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In the next five years, print buyers will want to place orders almost exclusively on the web. A new generation of twenty- and thirty-somethings will look favourably on companies that have solid and...

Over recent years, there has been a push from printers to offer a one-stop shop solution to their customers, from print through to finishing. But one of the latest pushes, which could soon become the...

There is a huge difference between selling offset and selling digital and it still presents tricky challenges to sales staff, managing directors and balance sheets. As a result, UK printers who...

From personalisation software to high-speed presses and finishing solutions, this years show boasts the biggest and best selection of the latest digital printing equipment

Selling digital print is still regarded by some in the industry as being a bit of a black art.

Moving home is one of the most stressful projects that most of us will ever undertake. First youve got to find a suitable location and then you go through the rigmarole of securing the property and...

Workflow, workflow management, manufacturing management, total production workflow. Congratulations if you managed to wade through that list of long words. Guaranteed to make many printer run for the...

From a standing start, Mike Dolans Media & Print Investments (MPI) has built a group with sales in excess of 55m in less than 18 months. With a background in the music industry, launching several...

Buckingham Colour Quest (BCQ) started with a bang literally. The blast at the Buncefield oil storage depot in Hertfordshire, to be precise, in 2005. The damage this inflicted on B2 litho and digital...

The sunny yellow on Fox Print Services website and business cards mirrors the disposition of the two men sitting in the office. From their laughter and jovial patter it is clear that both managing...

If you were to ask why there needs to be a campaign to promote print as an effective communications medium to the marketing and media buying worlds, youd be told by Beatrice Klose, secretary-general...

Digital is posing a threat to conventional offset print. The quality of digital print has improved dramatically in recent years, but digital offers much more than simply short runs and high speeds.

If there are two things printers notoriously lack, and dont often do anything to improve, its their management and marketing skills. Fortunately for HPM Creative Solutions (or Hillprint as it used to...

You have got to spend money to make money, and even in this uncertain climate, printers can still get the finance to invest if they shop around.

Green up and clean up its the new business slogan doing the rounds, and in some sectors at least the message appears to be getting through. Major retailers such as Tesco, Marks & Spencer and Asda...