The final entry deadline for the industry’s flagship awards scheme has been unveiled, offering print hopefuls two weeks to stake their claim on a highly coveted Printweek Prism.

The industry’s mood music lightened in October, as welcome good news outstripped the all-too-common doom and gloom in our monthly round-up of most read news articles.

The early-bird deadline for the Printweek Awards expires tomorrow, but there’s still plenty of time to enter the industry’s flagship awards scheme.

As usual the magazine opens with our news briefings which this time look back at Printing United and look forward to Power of Print, before analysing the worrying spike in industry insolvencies –...

Stora Enso’s president and CEO has commented after it was revealed that the company postponed payments to some suppliers by one week in the last weeks of June and September this year.

Our roundup of September’s biggest stories makes for a tough read in parts, but rest assured there was a smattering of good news to lighten the industry’s mood.

Printweek has launched its 2025 awards scheme under the strapline of ‘Festival of Print’ with, for the first time, early bird submissions eligible for one free entry.

The Knowledge Bank section of our ‘reassuringly confident’ issue then takes a peek at the complementary topic of industry confidence, where we ask a range of readers to share their thoughts on the...

If our most-read listicle is anything to go by, then August must be in the running for print’s cruellest month in 2024 because, much like with the UK summer, sunshine was in short supply.

While tribulations at two of the UK’s largest print groups topped last month’s ranking of our biggest stories, there were still reasons to be cheerful with a smattering of ramp-ups and start-ups.