Sawyer, who started as an order clerk before becoming sales director and then managing director in 1997, said: “When I joined I had been working for the original owner on Saturday’s, sweeping the floors and doing a bit of painting. Once I started I knew this was the right company for me. “The biggest change has been digital: I went to Ipex in the mid 80s, was shown my first colour copier and told ‘it will never catch on’. The other big change has been the slow demise of sprocket-fed material for dot-matrix printers. It’s still out there but not as much.” RM (Rotary) Services employs a dozen staff in Havant, Hampshire, and sells equipment including punches, litho blankets, spare parts, consumables and accessories to business forms and label sectors. A third of business is international, with customers in Malaysia, Ghana and Nigeria. “If it punches holes, perforates, cuts paper or labels then we probably do it,” said Sawyer. “I enjoy the varied roles but most of all I like dealing with customers. My children think I’m crazy when I analyse a car parking ticket or a business form to see if it was done with some of our spare parts.”...

Sawyer, who started as an order clerk before becoming sales director and then managing director in 1997, said: “When I joined I had been working for the original owner on Saturday’s, sweeping the floors and doing a bit of painting. Once I started I knew this was the right company for me. “The biggest change has been digital: I went to Ipex in the mid 80s, was shown my first colour copier and told ‘it will never catch on’. The other big change has been the slow demise of sprocket-fed material for dot-matrix printers. It’s still out there but not as much.” RM (Rotary) Services employs a dozen staff in Havant, Hampshire, and sells equipment including punches, litho blankets, spare parts, consumables and accessories to business forms and label sectors. A third of business is international, with customers in Malaysia, Ghana and Nigeria. “If it punches holes, perforates, cuts paper or labels then we probably do it,” said Sawyer. “I enjoy the varied roles but most of all I like dealing with customers. My children think I’m crazy when I analyse a car parking ticket or a business form to see if it was done with some of our spare parts.”...

Autobiography covers the 54-year old former Smiths frontman’s life from his birth in Manchester on 22 May 1959 to the present day. Penguin agreed to publish the 480pp title under the respected Classics imprint, ranking it alongside works from the like of Thomas Hardy, Samuel Beckett, William Blake, Robert Burns and William Shakespeare. On its website the publisher noted: “Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status the Morrissey has reached in his lifetime.” It added that in 2006 Morrissey was voted the second greatest living British icon after David Attenborough by BBC viewers. Penguin Classics was started in 1946 with the classicist and publisher E.V.Rieu’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey and has since grown to 1,200 titles and spawned two more imprints: Modern Classics and Red Classics....

Autobiography covers the 54-year old former Smiths frontman’s life from his birth in Manchester on 22 May 1959 to the present day. Penguin agreed to publish the 480pp title under the respected Classics imprint, ranking it alongside works from the like of Thomas Hardy, Samuel Beckett, William Blake, Robert Burns and William Shakespeare. On its website the publisher noted: “Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status the Morrissey has reached in his lifetime.” It added that in 2006 Morrissey was voted the second greatest living British icon after David Attenborough by BBC viewers. Penguin Classics was started in 1946 with the classicist and publisher E.V.Rieu’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey and has since grown to 1,200 titles and spawned two more imprints: Modern Classics and Red Classics....

Managing director Rob King said the technology was targeted at photobooks but his company in London’s Docklands was using it for short-run print for bids and tenders because it offered “eye-popping” quality. A “good” finance package from LumeJet sealed the deal, he said, although he would not reveal details. The S200 photonic digital printer is LumeJet’s first commercial offering. The inkless technology works in a similar way to an inkjet using light, rather than ink, to make dots less than 0.005mm on silver halide-based media. It has a maximum print size of 1,000x305mm. “The LumeJet S200 is a unique new printer and we’re looking forward to building a market for its amazing output,” said King. “It’s not high volume or super fast but it’s ideal for bespoke work in runs of one to 10 or so with amazing ‘wow factor’ around the boardroom table. That’s its niche.” His business had no big problems in the test phase, but the kit ran better at constant temperatures. Producing a high-value book could add about 50p/page to costs, putting £40 on an 80-page copy, which was why “the public must be made aware of the great quality – it’s better than an Indigo”. King said the kit arrived with a swatch of 20 papers and he would like capacity to run more. He suggested the 12″ depth of the kit could benefit from being twice as deep, while the ability to reverse print would cut the need to mount everything on boards. The LumeJet S200 arrived at Altaimage’s Canary Wharf premises at the end of July and has been running since the beginning of August. The photonic technology is a little different from Altaimage’s other, more conventional ink or toner printers, he said. “The print quality is fabulous, quite unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Fantastic photographs, eye-popping colours, sharp text and line art. Any agency using iPads for client presentations should get the prints made on it. It’s the hard-copy equivalent of a retina screen.”...