
Timsons shape-shifts for digital future
Bespoke UK litho book press manufacturing came to an end this month when Kettering-based Timsons ceased production of its conventional book presses to concentrate on the manufacture of digital presses...

Star product: Epson SureColor SC-F7100
Purpose-built textiles machine with the latest technology.

Me & my: Matrix Pneumatic MX-530P
The weekly food shop. Not most people’s favourite activity. And yet imagine how much more tiresome this weekly ritual of jostling peevishly with other people’s trolleys and blinkering five-year-olds...

60 seconds with Point Control
Lancashire-based perfect and PUR binding specialist Point Control began life 18 years ago when founding directors Richard Berwick, Andrew Cavannagh and Shaun Gill decided they wanted to work for...

Overmatter: plants in space
Printing companies often find it difficult to come up with new and creative ideas for their own marketing materials. Which explains why we’ve seen so many brochures with big pictures of printing...

Business inspection: A mail house in tune with clients’ needs
A vibrant printing and mailing business has now added an innovative B2C offering.

Bright ideas make upping performance light work
Do you know what a black belt in Six Sigma can do? How about Kaizen? Are you familiar with its principles? What about the Theory of Constraints (TOC)?

Making the move: setting up shop in new premises
Ever since Margaret Thatcher declared her belief in a “property-owning democracy” and introduced Right to Buy in 1980, the UK has been a country obsessed with houses as something, not just to live in,...

Interview: The need for closer print partnerships
In our second series of interviews with a selection of judges from the PrintWeek Awards, we once again take the opportunity to quiz some leading buyers and experts on the internal and external...

Ink price hike fears grow as manufacturers’ margins shrink
While there is generally a more buoyant mood in the industry at the moment, there is an increasingly insistent murmur that ink prices may be on the rise.

Stores seek to pack in the products – and the punters
Few sectors have had their business model so radically altered by the recession than grocery retailers.

Q&A: Francis Atterbury Partner, Hurtwood Press
Francis was, literally, born into the industry. Having swerved a potential career in house sales, he has worked in print for over 35 years and now heads up print and book production consultancy...