Top 500 key takeaway

Jo Francis has had an epiphany after studying lots and lots of printing company results.

Tunnel visionaries prosper from print

What harbours woodpeckers, deer, bats and newts, has been used to house British Museum treasures and war-time government offices, and costs £500 per hour to film? The answer: London’s iconic...

Interview: ‘Turn online threat into opportunity’

At its peak, the BAPC had 3,000 members, making it arguably the largest trade association in the print industry. While the past few turbulent years may have shrunk membership by a third, they...

Business inspection: Transferable skills master new markets

Concentrating on core capabilities was key to Victoria Litho’s expansion into new sectors.

Are print’s brokers an endangered species?

There is a perception in some quarters of the print industry that the battle with print management – that bogeyman of the printer – has now been won and those operators that once drove prices down to...

Ink makers pledge: you can have it all

The favourite phrase of mums everywhere: ‘you can’t have everything’. Or sometimes: ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it.’ Until recently this was also a favourite of wide-format kit vendors, in...

Offset vendors seek inroads to digital

Call it what you will, the strategic coming together of vendors in the hope of becoming more than the sum of their parts is the topic du jour in print.

Price hikes are real threat to SMEs and could derail recovery

Energy firms “overcharge by £3.7bn a year”, ran one recent newspaper headline. Virtually every national newspaper, in fact, has reported accusations that the UK’s biggest energy companies have...

Me & my: Heidelberg Speedmaster SX 74

"I love it when a plan comes together" is a phrase made famous by Hannibal Smith of 1980s TV series The A-Team.

Star product: Roland DG VersaCamm VS-i series

Roland DG's new wide-format inkjet family is a versatile choice.

Kimber takes UK graphics lead after HP management rejig

HP has reshuffled its UK management team, with 12-year veteran Ian Kimber taking the reins from Nancy Janes as UK & Ireland (UK&I) country manager HP Indigo & Inkjet.

Garnett departs from Garnetts

Garnett Dickinson has parted company with the managing director of its mailing business.