Printing and Creative industries

The print industry is a specialist sector and comprises of many specialist trades and skills. From general lithographic printing to print-finishing, design, advertising and marketing. Each of these businesses have their specific nuances and reoccurring trends.


If you are a printer or involved with the creative industries, you can be sure that you will at some point require support from financial experts who can assist you: identifying environmental business tax benefits and offering advice when it will be best to make those large technical investments and how they can be best funded.

If you are looking for an accountancy practice that is familiar with the printing and creative industry sectors, then look no further! Dealing with business large and small, we provide expert advice to our clients in what is an extremely competitive sector.


Cartwrights can provide both business advisory and management accounts services, as well as more compliance-based services including bookkeeping, payroll, VAT returns, year-end accounts production and a full range of tax services. As registered auditors we are also large enough to deal with this field too.

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