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‘It’s all about return on investment’
Earlier this month, The Printing Charity, in partnership with Ricoh, took the opportunity presented by its annual luncheon to organise a roundtable discussion on how the industry can prepare for...

DS Smith opens first UK PackRight Centres
Packaging giant DS Smith has opened its first two UK PackRight Centres, enabling customers to work with packaging experts to design and build new or improved packaging prototypes.

Personnel changes at RRD
RR Donnelley has parted company with two senior executives alongside an unspecified number of redundancies at the group.

Q&A: Jamie Court, managing director, Clinical Print Finishers
Jamie has worked in print finishing for 23 years. He’s married to Kathy and they have two children, Charlie aged six and Abi aged four.

60 seconds with H&H Reeds Printers
The company originally started in 1878 as Reeds, a small family firm of printers and stationers based in Penrith in Cumbria. It remained in the same hands until 2006 when the now managing director...

Government raises concerns on position of migrant workers in UK
It was one step too far from a government that is becoming too well-versed in u-turns. Newly-appointed home secretary Amber Rudd, in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference at the start of...

‘2017 is really going to be a pivotal year’
Following a torrid period when his beloved Printed.com could have ended up in the arms of another, founder Nick Green looks back on an “exceptionally hard” year, while looking forward to bigger and...

Call for memories of Monotype's Beatrice Warde
A PhD candidate is searching for post-war printing industry apprentices of the 1950s and 1960s who have personal memories of Monotype’s legendary publicity manager, Beatrice Warde.

Don’t let the funding maze deter skills goals
When printing giant Polestar shut its doors for the last time earlier this year, it wasn’t just the trade for its various high-profile clients that rivals were clamouring over – its staff were in...

Q&A: Daniel Reed Designer, The Cafeteria Studio
Sheffield-based Daniel specialises in design and typography, and his enthusiasm for all things print-related is such that outside of his day job he works on other projects and has created four new...