Business

Perfect bindings: love across the industry
Eyes meeting over five-colour presses, late nights spent discussing the finer points of colour calibration – who knew print could be such an aphrodisiac? And yet plenty of folk in print seem to have...

Overmatter: cut to the chafe
DPM sales director Dean Beckett is swapping his suit for day-glo Lycra and embarking on a nine-day, 940-mile bike ride to Barcelona to raise £30,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of his dad...

60 seconds with: Ashley House Printing Company
Ashley House Printing Company was formed in 2005 as a result of a management buyout by Robert Otton, who by happy coincidence had been looking to start his own business at the same time it came up for...

Business inspection: giving credit where it’s due
Taking credit card payments enabled this company to up cashflow on fast-turnaround work.

The writing is on the wall for unsafe sign installations
It’s a situation so horrendous it hardly bears thinking about. Just over a year ago, a man was killed in Camden by a falling shop front hoarding. Without even taking into account the sizeable fines...

Competition row sparks wider examination of indent sales
A row between Paperlinx and Sappi intensified last month when Sappi claimed a complaint lodged against it by the paper merchant for unfair competition had been dismissed.

Partnerships remain popular in 2014
All the rage last year, strategic partnerships between vendors continue to be de rigueur in 2014, it seems.

Ipex preview: Evolution makes pre-press more important than ever
There was a time when printers toured the pre-media exhibitors at trade shows more to get a glimpse of the future than to make a purchase. This was because, of all the print sectors, pre-media was the...

Global hologram manufacturer moves into UK
Holoptica Group has announced the opening of a UK operation as it looks to branch into the UK and European security hologram market.

DST restructures to strengthen business
As a result of a 7% year-on-year decline in its web division, DST Output has completed a restructure at its Nottingham site that will allow it to focus on growth in its DM and promotional work.