Castle Printing

The present partners of Castle Printing Company can trace their printing heritage back to 1906 when John Castle decided to start his own printing business behind a small shop in Romford, Essex after finishing his apprenticeship with a local firm, a bold step indeed for a young man. The next step forward was nearly as bold as that of John Castle when the present partners, Richard and Roger Castle, the founder’s grandsons, seeing the tremendous growth in continuous stationery, ordered, in 1984, their first web fed continuous machine to produce short run computer stationery. Spending over four times as much money on one machine than ever before, the risks were high, but the potential great. This market took off very quickly and Castle Printing Company became one of the leading suppliers of this type of product to the trade in the South East, gradually adding more machinery and ancilliary equipment to increase the amount of forms that could be produced in house. During the 15 years the market remained strong, but after the millenium continuous stationery began to decrease as windows driven software became more popular and laser printers using A4 sheets began to replace dot matrix tractor driven printers. To combat this the company started to produce A4 sheets direct from their web presses and also installed a Bowe sheeter to enable books, pads and sets to be produced using the web fed presses.