High street reboot could benefit print

In his latest independent review of the high street published last month, former Wickes, Iceland and Booker chief executive Bill Grimsey said that UK town and city centres must be “repopulated and...

60 seconds with Mail Handling International

Founders Paul Brown and Alex Lawson came to Bristol after leaving university. Paul spent a year working for a print finisher before setting up a mailing house which soon morphed into a global...

Overmatter: overboard

Overmatter has heard about a few printing industry folk performing heroics over the years in order to extricate clients from sticky spots.

Q&A: Victoria Hart Managing director, Print Search

Victoria is 39 years-old and married with two daughters. Her husband Kevin is production director at Aspen, which is also part of the DCB Group along with Print Search and Caspa. She’s worked in print...

Agile printers can make the world their oyster

This is the fourth industrial revolution, says Andy Cork from his hyper-connected printing operation. As such its engine room is powered neither by manufacturing nor automation, but silent software –...

Scots play a blinder and score for England’s Heroes

For a short-lived moment in the middle of the summer, football fans across England truly believed it could be coming home.

Happy birthday to PrintWeek!

This issue of PrintWeek celebrates our diamond anniversary, marking 60 years since this magazine’s illustrious forbear, The Litho Printer, was launched as “a companion to print in Britain”.

Sparkling moments in print’s history

The UK printing industry’s favourite magazine launched in 1958 as The Litho Printer and, via a number of different guises, has for the past six decades covered every technological development; every...

The industry needs a better focus on gender imbalance

Writing the words ‘women in print’ feels clunky, uncomfortable and outdated. Surely in 2018, it shouldn’t even be a term or subcategory discussed in the media? However, as much as we dislike it, it...

Star product: Fujifilm Superia LH-S2

Fujifilm has developed this low-chemistry offset plate as a halfway step between processed and processless technologies.

Me & my: Mitsubishi EDiA EX electric folklift

Greens the Signmakers is a long-established digital printer and signmaker based in Kingston upon Hull. It was founded in 1963 by Reg Green, originally a traditional signwriter who hand-painted...

Are you feeling the ripples of the ‘Blue Planet effect’?

It started in December last year with David Attenborough.