Disciplines

Best of British: Building on a long legacy of imaging expertise
When PrintWeek writes the word ‘phoenix’, it’s usually code for a company that has risen out of failure with a shiny new legal identity, miraculously escaping pesky encumbrances like debts and...

60 seconds with Bluestar Print Finishers
Bluestar started in 1998 when MD Lee Harvey (pictured, right, with operator Ian Richardson) decided that after working as a manager for a few firms, he needed to do something more. “I approached a few...

Q&A: Victoria Elliott, business development, Datum
Victoria has been in sales for 20 years: five years within the printing industry and 15 years in the motor trade. She’s a single parent to a “beautiful 10-year-old daughter who keeps me on my toes”,...

Flexibility and timing are key to easy succession
When Terry Scanlon started his commercial print company, the day he finished work for good was not perhaps uppermost in his thoughts.

Come face to face with a sector driven by innovation
Doing business face to face has never been more important as it is today,” so says Rudi Blackett, SDUK portfolio director, as he and his team prepare to open the doors of the 2019 edition of Sign &...

Your network is only as secure as your weakest link
Earlier this month, Hydro, one of the world’s largest producers of aluminium, was forced to switch to manual operations at some of its 40 sites dotted around the world due to a severe ransomware...

Setting pay levels for fairness, dignity and productivity
By the time you read this, the UK’s National Living Wage will have risen from £7.83 per hour to £8.21 per hour, honouring a pledge made by chancellor Philip Hammond in his Autumn Budget.

Me & my: Muller Martini InfiniTrim
4edge was set-up back in 2003 to offer a solution for publishers to produce their back lists. When it started key to its proposition was a combination of cutting-edge finishing and digital printing...

Resolute to manufacture new Kodak DTG inks in the UK
Resolute DTG has secured a contract to manufacture Kodak’s new water-based direct-to-garment (DTG) inks in the UK.

EBB adds Invercote Digital to range
Paper merchant Elliott Baxter (EBB) has expanded its digital offering after adding the Invercote Digital range to its portfolio.