Features
Staff perks can be mutually beneficial
While signs that the UK economy is beginning to demonstrate sustainable growth are clearly welcome, most printers are still too conscious of the need to control costs to welcome the idea of stumping...
Keeping up with the march of progress
Keeping pace with technological innovations is a must for marketers. It is also a huge must for printers who, already producing the medium required to work in tandem with many new technologies, may...
Smart kit for eco-friendly operations
Talk of becoming more environmentally friendly and energy efficient can conjure up somewhat daunting images for printers. Becoming the proud owner of swathes of solar panels or a rolling wind farm all...
Q&A: Callum Shaw Apprentice, The Website Leeds
19 year-old Callum is marking his second year in print with something of a celebration, having been awarded PrintWeek Trainee of the Year. When not working on achieving his greatest ambition he can be...
Business inspection: Performing at the gold standard
Overhauling performance management cemented this company’s commitment to staff.
Interview: ‘Post recession, it’s all about expansion’
With more than 30 years in the printing industry under her belt, Fastsigns chief executive Catherine Monson is steeped in both print and the franchise model. She took over at Fastsigns five years ago,...
Still going strong: superannuated kit can still be super
Of most importance to the majority of printers today? Undoubtedly keeping up with the ever-quickening march of technological change. Most, that is, but not quite all.
Boxing clever: how internet sales are repackaging retail
Originally the rapid growth of online sales didn’t seem that startling. It was, after all, coming from a very low base, so annual double-digit percentage growth didn’t seem that remarkable. But even...
60-seconds with Technique Print Group
Karl Smith set up Technique in 1997 after working in print for 15 years, from apprentice through to sales. His business partner Mark Foster was then a customer as a freelance graphic designer and the...
Q&A: Terry Scanlon Managing director, West Port Print & Design
How apt that Terry’s work and family are located in St Andrews, the home of golf. Although his first love of sport was football and he played until he was 35, golf subsequently became his game and he...
60-seconds with: Screenprint Productions
From its origins as something of a cottage industry operating out of an old mill, Screenprint Productions has grown and grown and now occupies ‘three big factories in Brighouse’. Owners Martyn Hicks...
Tunnel visionaries prosper from print
What harbours woodpeckers, deer, bats and newts, has been used to house British Museum treasures and war-time government offices, and costs £500 per hour to film? The answer: London’s iconic...
Interview: ‘Turn online threat into opportunity’
At its peak, the BAPC had 3,000 members, making it arguably the largest trade association in the print industry. While the past few turbulent years may have shrunk membership by a third, they...
Business inspection: Transferable skills master new markets
Concentrating on core capabilities was key to Victoria Litho’s expansion into new sectors.
Are print’s brokers an endangered species?
There is a perception in some quarters of the print industry that the battle with print management – that bogeyman of the printer – has now been won and those operators that once drove prices down to...