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Tattum (L) with RAP Spiderweb MD Diane Horsfall: "It's changed the business"

RAP Spiderweb uses CBILS for Komori investment

RAP Spiderweb has taken on a new Komori GL29 four-colour plus coater after Close Brothers Asset Finance funded the purchase using the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).

Printing Outlook report: 74% of printers saw their output decline in Q2

Industry output and orders sink to new depths in Q2

The UK print and printed packaging industry hit a record low in the second quarter of 2020, but some improvement is expected in Q3.

The Arizona 1380 XT will enable Claremon to expand into new markets

Claremon eyes new revenue streams with move into wide-format

Claremon has added wide-format printing to its in-house service offering after investing in a Canon Arizona 1380 XT and a Zünd G3 cutter.

CCM has donated 10,000 children's face masks

CCM in children's masks donation drive

CCM Group has donated 10,000 face masks specifically manufactured for children to a raft of organisations across the UK.

Ghent: "We all have one common goal, which is to help the entire community"

Minuteman helps local firms bounce back

Minuteman Press in Bath has been helping local businesses continue to trade through the coronavirus pandemic after launching a community website, ‘Bounce Back Bath and NE Somerset’.

For the first time in two decades, year-end sales have fallen at the group

Cimpress: resilient but “far from where we want to be”

Cimpress founder Robert Keane has described the effects on business of the Covid-19 pandemic as akin to being “punched hard in the stomach”.

Commission accomplished

Every commercial operation needs good salespeople if they are to sell their products, but while pay can be easier to set for some employees, it has been notoriously difficult to create a commission...

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...

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...

This year's PoP event will be hosted online

Power of Print goes online

This year’s annual Power of Print seminar is to embrace the power of digital and be hosted online to ensure it’s not impacted by the Coronavirus restrictions.