Business

Back in their schooldays, friends Lynn Russell and Cath Maybin had no idea that in the future they would be joint directors of a successful contract packing, handwork and finishing company.

There was a time buying a round at the pub on a Friday and offering a Christmas bonus would be enough to keep staff pretty content and settled enough not to look at other opportunities. Those times...

In the 12 months since PrintWeek first took a serious look at the prospects for 3D printing, the market has both evolved and stayed pretty much the same.

Expensive, irrelevant and out of date, with no accurate way of measuring tangible ROI – this is the view that some equipment manufacturers have of trade shows these days.

It’s not often that that PrintWeek gets invited to media agency bashes, where the beards are short and the hair directional.

Doveton Press is set to save £60,000 a year on outsourcing after buying a Duplo iSaddle System stitcher as part of a wider investment that has topped more than £1m over the past 12 months.

Trade-only printer SuperWide Digital is ramping up capacity to expand into new areas with a double Vutek installation from EFI.

Heidelberg signed an agreement last week to acquire European Printing Systems Group (PSG), for an undisclosed sum.

OPM (Labels and Packaging Group) has backed up a recent spending spree on kit and premises by halving production times with a new management information system (MIS).

Digital printer PNG Digital has invested in an HP Z6200 photo printer to support its continued growth.