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Nurture both personal and professional growth
James Heskett, highly respected professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, once memorably claimed that employees and managers alike look forward to performance appraisals in the same manner as...
Digital manufacturers seek to cash in on pumped-up inkjet
Very high speed inkjets look set to shake up the large-format printing market in the coming year. The mighty HP will bring its PageWide technology to market, battling existing Memjet technology that...
Proper profiles can unlock a colour-corrected sector
The fundamental principles of colour management are pretty straightforward: we use profiles to record the characteristics of printing devices and of the substrates and adapt the way we lay the ink...
The shape of print to come: thermoforming is a hot topic
UV inkjet is undergoing a boom in applications, fuelled in part by advances in materials science that have enabled the development of speciality inks that can meet a variety of unique needs.
Sci-fi finishing kit delivers productivity gains for some
Lasers have long been a staple of science fiction. Whether it’s Darth Vader ordering the destruction of the planet Alderaan from his giant orbitting Death Star or James Bond and the US ‘Space Marines’...
Seven smart investments that won’t break the bank
We’ve put aside the big ticket items and six- or seven-figure budgets in order to take a look at some wide-format ‘bargain buys’ – useful pieces of equipment or software that cost less than £10,000.
Lessons from ink’s past teach the best of both worlds
It was Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana who came up with the aphorism “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” and it’s certainly true that the past has much to...
Q&A: Danny Narey Operations director, Adare
Danny has worked in print and mail for some 25 years. He rides a Harley Davidson Dyna Super Glide for leisure (like the one Jax rides in Sons of Anarchy, it says here). He has a grown-up daughter and...
60 seconds with Victoire Press
Victoire Press was formed in 1990 by Howard Seaber-Shinn and Tony Elliott, through an MBO of the Cambridgeshire County council print department. They moved it to Bar Hill, along with eight members of...
Look after your kit and it will look after you
In daily life keeping your cool is crucial to stop small problems snowballing into bigger ones. It’s the same in your press hall, literally, when it comes to the chillers that are the key to keeping...
Putting yourself in the hot seat
An MBO may be a daunting prospect but it can be a liberating experience and can revitalise a firm’s fortunes
Don’t focus on the technology, sell the dream
The technology never used to matter. Not to the client. Printing was a dark art, something only a printer with ink in his veins could truly comprehend. As the buyer, you didn’t even try and work it...
Simple four-step system to help you break bad habits
Plan Do Check Act’ (PDCA) may sound a bit like a governmental directive or a health and safety missive, but this little known business methodology – which is also known as ‘Plan Do Check Adjust’ – is...
‘My aim is always to find the next scalable business’
Tony Rafferty is chief executive of the rarest of beasts: a print PLC. However, while those three letters usually denote a faceless corporate behemoth, Grafenia is far from any of those things.
Making a big splash in the local pond
A relatively simple way to both engage with potential clients and draw positive attention to a company is one that many business owners overlook. Getting involved with, and putting something back...