Features
Q&A: Jameson Smith, founder and director, Assembly Direct Mail
Jameson, 42, has been in the print business for 24 years. Since 2004 he has built Colchester-based Assembly Direct Mail up to provide a range of services including litho/digital printing and...
Print insight from the buyer’s perspective
It’s not often that you get a group of leading print buyers together in one room, but that’s exactly what happened last month at one of the three judging days for the PrintWeek Awards. So rather than...
60 seconds with Strath Print
Strath Print was set up by directors Martin Benson and Peter Dunlop a decade ago, after the publisher they worked for closed its print division. The five-strong business is the only printing company...
Q&A: Clive Bramble Sales executive, The Colchester Print Group
Clive has been involved in the print and packaging game for 43 years, and has five more to go. During his time he has held 17 positions in nine different companies. This year he celebrated his 60th...
High-speed digital targets corrugated
Often seen as the carton’s less profitable and glamorous relation, corrugated packaging can often be overlooked. And yet, while digital printing of conventional cartons seems to have stalled, this is...
Business inspection: Maintaining two strings to your bow
Remaining fast and flexible has been key to success in both print and publishing.
Room for growth: finding space for ongoing success
In an ever-more competitive market, and with new technology continually evolving the way that we do business, it is essential that printing firms invest in modern kit. But with this can come the need...
Q&A: Clive Andrews-Lewis, studio manager, KJB UK
Clive has spent 36 years in print and says it was his vocation right from school, “real man and boy stuff”. Despite the photographic evidence he also says he’s loved all his years in the trade.
60 seconds with SPS Group
SPS Group was founded in 1968 by Ian Martin as a local screen printing business. The firm has developed into a POS and retail specialist employing 175 staff. It is run by Ian’s sons Toby (pictured)...
Business inspection: Eco standard-bearer pushes into Europe
The five-figure investment required to secure the EU Ecolabal was a price well worth paying.
UK print must do more to resolve gender imbalance
In Britain, 2014, the average full-time pay gap between men and women is 10%, women make up just 17% of FTSE 100 board directors, and a quarter of women, according to a recent Business Environment...
Interview: We laud failure, because you learn new things by failing
In 1993, Webmart chief executive Simon Biltcliffe, working at the time as a regional sales director for web offset print at BPC, was sent to Japan on a supplier visit.
Slim down RIPs to beef up efficiency
How times have changed. Just over a decade or so ago, most commercial printers relied on just a CTP for imaging and needed only one RIP, or a workflow with an embedded RIP, to drive it.
Q&A: Jonathan Gulbe-Mitchell Transport and finishing manager, Print 4
Back in May, Print 4’s Adam Kill referred to a colleague with highly-amusing eyebrows. We had to follow that up, and here he is. We feel Jonathan may well be continuing the mutual mickey-taking in...
60 seconds with The Software Bureau
The Software Bureau was a management buy-out from Stralfors’ acquisition of DPS Direct Mail in 2005. Cygnus, its main data cleaning/preparation product, was initially developed for internal use, but...