With an estimated one billion Christmas cards sent each year in the UK alone, printers up and down the country are kept busy in the run-up to winter producing suitably festive designs.
Dorset Growth Hub has another £490,000 left to support growing businesses in the county. The organisation, funded by the European Regional Development Fund, started its Growth Grant scheme in 2018 and has paid 265 businesses a total of £1m, contributing to the creation of 552 jobs. The hub’s SME Recovery Grant, launched last September, has paid out £500,000 to 162 businesses. The Recovery Grant scheme is closed but the Growth Grant Scheme remains open, with £490,000 available for the rest of this year. The hub says it aims to get the money to the county’s most ambitious businesses. Recent recipients of Growth Grant funds have included the artisan sauce maker Weymouth 51; Blandford-based craft beer maker Barefaced Brewing; Fischer Panda, which makes generators in Verwood; Dorset Digital Print at Three Legged Cross; the upholstery and furnishing business Sonnaz Ltd in Wimborne; and Beatnik Decals, which makes decals for Volkswagen and camper vans.
Dorset Digital Print enhances creasing with Morgana spend Richard Stuart-Turner Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Dorset Digital Print has upped its finishing capabilities after investing in a Morgana AutoCreaser Pro 50.
Summers (L) with joint director Mark Gillard: We put it to work as soon as it was installed
The Wimborne-based printer has replaced an ageing Morgana DigiFold with the new machine, which was installed earlier this month. The kit will be used to crease both litho and digital work produced by the business.
Joint director Debbie Summers said: “We put it to work as soon as it was installed, creasing a six-page A4 brochure. A creaser is a critical tool in order to produce a clean, well folded printed product.”