
The host for the 2014 PrintWeek Awards revealed
The PrintWeek team is delighted to reveal that this year's PrintWeek Awards will herald the welcome return of one of the finest comedians and entertainers on the UK circuit today.

Zünd launches re-engineered G3 cutter
Zünd has re-engineered its G3 digital flatbed cutter, doubling the beam height on certain models to enable them to handle thicker substrates.
Print credit where it's due
Jo Francis has a furrowed brow following a potential power of print oversight.

Crash positions: lifelines for when IT all goes wrong
The first sign of trouble is likely to be a subtle one. Perhaps a file is taking longer to load than usual, or maybe there is a strange whirring sound emanating from the server. Seemingly minor...

Editor’s comment: In training to be fit for the future
Over the past few months, there seems to have been a growing interest in print apprenticeships and training.

Timsons shape-shifts for digital future
Bespoke UK litho book press manufacturing came to an end this month when Kettering-based Timsons ceased production of its conventional book presses to concentrate on the manufacture of digital presses...

Star product: Epson SureColor SC-F7100
Purpose-built textiles machine with the latest technology.

Me & my: Matrix Pneumatic MX-530P
The weekly food shop. Not most people’s favourite activity. And yet imagine how much more tiresome this weekly ritual of jostling peevishly with other people’s trolleys and blinkering five-year-olds...

60 seconds with Point Control
Lancashire-based perfect and PUR binding specialist Point Control began life 18 years ago when founding directors Richard Berwick, Andrew Cavannagh and Shaun Gill decided they wanted to work for...

Overmatter: plants in space
Printing companies often find it difficult to come up with new and creative ideas for their own marketing materials. Which explains why we’ve seen so many brochures with big pictures of printing...

Business inspection: A mail house in tune with clients’ needs
A vibrant printing and mailing business has now added an innovative B2C offering.

Bright ideas make upping performance light work
Do you know what a black belt in Six Sigma can do? How about Kaizen? Are you familiar with its principles? What about the Theory of Constraints (TOC)?