Opinion

Almost half of printers surveyed by printweek.com believe that stopping companies' ability to write off debt is the most effective way to combat low pricing.

Last month, amid pressure to get the country lending and spending, the Bank of England cut interest rates to 2%, equal to the lowest ever. But with many printers locked in credit agreements, will they...

The BPIF recently conducted an online survey of member companies in association with specialist professional services organisation Begbies Traynor Group. The results, published in October, showed that...

People. They're a nightmare, aren't they? They can be confrontational. Awkward. Lazy. Some of them have a seemingly unfeasible number of dead or dying grandparents, so they have lots of funerals to...

Christmas is definitely on the cards this month, though it's anyone's guess whether it'll be a white one, a green one or the grey of economic gloom. For those seasonally merry men at Nottingham's...

Hooray for Hotel Chocolat. Or, more specifically, well done to whoever handles its mail order catalogue, which dropped on to my doormat recently. It's not so much the toothsome treats inside that...

Thinking about and planning for 2009? This we all need: new opportunities; new business options; and ideas to give us inspiration as to how we can grow and prosper. In the digital print world, there...

Mike Hopkins, strategy director, on the benefits of the BPIF's SIG scheme:

Over the past three years, demand for personalised digital photobooks, calendars, postcards and yearbooks has increased significantly. As all modern digital printers and presses produce good...

We have the poet John Milton to thank for the observation that "they also serve who only stand and wait", subsequently corrupted into that rather backhanded and patronising compliment "good things...