Opinion

A two-year journey of discovery for PrintWeek came to a dramatic climax earlier this month, when the industry’s finest descended on the Wasps Arena, Coventry for our first PrintWeekLive! event.

Judging by the contents of the past few issues, consolidation is clearly the name of the game right now.

January is always one of the toughest months for print, and this year seems to have been no exception.

In just over six weeks’ time something very special will happen. We’ll be opening the doors at our inaugural show, PrintWeekLive!, and the excitement here at PrintWeek Towers is palpable.

A new year brings new opportunities, but all too often it also means facing up to the same old challenges.

Simpson Group chairman Mark Simpson hopes his business will take on some rising young stars in 2017 and wants the print industry to get better at recruitment and training generally.

What. A. Year.

While on many levels we’re going through a period of seismic change, politically and economically in particular, some things remain constant. I’m talking about the thorny issue of pricing in print, as...

At last week’s Power of Print seminar at Stationers’ Hall in London, unsurprisingly the effectiveness of print was the main topic of the conversation.

Brexit, shmexit. While you could have been forgiven for expecting last week’s PrintWeek Awards to be a little subdued compared with recent years – with the main topic of conversation being the state...

In around 12 weeks’ time a new force in digital printing will be born: Xerox Corporation.

Who would really want to be a print buyer these days?

Summer’s here, the sun is out and the silly season is upon us – which means that interesting industry news is harder to find than a daily newspaper without a photo of Tom Daley in his budgie-smugglers...

Compared with the momentous events of late, the past couple of weeks have been fairly tame – all that seems to have happened is that we now have a new Prime Minister.

Boring.

For two weeks this month, the PrintWeek team has been in what can only be described as a Drupa bubble – having decamped to Düsseldorf to produce the show’s daily newspaper.