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How to navigate the difficult route to career relocation
27 January 2012If George Thompson, joint managing director at recruitment company Harrison Scott, is right, then the first thing any print worker looking for employment needs to do is buy a map. And not a little, local A-Z map, either: they need a big, UK-wide, eve...
What you need to know to make the most of your IT
27 January 2012- 1 Comments
Once upon a time, the first thing a printer would show a prospective new client was the press. This, after all, was the company's beating heart, its moneymaker - this was where the magic happened. These days, however, the average print business is ju...
Loricas finds the solution to its shortfall
20 January 2012Loricas Solutions is a growing north-east-based direct mail house that has been in operation in one form or another for around 22 years. The firm rebranded last year from NEMC Design and Print, following a £150,000 investment in new mailing kit and a...
The future of workflow: it's already in our hands
13 January 2012When it comes to handling jobs in today's commercial print market, you basically have a hot potato situation: hold onto it too long and you will get burned. Hence, automation to reduce the touch points for the printing and finishing processes is now ...
Digital adds a special touch
20 January 2012The skin of a lizard brought to life through tactile ink, a glitzy metallic greetings card and sophisticated security inks: all effects which once were only pipe dreams for digital printers. However, many of these digital dreams have become reality. ...
Briefing
'We're not Manroland' - nonetheless, recovery will be hard
27 January 2012Kodak never does anything the easy way. Last week's Chapter 11 filing - in the dead of night - was a case in point. The lack of surprise at an announcement that had been anticipated since September last year was palpable and suggests Kodak needn't ha...
Evolution not revolution: what to expect from Drupa 2012
20 January 2012Drupa 2008 was widely hailed as the 'inkjet Drupa' and unsurprisingly the major inkjet manufacturers are convinced that digital technology will take the trade show by storm again come May, albeit in a different way.
'We are all in it together': how print can prosper this year
13 January 2012While 2012 has started much as the previous year left off - with the inevitable redundancies, closures and administrations - it is important to maintain some perspective, and there is much to look forward to in the 12 months ahead.
A bumpy ride for the industry: 2011's good and bad news
16 December 2011Perhaps the biggest news came late in 2011: the administration one of the world's largest press manufacturers. But this was not the only earth-shattering story covered by PrintWeek. We look back on the news - good and bad - that made 2011 one of the...
Will eurozone crisis impact Drupa 2012 investment plans?
08 December 2011The past year has been defined by bail-outs, debt and contraction across the eurozone, which has adversely affected business and consumer confidence.
Comment and Opinion
Drupa to light way as print industry keeps advancing
09 December 2011At next year's Drupa, the industry's suppliers will announce, and possibly even deliver, many new or upgraded products that will give an insight into the direction that print will take in the future. Here are some of the key trends that will have an ...
SMEs need aid for working capital, not new equipment
24 November 2011Any help that can be given to SMEs is going to be worth trying. However, I can see a number of pitfalls and problems with this structure. How many businesses will actually need to go and buy new capital equipment?
Germany could teach the UK some very important lessons
11 November 2011Despite its relatively high labour costs, Germany is the world's largest goods exporter after China. Much of this success is attributed to the country's legion of small and medium-sized firms, known as the Mittelstand, that are renowned for their abi...
To be useful, a DRP disaster plan must be updated regularly
21 October 2011Often a disaster recovery plan (DRP) focuses on preventative actions, with documentation written as a necessary chore to satisfy insurance companies, then filed away, to provide false comfort and no real benefit to the business.
Learn the lessons of Impact or history will repeat itself
07 October 2011I have to take issue with the PrintWeek editorial of 9 September, which basically concluded that the reason for the proposed closure of I...
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