Disciplines

MPD Offset boosts digital arm with Xerox iGen5 buy
Commercial printer MPD Offset has improved its productivity and quality after becoming the latest company to invest in a Xerox iGen5.

Mixed picture for St Ives half-year results
Operating profits from St Ives’ Strategic Marketing business have now grown to 56% of the group’s underlying profit. However costs associated with its string of acquisitions, along with restructuring...

Moonpig apologises again
Greetings card company Moonpig has apologised after customers complained of undelivered, late or damaged cards and gifts on Mother’s Day.

UK’s businesses weigh up ins and outs of in-out referendum
Like racehorses, chomping at the bit to exit the starting gate, it seemed only a matter of seconds after the date of the long-awaited EU in-out referendum was announced that politicians were racing to...

60 seconds with Lustalux
The Lustalux story began 25 years ago when two friends merged their small window film companies. Since then, founder Richard Lancaster says the firm has grown its services, staff and premises, as...

Alpha mail: print is retaking ground in the marketing mix
A few weeks ago PrintWeek reported on some survey findings with the headline ‘Public sees direct mail in fonder light’.

‘We will continue to grow, but it has to be sustainable’
SMP Group managing director Bradley Slade might not have the diverse CV of some his peers, but in his 23 years at the out-of-home and POS specialist he’s certainly learned a thing or two about the...

The do-it-all options for short-run specialists
Short runs and fast turnarounds have been a particular feature of digital printing since the start. Most people will be aware of the concepts and challenges of variable data and runs lengths of one,...

Q&A: Andy Simpson Operations director, Plastic Card Services
George Clooney lookalike Andy first stepped into the world of print when he started work at Plastic Card Services 18 years ago.

Killer app: Southernprint serves up tasty recipe for perforation
Readers of monthly food magazine Delicious are in for a treat this month because the Easter issue includes a uniquely produced run-of-paper (ROP) perforated 16pp pull-out section packed with an array...