Business

Digital Wordcrafts enters exhibitions with Mimaki JV5
Digital Wordcrafts has installed a new Mimaki JV5-320S 3.2m-wide solvent printer to help the Leicester-based company bring more work in-house.

Benson apprentice wins national design award
The design for 2014’s official National Apprenticeship Week t-shirt has been won by Benson Group trainee Becky Timson.

Roland ramps up its dealer roster with Sprint Solutions
Sprint Solutions (Scotland) has joined the list of authorised Roland DG dealers and is launching a wide format division to coincide with its appointment.

Stanford Marsh Group extends Hybrid and Mimaki reach
Mimaki's exclusive UK and Ireland distributor, Hybrid Services, has appointed Stanford Marsh Group Graphics (SMGG) to its authorised Mimaki reseller network.

Speak out, because it’s good to talk
As Bob Hoskins used to say in BT’s advertising campaign of the early 1990s: ‘It’s good to talk.’

Tangent profits boosted by strong growth from Printed.com
Strong revenue growth from Printed.com and sister site Goodprint helped boost parent company Tangent Communications ‘H1 pre-tax profits by almost 50%, the company said.

UPM named apprenticeship trailblazer
UPM Shotton has been selected as one of a group of ‘trailblazer’ businesses across the UK to lead the development of a new style of national apprenticeships.

Are print’s brokers an endangered species?
There is a perception in some quarters of the print industry that the battle with print management – that bogeyman of the printer – has now been won and those operators that once drove prices down to...

Offset vendors seek inroads to digital
Call it what you will, the strategic coming together of vendors in the hope of becoming more than the sum of their parts is the topic du jour in print.

Price hikes are real threat to SMEs and could derail recovery
Energy firms “overcharge by £3.7bn a year”, ran one recent newspaper headline. Virtually every national newspaper, in fact, has reported accusations that the UK’s biggest energy companies have...