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...
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...
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...
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...
Loricas Solutions is a growing north-east-based direct mail house that has been in operation in one form or another for around 22 years. The firm rebranded last year from NEMC Design and Print, following a £150,000 investment in new mailing kit and a...
When it comes to handling jobs in today's commercial print market, you basically have a hot potato situation: hold onto it too long and you will get burned. Hence, automation to reduce the touch points for the printing and finishing processes is now ...
It has been 2,394 days since the International Olympic Committee announced that the 2012 Olympic Games were coming to London.
Kodak never does anything the easy way. Last week's Chapter 11 filing - in the dead of night - was a case in point. The lack of surprise at an announcement that had been anticipated since September last year was palpable and suggests Kodak needn't ha...
Drupa 2008 was widely hailed as the 'inkjet Drupa' and unsurprisingly the major inkjet manufacturers are convinced that digital technology will take the trade show by storm again come May, albeit in a different way.
While 2012 has started much as the previous year left off - with the inevitable redundancies, closures and administrations - it is important to maintain some perspective, and there is much to look forward to in the 12 months ahead.
Perhaps the biggest news came late in 2011: the administration one of the world's largest press manufacturers. But this was not the only earth-shattering story covered by PrintWeek. We look back on the news - good and bad - that made 2011 one of the...
At next year's Drupa, the industry's suppliers will announce, and possibly even deliver, many new or upgraded products that will give an insight into the direction that print will take in the future. Here are some of the key trends that will have an ...
Any help that can be given to SMEs is going to be worth trying. However, I can see a number of pitfalls and problems with this structure. How many businesses will actually need to go and buy new capital equipment?
Despite its relatively high labour costs, Germany is the world's largest goods exporter after China. Much of this success is attributed to the country's legion of small and medium-sized firms, known as the Mittelstand, that are renowned for their abi...
Often a disaster recovery plan (DRP) focuses on preventative actions, with documentation written as a necessary chore to satisfy insurance companies, then filed away, to provide false comfort and no real benefit to the business.
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