Features
60 seconds with Lustalux
The Lustalux story began 25 years ago when two friends merged their small window film companies. Since then, founder Richard Lancaster says the firm has grown its services, staff and premises, as...
Alpha mail: print is retaking ground in the marketing mix
A few weeks ago PrintWeek reported on some survey findings with the headline ‘Public sees direct mail in fonder light’.
‘We will continue to grow, but it has to be sustainable’
SMP Group managing director Bradley Slade might not have the diverse CV of some his peers, but in his 23 years at the out-of-home and POS specialist he’s certainly learned a thing or two about the...
The do-it-all options for short-run specialists
Short runs and fast turnarounds have been a particular feature of digital printing since the start. Most people will be aware of the concepts and challenges of variable data and runs lengths of one,...
Q&A: Andy Simpson Operations director, Plastic Card Services
George Clooney lookalike Andy first stepped into the world of print when he started work at Plastic Card Services 18 years ago.
Calculating the costs of kit enlightenment
No one likes reading the manual. Whether it be electronics, toys or furniture, the huge accompanying instruction booklets are usually largely left untouched. And even when instructions are followed,...
Show business: why there’s no business like it
Miles Linney takes a “lucky coin”. That’s because at trade shows and exhibitions luck can be a big help. Visiting shows, insists Linney Group’s chief executive, is a must, even if attending a big...
Q&A: Chris Kingston Director, Fingerprints Design and We Fly Drones
You might recognise Chris from his recent appearance in illusionist Derren Brown’s Pushed to the Edge TV show, where we’re happy to report he refused to push a man off a building to his death. Phew!...
Best of all formats?
Just 15 years ago, the whole ethos surrounding superwide-format print centred around a market sector where size was far more important than quality. To be clear, the term ‘superwide’ ought to cover...
Explore your inner print superhero
Printers assemble! It’s time to don your capes and masks and head for your print-mobiles – Fespa Digital is almost upon us and it’s set to be the biggest and best to date.
60 seconds with Digiprint
Digiprint is an award-winning local independent design, print and signage company offering small and wide-format printing since 1987.
A kinder blue
One of the theories on the origins of life on earth is that of the ‘primordial soup’, which posits that chemicals dissolved in water when hit by ultra-violet (UV) radiation from the sun reacted...
A facelift can be more than just skin deep
When Scott Pearce and business partner Mark Gamble bought what was then called Datumpress in an MBO in 2008, due to the retirement of boss and company founder Alan Willis, it had a relatively small...
Monitor vital signs to stay fighting fit
Picture the scene. Mrs Print Boss has just opened her copy of PrintWeek’s annual Top 500 survey. She notes her own company’s performance with quiet satisfaction, then realises that a peer and – worse...
60 seconds with: Print Me It
Print Me It started trading in 2008 as an online print company. It initially outsourced to trade printers, but over the past five years has brought digital printing and wide-format printing in-house.