Briefing

‘A new era for printing on cardboard’
Cast your mind back to Drupa 2016, and the plethora of inkjet systems for printing onto corrugated board that were either on show, or being talked about as future products.

Pay gap figures should prompt printers to walk the walk
Print has long been a man’s game. It doesn’t take a master statistician to deduce from visitor demographics at print trade shows or a walk across a press hall floor that the vast majority of those in...

Now is the time to act on the UK’s late payment culture
In his Spring Statement last month, chancellor Philip Hammond vowed to crack down on the UK’s late payment culture, issuing a call for evidence on how “the continuing scourge of late payments” can be...

Paper is on the up but support needed
Although it is hard to deny that the paper industry is going through a period of change, it remains an essential element of the economy.

Consolidation combats challenges
The opening months of 2018 have been dominated by news of consolidation among kit manufacturers.

Perfect storm drives ink price hikes
It’s unlikely to have escaped anybody’s attention that consumables costs have been steadily on the up lately.

Are we doing enough for the future of the industry?
National Apprenticeship Week begins as this issue hits readers’ desks, but its focus probably says more about our aspirations than the situation on the ground. The government has pledged to create 3...

Merger threatened by investor dissent
Fujifilm boss Shigetaka Komori has considerable form when it comes to taking on seemingly insurmountable challenges.

Extension of plain pack regs is ongoing concern for print
Packaging has barely been out of the news recently for various – usually plastic-related – reasons, but in the background there is an ongoing campaign for the introduction of more ‘plain packaging’...

Go South West: why printers love the vibrant city of Bristol
Print has been reaping the benefits of a flourishing creative industry in the South West of England’s biggest city, as have many ex-Londoners.

‘Currency’ normalises marketing mail
JICMail provides marketers with a long-overdue currency to support media planning.

Print parses programmatic problems
How far can a brand trust digital advertising?

Opportunities for optimism do exist if you can grab them
In the last issue of PrintWeek we posed the following question: ‘How optimistic are you about your business prospects in 2018?’

Review of 2017: December
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