
Business inspection: Eco standard-bearer pushes into Europe
The five-figure investment required to secure the EU Ecolabal was a price well worth paying.

Accounting for more adventurous tastes
Historically report and accounts (R&A) brochures used to be drab affairs consisting of a cover bearing a company logo and little else, followed by numerous pages of impenetrable numbers. Colour was...

UK print must do more to resolve gender imbalance
In Britain, 2014, the average full-time pay gap between men and women is 10%, women make up just 17% of FTSE 100 board directors, and a quarter of women, according to a recent Business Environment...

Interview: We laud failure, because you learn new things by failing
In 1993, Webmart chief executive Simon Biltcliffe, working at the time as a regional sales director for web offset print at BPC, was sent to Japan on a supplier visit.

A very different industry has emerged from the downturn
It has been six years coming, but the UK economy has finally surpassed its pre-recession peak. That it is the last of the G8 to do so bar Italy, which is still 9% below its 2008 maximum and headed...

Slim down RIPs to beef up efficiency
How times have changed. Just over a decade or so ago, most commercial printers relied on just a CTP for imaging and needed only one RIP, or a workflow with an embedded RIP, to drive it.

Star product: Komfi Spotmatic 54
Komfi's low-cost B2-plus digital spot varnisher.

Me & my: Presstek 52DI-AC
When a print business only four years into its life has 20 staff, a rapidly growing turnover and a raft of machinery investments under its belt, you know it’s doing well.

RCS shuns pre-pack, enters Company Voluntary Arrangement
Trade and commercial printer RCS has entered into a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), securing around 70 jobs, after its creditors approved the proposal in a meeting last Wednesday (6 August).

Aquatint BSC relocates to Bermondsey
London-based print and design firm Aquatint BSC has relocated its print operation from Wimbledon to Bermondsey to reduce its overheads and move closer to its customers.

Sales expected to rise at St Ives print ops
St Ives is anticipating a year-on-year increase in like-for-like print sales, despite “difficult” trading conditions for the division.

Kiian Digital and J-Teck3 team up to extend reach
Digital inks manufacturers Kiian Digital and J-Teck3 have joined forces to become part of the same operating group.