Opinion

Joanne Gardner tracks down the solutions to your technical troubles

Media comment and factual analysis have rarely seemed as far apart as they do today. While television news programmes and the daily press talk openly of recession, in the latest HM Treasury summary of...

Training in the print industry has had a trying time over the past few years. It has now been dealt a further blow by the National Skills Academy (NSA)'s decision to defer Proskills's bid to launch a...

Drupa 1967 was arguably the most memorable for me. It seemed to mark the threshold between the old and the new worlds of printing technology.

Plans to regulate the direct mail industry through the new PAS 2020 standard don't seem to have been thought through, particularly the move to outlaw the use of polywrapping and poly-bagging.

Among the more interesting demonstrations at the recent Drupa exhibition was the digital printing of newspapers on newsprint substrates using high-speed inkjet colour presses by HP, Oc and Screen.

Recession is now all but certain. GDP growth in the last quarter was 0.2% with a significant decline in output towards the end of the quarter. On current projections negative growth could already be...

Counterfeiting cells, busily forging currency notes, arouse much interest when unearthed. Another popular target for fakery is statutory documents. One of the most notorious acts of forgery involved...

In my opinion, it's the most significant announcement that HP's graphic arts business has ever made," said my HP mole about an statement the manufacturer made earlier this year.

It is not often I hear people speaking of Klondike moments in the printing sector, but at last months Printing World Digital Workshop, W2P director Peter Lancaster likened the opportunities to be...

Printing Worlds round-table discussion on training and skills brought together 12 of the industrys leading lights to discuss the problems specific to print and understand the key factors necessary for...

A recent article regarding Reel Paper introducing G-Print Matt into its 2008 catalogue erroneously cited Stora Enso as producing the paper.

Royal Mail chiefs have stated that the latest wave of strikes could cost the carrier up to 260m.

One pastime that I enjoy is the solving of crossword puzzles. It is a pursuit that helps to improve vocabulary, to extend general knowledge, and to provide gentle daily mental exercise. Sceptical and...

On foreign trips to places like China, many of us delight in haggling for apparently branded goods in the street markets. This is for items we obviously know to be fakes such as Rolex watches and...