Briefing

The print element of a campaign can often be the last thing that brand and marketing professionals think about, and in a digital-first world this is perhaps of little surprise.

The Stationers’ Innovation Excellence Awards, held last month at Stationers’ Hall in London, suggested that we may be entering a new era of innovation for print, with post-press manufacturer Muller...

It’s pretty incredible to think that the history of Kodak’s inkjet business dates back half a century, to Mead’s ‘jet ink transfer’ solution for military mapping.

At the end of May UK paper merchants implemented a rise in the price of uncoated paper of between 5% and 7%, a move that followed across-the-board rises in paper at the beginning of the year by a...

There were always going to be winners and losers when, following the recent revaluation, the new business rates bills started to land on doormats in April.

No matter where your political loyalties lie, the General Election is a big deal for the print industry. While the potential business impact of the parties’ policies is outlined in our feature on page...

In July 2009, a former PrintWeek staffer made an astonishing prediction: “This time next year no one will be talking about Twitter”, positing the idea that, one year to the day, Twitter’s traffic...

Last week’s ransomware attack that forced the NHS to cancel operations and affected organisations as diverse as FedEx, Renault and the Russian interior ministry may have been unprecedented in scale,...

There was a buzz by the waterways of Hamburg earlier this month and it could only mean one thing, Hafengeburtstag was back!

Earlier this month the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) released its latest research into the UK’s Digital Economy, which highlighted the need for more digital and data skills among SMEs in the...

What do poultry farm business Bernard Matthews, bed manufacturer Silentnight and Polestar all have in common? They have all been the subject of controversial pre-packs, albeit with wildly differing...

It happened with a bit of a whimper in the end. After months and months of build-up, Theresa May’s courier delivered a six-page letter to European Council chief Donald Tusk, and with that the process...

It’s all change at Xeikon. As of next month the Belgian digital press manufacturer will have a new chief executive. And as of last month this long-time exponent of the merits of toner-based print...

With Article 50 set to be triggered imminently, on the face of it perhaps, one of the most glaring omissions of Philip Hammond’s first – and last – Spring Budget earlier this month was any mention of...

Over the past few years UV curing technology has become a major component in the sheetfed litho sector.