
Overmatter: Mapplication
Apple, Samsung and other technology titans have missed the boat on an up-and-coming phenomenon.

Handy finishers find firm footing to stand alone
Back in their schooldays, friends Lynn Russell and Cath Maybin had no idea that in the future they would be joint directors of a successful contract packing, handwork and finishing company.

Proper motivation makes work seem less of a treadmill
There was a time buying a round at the pub on a Friday and offering a Christmas bonus would be enough to keep staff pretty content and settled enough not to look at other opportunities. Those times...

Q&A: Asif Choudry, sales and marketing director, Resource
Asif lists his hobbies as “work and running”. One of those is definitely not a hobby and the other one remains highly debateable among a large section of the population, but we’ll let it slide for...

Me & my: Mohr Cutter 66 NET
The guillotine is the most important machine in the building. It’s not the printer that makes the business, it’s the finishing.” Brian Heney, owner and sales manager at Icreateprint, says this was the...

Niche specialists can look forward to a solid future
In the 12 months since PrintWeek first took a serious look at the prospects for 3D printing, the market has both evolved and stayed pretty much the same.

Star product: Herzog & Heymann KL 45
This new folder is a compelling option for the miniaturist.

Event organisers prepare for biggest show to date
Expensive, irrelevant and out of date, with no accurate way of measuring tangible ROI – this is the view that some equipment manufacturers have of trade shows these days.

Interview: ‘Inserts may not be sexy, but they have massive scale’
It’s not often that that PrintWeek gets invited to media agency bashes, where the beards are short and the hair directional.

Doveton Press invests in Duplo iSaddle System stitcher
Doveton Press is set to save £60,000 a year on outsourcing after buying a Duplo iSaddle System stitcher as part of a wider investment that has topped more than £1m over the past 12 months.

SuperWide boosts capacity with double Vutek buy
Trade-only printer SuperWide Digital is ramping up capacity to expand into new areas with a double Vutek installation from EFI.

Heidelberg bolsters services and consumables ops with PSG buy
Heidelberg signed an agreement last week to acquire European Printing Systems Group (PSG), for an undisclosed sum.