Q&A: Giles Foden, managing director, Quantum Print & Packaging

Giles has been in the print and packaging game since 1989. He’s 55, married and has a daughter. His hobbies include tennis (Quantum is a sponsor of the ITF World Tennis Tour W100 tournament in...

60 seconds with Cotswold Letterpress 

After a career in print sales Pete Roberts started his own business hand-printing letterpress stationery, and slowly grew to become the town printer ending up with a five-colour litho press and all...

Rising star: Brandon Smith, HP digital printer and ABG finisher, Harkwell

The electrical trade’s loss is print’s gain. Brandon is 20 and has been working at Poole-based Harkwell, which specialises in labels and pouches for a wide range of customers, since the spring of...

Typical print production workflow

Efficiency is key for capitalising on direct mail opportunities

Driving down inefficiencies in direct mail has never been more important if we want to emphasise print’s advantage and rise to meet market challenges and opportunities.

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Cooper (left) with Bendy and the XL 106

Solopress expands into B1 as part of mega-spend

Solopress has completed a near-£5m investment round with a strategic step up into B1 litho production to increase capacity, with the firm also on track for a record year.

James Cropper's Paper division: mitigating the impact with price increases and increased energy surcharges

James Cropper profits hit by energy, raw materials costs

James Cropper has slashed its profit forecast by more than half due to the soaring price of energy and raw materials.

Planned strike action on 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10 November has been postponed

Postal strikes postponed for next two weeks

Strikes involving over 115,000 postal workers that had been planned over the next fortnight have been postponed.

The DS-1200 G4i is designed to operate at 12,000 items per hour

Pureprint ups capability with Quadient install

Pureprint Group has taken on an intelligent automated enclosing line to expand its direct mail capabilities and support significant contract wins.

iX3200: "exceptionally reliable compared to many other devices”

Tradeprint fires up first inkjet

Tradeprint has installed its first inkjet commercial press, a Canon VarioPrint iX3200 B3 sheetfed.

The Imaging Centre's general manager Ed Starling (L) and operations director Jess Penfold

The Imaging Centre installs UK first Duplo B2 cutter

The Imaging Centre has bought the UK’s first Duplo DC-20K B2 cutting system, after hosting the machine’s beta test.

Loosemore gained overwhelming support from shareholders at De La Rue's AGM this summer

De La Rue under pressure from investor again

De La Rue has been forced to hold a general meeting after activist investor Crystal Amber Fund called on the group’s chairman to resign.

Khazarchiev: "The prime goal for us is to grow [our] offering"

Printt.com raises £1m to expand A4 print service platform

Printt.com, the app-based remote printing platform, has raised over £1m of investment to expand its operations across the UK.