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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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

With a hearty chuckle, Kelvin Graphics managing director Dave Hodgson says that his fellow directors have told him to stop buying companies. Theyve asked me to come up for air, at least for the year,...

UK Print plc is a 15bn-plus business operated by 12,000 individual companies manned by about 160,000 employees. On the surface it would appear to be operating at an industry standard of around 80% in...

Darren White was just 21 when he bought a secondhand Shoei folder and a little Camco guillotine to set up his own trade finishing house, DW Print Finishing. At such a tender age, in such a cut-throat...

While printers are accustomed to the idea that they must constantly invest in order to survive, they are less amenable to the idea that a thriving print operation cant rely on technology alone. Print...