Features
UK employers need to get clued up on pension obligations
Retiring to the Costa Blanca, becoming a golf pro, turning a small back lawn into a veritable Kew Gardens. All visions that have for most people of late, begun to seem rather distant and ambitious...
Print's processing workhorses are backroom heroes
Many people believe that when they visit a website, upload photos to the web or load a web-based process, these operations are being run on their own computer. In fact, they are run on a server that...
The future's bright
LED technology is developing fast and is now an option in a number of applications that could previously only be handled by arc lamps - a trend that is set to continue. So is it time to ditch the...
Business inspection: Recruiting a co-pilot to aid lift-off
Rocket Graphics explains how hiring an expert can help take your business stratospheric
Should the worst happen, make sure you're fully covered
When a blaze believed to have been started by a forklift truck ripped through Polestar's Bicester storage facility this June, it offered a timely reminder of the importance to the print trade of...
On the road: printers present their transports of delight
White van man is something of a ubiquitous feature of roads up and down the UK. The epithet conjures up images of a filthy old Transit with a dashboard littered with yellowing copies of The Sun,...
Business inspection: customer focus interviews
In a drive to offer top-end service, Elanders turned to its toughest critics
Temporary staff: the benefits of a helping hand
Leaner times mean smaller headcounts and, in many cases, that means hiring in temps to help cope with peak periods, but there are pitfalls to watch out for
Printers in all sorts of unusual places
How fast does your factory travel? What do you do with the excess hay? Who feeds the deer? Perhaps not the sorts of queries your average printer has to face, but for some they are part of the working...
Link the two tribes with better communication
The two worlds of the pre-press technician and the finisher are, considering they work for the same firm and are often just a few metres apart, pretty different. One's day-to-day existence revolves...
Me & my: SwissQprint Nyala
"I'm a tight Yorkshireman, I don't part with money easily at all." So says James Dixon, managing director of Halifax-based display and merchandising specialist Retail Services Group.
Welcome to the 2013 Wide-format report
There's no doubt that wide-format print, in all its many guises, has been relatively resilient against the tough economic climate.
EFI is proud to sponsor the Wide-format report
As the leading pioneer in a broad range of inkjet technologies, including software, inks and production machines, EFI continues to dominate the solvent to UV-curable transition to bring more...
Why consumers need to see the big picture
When it comes to photography, the received wisdom is that consumers rarely think big. While they will happily create a photobook full of smaller images, the thought of picking one photograph to blow...
Making sense of manufacturers' spurious specs
It's safe to say that printing industry manufacturers are not shy of superlatives when it comes to extolling the virtues of their latest piece of kit.