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Printing – 20 years of Printing – Part 1 – 30th March 2009

Some days are diamond; some are coal – a metaphor richly mined by songwriters and philosophers alike in an attempt to convey an impression of how events at a particular time impact ted on lives in general. It works equally well if days are changed to years; the inference being of course is that diamond is good, coal dark and black. Yet to be classified is 2009; considerable hindsight and memory burnishing generally has to take place before ‘diamond’ seems a worthy epithet. The Printing House and Print Buying Direct have no doubt whatsoever that 2009 is a diamond year and well worthy of celebration, for it now has two decades of being at the frontline serving the graphic arts in general and the printing industry quite specifically.

The Printing House has clocked up its 20th year not as a scramble to a finishing line – but as the early stages of a marathon run. A new generation is now in command who view these 20 years partly as an excellent achievement, but more as a waypoint on a path that will go for further decades.

Reaching this milestone, The Printing House learned along the way that it needed to anticipate forces of change as much as to react top them. Also 20 years does of course build up skills in this respect, but the lesson best learned from 20 years of publishing excellence is a need to eliminate complacency. Most people would accept the concept that lessons don’t live in a vacuum; they are given as well as received and behave like a two-edge sword. Twenty years of serving the printing industry lays down a rich patina of experience and a publishing house by its very nature is both archival and hoarder, so why not at least for a short time, be indulgent and put a publisher’s hat on, take a ringside seat and look back at the past 20 years from a printing industry perspective. A few laughs will be in order; sadness will be there as over the two decades technology’s fearsome but inexorably advancing grip took ever more people from our industry. The indulgence of reviewing the past 20 years will be for those who love print, whether still in the industry, on its fringes or those who have advanced on to active retirement. Whatever the segment of the audience in which you sit, there is little doubt that memory buds will be stimulated.

See Part one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve and thirteen of – Pre-press – 20 years of change

See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6 of our blogs on Direct Mail and Transactional Print

School Prospectus Made Easy and Print Buying Direct are trading names of The Printing House Ltd. The Print Buying Direct brand was originally set up to protect the quality name of The Printing House of Crewe and Nantwich, Cheshire, Uk – recognised throught the North of England as a quality printers. Now Print Buying Direct has established itself over the last two years and has become a quality brand in its own right with very competitive prices nationally. We hope that School Prospectus Made Easy will follow in the same fashion and become a popular brand in its own right.

Print Buying Direct is one of the Uk’s leading suppliers of graphic design and print, based in the Crewe and Nantwich area of Cheshire (UK) but supplying all of the UK & Ireland. See our websites for more information on graphic design, brochures, business cards, appointment cards, leaflets, flyers, pamphlets, posters etc

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For more information please see our websites – especially our Printing Glossary – Printing A to Z – this makes a really useful guide for designers, printers, print buyers, college students etc.

Don’t forget The Printing House also specialise in Printing for Schools, especially School Prospectus, Secondary School Prospectus, College Prospectus, Primary School Prospectus & Sixth Form Prospectus. We have a vast range of experience design and print of primary, secondary, 6th form, college and universtity prospectus. Visit our School Prospectus Made Easy website to see examples of our work and more about our products. Our customer testimonials webpage is constantly being added to – please stop by and see our reviews.

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