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Fastfood vendor knows what's hot
Canon's director of professional print for Europe, David Preskett, has found a unique way of measuring visitor volumes across the halls at drupa 2012: hotdogs.

Does green-button machinery portend the death of skill?
Harry Gilmore webs up the film on his Micro B2 single and double-sided film laminator, loads in his sheets of paper and sets the temperature gauge to 120C.

Ten ways to cut your business costs
Print firms are no strangers to the discipline of cost reduction. For years, the industry has been caught between the internet, print management firms and increasingly severe recessions. Budgets have...

Nixon leaves KBA after differences
KBA has parted company with executive sales director Mark Nixon after a strategic fall-out.

Rigid Containers appoints Lars Maynard as financial director
Rigid Containers has appointed Lars Maynard as its new financial director following the untimely death of Paul Coates, who passed away in January.

Highcon hires Tracey as overseas sales boss
Highcon (Hall 4, stand B2) has appointed ex-Bobst man Nigel Tracey as international sales director.

Bailey quits Trinity
Trinity Mirror chief executive Sly Bailey is to step down by the end of the year.

Eberhardt lauds 'highly professional' customers
Since the beginning of 2012, the team that organises the Dsseldorf print and media trade fairs has been headed up by Marc Eberhardt as the new senior project manager.

'I'm more energised and excited than ever': an interview with Benny Landa
Can Benny Landa do it again? He spearheaded the digital printing revolution in 1993 when he launched his Indigo E-Print 1000, promising "a print run of one". Now, after selling Indigo to HP in 2001,...

Nanography to challenge offset, says Landa
Benny Landa aims to take on offset by making his Nanography digital printing technology as ubiquitous as xerography.