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Q&A: Simon Gray, sales and marketing director, Cross Media

Simon Gray, sales and marketing director at multimedia marketing firm Cross Media, is still working in the industry eight years after taking a temporary job - but while he may have arrived in the...

Business Inspection: Colour champions box clever

ISO 12647 is about more than just box ticking, says Jon Severs. Rather it provides a framework for improving and maintaining both production and business processes

Training: Blurring the role

Bringing in business is not just the job of the sales team. Printers whose customer services staff are not versed in the technique of the up-sell are missing a trick. Jon Severs explains a dark art

Census printing: The mother of all mailshots

Not every printer would pitch to knock out 30m personalised mailings. But, if you're tempted to, Jon Severs discovers the Herculean effort involved

Post Script: Repro man brushes up his 'industry physique'

Celebrating the magnificence of the male form is an all too rare treat for Post Script, not least because our own physique is more mid-noughties Maradona than Michaelangelo's David.

Green buildings: the heat is on

Pressure to cut carbon is leading printers to improve their premises' performance, finds <i>Jon Severs</i>

Accreditations: Green blindness

Has the recession and proliferation of accredited firms led to the costs of eco-badges outweighing the benefits, asks <i>Helen Morris</i>

Face to Face with Prof Dr Arved Hubler of Chemnitz University: The march towards nano technology

At a time, when mainstream discussion about packaging technologies chases a stifling path, Kiran Prayagi looks into the future of innovation along with Prof Dr Arved Hubler of Chemnitz University

One hundred days in, MBO team mean to offer more than 'business as usual'

Pensord's new managing director Darren Coxon is four days away from his first major milestone since his management buyout. "The initial 100 days after an MBO are critical," he says. "It's very...

Avoiding the tender trap

Some say the process demands a lot. Your time, mostly, but also kamikaze pricing and sadistic amounts of paperwork. Those writing them, it is said, lack knowledge about print and so the wrong person...

Shinohara 66: Ideal for shorter runs

The secret to the success of this long-running press is its high degree of automation, making it ideal for shorter runs, says Sachin Shardul

The real cost of paper

Last week, Aida Greenbury, managing director of sustainability and stakeholder engagement at Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP), was interviewed in a live webcast by PrintWeek's online editor Matt Whipp.

Taking the tablets

In 2010, print is a 24/7 industry. This makes anytime, anywhere availability of information vitally important. But until the 1980s and the advent of management information systems (MIS), it was...

Apply an aptitude for apps

Ethan Nicholas built one and it earned him $600,000 in a single month. Steve Demeter built one and he netted $250,000 profit in two months. Nicholas did it with a small military tank. Demeter did it...