Late payments to UK SMEs top £35bn
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Hobs turns to Watkiss for new division
18 May 2012Commercial printer Hobs Reprographics has purchased a nearline Watkiss PowerSquare 200 booklet making system.
Nicholson Bass evolves for 75th anniversary
18 May 2012Nicholson Bass is updating its identity as it approaches its 75th anniversary with a new name, logo and marketing strategies.
ODM partners with Mohawk to launch photobook binder
18 May 2012On Demand Machinery (ODM) has partnered with Mohawk Fine Papers to manufacture the Sidewinder, an automated bindery system for producing Panoramic TRU-Flat photo books.
Oscillating parental time off will be a logistics nightmare
18 May 2012Under new regulations, mothers of babies born on or after 3 April 2011 will be able to transfer up to six months of their maternity leave to the child's father when they return to work.
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For the first time the PrintWeek annual Top 500 is available online with sortable tables.
In Depth
Can your vehicles pull their weight but pollute less?
18 May 2012The print trade has made leaps and bounds in cleaning up its act over the past decade or so, but it's an industry that is reliant on having to move large quantities of goods via road around the UK and beyond on a daily basis.
Business inspection: Henningham Family Press/Dalston Bloc
18 May 2012By downsizing from its central London studio, this firm slashed overheads and redefined itself
Does green-button machinery portend the death of skill?
11 May 2012Harry Gilmore webs up the film on his Micro B2 single and double-sided film laminator, loads in his sheets of paper and sets the temperature gauge to 120ºC.
Ten ways to cut your business costs
11 May 2012Print 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 fallen, company sales have been hit and, for many ...
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Star product: Xerox D Series A high-productivity digital mono machine that copies and prints
Me & my... RedTie RTT W2P system While the franchise model is by its very nature fragmented, a unified message and appearance is imperative for the system to work - what would McDonalds be without the golden arches or KFC without The Colonel?
Me & my... Casematic H46 Pro But for one of printer ABC Imaging's construction firm clients, bidding for a contract with Chester Zoo, this was just the result they were after.
Me & my... Edale Alpha label press Going on a diet at label printer Customark must be tough. Alongside the more perfunctory barcodes, health and safety and toolbox labels whizzing through the company's machines, there's also an onslaught of images of delicious-looking cakes and gooey ...
Star product: Epson SureColor SC-S30600 Epson hopes this eco-solvent unit will win it more business in the sector
Me & my... Xerox 770 Digital Color Press Louise Hodge and her husband Simon, co-owners of self-styled 'single-source marketing agency' Fidelity Solutions, are in a fortunate position. While printers across the country are rushing out to buy in design skills to increase margins with some add...
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- Date: Thu 24 May 2012 - Sat 26 May 2012
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