Features
Product Review: Memory Vision plate bending and punching machine
Vision plate-punch and bender is equipped with CCD cameras to scan the plates with up to 40 times magnification to ensure quick registration for multi-colour printing, says Rahul Kumar.
Is there a simple blueprint for a successful print business?
For many medium-sized UK print businesses, today's commercial landscape is very different to the one that existed 10 or 15 years ago. And indeed, today's businesses have also changed significantly -...
Keep the wheels moving in a changing environment
For our special issue, PrintWeek talks to three very different buyers to ask how their marcomms print requirements are changing and evolving. Their answers throw up some interesting issues and some...
Valuing the unique needs of your clients
The buzzword 'added-value' is bandied about so much these days that you could be forgiven for switching off to its meaning, seeing it as no more than a PR clich. But with printers vying for fewer and...
Product review: Basysprint 850 CtCPs
Deepak Bedi of Mumbai-based Glamour Graphics, says that all three of its Basysprint 850 CtCPs produce crisp dots and offer a cost effective solution.
Are medium-sized businesses being left out in the cold?
CBI research on how to help the UK's medium-sized businesses (MSBs) obtain finance and exploit opportunities for growth has won broad support from printers in the 10m to 100m-turnover bracket.
A revolution: from Gutenberg to Google
The invention of the movable type represents the beginning of the information revolution. Jairaj Salgaonkar of the Kalnirnay almanac traces the past which led to the evolution of knowledge on the...
Eco claims backed up with hard facts
Few UK printers have so far gained EMAS certification, but Mastercolour has found that it makes good business - as well as environmental - sense
The writing is on the wall
All is not as it seems. That graffiti on the exposed brick of the reception waiting room is not really graffiti. That painting of the overflowing foliage of a forest on the meeting room wall - it's...
Small investments in finishing kit can open Olympic opportunities
As the industry, hopefully, begins to exit arguably the most horrific few years of its near 600-year history, printers that have survived the cull are faced with the problem of ensuring that, next...
Bestsellers: how to choose your next sales executive
We all know him. Mile-wide grin, pinstriped suit, slicked back hair as shiny as his brogues and an ability to talk a client into submission. No matter what the topic. But in print, this stereotypical...
Secrets of last-minute printers
When a quick-turnaround job comes in, how are the experts able to be confident that they can do the work to a high standard and without affecting other clients?
'I will sit down with Ricoh and look into the future'
Six months after the announcement of its digital print partnership with Ricoh, and with six months to go until Drupa 2012, the world's biggest print show, it seemed like the ideal time to catch up...
Is green still the colour of money?
The days of the 0% eco loan are long gone, but green funds are still available at a price
Accreditation in the balance
In a marketplace where price and quality are givens, green credentials can be critical factors in a print buyers decision-making process, but are clients being dazzled by badges?