Features

Risky business? Actually, becoming a franchisee is a lot less scary that it may seem.

Tim, who was 65 this year, started as photographic assistant aged 15 for David Rudkin Photography, before moving into production in various increasingly senior agency roles. He set up Tabs 25 years...

At Drupa we saw the future and its name is Print 4.0. It is a ‘mega trend’ all about automation and integration. Here we look at what this paradigm shift in printing practices may mean for the...

Treating other people fairly is one of the pillars of a civilised society and while business is about competition, it’s important that everyone plays by the rules.

Print procurement business Webmart was set up in 1996 and celebrated its 20th anniversary in April. Founder Simon Biltcliffe “saw the market was changing” and negotiated his exit from BPC...

Keith Whisson was not always a fan of digital print: “There are too many fools buying digital presses who don’t know much about print. It has brought the value of print, which used to be a prosperous...

Last year was a watershed moment for sales of vinyl records in the UK. Just over 2 million LPs were purchased in 2015 – a 64% increase on the previous year and a 21-year sales high, according to...

Danny has spent 27 years in the “wonderful world of print”, a whopping 22 of them being in sales. He’s married with three boys, and his interests include managing his son’s football team and “trying...

A printing business is a technology business, with many elements vital to its smooth operation – from fast networks and file storage systems, to security and e-commerce platforms. PrintWeek asked a...

Geoff has spent 52 years in print and set up the eponymous London business that still bears his name in 1976.

Peerless is almost peerless, and that was the challenge. The plastics and coatings company is one of the UK’s largest and best known specialists in creating UV-cured hard coatings for plastics that...

If the layout of the halls looks a little unfamiliar this time around, it’s probably because the whole of Hall 17 has been taken over by HP, bumping some of the other exhibitors into other halls. With...

After months, even years of preparation, feet are finally in the starting blocks at the global print Olympics. ‘Drupa 2016: Touch the future’ is under starters orders at Messe Düsseldorf, with an...

No one aspires to run a shrinking business. As everybody’s favourite tycoon Donald Trump once said: “If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.”

Author, book collector, college professor, historian, museum director, technology expert and friend of the rich and famous and printers everywhere. Frank Romano has many hats, but in print circles...