Printer Q&A

Esther Butterfield
Sales director
Blink http://www.blink-print.co.uk

What’s having the greatest impact on your business at the moment?

Blink has recently employed two new staff members to help with growth/sales. They have very diverse backgrounds and skills in print and POS because we feel our clients want to not only be talking to someone that knows how things are done but can actually do them.

Mark Bradley,
MD, Digital Imaging Services 
http://www.digital-is.co.uk

What’s having the greatest impact on your business at the moment?

DIS was founded in 1997 as a wide-format digital graphics company with no direct links to the traditional print areas of screen and litho.

Peter Leyland,
MD, PDQ Print
http://www.pdqprint.co.uk

What’s having the greatest impact on your business at the moment?

There does seem to be a general upturn in business across the board - tongue-in-cheek there is not so much competition around.

Rod Fisher,
MD, Print-Leeds
http://www.print-leeds.co.uk

What’s having the greatest impact on your business at the moment?
New technology. Our investment in the latest technology has increased productivity and impacted on the bottom line increasing profitability significantly.

Darren James,  
MD, Screentec
http://www.screentec.co.uk

What’s having the greatest impact on your business at the moment?
Right now, the greatest impact on our business are the massive changes in our sales process. After 17 years of ‘selling’ we're changing our culture and focusing on marketing processes, taking advantage of of internet based solutions such as Google, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Simon Osborne,
MD, Oasis Graphics
http://www.oasisgraphic.co.uk

What’s having the greatest impact on your business at the moment?
Really it’s the volume of work we’re starting to see come in, which is all good news of course.