StroudPrint

Stroud Printing Services was operating as a high-street copy shop and had its origins in the 1970s as a secretarial service. Perfect Choice Printers had a long history as a jobbing offset litho and letterpress printer. Under its previous name, Downfield Press, it had certainly been active back to the 1960s. Chris didn’t have a traditional printing background, but originally trained as an electronics engineer before spending many years responsible for the sales and marketing of high-tech capital goods.

For over seven years immediately prior to establishing StroudPrint he was employed in product managing, marketing and selling electronic pre-press systems, mainly for the packaging and textile printing sectors. In this role he was directly involved in the relatively new field of integrating desktop systems, e.g. Apple Mac computers, into pre-press workflows.

This saw him providing technical support and training to the graphics suppliers of companies such as Coca-Cola in the US and Tetra-Pak in Europe.