Printer readies to roll

H & A Print will be settled in a different and much more efficient building in two months' time, Ed Boyd says.

"The idea is to make it a lot more efficient so that we can produce a lot more."

The printing business acts as a broker for print jobs and specialises in booklets and magazines. It has 15 staff and prints six magazines on contract - three of them on the subject of cars.

Its current building in Wilson St had great landlords but the layout made staff run around in circles, Mr Boyd said.

The new place was previously the home of McVerry Crawford's Wanganui branch, which closed last year.

Building contractors Keith Turner and Mike Marshall have been working on it for three weeks so far. They are joining some parts of the building together, partitioning off rooms and adding a ceiling to a large rear workspace.

The total size of the finished building will be 740 square metres, including a $300,000 extension at the back.

The finished building will have a 50 per cent larger shop space, with more room to sell office stationery. There will be separate rooms for a digital press, for an office and for design staff.

There will be windows between the spaces so that customers can see print staff at work - something Mr Boyd said a lot of people were curious about.

The business will get a new logo when staff move in.

It's the first time Mr Boyd has owned and designed the layout of a building for the business, and he's hoping he's got everything right.

H & A Print had has a lot of moves. It started in Guyton St in 1975, moved to Indus St in 1983 and then to its present location in Wilson St in the late 1980s.