Opinion

Why India makes a perfect publishing partner?

Vinutha Mallya talks about how publishers in India have started grappling with the nuances of digital publishing, print-on-demand, self-publishing, e-books, apps and enhanced e-books.

Germany could teach the UK some very important lessons

Despite its relatively high labour costs, Germany is the world's largest goods exporter after China. Much of this success is attributed to the country's legion of small and medium-sized firms, known...

Big boost for secondhand sale in India

Used machines dominate the Indian market. Noel D'cunha presents the findings of a pressXchange survey that tracks trends in the used machine market in India and rest of the world, and concludes the...

Battle lines drawn for high-speed inkjet press ink wars

With the arrival of high-speed inkjet presses that are capable of challenging offset printing in many areas, one of the comments I regularly hear concerns the cost of inkjet inks and the limited range...

Reader Reaction: Will technology change the way print is being produced?

Printer CEOs tell Suhani Singh what's the best thing in processes, production and technology

Survey: The X factor that drives print in India

Print data is widely disparaged in India for getting most things wrong; and its a wonder that some of us get the number-crunching right.

To be useful, a DRP disaster plan must be updated regularly

Often a disaster recovery plan (DRP) focuses on preventative actions, with documentation written as a necessary chore to satisfy insurance companies, then filed away, to provide false comfort and no...

Credit plan a welcome move but will small firms benefit?

It being the season of party conferences, the team at PrintWeek Towers have been scouring the speeches of the great and, ahem, good in the hope of stumbling across some welcome respite from all the...

Learn the lessons of Impact or history will repeat itself

I have to take issue with the <i>PrintWeek</i> <a href="http://www.printweek.com/Opinion/article/1090153/web-will-no-prisoners-numbers-dont-add-up/">editorial of 9 September</a>, which basically...

A step in the right direction, but UK must strive for more

The government has decided to fast-track a new EU Late Payment Directive standardising 30-day invoice payments following a recent debate in the House of Commons. The new rules will come into force in...