Opinion

Industry's future rests with spending review

Depending on who you talk to, the government's Comprehensive Spending Review, due for publication this week, will either rescue or devastate the UK economy.

Reader reaction: What sort of app would you develop for the industry?

Given the popularity of the iPhone and iPad, we ask how these can be turned into print tools

Ramu Ramanathan highlights "few things they don't tell us about printing"

The past few days, I've been attending seminars, conferences, closed-door briefings - and a pattern is emerging. Let me try to give you a flavour, with some of the comments:

Reader reaction: Is digital quality still an issue, or does it now rival litho?

We asked you whether there was still any meaningful difference in the quality of output

Estimating options in the spotlight

Jo Francis tracks down the solutions to your technical troubles

Apps will revolutionise online business models

Readers of Wired magazine will no doubt have already read Chris Anderson's article on the death of the World Wide Web.

Packagers in suburban Mumbai discuss "print viability" during the second round of At Your Doorstep meet

The second round of At Your Doorstep, a joint partnership between Mumbai Mudrak Sangh (MMS) and PrintWeek India was conducted for 25 packaging converters who have their business located in Goregaon...

How buoyant was business at the Cape Town Book Fair?

Suhani Singh speaks to visitors to find out how they coped in a new book publishing territory.

Reader reaction: Is sectorial funding preferable to regional funding?

We ask whether funding should be evenly spread around the country or focused on regions

The web hasn't killed print, just changed it

Death seems to feature widely in this week's issue, namely the deaths of newspapers and the print rep, with the wicked web identified as prime suspect in both cases.

Jo's Help Line: International connections

Jo Francis tracks down the solutions to your technical troubles

Deep change is required to become an integrated communications provider

Andrew Tribute's article 'To survive, print firms need to become integrated communications providers' (PrintWeek, 10 September 2010) is correct in its central point but fails to mention that to...

Quark conflicts & Gulf options

Jo Francis tracks down the solutions to your technical troubles

Five Arrows deal could revitalise print lending

The withdrawal of credit has been a major and seemingly unsolvable problem that has dogged print for the past two years. Until this week that is, when Print Finance announced the entrance of a new...

What would you do to make Royal Mail more competitive?

We ask how you would enable Royal Mail to compete effectively in today's crowded market