
Tangent profits boosted by strong growth from Printed.com
Strong revenue growth from Printed.com and sister site Goodprint helped boost parent company Tangent Communications ‘H1 pre-tax profits by almost 50%, the company said.

UPM named apprenticeship trailblazer
UPM Shotton has been selected as one of a group of ‘trailblazer’ businesses across the UK to lead the development of a new style of national apprenticeships.
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.