Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde was the general secretary of SOGAT, Society of Graphical and Allied Trades and now she has been selected as president of The Printing Charity for the year 2017.

With her great serving to the printing society, Baroness Dean earned a great repute and privilege and now she has been selected as a president of the printing charity. This news was announced at the 189^th annual event of Printing Charity held at Stationers’ Hall in London. On this occasion, she expressed her feelings “Once printing is in your blood, it never leaves you. I am looking forward to continuing my association with what is still a great industry as the charity’s 2017 President and supporting the annual Print Futures Awards.”

Rt Hon. the Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde

Here at this event, trade journalists, different manufacturers and renowned printers participated. There were discussions amongst participants on the challenges printing industry is facing and effects of Brexit were also discussed.

Lord Blunkett the printing charity’s president for 2016 and the guest speaker for this year, says: “The industry has grown beyond recognition since the charity was set up in 1827, but its work is as important today as it was then. Its welfare support for people in the industry and focus on championing new talent in a sector that continues to innovate are vitally important.”

The charity’s major focus is to help people who are already working or want to join the printing industry. It works for the education and welfare of professionals.

Jon Wright, the chairman of the charity expressed that if this charity was not founded, he would never be there at the annual event addressing people. Perhaps, who was amongst one of the beneficiaries of this charity. Also participants emphasized that the role of this organization is even more important today as it was in the past.

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There has been a considerable fight within the printing industry and different companies are striving for number 01 place.

Kyle Jardine, BPIF research manager, comments on the report: “Confidence in the general state of trade in the printing industry has taken a knock that it hasn’t yet recovered from. Whilst companies have reported some improvement in their output and orders, there is less confidence for the wider industry.

BPIF’s latest Printing Outlook survey

BPIF chief executive Charles Jarrold adds: “The Q2 report, in the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum, showed that confidence levels in 2016 have been lower than in recent years. There has been little improvement in Q3 – though a boost in Q4 is expected to lift confidence.”
“The print industry has shown a tremendous level of resilience and innovation; the climate is tough yet over half of respondents to Printing Outlook report that their own businesses are expanding. The industry is showing that it can be successful despite the numerous challenges thrown our way.
“The print industry has shown a tremendous level of resilience and innovation; the climate is tough yet over half of respondents to Printing Outlook report that their own businesses are expanding. The industry is showing that it can be successful despite the numerous challenges thrown our way.”

The industry is highly experienced in managing its costs carefully and that experience will be valuable as businesses face some difficult choices”
“Paper and board price rises – resulting from the devaluation in sterling that has been stimulated by the Brexit outcome in the EU referendum – is the latest challenge the industry is facing; it is not a new one. Some companies will be protected, to some degree, by their ability to target export markets; others may have paper price adjustments written in to some of their supplier contracts.
“However, many will have a decision to make about whether or not they can pass cost increases on in higher prices, afford to take the hit in their margins or look to mitigate cost increases through their purchasing or through efficiencies elsewhere in their business.
“The industry is highly experienced in managing its costs carefully and that experience will be valuable as businesses face some difficult choices.”

Signs And Lines has installed Roland TrueVis VG640 printer-cutter. It is of worth £15,000. The last month they installed a Mounter’s Mate Laminator and it had a cost of almost £10,000.

It is a huge investment made out by the company in printing, cutting and laminating areas. The company envisage an increase in sales and printing volumes.

Andrews said: “We were looking around at a few different machines and then we saw a demo and considering we’ve got a Roland already we were quite impressed. The print quality is very good, it has got really strong vibrant colours and is really everything we want in one machine.

“I’ve always liked Roland, it’s a well-known name in the market. We briefly looked at others and were briefly looking at a Mimaki flatbed but decided that it wasn’t for us. We will look at getting other kit from Roland in the future, some of its smaller flatbeds might be the next thing we invest in.”

Andrew explained that it is very helpful in doing vinyl wall jobs and they already have  a considerable amount of printing through this.

He added, “We are now manufacturing 80%-90% of what we send out in-house,”

“We tend to do big projects and the problem is that they take up the machine and that means we can’t put other regular stuff through it. Now we can use the new machine for projects and the regular stuff can be made up on the 540.”

Roland TrueVis VG640 printer-cutter

The firm came into being in the year 2000 with eight staff and in the upcoming year, they are planning to hire more staff. By the end of the next year, the company is looking to reach out to sales turnover of £1m, that is quite impressive. In order to produce massively, they require a reliable machine as of Roland TrueVis VG640 printer-cutter.