- MIS developer Shuttleworth has added three new topics to its 2013 summer schedule of live webinar events for its customers, as it prepares to demonstrate its wide-format applications at Fespa next month.
- Belgian board manufacturer Bee-Lite has selected Manchester-based Oriam Green as the sole supplier of its construction grade honeycomb board in the UK.
- Precision Printing is the first site to beta test a Technotrans chilling system in combination with a digital press, signposting a move on the ancillary vendors part into the digital printing sector.
- Technotrans has launched a new dampening solution cleaning system for heatset web printers, which dispenses with the consumables usually needed for the process.
- 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 to take over the reins when they step down.
- PrintWeek got exclusive access to this year's internationally renowned Kraszna- Krausz awards to find out what makes a world-beating book
- Ricoh has added two new light production models, the C5110S and C5100S, to its production printing portfolio.
- A new Colex flatbed cutter has made its European debut at Sign & Digital UK, garnering one UK sale on the first day of last week's show.
- Screenprint and digital equipment supplier RA Smart and dye-sub equipment supplier i-Sub, have agreed distribution deals for the Epson SureColor SC-F7000 and SC-F6000 dye-sublimation printers.
- A new range of LamiDesk industrial motorised flatbed roll laminating machines has been launched at Sign & Digital UK.
- Our essential stand-by-stand guide of who's showing what at the Harrogate International Centre in May
- 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 convinced that making the journey to Harrogate for a Northprint show lacking big names such as Heidelberg, Manroland, KBA and Canon, was time well spent in a tough financial climate.
- Say the words 'performance management' to a print boss and chances are you'll be greeted by a detailed account of exactly how they have ensured productivity on their latest treasured printing machine. What they probably won't be particularly knowledgeable about, or indeed particularly keen on, is this term's relevance to how they treat their staff.
- As themes for shows go, you perhaps couldn't get one more sure to pique the interest of the average printer in this current climate than 'new business'. Which is why event director Rudi Blackett is confident that this year's Sign & Digital UK, now in its 26th year, will be a particularly successful one.
- Ricoh has announced a raft of updates to its software portfolio, including four updates to its TotalFlow workflow and a new cloud-based marketing services suite, MarcomCentral.
- Rather than allowing employers to submit annual PAYE accounts, like they used to, HMRC is about to demand that they upload details every time they pay someone, starting from this month's payday.
- There's no denying it: one of the biggest stories to emerge from last year's Drupa was that digital and packaging finally seemed serious bedfellows. But what may have surprised some, was the realisation that digital's relationship with label printing actually goes back much further than with, say, folding cartons. A decade and a half longer to be precise.
- Technifold launched a more entry-level version of its CreaseStream Plus cutter, creaser and perforator at the recent open day at its headquarters in Lutterworth, Liecestershire.
- RCS printers in Retford has secured a deal with a chocolate company to create advent-calendar-esque count down products and is closing in on a personalised gift packaging deal with a major high street retailer.
- When a supplier says a material is 'recyclable', verbally or through this being noted on the product's data sheet, two things will happen. Firstly, if the printer has been keeping abreast of the debate surrounding print waste disposal, they will, quite rightly and understandably, have pound signs flashing in their eyes.
