Business


Flintshire council plans to close in-house print centre

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Ten jobs could be lost at a council's in-house print centre if plans to close it are given the green light.

APS Group to install four Stahlfolders in £0.5m investment

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Print manager APS Group has invested more than half a million pounds in Heidelberg finishing equipment to replace six MBO folders.

Pureprint upgrades pre-press department with £350,000 spend

Pureprint Group has invested in excess of £350,000 on Kodak pre-press equipment in a bid to streamline its production workflows and improve the quality of its plate production.

KBA's Hansen to step down early

KBA president and chief executive Helge Hansen has asked to step down from the post some months ahead of his retirement.

PCS installs £200,000 punch as new business 'floods in'

Packaging manufacturer Plastic Card Services has invested £200,000 to ramp up its capacity.


In depth

For the record: printing your art on your sleeve

For the record: printing your art on your sleeve

03 February 2012

A few years back, notions like RPM, the B-side and the 12-inch would have got a blank response, at best a snigger, from anyone below the age of 25. In 2012, though, to the astonishment of many in the 'older generation', the youth have become rather f...

 
 
Print managers face up to the cross-media challenge

Print managers face up to the cross-media challenge

03 February 2012

And the winner of PrintWeek's Most Popular Sector Award is... print management!" Okay, so this isn't the most likely of scenarios. But there's no denying that print managers have, over the past few years, made progress in convincing printers of thei...

 
 
How to navigate the difficult route to career relocation

How to navigate the difficult route to career relocation

27 January 2012

If George Thompson, joint managing director at recruitment company Harrison Scott, is right, then the first thing any print worker looking for employment needs to do is buy a map. And not a little, local A-Z map, either: they need a big, UK-wide, eve...

 
 
What you need to know to make the most of your IT

What you need to know to make the most of your IT

27 January 2012

Once upon a time, the first thing a printer would show a prospective new client was the press. This, after all, was the company's beating heart, its moneymaker - this was where the magic happened. These days, however, the average print business is ju...

 
 

Product Portfolio

Product of the Week: Horizon StitchLiner 6000 Digital While inline systems might seem to have a natural advantage, this near-line challenger has charms all of its own, discovers Adam Hooker

Tried & Tested: Ricoh Pro 1356EX Ricoh says this robust production system was a game-changer in terms of reliability and productivity. Simon Creasey takes a look under the hood

Me & My... Foliant Gemini C400A Mike Corran, director at Colourxpress in Plymouth, tells Jon Severs how this machine answered a growing demand for an in-house laminating system

Star product: Optimus Cloud A modular web-to-print tool designed to take the hassle from print buying

Me and my... Kern 2600 inserter Many customer-manufacturer relationships have been sealed over a brisk 18 holes on the golf course, but few partnerships then decide to make the fairways and putting greens a permanent, annual feature. The Coventry Building Society and mailing and pa...

Star product: Korsnas Artisan This cartonboard is aimed at the luxury end of the packaging market


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