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Job changer: Penelope Rose
Penelope Rose has been appointed as operations manager at Brightsource.
A world of opportunity
"It's easier talked about than done. Operating in foreign lands with completely different cultures is more challenging than talking about it down the pub," says CPI UK chief executive Mike Taylor.
The digital dust-up
Ever since the introduction of digital presses, debate has raged over digital and offset print and which work each technology is best suited to. With developments in inkjet printing, which showed...
Combined sales drive for power in numbers
How can a printer keep a strong hand in an era where the print management (PM) model seems to hold all the aces? Most UK print firms - and SMEs in particular - find that they can't. But St Ives is not...
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Centralise to set the spokes in order
A hub and spoke model, where a centralised factory serves a number of shop-front locations, is generally taken when a large litho press is used for ganged-up jobs. AlphaGraphics North East (AGNE),...
Profitability soars with ready money
In the most recent series of Dragons' Den, there was a memorable encounter between the dragons and Clive Billing, founder of online jewellery retailer diamondgeezer.com. Billing ended up turning down...
Building for the future
As the nature of print has evolved, the background processes and systems, such as workflow tools and MIS, have also matured, reflecting the increasingly complex nature of the output. Never has it been...
Low-key print manager says saying 'no' to unwanted clients is the key to success
Paperhat is something of an oddity. From its home in the cobbled backstreets of Londons South Bank, this unassuming print management company has been operating under the radar for the best part of...
Get print down to the letter
The added-value benefits of bringing the bindery in-house should be a well-known fact for the astute printer. So what's next? Entry-level inserting and mailing technology has never been so available...