Opinion

<i>Last month, the print industry argued the case for and against online tools and their effect on print management companies at the Stationers autumn debate. This is what some of the events keynote...

Printers want to save money and also work to sound environmental beliefs. It's possible to do both, and save significant amounts.

Two months on from Drupa, you could be forgiven for believing that we are in the middle of a major recession, and there is no digital print business to be had. True, the financial services and housing...

Most of the major suppliers including Agfa, Canon, Kodak, Heidelberg and Xerox are pushing a joint offset and digital production workflow. This strategy could work for large printers and service...

I've been wondering about trade finishers moving upstream with an eye to digital print. A smart move and perhaps the start of a trend? The BPIF special interest finishers' group has recently been...

<i>Printers need to know how they can make money out of an investment. Do manu-facturers have a responsibility to help their customers turn an investment into an opportunity?</i>

<i>With the escalating cost of exhibiting and with more vendors announcing new equipment outside of big exhibitions such as Drupa, some say the days of the massive international trade fair are...

<i>Vincent Gidley has joined Howitt, Dialogue Solutions and Lateral Group as group operations director.</i>

<i>With the rise of the Blackberry, better mobile phone coverage and growing international operations, more managers in the print sector are constantly on call, even when on holiday. Are printers able...

<b>Myth: Digital media supply chains are more sustainable than print</b>

<i>As part of its Sector Qualifications Strategy (SQS), Proskills, the sector skills council for process and manufacturing industries, is hoping to develop the qualifications needed in its sectors....

As the number of digital colour presses - or, as I prefer to call them, 'variable presses' - increases, even in this economic downturn, I continue to search for new inexpensive workflow or high-value...