Opinion
Reader Reaction: Have you diversified to mitigate the effects of recession?
We ask whether adding extra strings to your bow ensures safe passage through the downturn
Reader reaction: Will capacity cuts and closures have an impact on prices?
We ask if the ongoing downsizing in the industry will allow printers to increase prices
HP's web press has all the attributes to push digital print into the mainstream
Last year, there were several product launches in inkjet technology. The most significant was HP's web press, which was actually delivered to a customer while many of its rivals were still at the...
Q&A: Mike Keating
Mike Keating is the managing director of Key2 Group and has been in the industry for 25 years. He co-directs the company with his wife Lesley. He claims never to have had a fashion disaster, which...
Advice on turning over a new leaf
Jo Francis tracks down the solutions to your technical troubles
Reader Reaction: Would you offer free press time to attract new customers?
After Kingsdown Printing offered print free of charge to up trade, we ask if you would do the same
Print will have to develop its business model in response to Kindle DX launch
Late last year, I wrote an article about the potential market for e-readers, commenting mainly on the Kindle reader from Amazon.
Q&A: Caroline Dover
Caroline Dover is the managing director of Reading-based digital printer Vee Media. She is married with one son. She loves a massage and quite likes the thought of being stuck on a desert island with...
Is the traditional printed magazine model now broken?
Publicis Groupe chairman Maurice Lvy says magazines are doomed, but is this really the case?
Small change, big difference
Even litho printers can offer their clients short-run print-on-demand services and it could stop them going further afield Easibind is challenging the total cost of print jobs by reducing sizes,...
Does PAS 2020 go far enough in giving DM a makeover?
The direct mail industry's unique environmental standard launched in January. Will it be enough to shake the sector's negative 'junk mail' image or could more be done to improve DM's environmental...
Everybody's talking about... low pricing
Unsustainable or unrealistic prices are being blamed for the tight margins across the print industry. How can pricing be made more sustainable?