UK apprenticeships set for shake-up

Last month, the National Apprenticeship Service announced that up to 20,000 apprenticeships were available on its system, while the latest statistics from the Department for Business, Innovation and...

Labelexpo Europe 2013 predicted to be biggest yet

This year's Labelexpo Europe, held 24-27 September, is expected to attract a record number of around 30,000 visitors, according to show organisers.

All Print Supplies appoints Peter Miles to digital textile division

Slough-based All Print Supplies (APS) has appointed Peter Miles as head of its newly created digital textile division.

Buyers share their print perspectives

You don't often get a group of print buyers from a range of disciplines together in the same room, but that's exactly what happened after the judging session for the PrintWeek Awards quality...

Nilpeter to unveil FB-3 flexo press in Europe

Nilpeter will launch what it claims is one of the fastest label presses on the market, at Labelexpo in Brussels on 24 to 27 September.

Closing sales is not about performing hat tricks

"How many people spent an hour last week practising sales?" I am sat in an introductory session for training organisation Franklin's Covey's new sales course, and co-practice leader Craig...

PCP adds web and bindery firepower

Precision Colour Printing is investing for growth with fresh web press capacity and additional bindery kit.

Can people really be taught the tricks of the sales trade?

It's 11am on a Friday morning, and I'm attempting to sell a suitcase. Have I fallen on particularly hard times as a hack and decided to write off all future holiday plans? Has PrintWeek decided it's...

Why break-in protection is worth every penny

Imagine you arrive to work one day to find the glass of your front door smashed. Now imagine this doesn't turn out, as you'd first prayed, to be just a petty vandalism.

Business inspection: drawing in the next generation

Twinning with schools can have long-lasting benefits for both students and printers alike

Xaar profits soar

UK inkjet printing specialist Xaar's pre-tax profits trebled in H1 2013 to 22.3m compared with the same period last year, for which it posted profits of 6.7m.

Cool reception forecast for Adobe's cloud-based CS

What can crop, stroke, convert, clone and resize and is found in pretty much every printer's pre-press studio across the nation? Not a joke or a riddle but a pretty straightforward question. The...