Opinion

Did you know that the UK’s printing industry still generates around £14.1bn of revenue each year? Or that it is a significant part of the fourth-largest manufacturing sector in the UK by turnover?

There’s no doubt that for the 100 staff at Butler Tanner & Dennis, the news that its book printing business is set to close will have come as a devastating blow.

Once again EFI is sponsoring the Wide-format report because of our strong belief that the publication echoes the company’s pioneering technologies across inkjet printing, productivity software and...

In many respects digital is a mature technology, certainly insofar as the stranglehold it has on many wide-format markets. But, that’s not to say that as a technology it has exhausted its growth...

There are many things in life easier than winning a PrintWeek Award. However, there are few things that will have a more positive effect on your people, on your customers and on your business.

Business groups including the BPIF, Institute of Directors (IoD) and Forum of Private Business (FPB) have called on the chancellor of the exchequer to step up support for businesses in his penultimate...

In exactly two weeks’ time Ipex will open its doors and the show’s 400-ish exhibitors will be waiting with bated breath to see if their decision to hold fast and exhibit was the right one.

Positivity is in the air. Unemployment is at a four-year low, the economy is beginning to gain traction (the Office for Budget Responsibility expects economic growth to reach 2.4% this year) and with...

What does the new year hold for print? We asked 16 industry players to assess the year just closed and forecast their fortunes for the year ahead.

A new year, a new technology landscape, potentially, for printers to get their heads around. So what should printers be keeping their eyes on?

Cross Media 2014 marketing manager Andrew Thornhill is, perhaps not surprisingly, an enthusiastic advocate of the potential of multi-channel marketing as a source of revenue for printers willing to...

CFH Docmail managing director Dave Broadway urges other printers to get busy saving the planet next year, and explains why print is now the value-add and not the core business driver.

Park Communications managing director Alison Branch knows the value of good customer relations - and gravy! Here she shares her forecast for the year to come and thinks printers should be preparing...

Jacky Sidebottom, sales director at Glossop Cartons, warns that being busy is not the same as being profitable and encourages more print businesses to shout about the quality of their work in the new...

"The more conversation goes on between printers and designers, the more we can keep taking things forwards,” says Rapidity’s Paul Manning, during PrintWeek’s roundtable discussion with students on...