Features

60 seconds with PCL Digital

PCL was formed as Professional Communications Ltd in 1972 as a typesetter, before moving into repro in the 1990s.

Wide range of applications wins fans for sublimation

If you think Dai Sub is a Welsh submariner then you could be missing out on a low-cost technology with the potential to grab a bigger share of your existing customers’ print spend and open up a range...

A fragile truce binds printers and managers in partnership

Around a decade or so ago PrintWeek published its inaugural print management league table. The table ranked the UK’s 20 biggest print managers by turnover and was headed by corporate behemoths like...

Help your staff step up and take charge

When print was simpler, more muscular industry, stepping up to management from the printroom rarely caused an issue. Indeed, part of the role usually entailed staying in that print room: the majority...

Q&A: Chris Pinborough, manufacturing manager, Ancient House Press

Chris is the first recipient of the Kathy Woodward Award for Learning. He’s 32 and has been in print for 14 years, progressing from a time-served printing apprentice to his current role.

60 seconds with Premier Design & Print

Founded at the turn of the millennium, Premier Design & Print was formed by the creative partnership of Simon Hughes and Laura Hughes, now very capably assisted by their design and production team.

Has processless become the new normal?

When processless plate technology was originally introduced in the 2000s it was met with a healthy dose of scepticism from many people in the printing industry.

Sloppy security is making printing companies targets for cyber criminals

At first glance commercial printers might think that the prospect of cyber criminals or hackers attempting to access their IT system is fairly remote. After all, hackers typically seem to go after...

DTS paints picture of the shape of things to come

A new dimension is opening up for digital printing. The third dimension. We’re at the start of an exciting new phase in the adoption of digital printing that will see it applying images...

‘We don’t need to panic, we just need to follow the plan’

When Mark Cornford led a £12.8m MBO at Communisis’s business forms operation in 2008, it’s fair to say that a few people thought the proud Welshman was perhaps a little bit mad.

Why waste is a wasted opportunity

In recent years waste management has become a multibillion-pound industry. And print businesses like those in every other industry, perhaps more so than many others with its inks, chemicals, metals...

60 seconds with Snap Print Management

Snap Print Management was launched just three years ago by managing director, Sarah Wiles. Then known as Snap Marketing Solutions, the company began life as a kitchen table start-up, quickly expanding...

Q&A: Steve Miller, production director, Statexcolourprint

Steve spent three years at technical college gaining A levels in photography, fine art and screenprinting and a diploma in television production.

How the humble mobile phone will conquer W2P

On Valentines Day this year, a landmark moment in retail was reached: according to the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, the proportion of online retail traffic coming from mobile devices broke the 50%...

‘We’re about service, not about puffing our chests out’

On, ahem, paper it’s been a busy old year for David Hunter, Antalis managing director, UK, Ireland and Southern Africa.