Features
Planting a new hub in the land of the thistle
Graham Hunstone is spreading his wings again. The England-based Scot recently opened a regional sales hub nearly 300 miles from his print company headquarters in Lincoln.
60 seconds with Vincent Press
Vincent Press has been trading since 2010. “The last eight years have flown by and in this time Vincent Press has become a well-established company in the locality. In a very competitive market our...
Processless is getting the chemistry right
Back in 2015, PrintWeek posed the question: Has processless become the new normal? The answer at the time was not quite, but it’s getting there.
Q&A: Elena Cinquegrana, group product director, Photobox
Elena is a relative newcomer to the industry, having joined Photobox 18 months ago. Prior to that she was head of product development at McLaren Applied Technologies. She speaks five languages and is...
60 seconds with B&B Press
B&B Press celebrates 60 years in business this year.
Q&A: Chris Demott Managing director, Laser Bureau
Chris is married with two sons and lives in Bedfordshire. He says he’s spent “at least” 20 years in the industry.
Build sustainable growth with a tighter focus
The direct mail sector, like much of the printing industry, can’t claim to have had the easiest of times in recent years.
Avoid bungs or risk going down the plughole
Bribery is a global issue and one the UK generally fares well in combatting.
The brains of your printing business
UK printers first started using management information systems (MIS) in the 1980s. At the time the software was pretty rudimentary, recalls Keith McMurtrie, managing director at Tharstern, who...
‘We’ve got a very good business here now’
Like many general commercial printers, Gemini Print Group has faced its fair share of challenges over the past decade.
Top marks: how printers can be five-star performers
Everybody makes mistakes, but for a market where margins are already supermodel slim, even the smallest of errors can have a big impact on profitability.
PDF 2.0: Scene-setter, not a game-changer
After 10 years in the making, it looks like PDF 2.0 will finally reach real world users in the next year or so. Since the 1990s PDF has been the dominant format used to deliver document files for...
Understand your own value and clients’ needs
It’s a familiar refrain. The customer tells you they consider their suppliers to be ‘partners’. Yet when it comes to the crunch, their priority appears to be screwing you down in price to get the job...
Cool heads keep sector calm under pressure
In the world of report and accounts production, R&A could just as well stand for ‘reliable and accurate’ as that’s exactly what printers who operate in this space need to be.
New leadership sets out targets for growth
Signs Express rates itself the largest sign company in the UK and Ireland, with more centres than any other business in the industry.