The Marstan Press Ltd was founded in 1954 by the late Stanley Lett. Marstan started life as a Letter Press firm, based in Bexleyheath with a staff of just 5.
In the late 1960's Martin Lett (Snr) joined the company, working his apprenticeship before joining the management team.
Marstan moved into the Litho printing market in the early 1970's following the purchase of a Heidelberg GTO press, this revolutionised the print industry with it’s huge advances in productivity.
Martin Lett (Snr) became Managing Director in 1983 and led the company through a period of rapid expansion, bringing print finishing in-house following the purchase of our second factory unit in Princes Street.
The move into the full colour market in the late 1980's was responsible for further growth, creating the need to invest in our own reprographics facilities in the early Nineties. In 1994 Marstan purchased it’s third factory, providing the space necessary for warehousing and our move into the direct mail market.
The early part of the new millennium saw a period of consolidation in difficult market conditions. In 2005 the third generation of the Lett family joined the company when Stephen Lett started in the reprographics department, followed by his older brother Martin in 2006 following his time at Loughborough University.
2007 saw several exciting developments with the achievement of FSC Certification in April, (at the time one of only around 100 printers to achieve this) followed by the purchase of our first long perfecting 10 colour Heidelberg Press in May. The year was capped off in December with the installation of Heidelberg’s Image Control Colour Management System on our presses, a system which guarantees the colour accuracy and consistency on every job.
During 2008 with made multiple investments in our finishing department, including a Polar flow-line Guillotine, 3 new folders and sequential numbering and inline gluing facilities.
2009 saw Marstan Press take it's first steps into digital printing with the purchase of an OKI EasiPrint System and a Morgana Creaser in January. This was followed by an OCE CS665 in April and a Xerox 7000AP in October. Thanks to the success of this new digital print division, the year was ended with the investment in the XMPie Personalisation Software and the launch of our PrintPro Online Ordering System.
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