Industry bodies
Unite and CPI agree 3% pay increase
Unite and the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) have agreed an across the board salary increase in this year's national pay agreement.
In-plants blur the boundaries between public and private
Rarely has an iGen purchase caused such a furore as that of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) print services division.
St Ives settles over data misuse wrangle
Two former employees of St Ives have agreed to pay the PLC £90,000 in damages after they admitted sharing confidential information with two directors at Inspired Thinking Group (ITG).
BPIF backs FSB call for help for small firms
BPIF public affairs adviser Andrew Brown has cautiously backed the Federation of Small Businesses' (FSB) calls for the government to "think small" in order to catalyse job creation.
'We're not Manroland' - nonetheless, recovery will be hard
Kodak never does anything the easy way. Last week's Chapter 11 filing - in the dead of night - was a case in point. The lack of surprise at an announcement that had been anticipated since September...
What will be the theme for Drupa 2012?
Previous Drupas have been defined by a dominant technology trend. Last time, in 2008, it was 'the inkjet Drupa' and prior to that the show has been defined as 'the JDF Drupa', 'the digital Drupa',...
Matar: challenges to come, but great opportunities too
Drupa has dismissed concerns that Manroland's insolvency and Kodak's filing for Chapter 11 has dampened enthusiasm for this year's show.
Work smarter - not harder
As the possibilities and the range of applications in the world of printing, including digital, continue to expand, the manufacturers of finishing machines are having to keep pace by delivering...
Driving movable data in the right direction
'Printing using movable type' has turned into 'printing using movable data'. It has been almost eight years since Heidelberg CEO Bernhard Schreier paraphrased Gutenberg's invention to describe the...
Litho and digital - a complementary mix
Today it is becoming much more common to find printers using more than one printing technology. In most cases this is adding sheet fed digital printing to complement a predominantly offset printing...