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Be prepared for a change at the top
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different, said the pioneering French fashion designer Coco Chanel. She knew her stuff, did Coco. As proven by another of her famous quotes: as long as...
‘Things go wrong – it’s how suppliers react that separates them’
Last month, PrintWeek hosted three judging days for the 2016 Awards, so we took the opportunity to ask our august panels on the main judging day about the challenges they face, what the opportunities...
Q&A: Claire Tennant, head of project management, Linney Group
Claire has spent 22 years in printing and logistics at Linney Group, progressing through a variety of roles in the business. She is married to Mark, has a daughter Millie who is nine and stepson...
60 seconds with Visual Print & Design
Visual Print & Design is a dedicated print and design company with over 20 years’ experience. The firm’s aim is to provide clients with the talent and expertise to develop, plan, organise and produce...
DTG goes XL!
Janet Warren, founder of personalised fabric printer Print Me Pretty, has never used anything other than a direct-to-garment (DTG) digital printer.
The flexible friends who do a grand job
"I contacted these guys about some varsity jackets,” reads one client testimonial on the Custom Planet website. “They responded within the hour. I made payment on a Friday for 25 embroidered jackets...
Get to grips with tomorrow’s world
Technology has affected every industry in some shape or form, and in many cases it has completely revolutionised sectors. In the printing industry this has been manifested in the machines becoming...
60 seconds with CSP
CSP started off in 1975 as a family-run business and grew to become one of the largest providers of printed material and managed services to the public sector, says sales director Paul Ridgewell. It...
Intensive care secures a new lease of life
When a business is in trouble you need a plan, suggests Customark chairman Greg Lerigo. Today, Customark is in a good way, employing 90 staff and turning over just under £5m. But 10 years ago the...
Stand out from the crowd to up sales
Profit is sanity, turnover is vanity’. It may be an old cliché, but like many clichés there is a degree of truth attached to this statement – especially when you apply it to the printing industry.
Brexit and bankers put lending in the spotlight
Not so long ago, financial pundits were predicting ‘when’ rather than ‘if’ the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England would vote to raise the base rate of interest from its rock bottom 0.5%...
Q&A: Paul Sherfield Managing director, The Missing Horse Consultancy
Paul has been in print all his life, clocking up over 45 years in the industry. He’s married with two grown-up children and two granddaughters and his hobbies include lots of walking, reading, books,...
Low-cost solutions for colour consistency
Colour is a very subjective concept in that we each perceive light and colour in subtly different ways. But colour management is all about eradicating differences in the way that colours are printed.
Q&A: Damien Williams Machine minder/printer, Evonprint
The multi-talented Damien has spent 17 years in the industry. As well as being a printer he is also a chimney sweep, which we think could be a first. He’s been married for two years and when not...
60 seconds with Evolution Print
Jonathan Newbould started the original Evolution in 1996, and was joined by business partner Graham Congreve in 2006 when the duo bought out another printer. As a result, the ‘new’ Evolution is...