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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... 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...
Me & my: Duplo DC 745
16 December 2011It's fair to say that most children of around the age of five are not the greatest artists the world has seen. Houses tend to look like they are suffering heavy subsidence, people are bloated around the middle yet have limbs thinner than value wrappi...
Me and my: Digital Information Preproofer
09 December 2011Taylor Bloxham's busy, buzzing sheetfed printing factory is a hive of activity - the facility operates 24/7 and can produce 17m A4 pages day.
Me & my: Canon imagePress C6010VP
02 December 2011Most people grumble about their commute to work when it's a 20-minute car journey down the local A-road. Keith D'Arcy Ryan, co-owner of Swindon-based Copy Colour, has to go a bit further than that: his permanent residence is in Sweden.
Me & my: Horizon BQ160
24 November 2011A three-floor, 200-year-old ex-bakery sat in the middle of a conservation area is probably not the first place you'd look for a print business. Yet 10 miles south of Cambridge in the village of Linton, this is exactly where you find Plumridge Print, ...
Me & my: Heidelberg SM52 Anicolor
18 November 2011The first time Chris Murley, co-owner and director at Tyne and Wear-based PBL Print, saw the Heidelberg SM52 Anicolor in action, he walked away telling people "Not for me, that one."
Me & my: Vpress Coreprint
11 November 2011Large long-term contracts can be like gold dust in these tough economic times and so accounts of printers going to impressive lengths to secure them are certainly nothing to write home about. However, installing an entire web-to-print (W2P) system - ...
Me & my: Hans Gronhi GH524
04 November 2011A lot has changed in the print industry since Wayne Yorath bought the previously family-owned Lanes Printers in 1990. The business he has been a part of since 1977 has remained in the commercial sector, printing from B1 down to B3, producing catalogu...
Me & my... Watkiss PowerSquare TM 200
28 October 2011As the old adage goes, 'If you want something doing, do it yourself.' This was certainly the logic employed by the Communications Workers Union (CWU) when it decided to purchase a Watkiss PowerSquare TM 200 stitcher, folder and trimmer to complement ...
Me & my... Screen PlateRite HD 8900S platesetter
21 October 2011To say that environmental issues are a high priority at Newnorth is something of an understatement.
My & My... Kolbus KM 600 perfect binder
14 October 2011Trade finisher Larkbeare Services has invested in an arsenal of high-powered finishing technology, not least of which is this pefect binder
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