Hindsight always comes too late

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but by its nature it’s a gift that is always received too late.

Killer app: Monster bunch employ the force for Hollywood hit

Birmingham wide-format printer Hollywood Monster created a striking wall graphic for a local branch of cinema chain Cineworld to help launch the biggest film of the past few months – Star Wars: The...

Can SMEs take on W2P’s big three?

For web-to-print giants Photobox, Truprint and Vistaprint, personalised print is their lifeblood, but it is a market that most commercial printers have either struggled to compete in or not entered at...

A kinder blue

One of the theories on the origins of life on earth is that of the ‘primordial soup’, which posits that chemicals dissolved in water when hit by ultra-violet (UV) radiation from the sun reacted...

Star product: Heidelberg Jetmaster Dimension 250

The ‘4D printing’ device is now available in four colours.

Me & my: HP Indigo 10000

Steve Harding, founder and chief executive of Hardings Print Solutions (HPS), describes the company he set up in 2009 as a complete marketing services and print manufacturing business.

A facelift can be more than just skin deep

When Scott Pearce and business partner Mark Gamble bought what was then called Datumpress in an MBO in 2008, due to the retirement of boss and company founder Alan Willis, it had a relatively small...

Monitor vital signs to stay fighting fit

Picture the scene. Mrs Print Boss has just opened her copy of PrintWeek’s annual Top 500 survey. She notes her own company’s performance with quiet satisfaction, then realises that a peer and – worse...

60 seconds with: Print Me It

Print Me It started trading in 2008 as an online print company. It initially outsourced to trade printers, but over the past five years has brought digital printing and wide-format printing in-house.

Overmatter: marathon challenge

Overmatter is in awe of anyone who can run for a bus, never mind for many miles.

Q&A: Nick Davies Business development manager, Reflex Printed Plastics

Nick has spent 20 years in print, and has a familial connection to the industry. He loves all sport, particularly football and horse racing.

'I just enjoy working in the industry too much. I still do’

After he received his 50th or so rejection letter, Tony Hards could have been forgiven for thinking that perhaps finding a position as an apprentice compositor just wasn’t his destiny.