02 Sep 2011
Heather Kendle, sales and marketing director, Inca Digital "Inca Digital customers within the print industry mostly have strong, direct relationships with agencies and buyers and, on the whole, do a fantastic job of promoting the power of digital not only for print campaigns, but also to a wide variety...
19 Aug 2011
Dick Searle, chief executive, The Packaging Federation "Digital print comes into its own for short runs and for the pharmaceutical market that is an advantage as companies can incorporate changes in areas such as patient information. I am not surprised that Heidelberg is trying to grow its presence...
12 Aug 2011
Paul Coggins, m anaging director, Print Finance "My advice would be to look very hard at the capability of your business. The fact many people haven t invested for the last two to three years means companies are spending more money on maintenance and aren t as efficient as they should be. The argument...
05 Aug 2011
Gareth Williams , Newspaper Club "Digital print allows us to offer runs as short as five copies at an economical price. And we re planning to offer single copies soon. Small runs are proving more and more popular, especially since we ve been offering digital printing in colour. We work in a niche,...
29 Jul 2011
Howard Matthews Chief executive, Loricas "Royal Mail is more reliant than ever on maintaining a good relationship with its clients and the industry as a whole, especially when trying to win back those lost to downstream access providers. I don t believe enough thought was given to the reaction this...
18 Jul 2011
Kathy Woodward, chief executive, BPIF "People have been stunned and in many ways appalled by what has happened, yet the newspaper sold out this weekend. There is still an appetite to read news, to read newspapers. I can t see it having any long-term impact on newspapers. On the train in the morning...
08 Jul 2011
Jon Lancaster , managing director, Falkland Press "What does it really mean? If they go bust four months down the line, it isn t going to be much use to you. We only deal with middle men anyway, print farmers and that kind of thing, they have always given the work to their customer and you can t go...
01 Jul 2011
David Taylor, senior, vice-president, Lightning Source "The capital costs are high and in this day and age obtaining finance is never easy. It s a fiercely competitive market and there is a lot of downward pressure on prices. The technology will change and you have really got to know what you are doing...
24 Jun 2011
Iain Storey, operations director, Portobello Press "The basic things web-to-print does have been around for 10 years. The integration with workflow is probably where you re seeing improvement, both for the customers and suppliers, because it s flightchecking as the file s uploaded, so minor problems...
17 Jun 2011
Alan Padbury, managing director, Westdale Press "I think I prefer the idea of London although I have not visited this venue. Part of me likes the idea of a change and hopefully a bit less walking. I went to my first Ipex in 1970 at Olympia and Earls Court when I was just 15. These shows will change....