Web to print

Rafferty steps down at Grafenia

Printing.com founder and Grafenia chief executive Tony Rafferty has stepped down from the business “by mutual consent” at the same time as it announced the sale of its Dutch business and warned on...

How the humble mobile phone will conquer W2P

On Valentines Day this year, a landmark moment in retail was reached: according to the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, the proportion of online retail traffic coming from mobile devices broke the 50%...

Take your print out of the gutter

In a market where even digital print is becoming commoditised, the once-humble bindery is emerging as the place to add value and hopefully restore profits. Short-run or one-off books and brochures can...

Profiting from web-to-print sans frontières

Their clients are pressing all the right buttons, but that’s not enough. John Scott and Stephen Neild, who formed Mauve Print Management from a modest barn conversion more than three years ago, have...

Smartphones can help drive new business to smart printers

Of all human possessions, one stands out as being our favourite. It is probably the object that spends more time with the average British adult than anything else, except a watch or jewellery. It is...

Tradeprint acquired by Cimpress

Global print-on-demand giant Cimpress has established its first UK manufacturing base with the acquisition of PrintWeek Company of the Year Tradeprint.

Has print climbed back to the top of the media pile?

When television sets started to become ubiquitous in the aftermath of the Second World War people warned that they heralded the death knell for radio. When CDs were launched in the 1980s they were...

New strategy at Grafenia

Grafenia has switched strategy and expects its Marqetspace and Nettl offerings to become “the mainstay” of the group’s business over the next three years.

Taking digital to the next level

Longridge Print sales director Mike Penfold is forthright about one shortcoming of print companies. “We work in communications yet many of us are rubbish at communicating,” he says. “We produce...

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.