Throughout the 70’s and early 80’s Formara had built an enviable reputation for producing black and white printed products such as manuals and training books. But that was going to change in an extraordinary way.

Formara was commissioned to produce A4 posters depicting the tomb of Tutankhamun which would be sold at an exhibition of King Tut’s treasures in London. Simple by today’s standards with all our modern print equipment but a very different story in 1985-Formara.

The Challenge was set...

To print Tutankhamun in 4 colour process using a printing press that is built to only print one colour – piece of cake! Oh yes, and we forgot to mention that our single colour press is only designed to print A4, so there was none of the stuff that makes a printer’s life easier today. No cut marks or registration marks, no colour bars, no bleed*, no chance…

Like most challenges thrown at Formara over the years, we rose to the occasion and inked up the press. Even if we do say so ourselves, the results were pretty impressive