Opinion
Workflow must check all the boxes
Most of the major suppliers including Agfa, Canon, Kodak, Heidelberg and Xerox are pushing a joint offset and digital production workflow. This strategy could work for large printers and service...
Step back from the finishing line
I've been wondering about trade finishers moving upstream with an eye to digital print. A smart move and perhaps the start of a trend? The BPIF special interest finishers' group has recently been...
Everybody's talking about... making money out of new kit
<i>Printers need to know how they can make money out of an investment. Do manu-facturers have a responsibility to help their customers turn an investment into an opportunity?</i>
30-second debate - Do big international print trade fairs have a future?
<i>With the escalating cost of exhibiting and with more vendors announcing new equipment outside of big exhibitions such as Drupa, some say the days of the massive international trade fair are...
Job changer: Vincent Gidley
<i>Vincent Gidley has joined Howitt, Dialogue Solutions and Lateral Group as group operations director.</i>
30-second debate - Can printers maintain a healthy work/life balance?
<i>With the rise of the Blackberry, better mobile phone coverage and growing international operations, more managers in the print sector are constantly on call, even when on holiday. Are printers able...
Myth debunked
<b>Myth: Digital media supply chains are more sustainable than print</b>
Everybody's talking about... bespoke qualifications
<i>As part of its Sector Qualifications Strategy (SQS), Proskills, the sector skills council for process and manufacturing industries, is hoping to develop the qualifications needed in its sectors....
High hopes for low-cost file-checking
As the number of digital colour presses - or, as I prefer to call them, 'variable presses' - increases, even in this economic downturn, I continue to search for new inexpensive workflow or high-value...
Print must avoid the commodity trap
While researching the history of print management for the recent Stationers' debate on the future of print procurement, I asked Astron founder David Mitchell, one of the pioneers of print management...
Get out of a bind by embracing digital
There's a lot to be learned from books. Specialist library binder Hollingworth & Moss (H&M) certainly has, and in ways the Leeds-based family firm would never have dreamed of when it started more than...
Beware the blue chip on your shoulder
"May you live in interesting times" is supposedly an ancient Chinese curse, although a bit of digging regarding its origin reveals it is more likely a relatively modern, and Western, construction....