Features

Collaboration and creativity is key for proactive printers

When Augustus Martin was approached by a client to create in-store point-of- sale (POS) material for a financial services campaign, it knew there was a 'value-added' element missing. So the POS...

Brands with the magic touch

Look no further than the late Steve Jobs for an example of someone who understood the sensory power of print and packaging.

A new generation of graphic design

It started with an email, which was kind of ironic, because the subject line was 'Power of Print'. In fact, the whole project that PrintWeek was proposing to the email's recipient, University of...

Welcome to a virtual reality

The world of technology moves at such a pace, it can often feel that by the time you have grasped one new form of 'industry-changing' technology, you have to replace it.

SPECIAL REPORT: US commercial printing poised for election year surge

Now is the time printers should be doorstepping their poltical party candidates on the campaign trail to win some of the windfall work available on the back of the 2012 elections.

Ensure you know the real value of your real estate

The offer seemed just too good to refuse. For a relatively small upfront fee, a firm of chartered surveyors offered to save Bicester-based Multiflow Print at least 1,000 a year for the next five years...

Manroland insolvency: where does the firm go from here?

Manroland's insolvency filing last week was the sad but inevitable result of its failure to find an adequate strategy to cope with the massive reduction in its core market from 2008. This included a...

Product Review: PackEdge 10

EskoArtwork's PackEdge 10 is a packaging pre-production editor that reduces the cost of errors and increases the efficiency in the pre-press activity in packaging firm, points out, Sachin Shardul.

Playing catch-up in the gender equality race

When Precision Printing announced a new pressroom assistant would be joining the team, a certain kind of person was expected to walk through the door, roll up their sleeves and get stuck into the...

Government 95m capex pot: the right idea at the wrong time?

Support for UK manufacturing is something to which British politicians usually pay lip service and not much more. However, the collapse of the financial sector has brought into sharp relief the...

Investment delivers print's DNA upgrade

Even the most optimistic members of the print industry would not have been expecting to open this supplement to find that the top 500 companies would have abandoned the lifeboats they had emptied into...

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...