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{{B}}MULTICOPY
PRINTING Martin Charlesworth pays a visit to discover the secret of Success at a busy printing firm.{{/B}} From designing and printing corporate brochures and business cards to photocopying students' essays it's all in a day's work for Multicopy Printing. The family-run firm is one of the most successful printing, copyshop and design offices in the region. Although it is a {{U}}(19) {{/U}} small company, it thinks big. The company has made a considerable{{U}} (20) {{/U}}in high-tech machinery to {{U}}(21) {{/U}} up in this rapidly changing industry. The company's success has recently enabled it to modernise and {{U}}(22) {{/U}} its premises. Multicopy's Managing Director, Colin Marsh, says, 'It was very {{U}}(23) {{/U}} before. We may get up to two tonnes of paper delivered a day and we were running out of space to {{U}}(24) {{/U}} it. Now, we're the only business in this area {{U}}(25) {{/U}} a print service from start to finish all under one roof. A vast amount of work can be {{U}}(26) {{/U}} in a very short space of time.' The firm was {{U}}(27) {{/U}} up 22 years ago by Colin's father, who was the area manager for a national {{U}}(28) {{/U}} of printers before deciding to go into business on his own. In those days, it was mostly small printing {{U}}(29) {{/U}} such as letterheads and photocopying. The business grew rapidly in the mid-1980s with the {{U}}(30) {{/U}} of new technology. Nowadays the core photocopying business is high-volume, sometimes up to 300,000 copies for one job, and it often needs to meet {{U}}(31) {{/U}} deadlines for commercial outlets. But despite Multicopy's recent success, it has not forgotten its {{U}}(32) {{/U}} and part of the everyday {{U}}(33) {{/U}} still consists of doing small numbers of photocopies for members of the general public. |