Disciplines

Me & my: HP Indigo 7600
To the maxim ‘be nice to people on your way up, because you’ll meet them on your way down’, director of FE Burman Paul Regan would add another piece of advice: ‘Be nice to everyone you work with,...

60-seconds with Dawkins Colour
London-based Dawkins Colour was formed 23 years ago when Ian Dawkins of IC Dawkins Typesetters and John Bodkin of Precise Litho & Scanning amalgamated their respective businesses.

Q&A: Adam Kill, account executive, Print 4, Nottingham
Adam has spent 17 years in print and has been with his partner Karen for a year longer than that, and they have three boys.

Overmatter: wild wayzgoose
Being dropped in the middle of the Lake District to compete in a bout of archery, axe-throwing and catapult-building might sound like a medieval re-enactment society’s special Olympics, but it was...

Business inspection: Adapting to touchy-feely demands
Adding B2C to existing B2B services boosted revenue, but was not without its challenges.

The public perspective
Did you know that the UK’s printing industry still generates around £14.1bn of revenue each year? Or that it is a significant part of the fourth-largest manufacturing sector in the UK by turnover?

Killer app: YPP steps up capacity for Race for Life challenge
Running – a tough mistress if you’ve nobody shouting encouragement from the sidelines. No wonder then that around 500,000 women will, over the next five months, be donning their trainers to run for a...

News UK set to extend contract work
News UK’s appointment of Tracey Hart to the new role of commercial director of operations this week is indicative of the publisher’s desire to grow its successful contract printing business as well as...

No print firm is too illustrious to fail
There’s no doubt that for the 100 staff at Butler Tanner & Dennis, the news that its book printing business is set to close will have come as a devastating blow.

Success with fabric may be cut from a different cloth
Fabric is both a synonym for textiles and the word for discussing the very essence of stuff. So it’s something of a paradox that in all the talk of printing textiles, the materials themselves are...