"Embrace change and feel the feel"

Q&A: Lucy Swanston, managing director, Nutshell Creative and Topic Heroes Charity

Lucy has reached “the grand old age of 45” and has been working in the print and agency world for 27 years.

"We want to be at the forefront of growing the next generation of printers"

60 seconds with LG Davis 

Established in 1962, LG Davis was the realisation of founder Ron O’Donnell’s dream – to have a company that put the customer first. From humble beginnings in a small stationery shop in Balsall Heath...

Graham Pitts (L) and Dave Pitts (R) with the h5

KGK Genix swaps two for one in Vutek install

KGK Genix has upgraded its superwide-format offering with an EFI Vutek h5 printer.

Mwebe: XL 106 ambitions

Rising star: Mark Mwebe, press operator, Micropress

Mark started working in the printing industry three years ago. The 24-year-old’s drive and positive attitude helped him to carry off the prestigious Trainee of the Year Award at this year’s Printweek...

Kriswillcode's clever design for the Wordle score badge. Image: Kriswillcode

Overmatter: Wear your Wordle

Hands up who’s become horribly addicted to the cult daily work-out-the-word game, Wordle?

Hunter: “The speed and ease-of-use is exactly what we need”

Me & My: Horizon BQ-160 PUR perfect binder

Allistair Hunter, managing director of Clacton-on-Sea-based print, direct mail and publishing business The DS Group says that to be successful in the printing industry and enjoy longevity you have to...

Star product: Hybrid Software Cloudflow

Workflow automation for packaging and labelling businesses.

Varijet 106: production powerhouse

Star product: Koenig & Bauer Durst VariJet 106

This press partnership sets out to offer the best of digital and offset for packaging printers.

Serif Affinity Publisher: competes with InDesign

Design for print: stalled potential?

Today’s design and layout programs are really good. So good in fact, that there’s not a lot that could make them better. And that is a problem for their developers and also for their users.

A passion for training: “Our factory is made up of 50% skilled former apprentices”

Best of British: Thinking inside the box

Avid readers of Printweek’s news pages may recall that in September 2018 the German finishing systems manufacturer Kolbus bought a British boxmaking machinery manufacturer called British Converting...

Printweek editor, Darryl Danielli

We may be knee-deep in the hoopla but, together, we’ll get through it

With everything that’s been going on in the industry in the past few months, especially while many firms are still licking their wounds from the pandemic, I can’t help but wonder: who would want to be...

The Flint facility in Wolverhampton. Image: Google Maps

Flint to close UK ink factory due to newspaper decline

Flint Group is likely to close its UK newspaper ink plant due to falling demand caused by the ongoing decline in newspaper circulations.