Features

Security specialist bucks the trend as it builds its empire both home and away

The past 18 months have been tough, says Martin Ruda, managing director of The Tall Group. And yet, despite his comment, structural, acquisitive and organic growth are all on the cards for the...

End of the line for timetables

Following the final print run of railway timetables, Karen Charlesworth writes an epitaph for the 150-year-old national icon and latest victim of the internet

No smoking

If youre reading this from the comfort of your office having just lit up a Woodbine, youre probably one of the dwindling band of people making the most out of every puff, because as of next month you...

Stress in the workplace

In 1983, Time magazine declared stress to be the epidemic of the Eighties. Two decades later it is clear this epidemic is getting worse. Indeed, stress may now be the single largest issue facing...

Apprenticeships and the environment top the agenda for growing litho firm

Statexcolourprint's finance and human resources director Sue Maitland is relieved to have a chat. "You don't really get to talk to people for long periods of time as a finance director. Most of your...

Innocent until proven guilty

When the national press gets its teeth into something, it rarely lets go and over the past few months, packaging has been one of its favourite targets for scorn. Newspapers such as the <i>Daily...

Newspaper publisher nears conclusion of transition years and looks to future

The walls in David Crows office are blank, except for one thing: a large plaque from the 2005 Open Championship signed by golf superstar Tiger Woods. That year, Tiger Woods victory in the British Open...

Win the easy way by selling online

Automating your ordering can streamline admin and design, and ensure your customers loyalty, so start reaping the benefits.

Reshaping the repro house to better fit the changing landscape of print

As it approaches its 50th anniversary, Bermondsey-based FE Burman has evolved from its roots in traditional repro into a full-service print firm. After adding digital print in the 1990s, at the start...

Prints place in the media mix

Youve probably received one; you may have even sent one. Theyre fairly innocuous items that can be opened and dismissed at the click of a button yet their arrival could signal the death knell for...

Screen shares centre stage

Gradually and quietly over the past handful of years, printers in the large-format and POS sectors have stopped calling themselves screen process printers. The savvy operators are now calling...

Proof positive

Readers Digest is the first publisher to implement an entirely paperless proofing system from repro supplier Colour Systems.

Full service included

When printer Henry Burt joined forces with Newnorth in 1976 the former had been in operation for more than 100 years. The firm had a solid foundation, but also, perhaps, a rather old-fashioned...

Communisis chief looks beyond print to solve the problem of tight margins

Im very interested in how you make change happen in companies how you take a company thats got an established way of doing things and do something different, says Steve Vaughan. With that, his stall...

Breaking News

When travelling overseas, we accept the fact that we will fall behind on news from home. If you are somewhere relatively close to the UK, in France for example, then you can often pick up that days...