Opinion

Summer’s here, the sun is out and the silly season is upon us – which means that interesting industry news is harder to find than a daily newspaper without a photo of Tom Daley in his budgie-smugglers...

Compared with the momentous events of late, the past couple of weeks have been fairly tame – all that seems to have happened is that we now have a new Prime Minister.

Boring.

For two weeks this month, the PrintWeek team has been in what can only be described as a Drupa bubble – having decamped to Düsseldorf to produce the show’s daily newspaper.

By the time you’re probably reading this the biggest print show on earth, Drupa, will have opened its doors.

For fairly obvious reasons, there doesn’t really seem to have been a good time to launch the 2016 PrintWeek Awards in recent weeks.

In this issue’s interview, GI Solutions’ Patrick Headley talks about the increasing need to make clients’ lives easier.

With a mere eight weeks to go until the big show opens its doors, the excitement surrounding the impending Drupa in PrintWeek Towers is palpable.

Kodak’s decision to offload its Prosper division, at first glance at least, seems a little bizarre.

Print is back, it’s official.

The imminent demise of The Independent in printed form, unsurprisingly, triggered a rush of commentators to once again predict the end of printed publications.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but by its nature it’s a gift that is always received too late.

It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that this issue of PrintWeek is slightly slimmer than usual. However, unless you’ve purloined your copy from a colleague, you’ve hopefully also noticed the...

It’s safe to say that Christmas 2015 was slightly more relaxing for Pureprint chief executive Mark Handford than 2014, partly because this Christmas was spent on the beach but largely because this...

My Print Partners client services director Ian McCloskey reflects on a year of growth - following the firm's first birthday in June - and discusses why the industry should better promote itself.

As chief executive of the print industry’s largest Employee Ownership Trust, it’s hardly surprising that Malcolm Lane-Ley is looking forward to some splendid isolation at the wheel of his track day...