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Iain Robertson appointed new Print Scotland President

With forty-seven years’ experience in the industry, Iain Robertson is appointed new Print Scotland President. Print Scotland, the trade association and the voice of Scotland’s graphic communication industry, has appointed Iain Robertson as President. He will serve a two-year term. Susan Graham, a senior executive at FLB Group Limited, has been appointed vice-President. Mr Robertson, Read more

James Taylor, named Apprentice of the Year 2019

James Taylor, 22, who works for Bell & Bain, one of the largest and oldest independent UK books, journal printers and binders in Scotland, has been named Apprentice of the Year at the 2019 Print Scotland Apprentice of the Year awards held in Glasgow earlier this month. James who grew up and still lives in Read more

Arran Rennie, Level 3 Post Press Apprentice of the Year 2019

Arran Rennie, 18, from Baillieston, has won the Level 3 Post Press Apprentice of the Year award at the 2019 Print Scotland Apprentice of the Year awards held in Glasgow earlier this month. Post Press is the award category covering physical printing, either lithographic or flexographic. A former pupil of Bannerman High School, Arran who Read more

Erin McCarthy, Pre Press Apprentice of the Year 2019

Dalry mum, Erin McCarthy, has won the accolade of Level 3 Pre Press Apprentice of the Year at the 2019 Print Scotland Apprentice of the Year awards held in Glasgow earlier this month. Currently on maternity leave from Amer Sports in Irvine, North Ayrshire, where she undertakes logo design related work, Erin is the mother Read more

James McCredie, Level 3 Post Press Apprentice of the Year 2019

James McCredie, 23, from Glasgow, has won the Level 3 Post Press Apprentice of the Year award at the 2019 Print Scotland Apprentice of the Year awards held in Glasgow earlier this month. The award category relates to post pressing work, namely mechanised print finishing. James, who attended Woodfarm High School on Glasgow’s south side Read more

Louise Docherty, Print Administration Apprentice of the year 2019

Louise Docherty, 26, has won the accolade of Print Administration Apprentice of the year, at the 2019 Print Scotland Apprentice of the Year awards held in Glasgow earlier this month. A graduate in cellular biology from Stirling University before finding her niche as a printing trade apprentice. She has worked for three years at Bell Read more

Outstanding Scottish print industry apprentices are honoured at annual awards ceremony

Print Scotland, the trade association and voice of Scotland’s graphic communication industry, has held its fourth annual Scottish Print Apprentice of the Year awards. The occasion is part of its mission to represent the Scottish print community and to highlight the profile of future leaders of the industry. Garry Richmond, Director of Print Scotland, said: Read more

Dismay in the Scottish print industry as another major Government contract goes beyond our shores

It is not edifying – in fact, it is deeply unsettling – to see a once strong and dynamic Scottish industry in a state of apprehension, not to say fear, about its future. But that is the pass at which we have arrived as Scotland’s print industry, which employs between 4,000 and 6,000 people, waits Read more

Uncertainty for the Scottish print industry as procurement plan threatens to exclude smaller firms

Scotland’s print industry, which employs between 4,000 and 6,000 people, is facing a watershed moment which could see it continue to grow, create jobs and contribute to the country – or see it stopped in its tracks. There are, thankfully, few occasions in which a single event or initiative can have such a dramatic impact Read more

Apprentices Awards 2018 herald an exciting future for Scotland’s revitalised print industry

Print Scotland, the trade association and voice of Scotland’s graphic communication industry, has held its third Annual Scottish Print Apprentice of the Year Award. The occasion is part of its mission to represent the Scottish print community and to highlight the profile of future leaders of the industry. Garry Richmond, Director of Print Scotland, said: Read more