The Company

J. B. Fowler (Precision Stimuli) is an independent, family-run company now in its second generation of ownership. The firm is managed by a small team of production specialists, archivists, and client relations professionals with an average tenure exceeding fifteen years.

An old special press machine on a wooden table in a traditional workshop, representing the heritage craftsmanship of a long-established printing firm.

Traditional press equipment. The firm has operated continuously since 1968, maintaining mechanical precision standards that span more than five decades of production.

Personnel

Dr. Cordelia March

Director of Ethics and Commercial Partnerships

Dr. March oversees the firm's standards partnerships, commercial relationships, and ethical governance framework. Her relationship with J. B. Fowler predates her current role: in 2013, as co-founder of Inkpot Games, she commissioned the firm to produce eight inkblot cards for the board game Percept (print run: forty-seven copies). She subsequently worked with the company in client relations and standards compliance before moving to the Institute for Projective Sciences and founding the Perceptual Analytics Group and Obscura. She returned to J. B. Fowler as Director of Ethics and Commercial Partnerships in early 2024. She also serves as Director of Research Integrity at the Institute for Projective Sciences.

Production & Operations

Press operators, finishing specialists, quality assurance technicians

Average tenure exceeding fifteen years. Production team members are not individually profiled, consistent with the confidentiality practices that govern all aspects of the firm's operations.

A woman preparing a printer in a workshop, calibrating the machine for a production run.

Press preparation. Every operator is trained in both mechanical operation and colour calibration to CIE L*a*b* reference standards.

Archival Team

Conservators, cataloguing specialists

Trained in assessment-material-specific preservation protocols. Responsible for condition assessment, preventive conservation, digital cataloguing, and access control.

Company Chronology

1968
J. B. Fowler established in London. First premises: a single printing room with one offset press. First commission: stimulus cards for a perceptual classification study.
1972
First archival contract: production and storage of materials for a multi-site longitudinal study. The original materials remain in storage and are accessed periodically.
1975
First international client engagement in the Netherlands, establishing cross-border quality assurance protocols.
1982
Awarded ISO 9001 certification, one of the first specialist printers in the sector to achieve the standard.
1998
Construction of dedicated climate-controlled archival storage wing, designed in consultation with conservation specialists from two national archives.
2006-2010
Investment in high-resolution scanning equipment and development of digital asset management protocols.
2013
Production of eight inkblot cards for Inkpot Games' title Percept. Print run: 47 copies. The smallest production run in company history.
2019
Commenced digitisation of the Institute for Projective Sciences' 4.7M protocol archive. Project ongoing.
2024
Completed thorough review of acquisition procedures in response to sector-wide assessment material governance developments. Enhanced vetting protocols implemented.

Facility

Archival documents stored in a standardised documentation department, showing rows of organised institutional records.

Archive of standardised documentation. The firm's archival wing maintains 18°C ±1°C and 45% ±5% RH with HEPA filtration and inert-gas fire suppression. Swipe-card access with dual-custody protocol for restricted materials.

The firm operates from a single facility in London comprising production areas, finishing rooms, quality assurance stations, and the climate-controlled archival storage wing constructed in 1998. The archival wing maintains 18°C plus or minus 1°C and 45% plus or minus 5% relative humidity, monitored at fifteen-minute intervals with automated alerting on threshold breach. HEPA air filtration. UV-filtered lighting throughout storage areas. Inert-gas fire suppression; no water-based suppression in storage areas. Swipe-card access with individual identification and surveillance. Restricted materials stored under dual-custody protocol.