The B&P Lightbrigade Group is active in all areas of wide format digital printing. Founded in 1982 we have been at the forefront of graphics technology from the first analogue photo modifiers used in the screenprint industry, we then adopted digital print and have often been the first UK supplier to bring groundbreaking new products new market, theses include the first ever Encad Novajet installation in the UK, the first Rastergraphics electrostatic installation, the first UV flatbed; in fact take a look at out History Timeline and you will see that we have consistently been the first to market with the products that make a genuine difference to our market.

Our core business within the B&P Lightbrigade Group include our equipment and consumables sales divisions, of which this is the website, our Uniform Digital division which creates the UK’s most successful large format solvent inkjet printers including the Cadet and Grenadier. We also own Tradebrigade, the largest ‘all digital’ superwide format print production facility in the UK.

Use our Business to Build your Business

As part of the B&P Lightbrigade Group we do not try to hide the fact that we are a supplier of both print equipment and print services, in fact it is this unique ability to cover all of the bases that makes us stand out from the ordinary suppliers who sell systems or print without having a full understanding of the whole digital print process. We are at the leading edge of digital print whichever way you look at it.

The unique structure of our business, all of which is fundamentally geared towards supplying a professional service to the sign, screen and display graphics trade, means we can offer a genuinely unique, and well proven business proposition to our customers.

Our philosophy as a trade supplier is simple and easily understood, we use trade print to allow our system customers to bridge the gap between the equipment they buy today and the equipment they envisage installing in the future.

We can take a customer from his first steps into digital printing through to the point where they have genuine industry expertise, often with their own multi-million pound print facility. Whilst to some this might seem like a pipe dream, it is in fact a path that we have trodden with a large number of our customers.

As an example of this we can cite a well known Manchester based large format specialist that has been a B&P customer since his first foray into digital with a water based inkjet printer. Already established in the vinyl signage market using Macs and PC’s alongside vinyl cutting plotters, we installed an inkjet printer at his facility and supported his business by filling the gaps in his production capabilities with our own in-house print equipment. This enabled him to build a customer base of wide format print consumers to the point where it made sense for him to purchase an additional solvent based printing system. The pattern was replicated again, with us providing grand format ultra-wide print as a trade service. Again his customer base was built up, using our ability to produce grand format print to unlimited size, to the point where his business could fund the purchase of it’s own grand format system. In 2002 B&P Lightbrigade installed a 3.2 metre wide ScitexVision grand format printer into his Manchester facility. This dynamic young businessman now owns one of the UK’s most successful wide format digital print factories. We are proud to have been involved in the support and development of his business right from the outset.

This story is replicated right across the UK, with many of the largest suppliers of digital print, starting off as, and remaining today, customers of the B&P Lightbrigade Groups varied yet totally logical and highly compatible business solutions.

Even if your target is not reflected in the above pattern, perhaps you simply want to work from home, producing high quality graphics to a niche market, we can still provide the right products, sufficient training, correctly matched ink and media, and an ongoing support service that will help to ensure everything you print is of the best possible quality.

So whether you are just sticking your toe in the digital water prior to investing in your first system, or you want us to help you bridge the gap between your first system and your next system, talk to us, we can offer you practical guidance that can help you to make the right choices.