Features

The small matter of fraud
According to PwC’s 2018 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey, only 49% of global organisations said they’ve been a victim of fraud and economic crime. While some might question the percentage...

Training tracks
Print business owners face a major dilemma. There is currently a significant skills shortage within the industry, which has a rapidly ageing workforce. There is also a lack of young people entering...

Scoring a line (of credit)
Bread, dough, moolah, dollar, cash – call it what you want – we all have a need and use for it. While the physical is clearly giving way to the digital, money as a medium of exchange, in whatever...

Charlesworth reproduces Insta’s capital hotspots in book form
An enduringly popular festive gift, book sales routinely go through the roof in the run-up to Christmas and publishers do their best to ensure that all tastes are catered for, even those that...

Best of British: Purveyors of fantastic plastics
Brett Martin is a long-established specialist in plastics that are used around the world in a wide range of applications. Its sheet plastics division makes materials such as foamboard, PET and...

Taming colour’s Wild West
Most wide-format printers are capable of producing a very wide colour gamut so that it’s relatively easy to print a pleasing image with vibrant colours that appear to be just what the client ordered....

Rising star: Kira Latham, account manager, Route 1 Print
Kira was headed for the heat of the kitchen but ended up in a hot seat in print instead. She’s 22 and joined Rotherham-based Route 1 just over four years ago.

Q&A: Nick Wilson, commercial director, DG3/Leycol
Goalkeeping’s loss was print’s gain. Arsenal fan Nick is 32 and has spent 15 years in print. He was on Tottenham’s books as a kid, and then played semi-professional football subsequently while holding...

60 seconds with Adverset
Adverset began life in 1989 as a design and advertising studio and was one of the first firms in the UK to embrace Apple. “Our first Mac was the original Mac Plus. At the time monitors only had black...

In sickness & in health
We as humans are prone to disease, illness and injury but thankfully we tend to recover. However, in the intervening time we leave others to pick up the pieces causing inconvenience for friends and...

Keeping it in the family
They say that you can choose your friends but not your family. While that is true, there is no pre-ordained requirement to run a business with your family, and there might well be good reasons not to...

Copyright or wrong?
Ideas are the stuff of life for any business worth its salt. But of all the legal means of protecting ideas – trademark, patent and copyright – it’s the last which is so easy to breach, either...

So begins a new decade of opportunity for print
As the decade drew to a close, Printweek took the opportunity to ask some of the wise men and women of print what were their highs, lows and key learnings of the past 10 years.

Me & my: Cron TP3632G+
Switching to processless plates has not only saved time and money for Isle of Wight printer Crossprint, but it keeps the pre-press operators happier too. They don’t have to wash the gunk out of...

Star product: Epson SureColor SC-F6300
Versatile printer that can produce soft signage as well as promotional goods and short runs and samples of garments.