Opinion
New year predictions: David Nestor, First 4 Print Finishing
What possible gift could you buy the managing director of PrintWeek’s SME of the Year for Christmas? Simples, the exact same present he got when he was an impressionable eight-year old, well that or a...
New year predictions: Charles Jarrold, BPIF
12 months into the job as the Fed’s chief executive, Charles Jarrold, is pretty happy with the way 2015 panned out. Next year, however, his hope is that the industry turns its perceived threats into...
New year predictions: Kirk Galloway, Buxton Press
As managing director of PrintWeek’s reigning Company of the Year, it’s safe to say that Kirk Galloway has been pretty happy with his 2015 lot. And it sounds like he’s planning to carry that ‘feel-good...
New year predictions: Gareth Jenkins, DS Smith
2015 has been a good year for DS Smith's UK Packaging Division managing director Gareth Jenkins. The firm took delivery of the first narrow width HP T400 Simplex Color Inkjet Web Press this year and...
New year predictions: Emma Zakka, TalkTalk
Sadly it looks like 2015 will end up as a bit of disappointment for TalkTalk senior production manager Emma Zakka; with the odds on her Christmas wish coming true only marginally better than those for...
Raise a glass to a profitable 2016
If the team at PrintWeek Towers was hoping for a gentle wind-down in the run-up to Christmas, so that we could focus on putting the Power 100 to bed, that dream was shattered with the financial strife...
Ambassadors for print must step up
This edition of PrintWeek has inadvertently become another apprentice issue; and I don’t mean the ‘you’re fired’ kind before you wonder.
One failure doesn’t reflect the wider sector
The demise of digital doyen 1st Byte sent shockwaves through the industry that in many ways seemed out of proportion to its relatively modest size.
Never mind the bollocks, here’s print
After last Monday’s PrintWeek Awards, it’s difficult to have anything other than warm and fuzzy feelings about the world of print – once the post-celebration headaches and queasiness pass, of course.
More power to the comeback kids
Here in the UK we’ve got a proud history of sporting comebacks: Liverpool in the 2005 Champions League final against AC Milan, England against Australia in the 1981 Headingley Ashes Test or Red Rum in...
Automation can’t replace autonomy
Picture the scene: a dystopian future where printshops across the land are devoid of humans, with the press halls and binderies run by an army of robots and computers.
Print has learned the marketing lesson
At the tail end of last month PrintWeek Towers was a picture of (organised) cardboard chaos, with the atrium of St Jude’s crammed full of boxes of all descriptions in anticipation of the four judging...
Buyers recognise that print works
In a break from the norm, this issue’s interview features not one, but 21 willing victims – namely the print buyers from the main judging day of the PrintWeek Awards.
Your clients are your best salespeople
It’s often said that the most effective salespeople in any business are its customers. A few well-placed words from a current client to a prospect can do more to win a deal than even the smoothest...
Is it true that print’s customers can’t get no satisfaction?
Customer service in print has been placed under the spotlight over the past few weeks, with recently released research suggesting that service in the industry is below par.