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Janet Warren, founder of personalised fabric printer Print Me Pretty, has never used anything other than a direct-to-garment (DTG) digital printer.

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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%...

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,...

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.

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...

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...

At the end of 2015, the creative minds at Envisage Brand Experiences took the approaching new year as an opportunity to begin to plan for a renewal of the company’s image and on its website posted:...

Twenty years ago forests around the world were in crisis: more than 200 million hectares were lost between 1980 and 1995 in developing countries alone. In response to this alarming trend, the Forest...

Anyone who’s travelled towards central London along the M4 motorway surely cannot fail to appreciate just how impactful large-format print can be.

Becoming chief executive and secretary of The Printing Charity after heading up the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, might seem like trading in the Ferrari for a safe and sensible Volvo, in terms of...