Case studies
Ten ways to cut your business costs
Print firms are no strangers to the discipline of cost reduction. For years, the industry has been caught between the internet, print management firms and increasingly severe recessions. Budgets have...
Has higher education shut the door on print apprentices?
Leeds City College's decision to close its in-house print facility is yet another blow for print industry training, especially when set against a decade of decline in the number of skills-based print...
140,000 work in UK print, so let's make ourselves heard
A young career-seeker looking for an industry committed to developing their long-term skills could be forgiven for deciding print isn't for them
Leeds City College withdraws campus-based print tuition
Leeds City College is to close its in-house print training facility and change its Level 3 NVQ Machine Printing course to an industry-based apprenticeship model with no teaching on campus.
Manufacturers get into the lending game
Before the economic meltdown, it was all too easy for printers to raise finance for investment in new equipment, recalls one print industry stalwart. "You simply filled out some forms, signed on the...
Polestar's staff training not up to scratch, states Ofsted
Polestar has vowed to improve its communication with employees, after an Ofsted report claimed that the overall effectiveness of the firm's current training programme was not up to scratch.