Business Inspection

Buckingham Colour Quest (BCQ) started with a bang literally. The blast at the Buncefield oil storage depot in Hertfordshire, to be precise, in 2005. The damage this inflicted on B2 litho and digital...

If there are two things printers notoriously lack, and dont often do anything to improve, its their management and marketing skills. Fortunately for HPM Creative Solutions (or Hillprint as it used to...

When Rod Willett returned to academic book specialist Biddles as managing director in 2004, he knew he was facing a challenge. His first priority was to turn the failing company around, but how could...

There is nothing pretentious about HSW Print. The 6m-turnover general commercial printer is reckoned by its managing directors, Malcolm and David Hackman, to be a common-or-garden, bog-standard...

Spiralling paper prices have forced many printers to find new ways to cut costs in their supply chain and, with the web printers muscling in its sheetfed work, Banbury-based Stones the Printers is no...

When printer Henry Burt joined forces with Newnorth in 1976 the former had been in operation for more than 100 years. The firm had a solid foundation, but also, perhaps, a rather old-fashioned...

While printers are accustomed to the idea that they must constantly invest in order to survive, they are less amenable to the idea that a thriving print operation cant rely on technology alone. Print...

Production management software has simplified scheduling, turned around turnaround times and made meeting deadlines a dream.