Business

MP calls on printers to back late payment campaign

Labour MP Debbie Abrahams is asking for small business owners from the print industry that have been impacted by late payments to speak publicly about the issue.

Compass targets growth in sign and display arm

Commercial printer Compass is targeting continued growth in its sign and display division after completing a £100,000 investment in a new facility and kit.

Use numbers to fine tune performance

We live in an age where highly automated machines have taken most of the guess work out of manufacturing. But despite hitting new heights of sophistication, the latest generation of machines are not...

Perfect bindings: love across the industry

Eyes meeting over five-colour presses, late nights spent discussing the finer points of colour calibration – who knew print could be such an aphrodisiac? And yet plenty of folk in print seem to have...

Overmatter: cut to the chafe

DPM sales director Dean Beckett is swapping his suit for day-glo Lycra and embarking on a nine-day, 940-mile bike ride to Barcelona to raise £30,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of his dad...

60 seconds with: Ashley House Printing Company

Ashley House Printing Company was formed in 2005 as a result of a management buyout by Robert Otton, who by happy coincidence had been looking to start his own business at the same time it came up for...

Business inspection: giving credit where it’s due

Taking credit card payments enabled this company to up cashflow on fast-turnaround work.

The writing is on the wall for unsafe sign installations

It’s a situation so horrendous it hardly bears thinking about. Just over a year ago, a man was killed in Camden by a falling shop front hoarding. Without even taking into account the sizeable fines...

Competition row sparks wider examination of indent sales

A row between Paperlinx and Sappi intensified last month when Sappi claimed a complaint lodged against it by the paper merchant for unfair competition had been dismissed.

Partnerships remain popular in 2014

All the rage last year, strategic partnerships between vendors continue to be de rigueur in 2014, it seems.