Briefing

There is a scene in the film version of Bret Easton Ellis’ gothic horror American Psycho where deranged executioner Patrick Bateman (played by Christian Bale) spouts to a club patron: “I’m into...

The European Court of Justice has backed the EU Tobacco Directive and told producers of packaging for tobacco products that they cannot use fancy substrates, designs or techniques to differentiate...

Newspapers and magazines can’t resist a royal special and the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II on 21 April was the perfect opportunity to go large, sometimes very large, on the subject of our...

Despite Brexit fears, weak global growth and ongoing government spending cuts, spending on marketing rose in the first quarter of this year, according to research by The Institute of Practitioners in...

A sell-out group of print buyers was given an expert run-through of the benefits of inserts, and how to get the best out of them at a recent DMA event.

Sometimes people say clever things, but only with the benefit of hindsight.

It was once the behemoth of paper merchanting with around 1,200 staff and almost 20 UK sites but 12 months ago, on, of all days, 1 April, the bulk of Paperlinx UK went into administration and the...

"It’s like composing a symphony and conducting an orchestra where none of the players have played together before, and they are all playing new instruments. For that to come together and turn into a...

With a reported share of just over 40% of the sheetfed market - significantly more than nearest challengers KBA and Komori combined – Heidelberg can be forgiven for primarily focusing on its core...

While it might have only been mentioned in hushed tones in Amsterdam, many exhibitors were a little nervous about the ‘Drupa effect’ on this year’s Fespa Digital, falling as it does in the same year...

Like racehorses, chomping at the bit to exit the starting gate, it seemed only a matter of seconds after the date of the long-awaited EU in-out referendum was announced that politicians were racing to...

Events at Tangent Communications were continuing to unfold as PrintWeek went to press, but despite the fluid situation one thing seems certain – one way or another there will be a new ownership...

For web-to-print giants Photobox, Truprint and Vistaprint, personalised print is their lifeblood, but it is a market that most commercial printers have either struggled to compete in or not entered at...

Desmond, Eva, Frank, Gertrude and Henry. They sound like a group of friendly pensioners you might meet down the pub or in a tea room, rather than a series of devastating storms that caused the worst...

It was the call every company director, involved in exports, hopes never to get – in 2010 Smith & Ouzman (S&O) was informed it was under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) – an...