Fifteen-plus years in trade printing means Manbir has worked just about every corner of the shop, litho sheetfed, web, digital, with a decade of that in prepress and production workflows. At Millenium Printing he laid out impositions and bindery schemes so jobs ran clean from file to finished piece, catching problems before they hit the folder. If a form can be nested tighter, he's already found the way.

Then there's the party trick: hand him a sheet and he'll call the stock and caliper by feel, no gauge, no spec sheet, one touch. Fifteen years of paper has rewired his fingertips. It's basically a magic trick, which would explain the wand in his photo. If anyone here has earned one, it's him.

Away from the office, he keeps score at everything: tennis is the standing fixture, poker and pool fill in the gaps, and weekends belong to football, watched from the couch and coached at full volume. Whether it's a sheet of paper, a hand of cards, or a tricky cut on the eight ball, Manbir works out the angles first and makes it look easy after.