Business inspection: Make your home your own

Moving premises for any print business is no mean feat but add in a complete building redesign, fit-out and kit revamp and it becomes an entirely different beast.

Staffing

Are there alternatives to redundancy?

Economic dips come and go and in their wake businesses are left struggling financially. A number succumb to their wounds while others end up as zombie companies unable to do anything other than just...

New businesses

Setting up for the first time

It doesn’t take much to set up a business: a good idea, graft, opportunity and of course, appropriate funding. However, it takes thought and planning to last the course and become successful.

Profile

Q&A: Gill Tress, Business services director, SF Taylor

Gill recently celebrated a special landmark – 40 years of working at SF Taylor. She’s married with one son, Dominic, and her hobbies include travelling, socialising with friends, trying new foods and...

Killer app

Photographer takes a punt with Cambridge book

Martin Bond has been taking a photo of Cambridge – its people, buildings and animals – every day for the past 13 years.

Christmas gift guide

Give the gift of print

If you are struggling to find a special something for a special someone, Printweek is here to help. Our annual Christmas gift guide is the go-to resource for the time-pressed and print-obsessed.

'Build me a working lightsaber'

Rising star: Jack Pearson, sustainability manager, Bluetree Group

Jack is 30 and has been working at Bluetree Group since 2021.

'Printing felt pretty strange at the beginning'

Q&A: Monica Moody, sales manager, Minuteman Press Coventry

Monica says that she thinks being Italian helps with sales: “If you can understand my accent, but I have improved it since marrying an Englishman and living in this country since 1995.

‘Your first name in badges’

60 seconds with Badgemaster

Badgemaster was established in 1992 and now lays claim to being “the unrivalled leader in the UK’s staff name badge sector”.

Mashup

Overmatter: the printing shoe

Overmatter loves a cool shoe. Heelys, for example, a work of genius. Light-up LED wellies – also a quite brilliant innovation. 

Merging successfully

Business inspection: Combining two teams for premium performance 

Perhaps it’s Carl Garnett’s successful side-line in motor racing that fuels his inability to sit still for long. 

Freedom of speech

Navigating the social media landscape

The perfect tool to push the boundaries of freedom of speech or the devil’s own work.