Disciplines

JICMail’s impact assessed one year on

In January 2018, a new ‘currency’ for measuring advertising mail engagement was launched, finally enabling the third-largest media channel in the UK according to ad spend to be considered by marketers...

Time for an end to the hokey-cokey

I’m not going to lie, for the past few months when I sit down to write this comment, I do everything I can to avoid writing about Brexit.

Best of British: Building on a long legacy of imaging expertise

When PrintWeek writes the word ‘phoenix’, it’s usually code for a company that has risen out of failure with a shiny new legal identity, miraculously escaping pesky encumbrances like debts and...

60 seconds with Bluestar Print Finishers

Bluestar started in 1998 when MD Lee Harvey (pictured, right, with operator Ian Richardson) decided that after working as a manager for a few firms, he needed to do something more. “I approached a few...

Q&A: Victoria Elliott, business development, Datum

Victoria has been in sales for 20 years: five years within the printing industry and 15 years in the motor trade. She’s a single parent to a “beautiful 10-year-old daughter who keeps me on my toes”,...

Flexibility and timing are key to easy succession

When Terry Scanlon started his commercial print company, the day he finished work for good was not perhaps uppermost in his thoughts.

Come face to face with a sector driven by innovation

Doing business face to face has never been more important as it is today,” so says Rudi Blackett, SDUK portfolio director, as he and his team prepare to open the doors of the 2019 edition of Sign &...

Your network is only as secure as your weakest link

Earlier this month, Hydro, one of the world’s largest producers of aluminium, was forced to switch to manual operations at some of its 40 sites dotted around the world due to a severe ransomware...

Setting pay levels for fairness, dignity and productivity

By the time you read this, the UK’s National Living Wage will have risen from £7.83 per hour to £8.21 per hour, honouring a pledge made by chancellor Philip Hammond in his Autumn Budget.

Me & my: Muller Martini InfiniTrim

4edge was set-up back in 2003 to offer a solution for publishers to produce their back lists. When it started key to its proposition was a combination of cutting-edge finishing and digital printing...