Disciplines

Star product: HP Indigo 7800
HP’s top-of-the-line SRA3 model is fast and versatile.

Me & my: Komori Lithrone S429 H-UV
Climbing to the very top rung of a company’s management structure can be difficult for somebody who isn’t an expert in how all aspects of a business should be run. But fortunately for Harrogate-based...

60 seconds with Brio Design & Print Management
Managing director Tim Vernon began Brio after winning a contract to design, print and distribute a trade magazine for the direct selling Industry, which resulted in something of a specialism in the...

Overmatter: sauce matters
Fans of the Danny Baker show on BBC Radio 5 Live will be familiar with the sausage sandwich game, whereby Dan poses the question: “Red sauce, brown sauce or no sauce at all?” as the culmination of the...

Business inspection: Get your data security all locked up
For applications that demand customer data remains unassailable, PCI DSS is a prerequisite.

An ethical approach to the M&A game
Imagine being told the business you work for is being sold. Then imagine the horrible realisation that your new owner isn’t quite the business leader you had hoped he would be. Then imagine being...

Web’s decline has a way to go yet
It’s a depressing list, and a depressingly long one. The list (below) featuring a roll-call of more than 25 web offset printers that have closed since the year 2000 includes some of the industry’s...

Has Creditsafe put printers’ ratings at risk?
During the past month, a quiet crisis has been spreading across the print industry, sparked over the August bank holiday weekend by an upgrade to corporate credit report provider Creditsafe’s ratings...

Q&A: Darren Lyall, mailing operations manager, GI Solutions
Hats off to Darren who has become the first student to complete the BPIF’s graduate management programme. Apart from a six-week stint doing something dull in another industry, Darren has been in print...

Editor’s comment: Credit rate crashes put printers in A&E
If cash is the lifeblood of a business, then its credit rating could probably be best described as the heart monitor. And if your business’s ECG read-out flatlines, then it can be disconcerting to say...