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20 years of digital: the innovation that sparked a revolution
It is 1993. Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You has spent 10 weeks at the top of the charts and a pint of beer costs a mere £1.30. There is also the small matter of a revolution in global...

Don't fall victim to workplace hazards
Red tape. Definitely something that features prominently on printers' top-five-things-to-grumble-about lists. And yet seemingly overly prescriptive government legislation is often there for good...

'We see ourselves as growth hackers'
Lawrence Merritt was managing director of Photobox UK & Ireland from 2007 until 1 March this year when he side-stepped to head up his new 'incubator' arm of the business, Photobox Startups. Hannah...

Closing sales is not about performing hat tricks
"How many people spent an hour last week practising sales?" I am sat in an introductory session for training organisation Franklin's Covey's new sales course, and co-practice leader Craig...

Why break-in protection is worth every penny
Imagine you arrive to work one day to find the glass of your front door smashed. Now imagine this doesn't turn out, as you'd first prayed, to be just a petty vandalism.

Cool reception forecast for Adobe's cloud-based CS
What can crop, stroke, convert, clone and resize and is found in pretty much every printer's pre-press studio across the nation? Not a joke or a riddle but a pretty straightforward question. The...

Interview: 'The technology is fantastic - I love it'
After 12 years at the helm of KBA UK, Christian Knapp last month stepped down and is currently taking a career break before embarking on a fresh challenge that may or may not be in print.

Leadership style: are you a multi-faceted manager?
Do you wield the whip when you should be encouraging creativity? Take our quiz to discover if you have enough strings to your leadership styles bow.

Business inspection: revamping the company culture
Joining the new culture club could motivate staff and revitalise your organisation's profits.

Q&A: Steve Miles, gravure sales director, Polestar
Steve joined the industry 41 years ago, because of the three potential jobs on offer print was the best-paid at £11 a week. He’s been married to Mrs Miles for 36 years, they have two daughters and are...

Interview: 'We have got enormous opportunities coming up'
Andrew Price became executive director of Paperlinx, the UK's largest paper merchanting group, last September after a very public spat with the global group's board.

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