Opinion

Over the past few months there has been a tangible air of excitement in PrintWeek Towers in the run up to last week’s Awards.

Our past couple of interviewees have reminded me of the power of print partnerships.

This is a highly appropriate 60 seconds with because on 1 October The Marstan Press started its 60th year in business. The firm started off in letterpress, before moving to litho and then adding...

With a history dating back to 1860 when it was a regional newspaper publisher and printer, over the intervening years, Cambrian Printers has refined its offering and used its printing expertise to...

Speaking to this issue’s interviewee, we touched on a topic that seems to be cropping up more and more: are we, as an industry, becoming too risk averse?

It is the most up-to-date and comprehensive database of its kind in the UK, holding details of more than 29m business and residential addresses, and for many it is invaluable. Few in the direct...

It’s hard to believe that it was just two decades ago that colour digital print technology first signalled its intent to enter the industry mainstream.

Duraweld began life in 1959, mostly making plastic book covers for libraries and sleeves for telephone books. In 1970 it merged with Mac Plastics, run by Richard Senior.
In March 2010 the company...

The row over the so called zero-hours contract (ZHC) has gained traction in recent weeks, not least thanks to a survey published by Unite on 8 September, ahead of the TUC Congress in Bournemouth last...

Central Colour was set up in 1996, and was acquired in an MBO by directors Andy Baxter, Richard Limer and David Fortune nine years ago. Between them the trio have racked up a whopping 75 years’...

Somewhat apposite that I get to be the holiday cover for comment in this issue, given our Briefing topic is women in print. As a woman who’s been in print all her working life, I am indeed perfectly...