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To tweet or not to tweet? A question many in print are still no doubt grappling with. The most pressing question they’ll then face once they decide to take the plunge is who on earth to follow? Fellow...

Intellectual property, or IP, may not be your most pressing concern right now. But if you are not careful it could soon become so.

We live in an age where highly automated machines have taken most of the guess work out of manufacturing. But despite hitting new heights of sophistication, the latest generation of machines are not...

Eyes meeting over five-colour presses, late nights spent discussing the finer points of colour calibration – who knew print could be such an aphrodisiac? And yet plenty of folk in print seem to have...

Account director London and north Home Counties, APS Group.

Ashley House Printing Company was formed in 2005 as a result of a management buyout by Robert Otton, who by happy coincidence had been looking to start his own business at the same time it came up for...

Taking credit card payments enabled this company to up cashflow on fast-turnaround work.

It’s a situation so horrendous it hardly bears thinking about. Just over a year ago, a man was killed in Camden by a falling shop front hoarding. Without even taking into account the sizeable fines...

Being a digital innovator isn’t always easy, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. And that’s one way to describe starting a business with your first and only press delivered just a few days before...

For a firm struggling to move forward, a fresh pair of eyes can often make all the difference.

Okay, so it’s honesty time: can you truthfully say that you have completed every scheduled maintenance process on every machine in your print business on the day and at the time it was scheduled? Do...

Established in 1982 by Derek Bellotti, Kingfisher is a family-run litho and digital print firm, now headed by Derek’s son Ross who says he strives to keep print relevant in a digital age.

Leaving school 37 years ago at the tender age of 15, John Fry joined Graphic House in Preston as an apprentice printer.

Feeling a bit peaky? You’re not alone. Post Christmas partying and indulgence, the nation’s immune system is collectively down, meaning winter flu, cold and stomach bugs are hard to avoid.

With colds and flu, not to mention post-Christmas hangovers, so prevalent in January, there are few times quite so likely to remind printers of the havoc that absenteeism can play with a workforce.