Brits may not have been first off the mark in print, in comparison with some of our neighbours, but their contribution to the craft has nevertheless been great

Fakes, forgeries and fabrications give printers a bad name and the fear of forgery was one of the reasons behind the 1637 Star Chamber Decree designed to prevent “abuses in printing seditious,...

Heritage professionals must act now to bring print, in all its guises, to the attention of the public now and for future generations.

With an increasing number of contactless payments being made, and the popularity of using mobile phones for managing money, it is easy to wonder whether the paper (or, nowadays, plastic) banknote...

Printers like to party, and for over 300 years the industry’s social gatherings have been referred to as a ‘waygoose’ or ‘wayzgoose’. Originally an evening feast with entertainment, the waygoose was...

Many current printing processes, although modern and cutting-edge, are simply the latest manifestations of processes that have been evolving for centuries.

Printing offices of the not-so-distant past were alive with the noisy mutterings of temperamental thousand-parted survivors from the golden age of machinery. Today these have been replaced by near...

It’s unlikely to have escaped many people’s attention that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, and across the country many events are taking place to...

We live in a high-tempo world that demands information in volume and delivered at speed. And to satisfy the public’s insatiable appetite for news, over the years manufacturers have developed newspaper...

PrintWeek knows better than most that adhering to the guiding principles of good typography can make or break a printed work - even if we don't always abide by all of them ourselves