Disciplines

‘We just like going for it. We’re workers’
Earlier this year, Aron Priest and Andy Smith, joint managing directors and co-founders of the UK’s largest online trade printing business, Solopress, sold their circa £21m-turnover Southend-on-Sea...

How to score top marks in your chosen market
Becoming an academy school means freedom from local governance, which is both exciting and challenging. And it’s why Empine Print went back to school in order to learn how to best serve this changing...

Poll positions: what the parties mean for industry
For the second time in two years the electorate is being asked to decide the shape of government. While some think Theresa May is lacklustre and grey, she certainly knows how to throw the cat among...

Printers’ parties in ascendency again
Printers like to party, and for over 300 years the industry’s social gatherings have been referred to as a ‘waygoose’ or ‘wayzgoose’. Originally an evening feast with entertainment, the waygoose was...

Star product: CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2017
An alternative to Adobe’s dominance in the graphic design software market with some key benefits and an established user base.

Snap vote is a party for political print
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...

Will the printing industry get hip to the social scene?
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...

CMS invests further in record year
Central Mailing Services (CMS) has continued its year of heavy investment with a £65,000 spend on a Norpak polyprocessor and a Morgana Major folder.

Symposium invests in Komori
Welsh commercial printer Symposium Design & Print has installed a secondhand 10-colour Komori Lithrone LS29 perfector in a bid to reduce lead times.

Paper industry beats energy-saving targets
The UK’s papermaking industry has smashed its energy-saving targets for the two-year period from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2016.