Industry bodies

Make print buyers happy shoppers: printing for retail

The retail sector may be struggling during the recession, but print is helping many companies buck the trend with high-impact, highly effective in-store promotion and other marketing collateral. For...

API Foils dispute resolved

Workers at packaging specialist API Foils have accepted a deal that ends three weeks of strike action over changes to contractual terms and conditions.

Two Sides slams Toshiba's National No-Print Day

Pro-paper and print campaign group Two Sides has called Toshiba's planned National No Print Day flawed and suggested it should be withdrawn.

IPIA conference addresses adaptations for digital era

The theme at this year's IPIA conference, named 'Don't sit down - I've moved your chair', was change.

The European player based in a stable: Imprint Digital

Imprint Digital has found that encouraging clients to submit correct PDFs and shunning the euro helped it compete on the export market

Wohlenberg adds three perfect binders to its product line

Perfect binder producer Wohlenberg has launched three news systems: Quickmax, Vento, Phoenix

QuadDirect upgrades Effingham direct mail facility

Quad/Graphics division QuadDirect this week announced the completion of a multi-million dollar upgrade of its Effingham, IL direct mail facility as it looks to adapt its production to better-targeted...

Xerox turns Drupa leads into sales

Following Drupa 2012, Xerox Global Graphic Communications president Jeff Jacobson has said that the company has started turning leads generated at the show into sales despite the tight economic...

Killer app: Howitt elected for London Mayor campaign job

Howitt, a subsidiary of Innovative Output Solutions, was recently awarded a contract to supply booklets to Londoners in the run-up to the London Mayor elections (3 May).

Typecraft merges with Marketplace Direct

Pittsburgh-based printers, TCP Printing (Typecraft) and Marketplace Direct are to merge as the consolidation wave in the US commercial printing industry moves beyond smaller family-owned firms looking...