Retired industry stalwart and ‘envelope guru’ George Silverman has died aged 72.

Our annual round-up of print-themed prezzies to suit all tastes and budgets.

In the current trading climate most printers spend more time fretting about retaining their existing customer base than focusing on winning new customers. However, it’s a harsh commercial reality that...

Fakes, forgeries and fabrications give printers a bad name and the fear of forgery was one of the reasons behind the 1637 Star Chamber Decree designed to prevent “abuses in printing seditious,...

These are changing times for pulp and paper makers. While mill and machinery closures across Europe and the UK have resulted in shrinking capacity, particularly for graphical paper grades, this has...

In 2004 the sales manager of the then named Bristol-based Baronial Labels, Paul Stokes, undertook a management buyout of the business along with his co-workers.

When is an €800,000 press actually a near-€2m press?

Derek is bowing out and retires this month after more than 50 years in the industry. He’s 73 and has been in print-related employment since 1966. He’s married to Donna with two children and three...

Bruce Podmore, Windles founder and managing director, started out printing in a shed in Aylesbury. Originally printing on a two-unit machine, his business grew quickly and in 1984 he joined forces...

Luke is 21 and joined Kenilworth-based Emmerson Press just over four years ago as an apprentice.

At the beginning of this year Positive in Mitcham, south-west London, invested around £200,000 in three new major pieces of equipment.

As traditional as turkey and Brussels sprouts – and sometimes just as tough or distasteful to chew – our review of the year, sadly, highlights many of the lowlights of the UK’s print year.