
Christmas comes early for bookworms
Christmas is coming – regardless of any protests that autumn has barely begun. The retail sector is revving up for the festive season already. For print, this means production will step up on all...

60 seconds with… Mostly Flat
Graphic designer and artist printmaker Dulcie Fulton started Mostly Flat in 2013 after she took a letterpress class that reminded her how much she loved the process.

Overmatter: tit for tat
The Apprentice is back, and Overmatter is of course glued to the television of a Wednesday evening, awaiting the latest puffed up pronouncements from this year’s array of egotistical maniacs.

Q&A: Marie Gilmour, senior account manager, J Thomson Colour Printers
Marie studied Psychology and French at Glasgow University and graduated with a BSc in 1995. After teaching English in France for a year she changed direction, joined J Thomson Colour Printers and has...

ASAP maps out Henry Boot’s magnetic presence
An age-old lesson of business success is to never forget where you’re from. Property developer Henry Boot – which manages bases across the North and Midlands from its headquarters in Sheffield – will...

Material concerns: what can take the place of polywrap?
It started with single-use carrier bags, then progressed to plastic straws, water bottles and food packaging.

Star product: Agfa Synaps OMF90
Agfa’s paper replacement with roots in the age of film can now be slipped into a wider range of applications with a new foldable variant.

Me & my: Sakurai Maestro MS 80 SD
What Nitecrest needed was a more flexible friend in a printroom that produces 5 million credit, gift, loyalty and membership cards every day. The firm spends big on technology because it cannot afford...

Great British manufacturers taken on in latest M&A flurry
A busy year of M&A action among manufacturers appears to have come to a head with Heidelberg’s MBO buy, Plockmatic Group’s acquisition of Watkiss Automation and Kolbus Group’s purchase of Autobox...

When ROI matters direct mail delivers
In July, well before the peak autumn period, PrintWeek partnered with Konica Minolta to pull together some of the leading lights in direct mail and discuss some of the key challenges and opportunities...

Print is learning the tricks of the trade
It feels as though we’ve argued about Brexit until we’re all blue in the face.

Keep your bright ideas safe under lock and key
When it comes to protecting what a business owns it’s easy to think of the physical – premises, equipment, stock and vehicles.