About Tim

Tim served in nine Royal Naval Submarines from 1963 – 1979.

In 1983 Tim retired from the Royal Navy and founded the ‘Piccolo Press’ in Nairn, one of the most prestigious specialist printers in the UK. He was the editor of ‘Small Printer’, the monthly magazine of the British Printing Society, Chairman of the British Engraved Stationery Association (BESA) and a member of the British Printing Historical Society and the Oxford Guild of Printers. Until very recently he was also a trustee of the Scottish Print Archival Trust. I suppose he could be called a ‘Print Nutter’!

He now has a print-shop adjoining his house near Inverness and does most of his printing on a beautiful ‘Arab’ Platen, made in 1900, and a ‘Victoria’ parallel press, made in Germany in 1932. He also has two proofing presses and an Adana 8×5 with which he started printing in 1974.