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Bring a refreshed perspective to 2017

A new year brings new opportunities, but all too often it also means facing up to the same old challenges.

Not yet a silver bullet for workflow woes

When speaking with printers about JDF, you get a lot of negative responses. The managing director of one large commercial printer on the South Coast puts it diplomatically: “I’ve never really got on...

Q&A: Sam Jackson Production operative, We Do Print, Commercial Foundations

Sam, who had been homeless, was the first young person to join the 12-week volunteer programme at the Cheltenham social enterprise. He was such a success he gained a full-time post and in October his...

Add another string to your bow

It is billed as “the story of the Beatles as you’ve never seen it before”, and where better to launch a book on the Fab Four than their home city of Liverpool. The book in question, Visualising the...

Can blood ties ensure success is in a firm’s DNA?

“Who can you trust more than your family?” asks Alex Cain, sales director at high-end London printer and stationer Mount Street Printers and son of founders Peter and Fridette Cain.

Me & my: Promatrix 106 CS

BCQ is a well-established ‘full-services’ offset and digital print group based on the outskirts of Buckingham. The ‘BC’ part of its initials comes from Buckingham Colour, which merged with Colour...

Star product: Signracer 3200 H-LED

A high-quality large-format output at a more affordable price.

Honours for notable industry women

The chief executive of PG Paper and a woman who has spent a lifetime in craft bookbinding head up the industry recipients in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.

New year predictions: Mark Simpson, Simpson Group

Simpson Group chairman Mark Simpson hopes his business will take on some rising young stars in 2017 and wants the print industry to get better at recruitment and training generally.

New year predictions: Mike Phillips, The Delta Group

The Delta Group chief executive Mike Phillips says that while Brexit was a disappointment, it might actually represent an opportunity provided the industry doesn’t get complacent.