Features

Q&A: Ben Stokes, sales and marketing manager, Bristol Labels
Ben describes himself as “26 years young”, and, if things go to plan is already more than halfway towards retirement.

60 seconds with Boxtick Graphics
The owners of a group of existing non-print businesses purchased the company a few years ago to enter a new market that focuses on small businesses. We rebranded to Boxtick last year with our...

Can electronic papers make it into the mainstream?
Electronic paper, digital paper, rewritable paper, electronic ink, etc, whatever you want to call it, low-cost flexible screens that behave a lot like paper but can display variable content are a...

How to expand into the world of web
Printers and designers we’ve spoken to tell us they feel that if they don’t offer web services they risk losing the client,” according to its website. Nettl calls itself a “bolt-on formula” offering...

EU’s new data regs will have to be matched
Come what may with the Brexit negotiations, the UK government is set to implement the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) less than a year from now, on 25 May 2018. GDPR applies to all...

‘Be passionate and never stop learning’
For most people, one job is more than enough. Not so for Julian Marsh.

Q&A: Andreas Schillinger, managing director and co-owner, Lotus Labels
Andreas is likely to be a familiar name and face to many as he spent 16 years at Muller Martini UK, before a career change that saw him switch from the equipment manufacturing side of the industry to...

Set up a portal to new worlds of opportunity
This March Octink successfully targeted a host of the UK’s biggest-name construction companies with a new web-to-print service.

60 seconds with Colourgraphic Arts
Managing director Vince Scardarella started the firm 34 years ago with his brother. “We started as a repro company and it was natural for us to move into litho and digital printing considering our...

Train to gain: earning from learning
Demographic shifts, such as lengthening lifespans leading to longer working lives and developments in work, including the rise of the robots, all reinforce the trend towards people having several...

Clothing copycats exploit DTG trend
Counterfeit, fake, knock-off, copy, call it what you will, it’s a burgeoning trillion-dollar global market that has touched most of us either knowingly or unknowingly at some point in our lives, and...

Switch on to smart energy and dial down your bills
Brexit is on the horizon, costs of energy are rising following the fall in sterling and an increase in taxation, and it appears that the UK’s energy generators can only just meet energy demands. It’s...

60 seconds with Nottingham Trade Finishers
Nottingham Trade Finishers was founded in 2006 by proprietor Richard Anstock (pictured). Richard was joined by Ian Holt as production manager and wife Emma as fellow director. The business began work...

Q&A: Ross Docherty, assistant manager, Bell & Bain
Ross is 19 and has already been working in the industry for three-and-a-half years, under the watchful eye of his father, MD Stephen Docherty. He lives in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow and was named...

Learning on the job
In reality TV the contestant’s journey – the struggle to become the best possible them – is a device to increase the entertainment value. In business there’s a more serious side to going on a journey,...