Disciplines

M&A trend looks set to continue in ‘17
Although the UK print industry has always experienced its fair share of M&A activity, the past few months have been particularly busy in that regard.

Not yet a silver bullet for workflow woes
When speaking with printers about JDF, you get a lot of negative responses. The managing director of one large commercial printer on the South Coast puts it diplomatically: “I’ve never really got on...

Q&A: Sam Jackson Production operative, We Do Print, Commercial Foundations
Sam, who had been homeless, was the first young person to join the 12-week volunteer programme at the Cheltenham social enterprise. He was such a success he gained a full-time post and in October his...

Add another string to your bow
It is billed as “the story of the Beatles as you’ve never seen it before”, and where better to launch a book on the Fab Four than their home city of Liverpool. The book in question, Visualising the...

Can blood ties ensure success is in a firm’s DNA?
“Who can you trust more than your family?” asks Alex Cain, sales director at high-end London printer and stationer Mount Street Printers and son of founders Peter and Fridette Cain.

Overmatter: sharp cards
Here at PrintWeek Towers we are, of course, very appreciative of the Christmas cards we receive from our wonderful industry chums.

Me & my: Promatrix 106 CS
BCQ is a well-established ‘full-services’ offset and digital print group based on the outskirts of Buckingham. The ‘BC’ part of its initials comes from Buckingham Colour, which merged with Colour...

Star product: Signracer 3200 H-LED
A high-quality large-format output at a more affordable price.

Fespa UK looks to plug skills and training gaps with new survey
Fespa UK Association has launched a new survey to help it to identify and plug some of the training and skills gaps in the print sectors it represents.

GF goes global with favourite colour project
Paper merchant GF Smith has launched a project to find the world’s favourite colour and is inviting everyone on the planet to select their favourite shade online.