Briefing

"Printing is part of life, but it requires skills,” said HRH The Duke of York at The Printing Charity’s 188th Annual Luncheon earlier this month.

It is one of the thorniest issues in business, and particularly in print, a sector that seems to have had more than its fair share of them – whether to pre-pack and what others think of those that do.

There is likely to be change ahead for printers that produce charity mailings after the government agreed to create a new register, the Fundraising Preference Service, to which members of the public...

The effects of a new law that requires retailers with more than 250 staff to charge shoppers 5p for each ‘single-use’ plastic carrier bag will take time to filter through, but could benefit UK...

Potential future uses for robots in the workplace hit the headlines recently as the result of a major BBC series, Intelligent Machines, looking at advances in artificial intelligence and robots.

This is a big year for Xaar. For a start, the Cambridge-headquartered inkjet developer is celebrating its 25th anniversary, providing the business with perfect opportunity to show-case its track...

For those in the business of direct marketing, perhaps the most elusive factor to pin down in any campaign is the concept of value.

Of all human possessions, one stands out as being our favourite. It is probably the object that spends more time with the average British adult than anything else, except a watch or jewellery. It is...

The Road Haulage Association has called it “mayhem” and charities, a humanitarian crisis. Whichever way you look at it the combination of a series of strikes by French ferry workers and migrants...

'Graphic is dead, long live packaging’ could well be the unofficial slogan of vast swathes of the paper and print industry at the minute, as companies reposition themselves to take advantage of...

Near-field communication (NFC) has been primed to become ‘the next big thing’ in technology circles for a few years now and it has been pushed further into the mainstream over the past few weeks with...

A specialist print finisher and bookbinder in the Midlands is rebranding to better promote its labour-intensive and oversized services.

It’s a situation that is polarising industry opinion. Three months on from the administration of most of Paperlinx UK, we’re now at the stage where print companies that had 90 days’ credit with the...

The collapse of the majority of Paperlinx’s UK operations has left a trail of destruction in its wake. But one of those whose business went under hopes lessons learned from the experience will ensure...

Independent research commissioned by paper pressure group Two Sides has revealed consumers much prefer to read news and magazine content, complicated information and bills in print rather than on...