Opinion

Letterpress dates back to the 15th century, to Johannes Gutenberg himself. Sachin Shardul reminisces his love for the technology which began the revolution in print.

India's first National Book Printers conference will be hosted between 17 to 19 November at Thiruvanthapuram in Kerala.

You would assume, with all this talk of credit crunch 2.0, largely fuelled by the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, that unbeknownst to us all credit crunch 1.0 did actually end and the banks were right...

To my mind, the three key UK factors that have hampered growth since the recession are lack of funding, end of the housing bubble and the stodgy state of the public sector. Other elements have come...

One of the promises of high-speed continuous-feed inkjet presses is that they will change the way we produce newspapers, enabling personalisation, micro-zoning, targeted advertising and very-short-run...

There's no doubt that it's still tough in the world of print - a quick scan of this week's issue bears testament to that - but surely there still has to be some honour among printers?

With a record number of print firms sending deserving entries, the judges had a daunting task picking the best of the best during the PrintWeek India Awards judging process.

Pindar's sale brought to mind the financial crisis in the Eurozone, which has led to another bailout for the heavily indebted Greek government. This has rightly been termed a 'selective default' by...

The Royal Mail's decision to apply a new stamped mark declaring 'Delivered by Royal Mail' on all bulk mail from mid-September has incensed the direct mail industry.

Williams Lea's long-awaited acquisition of Tag Worldwide, which has been 'on-again off-again' since late last year, finally came to fruition this week.

After close to 140 years, it looks increasingly likely that, one way or another, Pindar's UK print operations will slip from the grasp of the family that has owned it for four generations.

Every printer should have a Reservation of Title clause (ROT) in their contract. This simple device allows you to retain title to products that you have printed and that have left the premises, until...

Meeting with Michael Johnson in his final days as chief executive of the BPIF was an interesting experience for a number of reasons; the prime being that even though he was on the verge of having the...