Features
Coping with your worst nightmare
Those images on Monday 28 December were horrifying, and remain unforgettable. Like most people, Chris Milner had been tuning into TV news channels over the Christmas period, gripped with cold...
60 seconds with Imageco
Imageco’s inception was over 15 years ago. Directors Nathan Swinson-Bullough (left) and Simon Harrison have since put together a team “with vast experience that has helped take us to and keep us at...
B2 or not B2?
With Drupa 2016 just over the horizon but no new press announcements made so far, it’s time to ask: who needs B2 digital or bigger?
Ensure you reel in the perfect job candidate
According to ONS figures released in December 2015, the UK unemployment rate has fallen to 5.2% – its lowest level in a decade. Economic recovery has boosted confidence, encouraging business...
Machines take on manpower for materials handling
In the early days of wide-format inkjet printing, the technology was held in check from encroaching on screen and litho markets by limitations in printing itself.
60 seconds with Datum
Datum started back in 1988 in Shoreditch, London, as a pre-press company supplying plates and proofs to the local litho printers. It left behind its London roots in 2000 when the business relocated to...
The speed demons: printers who race against the clock
Ali Ridha Jaffar, sales director at Print Express (part of the Syncoms Group), does not like traffic.
Q&A: Chris Bailey Purchasing manager (just retired) for mutual OneFamily
After a short and (he says) less than glittering career in marketing, Chris got into print buying by accident and ended up doing it for 28 years.
Why it pays to straighten up and fly right
Should a printer define itself by the equipment it uses or by its customers? Marketing theory would suggest the latter, but with the high prices and long pay-back times of presses there’s a risk you...
Indies set to revive sagging mag sector
In 2006, Cathy Olmedillas set up Anorak, an independent and print-only magazine for children. It was well designed – you’d have been as happy to have the cover looking down at you off your wall as you...
Power 100 2015: 1
Welcome to the Power 100, our 14th annual ranking of the industry’s power brokers. The 100 individuals in this year’s list make up much of the DNA of our great industry – from thoroughbred...
Power 100 2015: 90-81
Welcome to the Power 100, our 14th annual ranking of the industry’s power brokers. The 100 individuals in this year’s list make up much of the DNA of our great industry – from thoroughbred...
Power 100 2015: 10-6
Welcome to the Power 100, our 14th annual ranking of the industry’s power brokers. The 100 individuals in this year’s list make up much of the DNA of our great industry – from thoroughbred...
Power 100 2015: 5-2
Welcome to the Power 100, our 14th annual ranking of the industry’s power brokers. The 100 individuals in this year’s list make up much of the DNA of our great industry – from thoroughbred...
Power 100 2015: 20-11
Welcome to the Power 100, our 14th annual ranking of the industry’s power brokers. The 100 individuals in this year’s list make up much of the DNA of our great industry – from thoroughbred...