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Tony has been in the business for 15 years and says his job title is “managing director and chief grump”. He also describes himself as “grumpy”... We are beginning to see a theme here. He’s an...

Hatfield-based Falkland Press was established 35 years ago, so it’s been around for five years longer than Jon himself. He joined the family-owned printing company eight years ago, a process that...

Big data is big business. And it plays a big role in modern society. Algorithms that analyse this data run our everyday lives, helping us to make decisions and sometimes making decisions for us.

PrintCaf's student-friendly branding also helped KM Reprographics attract other new business.

An official-looking serial number, distinctive green hues and an intricately rendered and suitably regal Queen. Even scrutinising this 1990 £5 note far more closely than I would normally, I can't see...

Blue-eyed boy syndrome' - not the condition endured, or rather enjoyed, by Bake Off heart-throb Paul Hollywood. Rather this is a term all print bosses should consider carefully when it comes to...

It is arguably the second-most famous scene in Goldfinger. James Bond is strapped to something not dissimilar to a present-day graphics cutting table, albeit one made of gold. Auric Goldfinger gives...

To outsource or not to outsource? That, when it comes to print finishing, is very much the question. The affordability of initial capital investment is obviously the first consideration which needs to...

A sales team might seem like an essential part of any business, but that's not always true

Print outsourcing is a bit like Strictly Come Dancing - no one will admit to being partial to it, and yet levels of outsourcing, like ratings for Bruce and Tess, are tellingly high.

There probably aren't many people that would contemplate starting a business in the print industry at 21, but that's exactly what First 4 Print Finishing managing director David Nestor did. And, as if...

Twenty years ago at the 1993 Ipex show, Indigo launched the world's first liquid toner digital colour press, the ePrint 1000. Since then it has installed almost 10,000 presses worldwide, steadily...

That nothing even closely resembling the new EU Timber Regulations (EUTR) existed before they were launched in March, is kind of surprising. Most would probably have assumed that introducing illegally...

Deficits, cuts and public spending have been the defining topic of political discourse in post-crunch Britain, which means the subject of taxation is never far behind.

By his own admission, DST Output UK chief executive Jeremy Walters has had to be a fast learner throughout his career. And his latest challenge is learning US English, since he took up the reins at...