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Keeping on the right side of the law

Staying up to date on obligations toward staff can be hard work. Here we provide a general overview of potential pitfalls

Top tips: How to produce a good case study

PrintWeek is publishing a series of cut-out-and-keep guides to promote practical and affordable methods of improving business performance. In this edition, we look at capitalising on good news stories

Top Tips: How to advertise your company for free

PrintWeek is publishing a series of guides to promote practical and affordable methods of improving business performance. This week, we examine no-cost marketing opportunities

Business inspection: Blisset Bookbinders

Ultra-modern kit has enabled this firm to capitalise on traditional skills in the digital age

The technology that's been waiting inline to catch on

If you believe 'inline' refers to rollerblading, it's time to update your terminology. The technology, though, does require a sacrifice: are you willing to cash in your flexibility for speedier...

Why clients prefer to think inside the box: packaging proofing

Physical packaging proofs cost a bomb to make and can't be emailed, but are clients ready to trust 3D virtual proofs and what kind of printer can benefit?

The European player based in a stable: Imprint Digital

Imprint Digital has found that encouraging clients to submit correct PDFs and shunning the euro helped it compete on the export market

Borrower beware: don't fall into the lender trap

Asset-based lending. Besides 'National Lottery win,' there are perhaps few sweeter three-word combinations to a printer's ears in these tough times. While banks are at best making printers work harder...

Photobooks illustrate a digital divide

When photobooks first started gaining traction with the public, opening up a wonderland of consumer opportunities for printers, the novelty of uploading digital pictures and having them printed in a...

Business inspection: Henningham Family Press/Dalston Bloc

By downsizing from its central London studio, this firm slashed overheads and redefined itself

Star product: GMG productionSuite

GMG says this production workflow boasts highly accurate colour matching that ensures consistency across multiple substrate types

Drupa preview: Cloud computing & SAAS

Three weeks to go and still we're guessing what sort of Drupa it will be. Will it be another Inkjet Drupa or the B2 Digital Drupa? How about the Nano Drupa? Allow me to throw yet another possibility...

Drupa preview: environment & knowledge stand-by-stand

KodakHall 05, Stand F9-1 and F9-6New for Drupa is the Kodak Sonora XP Process Free Plate, where processing chemistry and water usages are, says Kodak, virtually zero compared with previous technology....

Technology patents: worth the paper they're printed on?

Last week, inventor Michael Wilcox stood outside of the Houses of Parliament and set fire to a patent for an 'innovative colour printing technology', claiming it had been made worthless after, he...

Crafty printers revive Gutenberg's legacy

If Johannes Gutenberg had possessed a time machine, he would have been well-advised to steer clear of the latter half of the 20th century on his travels. Post-1950s, he would have been greeted by...