Features
‘We’re not selling a dream, we have to sell the reality’
Martin Mayo officially became head of Kodak’s UK operation last summer. An engineer by trade (his first job was as a service engineer for Radio Rentals, fixing video recorders) he’s possibly the first...
60-seconds with Oasis Graphic
Oasis Graphic started out in 1988, based out of a lockup in Hillingdon. The firm’s client list, staff numbers and equipment soon outgrew those premises as the business branched out from exhibition...
Q&A: Mark Farrimond MD, The Envelope Works & ACE Envelopes
Had things turned out differently Mark might have been taking on Ronnie O’Sullivan over the green baize. Instead, his maximum break came via a chance move into envelopes. He remains focused on winning...
DC-rider: driving innovation
In years to come, when we’re getting from A to B in Back to the Future-style floating cars, 2014 may well be remembered fondly as the year that the electric vehicle finally came of age.
Interview: ‘Sell the big idea and then work out how to produce it’
It’s fair to say that Inc Direct isn’t your traditional print business. In fact, according to chief executive Noel Warner, it’s not a print business at all, traditional or otherwise, and to be fair,...
Me & my: Antalis MagneCote
Imagine you’re a marketer. You have the choice of a piece of promotional print that may be looked at but then stuck in a drawer somewhere, never again to see the light of day. Or you can choose...
Re-energise your firm with W2P
Exploiting the full potential of W2P helped bring an old-fashioned firm bang up to date.
Going viral: using video to highlight your star quality
Dogs chasing deer, David after the dentist and sneezing baby pandas – it doesn’t take a digital genius to realise online video is now (with the latter alone garnering over 190m hits) just a bit...
Effective absence policies build better businesses
We Brits are famous for talking about the weather. In recent months, though, our obsession with clouds, wind and temperature has been easier to justify than usual.
Star product: Kolbus packaging line
A solution for re-shoring luxury packaging.
3D technology – a model future for print?
Suddenly, all of your customers have become 3D print customers. At least in principle. On 16 January, Adobe added 3D printing support to Photoshop Creative Cloud, which is already used by pretty well...
Still true to co-operative principles
Over 37 years, Calverts has built a printing business in which every worker’s voice is heard.
How to take one for the team
Staff dribbling basketballs, Morris dancing and firing crossbows. Not, you might think, the most conducive activities to getting work done.
Interview: ‘Keep learning – and keep trying’
By his own admission, Label Apeel managing director Stuart Kellock hasn’t always been the easiest of bosses. After all, not many people would sack a sibling from the family firm. But in his 20-plus...
Q&A: Andrew Barnes, managing director, Multiflow Print
“Gentleman in print” Andrew Barnes has been in the industry for 28 years, and his career at Bicester’s Multiflow Print began in 1989 as production manager. After inexplicably omitting this bastion of...