About Us

Since 1908 three Directors have been specialists in the supply of quality photographic material to the offset and carto printing trade.

From the days of direct litho, then offset through to digital printing, we have been serving the needs of the printer, leading the field with novel innovations and inventions as highlighted below.

We have survived two World Wars, numerous recessions and the advent of the computer age, to bring you up to the minute, state of the art products required for today's discerning printer.

1908				Pumice Powder for litho stone; graining powder for zinc plates for offset printing

1920				Inks for offset printing

1926				Paste driers and ink for bronzing powder used for gold colouring of cigarette packets

1932				Formulation of deep etch coating for the imaging of zinc and copper plates

1936				Copolymerising of P.V.C. and acetate film to product Astrafoil, a montage sheet for printing multiple images onto an offset plate

1948				Astrafoil producted in commercial quantities to take over from glass

1955				Astrascribe revolutionises mapping, scribing, security designs, producing contour lines of polyester. Introducted as a one-time use montage sheet

Summary of product ranges (PDF download).