Printers
Imprint Group targets new markets following £2m Inca spend
Imprint Group has become the first printer in the UK to install both the Inca Onset S50i and the Onset R40i as part of a nearly £2m upgrade to its wide-format digital print capability.
PCS eyes IP tax benefits as revenues soar
Plastic Card Services (PCS) has recorded its best ever start to a financial year after revenues for the first five months soared almost 43%.
No retrospective VAT bill for DM single sourcing
Printers who have incorrectly treated the postal element of ad mailings as VAT zero-rated are unlikely to be hit with a retrospective bill but could face charges from 1 October, according to the...
Speedscreen follows up press install with Kongsberg investment
Speedscreen has invested £200,000 in a Kongsberg C64 cutting table to remove a finishing bottleneck arising from its installation of a Durst 1012 in June 2013.
Business inspection: Get your data security all locked up
For applications that demand customer data remains unassailable, PCI DSS is a prerequisite.
An ethical approach to the M&A game
Imagine being told the business you work for is being sold. Then imagine the horrible realisation that your new owner isn’t quite the business leader you had hoped he would be. Then imagine being...
Web’s decline has a way to go yet
It’s a depressing list, and a depressingly long one. The list (below) featuring a roll-call of more than 25 web offset printers that have closed since the year 2000 includes some of the industry’s...
Q&A: Darren Lyall, mailing operations manager, GI Solutions
Hats off to Darren who has become the first student to complete the BPIF’s graduate management programme. Apart from a six-week stint doing something dull in another industry, Darren has been in print...
Editor’s comment: Credit rate crashes put printers in A&E
If cash is the lifeblood of a business, then its credit rating could probably be best described as the heart monitor. And if your business’s ECG read-out flatlines, then it can be disconcerting to say...
Make time for more flexible personnel
Flexibility is great, right? Fantastic if you’re trying out yoga. But only up to a point. It would be a bad thing if you were so bendy you tied yourself up in knots. While conversely, complete...