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Grow the profit by sharing the costs

Grow the profit by sharing the costs

While some printers can make those figures add up to profit, many are increasingly adopting an alternative route to the consumer market that some have dubbed B2B2C. In this arrangement, the printer partners with a consumer-facing retail company to sh...

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Photobooks illustrate a digital divide

Photobooks illustrate a digital divide

25 May 2012

When photobooks first started gaining traction with the public, opening up a wonderland of consumer opportunities for printers, the novelty of uploading digital pictures and having them printed in a nicely bound book was enough to get people through ...

 
 
Business inspection: Henningham Family Press/Dalston Bloc

Business inspection: Henningham Family Press/Dalston Bloc

18 May 2012

By downsizing from its central London studio, this firm slashed overheads and redefined itself

 
 
Can your vehicles pull their weight but pollute less?

Can your vehicles pull their weight but pollute less?

18 May 2012

The 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.

 
 
Does green-button machinery portend the death of skill?

Does green-button machinery portend the death of skill?

11 May 2012

Harry 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

Ten ways to cut your business costs

11 May 2012

Print 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 ...

 
 
'I'm more energised and excited than ever': an interview with Benny Landa

'I'm more energised and excited than ever': an interview with Benny Landa

02 May 2012

Can Benny Landa do it again? He spearheaded the digital printing revolution in 1993 when he launched his Indigo E-Print 1000, promising "a print run of one". Now, after selling Indigo to HP in 2001, he has sensationally returned to print with Landa D...

 
 
Warming up for 'the Olympics of print': your guide to Drupa 2012

Warming up for 'the Olympics of print': your guide to Drupa 2012

04 May 2012

B2 or not B2? That is the question digital manufacturers have been asking themselves pre-Drupa and - for the most part - they have opted for the affirmative answer. So much so, in fact, that some are already calling Drupa 2012 'the B2 Drupa'. However...

 
 
An expertise in inline innovation

An expertise in inline innovation

27 April 2012

A creative approach to inline manufacturing has given this mailing house an edge

 
 
Digital finishes first in the race for run-lengths: Drupa post-press preview

Digital finishes first in the race for run-lengths: Drupa post-press preview

27 April 2012

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 offer something that fits at the end of the line. So...

 
 
Drupa preview: consumables and ancillaries stand-by-stand

Drupa preview: consumables and ancillaries stand-by-stand

20 April 2012

 
 

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