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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.

60 seconds with First Display

First Display began life selling advertising space on taxis. “We were sourcing print and couldn’t get the service (timescales, colours, price) so we bought a Roland XC540 which we still utilise to...

Q&A: Krista Brown, office manager, Crestline Printers

Krista is 28 and has worked in the industry for 10 years. She’s getting married in June and lives near Derby with her partner and cat Bubbles.

Hitting the big screen

Unless you’re a total movie geek, it’s highly unlikely that you will have heard of Ross MacDonald. However, it’s highly likely that you will have seen his work on both the big and the small screen.

Getting a good deal is critical to survival

Nelson Mandela, according to Harvard Law School, was one of the best negotiators in history. Well known for his patience, strategic thinking, practicality and unwillingness to quit, he could make...