In Depth

'No printer wants a Vistaprint customer'

'No printer wants a Vistaprint customer'

It began life as a catalogue, survived the dotcom boom - and bust - and went on to become the world's biggest web-to-print business. Jo Francis talks to Vistaprint founder and chief executive Robert Keane about 'productising' print, his dream piece o...


Features

'All you high flyers, ignore the cliff edge at your peril'

'All you high flyers, ignore the cliff edge at your peril'

13 May 2013

Bob Jenkins suddenly realised his head felt hot. Unusually hot. "It was not," he says "the sort of feeling you get with a normal headache. It was like imagining a saucepan full of simmering water, with a broken egg in it. The egg was my brain."

 
 
Putting together a model manager

Putting together a model manager

13 May 2013

For some it might seem the most disastrous start to a CEO-ship possible. Day one and the new head of a large financial services company, let's call them CEO X, calls a board meeting and addresses, as one of their first priorities, the issue of who is...

 
 
Applying a human touch to proofing

Applying a human touch to proofing

13 May 2013

Manual proofing has proved a crucial component in Pixartprinting's web-to-print success

 
 
How the public can pile on the pressure

How the public can pile on the pressure

13 May 2013

Would you rather print products that you can charge a few pence for, or products you can charge a few pounds for? Not, most printers would agree, the toughest of questions. Which is why, spurred on by the advent of digital kit that can print all kind...

 
 
Revamped northern show packs a punch

Revamped northern show packs a punch

25 April 2013

For many printers back in 2009, the North just wasn't the place to be. Nothing to do with the weather, the funny accent or southern printers' fear of being drunk under the table by their hardier northern counterparts, rather many just weren't convinc...

 
 

North Print & Pack exhibitors reveal kit line-ups

25 April 2013

Our essential stand-by-stand guide of who's showing what at the Harrogate International Centre in May

 
 

Briefing

Kodak maps out the road to recovery

Kodak maps out the road to recovery

13 May 2013

It was yet another weighty document relating to Kodak's Chapter 11 process, but among the hundreds of filings, this was the most significant to date.

 
 
Book sector's strengths add up to more than Fifty Shades of Grey

Book sector's strengths add up to more than Fifty Shades of Grey

13 May 2013

Sales of printed books are down again, says the Publishers Association (PA), unveiling new figures that suggest even more shades of grey than the fifty that recently propelled sales of both the printed and digital word.

 
 
Mergers and acquisitions call for an intelligent strategy

Mergers and acquisitions call for an intelligent strategy

25 April 2013

Judging by the amount of mergers and acquisitions across the print and packaging industries over the past 18 months, we appear to be hitting a peak in M&A activity for the sector.

 
 
Prime yourself for a paperless ticket revolution, say experts

Prime yourself for a paperless ticket revolution, say experts

19 April 2013

If government plans are realised, paper travel tickets will disappear, but this is not necessarily bad news for printers.

 
 
Businesses turn to social forums for fresh opportunities

Businesses turn to social forums for fresh opportunities

12 April 2013

There's a revolution going on in the land of print, and it involves no ink on paper at all. Despite a slow start, the printing industry is now embracing social media with gusto, especially when it comes to buying and selling kit.

 
 

Comment and Opinion

Quantum boasts ambition, but can Xeikon live up to it?

Quantum boasts ambition, but can Xeikon live up to it?

16 March 2012

It is no secret that inkjet will be big at Drupa 2012 and the most likely label for the 2012 iteration of the world's largest graphic arts trade show will be 'Inkjet Drupa' (again). It's too early, though, to count out toner-based technology and apar...

 
 
Toner-based print still has a few surprises up its sleeves

Toner-based print still has a few surprises up its sleeves

16 March 2012

With less than 50 days to go until Drupa 2012, the four-year buzz is building to fever pitch. The launch announcements have been coming thick and fast and we have seen the likes of Esko, HP, Kodak and Xeikon all set out their Drupa stalls.

 
 
Brutal industry can also be beautiful - and a great ride

Brutal industry can also be beautiful - and a great ride

26 April 2013

After seven years, my time on PrintWeek has come to an end. While I would never claim to have ink in my veins, I will always feel that I am part of this industry and so before I move on I would like to offer this, my 'reflections of a closet printer'...

 
 
Welcome to the Digital packaging report

Welcome to the Digital packaging report

24 April 2013

Welcome to our inaugural Digital packaging report. There's little doubt that the packaging sector has been remarkably - albeit perhaps unsurprisingly - resilient to the economic downturn.

 
 
EU initiative cannot become 'gold plating' by regulators

EU initiative cannot become 'gold plating' by regulators

01 March 2013

It has long been recognised that trees are an environmental 'good'. They act as a carbon capture and storage system and the expansion of forestry in Europe has led to many more trees being planted than harvested. By signing up to one of two chains of...

 
 

Prevent your best asset from becoming your biggest pain

21 February 2013

Recruitment is a little like public speaking, insofar as the people who genuinely enjoy it, generally seem to get the most out of it.

 
 
 

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