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Beecroft's proposals won't help business, finance will

Beecroft's proposals won't help business, finance will

The bonfire of employment law proposed in the Beecroft Report is unlikely to be realised to anything like the extent its author has envisaged. For one thing, relations within the Coalition are strained enough as it is without heaping more pressure on...


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Despite contraction, '12 show has kick-started investment

Despite contraction, '12 show has kick-started investment

25 May 2012

Back from Drupa with, among other things, a carpet burn*, a cough** and three notebooks full of scribblings that now need to be re-read and assimilated into coherent thoughts on the show.

 
 
Even if Nanography is years away, the show is still a hit

Even if Nanography is years away, the show is still a hit

18 May 2012

The curious case of the Landa Nanographic presses continues to baffle and excite in equal measure. Having attended one of Benny Landa's five daily theatre presentations at Drupa, I can see what the excitement is about. There are dancers, drummers, co...

 
 
Oscillating parental time off will be a logistics nightmare

Oscillating parental time off will be a logistics nightmare

18 May 2012

Under 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.

 
 
Buy presses now, or wait for the next generation?

Buy presses now, or wait for the next generation?

11 May 2012

What is more important: the future or the present? At Drupa 2012, the answer depends on who you're talking to and where they are in their product development cycle. Digital manufacturers like Xeikon and Landa, who are several years away from commerci...

 
 
Printing in prison could help industry if properly placed

Printing in prison could help industry if properly placed

11 May 2012

Four years ago I visited Maidstone prison - not at Her Majesty's pleasure, I hasten to add, but for a feature - and came away impressed by what they were trying to achieve. The print shop manager told me at the time that the goal wasn't necessarily t...

 
 

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