Printers

Tangent profits slide 80% in 'challenging year'

An "acute" decline in business card sales contributed to an 80.4% drop in pre-tax profits at Tangent Communications in the 12 months to 28 February 2015.

Government targets late payments with Small Business Conciliation Service

The government will create a new body to help settle disputes between small and large businesses, especially over late payment, as part of a new Enterprise Bill that will also target a further £10bn...

Q&A: Danny Narey Operations director, Adare

Danny has worked in print and mail for some 25 years. He rides a Harley Davidson Dyna Super Glide for leisure (like the one Jax rides in Sons of Anarchy, it says here). He has a grown-up daughter and...

60 seconds with Victoire Press

Victoire Press was formed in 1990 by Howard Seaber-Shinn and Tony Elliott, through an MBO of the Cambridgeshire County council print department. They moved it to Bar Hill, along with eight members of...

Don’t focus on the technology, sell the dream

The technology never used to matter. Not to the client. Printing was a dark art, something only a printer with ink in his veins could truly comprehend. As the buyer, you didn’t even try and work it...

‘My aim is always to find the next scalable business’

Tony Rafferty is chief executive of the rarest of beasts: a print PLC. However, while those three letters usually denote a faceless corporate behemoth, Grafenia is far from any of those things.

To the victors (and also to the runners up) go the spoils

Each year, the select few printers that win – and indeed even those who are shortlisted for – a PrintWeek Award have a similar story to tell: that any effort or expense that goes into entering the...

Datagraphic to host inkjet webinar ahead of Rialto install

Datagraphic will host a free, live webinar on the future of inkjet technology next week, including an introduction to the new Xerox Rialto 900 press.

Littlewoods catalogue dropped

Shop Direct has stopped printing the Littlewoods catalogue - after more than 80 years.

General Election 2015: Conservatives win shock majority

Print professionals have welcomed the Conservative victory after a surprise surge gave the party a majority in the House of Commons.