
Boss Federation CEO to retire
Boss Federation chief executive Michael Gardner will retire in July after nearly nine years at the helm of the trade association and a quarter century in the industry.

ABC Imaging £750k Canon investment to fuel expansion
Central London-based digital printer ABC Imaging has decided on a £750,000 Canon spend as it expands after opening its first site outside the capital.

Machines take on manpower for materials handling
In the early days of wide-format inkjet printing, the technology was held in check from encroaching on screen and litho markets by limitations in printing itself.

Star product: Konica Minolta KM-1
Konica Minolta’s much anticipated B2 inkjet sheetfed press will launch at Drupa 2016.

60 seconds with Datum
Datum started back in 1988 in Shoreditch, London, as a pre-press company supplying plates and proofs to the local litho printers. It left behind its London roots in 2000 when the business relocated to...

Overmatter: calendar boys
January. Time to put up a new calendar. Or two, or even perhaps three or four.

The speed demons: printers who race against the clock
Ali Ridha Jaffar, sales director at Print Express (part of the Syncoms Group), does not like traffic.

Q&A: Chris Bailey Purchasing manager (just retired) for mutual OneFamily
After a short and (he says) less than glittering career in marketing, Chris got into print buying by accident and ended up doing it for 28 years.

Why it pays to straighten up and fly right
Should a printer define itself by the equipment it uses or by its customers? Marketing theory would suggest the latter, but with the high prices and long pay-back times of presses there’s a risk you...

Killer app: Wood Richardson helps garden book to bloom
Following a personal recommendation, self-publishing author Phil Ogden entrusted York-based printer Wood Richardson with the printing of his new botanical book, Ogden’s Garden.

Believe in print's power and people
I appreciate that the Yuletide break may seem a distant memory for many of you reading this, but as this is the first issue of 2016: happy new year from all of us at PrintWeek Towers.

Me & my: Infigo MegaEdit
Collaboration with web-to-print developer Infigo was the key to London digital printer Rapidity winning a big web-to-print contract with property agent Cluttons.