Opinion

People. They're a nightmare, aren't they? They can be confrontational. Awkward. Lazy. Some of them have a seemingly unfeasible number of dead or dying grandparents, so they have lots of funerals to...

Christmas is definitely on the cards this month, though it's anyone's guess whether it'll be a white one, a green one or the grey of economic gloom. For those seasonally merry men at Nottingham's...

Hooray for Hotel Chocolat. Or, more specifically, well done to whoever handles its mail order catalogue, which dropped on to my doormat recently. It's not so much the toothsome treats inside that...

Thinking about and planning for 2009? This we all need: new opportunities; new business options; and ideas to give us inspiration as to how we can grow and prosper. In the digital print world, there...

Mike Hopkins, strategy director, on the benefits of the BPIF's SIG scheme:

Two months on from Drupa, you could be forgiven for believing that we are in the middle of a major recession, and there is no digital print business to be had. True, the financial services and housing...

<i>With the escalating cost of exhibiting and with more vendors announcing new equipment outside of big exhibitions such as Drupa, some say the days of the massive international trade fair are...

<i>Vincent Gidley has joined Howitt, Dialogue Solutions and Lateral Group as group operations director.</i>

As the number of digital colour presses - or, as I prefer to call them, 'variable presses' - increases, even in this economic downturn, I continue to search for new inexpensive workflow or high-value...

While researching the history of print management for the recent Stationers' debate on the future of print procurement, I asked Astron founder David Mitchell, one of the pioneers of print management...

There's a lot to be learned from books. Specialist library binder Hollingworth & Moss (H&M) certainly has, and in ways the Leeds-based family firm would never have dreamed of when it started more than...