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Q&A: Christine Steele Sales director, UK Bookbinders

Christine has worked in the print industry since 2015, and describes the trade as “keeping me very busy”. She enjoys socialising with friends and family at weekends, and is now also a doting grandma...

Make friends in profitable markets

Plastic Card Services (PCS) recently teed up another overseas contract, a three-year deal with one of Scandinavia’s biggest supermarkets, Coop Denmark.

Equity investment: a capital idea for growing businesses

What do Adare, Walstead Group, Hobs Reprographics, Coveris, YM Group, Pureprint, Thames Card Technology, Writtle Holdings and Henry Stone have in common?

Turn your specialist subject into a fruitful proposition

All printers are constantly on the lookout for an edge – that little bit of something that lifts them clear of their competition. One way they can achieve this is by targeting a specific niche market....

‘We focus on areas that we excel in’

Kirk Galloway describes himself as ‘the hirer, firer, tea boy and the cleaner’ of the family-run Derbyshire magazine printer he leads.

Inkjet: head to head

If you’re new to the industry or are looking to take on a new process, inkjet technology can look complicated. To address this we are publishing a quick, back-to-basics primer on printhead technology.

Fespa 2017 preview: Wide-format wins for those who dare

With just days to go before the doors open on what is perhaps now the world’s biggest global annual print show, visitors and exhibitors alike will be gathering their thoughts on what they hope to...

It can pay to buy yourself bigger

It’s not exactly a common career move: to go from being a buyer for a company that imports children’s rucksacks to setting up your own print company, but this was exactly the turn that the career of...

Q&A: John Petty Managing director, JPS

John comes from a long line of printers, and joined the industry himself in the summer of 1973 so is heading towards 45 years in print.

60 seconds with Print Library

Print Library co-founder Geoff Truesdale (pictured) was working as a sales manager at a Belfast litho printer when he decided he wanted to do things differently.

Mobile workers: keep control of the phone fiends

In 2015, Ofcom headlined the press release to its annual Communications Market Report: The UK is now a smartphone society. It’s hard to disagree. And needless to say, the trend towards greater...

Me & my: Komori Lithrone S529 H-UV

According to Loop Print managing director Chris Gray, “each individual in our team has their own specialist skills they bring to the business”. But could those individuals step up to the mark when the...

60 seconds with F1 Colour

The team at F1 Colour have just celebrated the firm’s 25th anniversary. The company launched in March 1992 as pioneers of digital-only pre-press and by 1995 had become PrintWeek’s Pre-Press Company of...

The positive effects of being neutral

Opting to go for carbon neutrality as a corporate goal is not to be taken lightly, says BrunelPrint commercial print director John Tugman. There is nothing neutral about such a move, demanding a...

Look out for your friends when they come to visit

Accidents in printing and its related industries are relatively uncommon but when they do happen, the outcome is all too often life-changing or, worse still, fatal.