Darren White was just 21 when he bought a secondhand Shoei folder and a little Camco guillotine to set up his own trade finishing house, DW Print Finishing. At such a tender age, in such a cut-throat...

Fespas Directors Summit, which took place in Geneva at the end of March, heard that in the massive marketing shake-up, print was likely to be one of the media that benefited, rather than lost out, as...

Over the last twenty years, printers have become well-acquainted with the idea that they must adopt new technology to survive. Desktop publishing, automatic plate changing, CTP systems and JDF have...

While printers are accustomed to the idea that they must constantly invest in order to survive, they are less amenable to the idea that a thriving print operation cant rely on technology alone. Print...

Clinic topics this month: Dan Sherwen on paper waste; Barney Cox on 4/4 plus foil presses; and Tim Wilkinson on minimising risk of large client loss

In the late 1990s, a number of printers brought their adhesive binding in-house. Many started small, with single-clamp perfect binders turning out work at around 200 books per hour (bph), finding...

There is a lot going on across all aspects of digital print. Print customers want the cost and turnaround benefits offered by digital, but they dont want any drop in the product quality. In most...

Imagine if your sales shrank by 20%. What would that do to your profit margin? Would you have one left? Which staff would you lay off? How would you cope? Now imagine that you could prevent that from...

The ECRM DPX began life in 1994. A year later, Apex Digital Graphics became the sole UK distributor for the platesetter, which was the first polyester platesetter to challenge imagesetters and...

This time last year, Brooks was very much a part of TPF. As managing director of its successful direct mail division and operations director for the group, he was one of the companys high flyers. So...