Briefing

Scotland is at a crossroads. The twin, closely fought issues of Brexit and Scottish independence have divided the country – and the former is now reigniting the latter.

Figures from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) provided to the BBC earlier this month revealed that trade union membership levels have dropped sharply in recent times, particularly among young people.

Earlier this month PrintWeek reported on the ‘perfect storm’ of global events that have tightened the supply of graphical papers and resulted in paper mills resorting to allocation for the first time...

Just over a decade after the show last visited Germany’s capital, Fespa returned to Berlin earlier this month, packed with popular returning features and a number of well-received new initiatives.

While printers have had to face up to many challenges over the past few years, consumer trust hasn’t been one of them.

Cast your mind back to Drupa 2016, and the plethora of inkjet systems for printing onto corrugated board that were either on show, or being talked about as future products.

Print has long been a man’s game. It doesn’t take a master statistician to deduce from visitor demographics at print trade shows or a walk across a press hall floor that the vast majority of those in...

In his Spring Statement last month, chancellor Philip Hammond vowed to crack down on the UK’s late payment culture, issuing a call for evidence on how “the continuing scourge of late payments” can be...

Although it is hard to deny that the paper industry is going through a period of change, it remains an essential element of the economy.

The opening months of 2018 have been dominated by news of consolidation among kit manufacturers.

It’s unlikely to have escaped anybody’s attention that consumables costs have been steadily on the up lately.

National Apprenticeship Week begins as this issue hits readers’ desks, but its focus probably says more about our aspirations than the situation on the ground. The government has pledged to create 3...

Fujifilm boss Shigetaka Komori has considerable form when it comes to taking on seemingly insurmountable challenges.

Packaging has barely been out of the news recently for various – usually plastic-related – reasons, but in the background there is an ongoing campaign for the introduction of more ‘plain packaging’...

Print has been reaping the benefits of a flourishing creative industry in the South West of England’s biggest city, as have many ex-Londoners.