Xaar: renewed ambitions in milestone year
This is a big year for Xaar. For a start, the Cambridge-headquartered inkjet developer is celebrating its 25th anniversary, providing the business with perfect opportunity to show-case its track...
60 seconds with JR Print
JR Print evolved out of the Crawley Courier back in the 1960s. David Want (pictured) and David Meadham “the two Daves” took over in 2000 and developed it into a litho digital mix commercial print...
Overmatter: PassIT! on
The final phase of the year-long fundraising campaign for PrintIT! is underway and it involves a 565km run – the equivalent of running to, gulp, Drupa.
DC Thomson Streams UK first with bespoke Broons
The Sunday Post newspaper ran a special £10,000 competition in a comic strip insert featuring the paper’s popular characters The Broons. Individual codes were printed in each of 210,000 copies of the...
Q&A: John B Easson, owner and entire staff, The Quarto Press
John started drawing lettering at school and took up printing as a student in 1963 while studying physics. He lectured on printing technology for 20 years and ran The Quarto Press, printing and...
Print has learned the marketing lesson
At the tail end of last month PrintWeek Towers was a picture of (organised) cardboard chaos, with the atrium of St Jude’s crammed full of boxes of all descriptions in anticipation of the four judging...
Take your print out of the gutter
In a market where even digital print is becoming commoditised, the once-humble bindery is emerging as the place to add value and hopefully restore profits. Short-run or one-off books and brochures can...
Star product: IIJ XYPrint 300
The XYPrint 300 is the latest stage of IIJ’s fast and flexible inkjet test bed.
Research seeks to identify holy grail of direct mail – value
For those in the business of direct marketing, perhaps the most elusive factor to pin down in any campaign is the concept of value.
Profiting from web-to-print sans frontières
Their clients are pressing all the right buttons, but that’s not enough. John Scott and Stephen Neild, who formed Mauve Print Management from a modest barn conversion more than three years ago, have...
ESOS: benefit or burden?
When the government first floated the idea of the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) back in 2012, it did so with the strap line: ‘Helping UK enterprises improve profitability through better...
Keep staff and your name out of the media minefield
Sometimes it feels as if the rise of social media is unstoppable. For many of us it has become second nature to share personal updates, images and opinions on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms.