Briefing
Print can profit from the unboxing fad
Online ‘unboxing’ videos are said to attract billions of views each year on YouTube and other content sharing platforms such as Instagram and Twitter, and can be incredibly lucrative for their...
Extravaganza celebrates wide -format power and potential
Returning to Messe Munich for the first time in five years, Fespa’s 2019 show tied together its sprawling threads with a single, simple core idea: possibility.
Is the future of your business in the hands of your staff?
Employee ownership schemes, which take the form of trusts, share programmes and co-operative structures, are not common in the UK.
Virtues of print hailed at comms event
Leading lights from the creative digital industries in the north of England and beyond converged at the Rose Bowl in Leeds last month to hear about the latest trends, developments and technological...
Attitudes have evolved but infrastructure is still lacking
While the well documented ‘Blue Planet effect’ has undoubtedly helped to raise awareness, consumer and business recycling rates had been on an upward trajectory even before the screening of this...
‘Somehow this has to be resolved’
Leaver, Remainer, Hard Brexit, Soft Brexit, People’s Vote – no matter your opinion I’m sure we can all agree if we ran our businesses like the government is ‘running’ this farce it would be CVAs,...
JICMail’s impact assessed one year on
In January 2018, a new ‘currency’ for measuring advertising mail engagement was launched, finally enabling the third-largest media channel in the UK according to ad spend to be considered by marketers...
Setting pay levels for fairness, dignity and productivity
By the time you read this, the UK’s National Living Wage will have risen from £7.83 per hour to £8.21 per hour, honouring a pledge made by chancellor Philip Hammond in his Autumn Budget.
Continuous-feed inkjet sector finds success with automation
A variety of technology advances moved the conversation forward at Swiss manufacturer Hunkeler’s specialist trade show in Lucerne.
Firms tackle negative eco-assumptions
Government urged to reconsider detrimental messaging around green credentials of printed matter.
Digital needs to inspire the brands
Kodak’s drive to bolster its share of the packaging sector, as voiced in the summer of 2017, seemed unlikely to be followed by the sale of the division most specifically targeted at that sector,...
Women at work – the push for gender diversity in print
Emily Faithfull was the daughter of a vicar in the middle of the 19th century. Inspired by her friend Bessie Parks, she trained as a printer and typesetter during a time of booming industrial growth...
Plan for the worst & hope for the best
There’s one thing everyone can agree on about Brexit: no one knows what’s going to happen at the end of next month. The only certainty is that the outcome remains uncertain and if the UK does crash...
Responsible businesses will engage the next generation
Millennials are an elusive demographic for recruiting printers – the sector is rich in experience but poor in new entrants, with its invaluable skilled workers reaching retirement age and taking with...
‘Make the customer experience as valuable as possible’
There aren’t many print industry user group events where the roster of keynote speakers include a fashion wunderkind from Miami and costume designers from Cirque du Soleil.