Opinion

Editor's letter

What do we know now that we didn't know last month? We know that the money supply is tight, time is in short supply and daylight will soon be disappearing earlier. There could also be the danger of a...

Everybody's talking about... data sharing

<i>How is our personal information used, who holds it and what impact is the sharing of personal data having? These are some of the issues in July's Government Data Sharing Review, which concluded...

30-Second Debate - Are printers being paid on time by their customers?

<i>As the economic climate becomes increasingly gloomy and the credit crunch begins to hit more businesses, we ask if printing customers are stalling on invoices and failing to meet their suppliers'...

Job changer: Jon Parvin

Jon Parvin has rejoined Friary Press as managing director, after leaving the company last summer.

Regional risers... Paton Brown

Paton Brown managing director Ian Cooper:

Don't miss the boat on cross-media

Densy. Cora. Remember them? They were typesetting languages back in the days before desktop publishing changed pre-press forever. I was a Densy girl and it used to go a bit like this, if the old grey...

Stage is set for inkjets coming of age

If you need any evidence that an emerging technology is ready to break into the mainstream, look no further than a manufacturer's keenness to show it off. Inkjet had been a major talking point in the...

Bijoux sticker ops & PR preferences

Joanne Gardner tracks down the solutions to your technical troubles

It's quality not quantity that matters in recycling

While the fall in to administration of a French paper mill will hardly register on many readers' radar, the truth is it probably should.

History repeats itself time and again

From a strictly utilitarian standpoint, the purpose of the bulk of printed material is either informative or persuasive. The broad categorisation I first encountered in the 1960s when Alastair...

PM firms must take responsibility for raising print's environmental image

A few months ago, in preparation for a presentationon 'Changing attitudes towards printing and the environment', I typed 'environment' into Google and received 374 million results. When I tried again...

Is the Sky falling in on the PM industry?

Broadcasting behemoth Sky caused a ripple last month by pulling its 20m a year print management contract in house.

Print can learn from drama at Frome

What does Joni Mitchell have to do with the printing industry? Not a lot that I know of, but while reading up on the latest twists in the tale of Butler and Tanner, I found myself humming the refrain...

Print evolution set to continue apace

Following on from Drupa, our publisher organised for Frank Romano, professor emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology, to come and share his world view with the Haymarket Print Group team and a...