Disciplines

Gray: "For the first time we really are a team"

Business Inspection: Make a strong recovery

In the late noughties, Mark Gray was running a profitable Manchester print business producing educational material, but with the market flagging due to new technological capabilities in schools, Gray...

Escaped snooker for career in print

Q&A: Anthony Harris, managing director, Mainstream Print

Former snooker pro Anthony has now spent 25 years in the industry. He describes his hobbies as “Snooker, walking and Aston Villa”. He’s married to Tracey, and they have two children, Thomas (21) and...

"No two days are the same"

Rising star: Emily Clarke, key account executive, Graphic Packaging International, Leeds

Emily is 26 and has just notched up her fourth year in print, having joined the industry by chance. This year she became the first person to achieve a BPIF Level 5 distinction in her chosen...

Peeling: “Scodix enhancement celebrates the physicality of printing”

Me & my: Scodix Ultra 101

At the beginning of this year Precision Printing installed the UK’s first Scodix Ultra 101 digital enhancement inkjet at its Dagenham site, replacing the older of its two existing Scodix S75 models....

Emmerson: “Our original press will run and run, no question. However, we will be more productive and faster with our new one”

Me & my: Fujifilm Jet Press 750S

Buying a new car after three years if a newer model comes out, isn’t all that unusual. Swapping a near-million-pound digital press for a newer model after three years, is less common. Still, Jamie...

Burneside Mill: James Cropper founded the mill that bears his name in 1845

Best of British: James Cropper

Moving with the times has helped this long-standing British mill stay on top.

Only connect: pulling all the pieces together

It is the nature of a management information system that it has to connect with various other systems within a printing business from all sorts of vendors and across disciplines, from pre-press to...

Heidelberg Cylinder: still in use at many print businesses

Built to last

In the old days, printing machines were made to last. They were cleaved from solid chunks of metal and essentially built like brick outhouses. Despite technological advances making many of these old...

Schinlever: "I’m going to bring back a lot of good lessons to EFI"

Inkjet: an embarrassment of riches

Printweek talks to EFI inkjet COO Scott Schinlever about his return to, and ambitions for, the company.

Steele: Measures must take company values and culture into account

20 lessons learned during lockdown for prospering amid the new normal

While some print firms were shuttered during lockdown, others have kept going throughout. Dr Adrian Steele, managing director at Staffordshire-based Mercian Labels shares some of the changed workplace...