Ink Shop on track to boost profits following shift in business strategy
Scottish printer Ink Shop has claimed a new business strategy and investment programme will achieve a five-fold profitability increase this year while cutting 750,000 of unprofitable revenue.
Iconic Pirelli calendar outsourced to HH Global
Pirelli has outsourced print management for its 2012 calendar for the first time to BPO firm HH Global.
Muller Martini announces Drupa debuts
Newspaper and magazine finishing specialist Muller Martini has announced its line up for Drupa, with a host of debuts.
Economic recovery? Maybe, but let's celebrate quietly
Could it be true? Is the print and packaging sector really leading the charge out of recession and the worst is now behind us?
Will DM technology usher in a new screening revolution?
Whether, conventional, stochastic or hybrid, or to use their respective abbreviations AM, FM or XM, halftone screens have long been associated with improving print quality. From the mid-nineties to...
DM screening will offer real benefits for some printers
Having followed its development over the past three years, I recently had the opportunity to evaluate Hamillroad's DM screening technology, which will be available as ECRM DMS at Drupa, running on...
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Digital finishes first in the race for run-lengths: Drupa post-press preview
The job of the finishing manufacturer is generally a reactive one: whatever the press manufacturers, both digital and litho, have planned for the future, the finishing manufacturers must be able to...
Drupa preview: post-press stand-by-stand
FeragHall 15, Stand D25At Drupa 2012, Ferag will introduce TapeFix, a system to secure insert collections. TapeFix takes the place of a wrapper to ensure that collections stay together. TapeFix is...
Print industry news roundup: postage, Pureprint, Gavin Watson Printers, Berforts merger, Whitewater liquidation
Stay up to date with your procurement supply chain thanks to print industry news at your fingertips. This week: The Lettershop Group sees specialist envelope interest increase; Pureprint appoints...
Think-tank urges insolvency rethink
Printers have cautiously welcomed calls by a Tory think-tank to bring in US-style bankruptcy protection, which allows the management of insolvent companies a fixed period of time to try to restructure...
Halstan boss to run Marathon
Halstan Holdings chairman Chris Smith will celebrate his 60th birthday this weekend by running the London marathon - the first time he has run a full marathon.