About Vision in Print
Vision in Print provides an industry-specific and cost-effective service to help printers and packaging manufacturers to proactively improve their own productivity and competitiveness. It achieves this goal with industry support and through a close relationship with the printing industry's trade bodies, suppliers and purchasers of print services.
The company was founded in April 2003 as a direct result of the DTI-funded Print 21 industry competitiveness study, published by the BPIF. This highlighted a number of strategic actions needed to keep the UK printing industry competitive against overseas production and alternative media.
Established as the Print and Packaging Industry forum, Vision in Print focuses on one of the two main recommendations of the Print-21 report - that companies must optimise productivity for longterm security and growth.
To achieve this goal, Vision in Print employs continuous improvement and Lean Manufacturing techniques, established in world-class manufacturing industries. With print- and packaging-based knowledge and a close working relationship with industry partners, it has developed a broad range of cost-saving programmes to help drive upwards the efficiency of the UK printing and packaging industries.
The programmes developed by Vision in Print cover a wide range of process improvement techniques with tailoring to companies of all sizes and production disciplines. In addition, the company provides a range of essential resources to support companies' own continuous improvement activities.