Does green-button machinery portend the death of skill?

Ten ways to cut your business costs

Print firms are no strangers to the discipline of cost reduction. For years, the industry has been caught between the internet, print management firms and increasingly severe recessions. Budgets have fallen, company sales have been hit and, for many ...

"I'm more energised and excited than ever": an interview with Benny Landa

Can Benny Landa do it again? He spearheaded the digital printing revolution in 1993 when he launched his Indigo E-Print 1000, promising "a print run of one". Now, after selling Indigo to HP in 2001, he has sensationally returned to print with Landa D...

Warming up for 'the Olympics of print': your guide to Drupa 2012

B2 or not B2? That is the question digital manufacturers have been asking themselves pre-Drupa and - for the most part - they have opted for the affirmative answer. So much so, in fact, that some are already calling Drupa 2012 'the B2 Drupa'. However...

An expertise in inline innovation

A creative approach to inline manufacturing has given this mailing house an edge

Digital finishes first in the race for run-lengths: Drupa post-press preview

The job of the finishing manufacturer is generally a reactive one: whatever the press manufacturers, both digital and litho, have planned for the future, the finishing manufacturers must be able to offer something that fits at the end of the line. So...

Drupa preview: consumables and ancillaries stand-by-stand

Manufacturers get into the lending game

Before the economic meltdown, it was all too easy for printers to raise finance for investment in new equipment, recalls one print industry stalwart. "You simply filled out some forms, signed on the dotted line and the cash was there," he explains. "...

Countering the threat from electronic publishing

Speaking at the Cartagena, Colombia edition of the Hay Literary Festival in January, acclaimed US author Jonathan Franzen struck a blow for print when he insisted that, for the serious book reader - or "a literature-crazed person like me" - the 'anal...

Drupa preview: environment & knowledge

At Drupas gone by, talk of reducing alcohol consumption probably meant something very different to what it means today. Of course, there'll still be many resolving - and probably failing - to forgo the après exhibition revelries this year. But most w...