Features

Health and safety law is central to regulatory intervention. But this wasn’t always so, and as a result, myths have become entrenched in operations leaving some unable to tell fact from fiction. But...

Margins in print can be slender. Looking at the most recent Printweek Top 500 report, compiled in association with business advisory and accountancy firm Grant Thornton, the average industry operating...

After a near three-year-long hiatus, the expo that bills itself as the UK’s longest running event for the visual communications sector is set to take place in March.

Approaching its 10th anniversary, Creative Edge Software (CES) still has the characteristics of a start-up with bright ideas, taking on the established giant in the rather the specialist area of 3D...

Print, despite its authoritative tactile quality, has always been an inherently static experience, lacking the interactivity of digital media where you can click on a link, to find more information or...

In his own words, Tom Willday has been part of his fourth-generation, family-owned printing business since he was in a pram. As a toddler he would regularly sit at the front desk of the...

Towards the end of the summer, HMRC announced a consultation on proposals which would radically alter how unincorporated businesses – sole traders and partnerships – are taxed.

There just seems to be no escape from Covid. For some, the viral grenade took the form of furlough, job loss, business turndown or failure. For many others, sadly, it meant hospitalisation and in the...

There’s no question that Covid has altered society. It’s trampled on civil liberties, seen vaccines rolled out in double-quick time, spurred on the deployment of information technologies, and it’s...

With an estimated one billion Christmas cards sent each year in the UK alone, printers up and down the country are kept busy in the run-up to winter producing suitably festive designs.

Debbie is “54 years young” and has spent 25 years working in print and marketing services. She is married with two grown up boys, and is “beyond excited” to have a first grandchild on the way.

Print Plus UK started life some 30 years ago in a small warehouse in the picturesque Little Germany district of Bradford, printing single-colour takeaway menus and the like. Since then the business...

Chase is 20 and, come January, will have completed his third year of working in the industry.

Overmatter loves a good calendar. Countryfile, obviously. Perhaps something stylish involving lovely illustrations from Art Angels,  Angela Harding or depictions of beautiful manuscripts from The...

If you are still looking for something to give someone who has a particular fascination with print and paper (and who doesn’t), then here’s our guide...