Features
Open your doors to find workers with the best fit
Aberystwyth’s location on the west Wales coast just beneath the Snowdonia National Park is a pretty remote spot, which can make finding staff with the right skill set a challenge.
Early birds can catch the slug-a-beds napping
Simon Biltcliffe’s beard is not (quite) in the same league as Kim Kardashian’s derrière as a personal physical attribute with the ability to break the internet but it may be as close as the UK print...
Two become one: bringing teams together
Resource had already taken the organic route to growth through smart investment and operational excellence. So the next logical step was to seek an acquisition that would allow the company to...
Q&A: Matt Carry Sales director, Acorn Web Offset
Matt is 41 years old and has been working in print for 24 years since starting as an apprentice planner/platemaker at book printers WS Maney & Son.
Get ready for an explosion of wide-format possibilities
Next month hordes of printers from across the world will descend on Messe München, in Munich, Germany, for the Fespa Global Print Expo 2019.
Fespa 2019: stand highlights
Our list of the hot launches at this year's event
60 seconds with Deanprint
Deanprint can trace its history back to the 1870s when Dean & Dawson was a world renowned travel agency (even getting a mention in the film The Great Escape).
Oiling the wheels of commerce
Trade associations aren’t anything new. A look back through history shows that in France chambers of commerce previously served as agencies of officially controlled public commercial institutions.
Best of British: Building on a long legacy of imaging expertise
When PrintWeek writes the word ‘phoenix’, it’s usually code for a company that has risen out of failure with a shiny new legal identity, miraculously escaping pesky encumbrances like debts and...
60 seconds with Bluestar Print Finishers
Bluestar started in 1998 when MD Lee Harvey (pictured, right, with operator Ian Richardson) decided that after working as a manager for a few firms, he needed to do something more. “I approached a few...
Q&A: Victoria Elliott, business development, Datum
Victoria has been in sales for 20 years: five years within the printing industry and 15 years in the motor trade. She’s a single parent to a “beautiful 10-year-old daughter who keeps me on my toes”,...
Flexibility and timing are key to easy succession
When Terry Scanlon started his commercial print company, the day he finished work for good was not perhaps uppermost in his thoughts.
Your network is only as secure as your weakest link
Earlier this month, Hydro, one of the world’s largest producers of aluminium, was forced to switch to manual operations at some of its 40 sites dotted around the world due to a severe ransomware...
Sky’s the limit for print apprentices
Business leaders discuss their career journeys in print and apprentices share their experiences at an event to mark National Apprenticeship Week (NAW).
Beware Nirvana Mañana
At the beginning of February, Xerox took the wraps off a new printing technology under development in its PARC laboratory and, in so doing, opened a can of worms.