Disciplines

De La Rue develops tallow-free banknote substrate
De La Rue has confirmed it is reformulating its banknote polymer to exclude tallow and is also bidding to retain its British passport contract, as it released its full-year results.

No funds for Anton's unsecured creditors
Anton Group owed trade creditors £6.9m and had an estimated total shortfall of almost £13.4m when it collapsed earlier this year.

Researchers secure funds for 'Harry Potter-style' paper project
A university professor and his team have been awarded nearly £1.2m in funding from the Digital Economy programme to research and develop papers that would allow readers to 'interact' with printed...

Keep an eye open for warning signs
If you have spent many years driving the same roads, you will have become familiar with them, probably to the extent that you no longer need to check road signs or maps. Once-prominent landmarks now...

Don’t let late payers get the upper hand
Every business will, from time to time, encounter problems with late payment of its bills.

Prevent web piracy with preparation
Last week’s ransomware attack that forced the NHS to cancel operations and affected organisations as diverse as FedEx, Renault and the Russian interior ministry may have been unprecedented in scale,...

Wide-format community sets sail and anchors in party port
There was a buzz by the waterways of Hamburg earlier this month and it could only mean one thing, Hafengeburtstag was back!

Killer app: Footprint breathes life into hospital waiting room
In March, James Hempstead, managing director of Cambridge-based sign and graphics specialist Footprint Signs & Graphics, found himself making the unfortunate trip to Addenbrooke’s Hospital’s A&E...

60 seconds with Myprint Partners
Back in 2014, Myprint Partners co-founder Richard Green approached Ian McCloskey (pictured) who was working as sales manager within the industry, with an idea to set up a new printing company.

Q&A: Nicholas Russell, managing director, Cambridge Printers
We think Nicholas must be one of PrintWeek’s longest-standing readers as he’s been reading the magazine (and its forebears) for more than 50 years. He started out as a management trainee at the...