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 in the form of legislation that is unthinkable to...
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.
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, contraptions that blow giant smoke rings at the audience,...
18 May 2012
| by Sophie Hudson
The Queen's Speech last week confirmed that the Children and Families Bill would be the latest legislation to attempt to make parental leave more flexible - most notably giving fathers increased rights to share leave with mothers.
18 May 2012
| by Phil McCabe
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.
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 commercial availability with their Trillium and Nanographic...
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 to produce high-quality work, but to produce rehabilitated...
04 May 2012
Todd Bradley, executive vice-president of HP's Printing and Personal Systems Group, talks to Darryl Danielli
27 Apr 2012
| by Andrew Tribute
Having followed its development over the past three years, I recently had the opportunity to evaluate Hamillroad's DM screening technology, which will be available as ECRM DMS at Drupa, running on both violet and thermal CTP plates. I studied real-life production samples produced using ECRM's Newsmatic...
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has predicted the death of the newspaper within the next 20 years, as he gave his view on the future of press regulation to the Leveson inquiry yesterday morning (26 April).