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Taking steps to future-proof the business meant going down the digital route for Kalas Packaging.

There is a huge range of apps available to help with running a company, but which ones will make a positive contribution to your business?

Global Graphics Software is always a bit of a conundrum to write about. It’s a successful British software developer whose users may not even know they have it. Its PostScript and PDF RIP-rendering...

A rose-tinted look back at early post war history, often through the medium of film and TV, shows that the demarcation of familial roles and responsibilities was generally quite distinct. Mother...

In late February, when Brexit was still, just about, our biggest economic concern, Printweek partnered with HP Indigo and brought together a group of business leaders to discuss the topic of...

Covid-19 has brought us many things, pretty much all of them unwelcome. It’s also brought a new concept to the UK, that of being “furloughed” (note to selves, not “furlonged” – a furlong is a...

Printweek is here to help in any way we can during the virus crisis. This article focuses on free resources that have been made available for our readers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

UPDATED 16.3.2021: Printweek is here to help in any way we can during the coronavirus crisis. We've put a host of useful links and info in one place, and we’ll keep updating this article with new...

We’re sharing details here of UK printing companies with mothballed or spare capacity due to the virus crisis, and where this capacity could be used by others for the production of other essential or...

Here at Printweek we had a bit of a debate about what ‘British’ actually means in manufacturing terms. There are quite a few firms with UK-based factories and workforces that develop their own...

Print and print-related machinery comes in all shapes and sizes and while you might have to fork out millions for a full bells-and-whistles super-duper new press, there are plenty of smaller...

A flatbed-format device for automated cutting, creasing and perforating in a single pass
targeted at businesses looking to offer cost-effective custom dieless finishing services.

Outsourcing usually works fine until the volume grows and you start to add up the costs. In a world of instant turnaround, it can add time to a job too.

On the face of it, corrugated boxes and corrugated display units are pretty much the same thing. Both often need printing of some sort, then cutting, creasing, folding, and gluing to assemble them....

Andrew is 54 and is married with three boys: Nick, James and Sam. He’s been working in print for 37 years with his first job at a printing and typesetting company based in Clerkenwell Road, London,...