Printing World articles from December 2002

Printing World archives from December 2002

Polestar bids for direct mail lead.(spending over #3m)
December 2, 2002... Polestar is spending over #3m in a bid to win leadership in the UK's direct mail business. Chief executive Barry Hibbert announced what will be a major consolidation in Polestar by bringing together four separate business units to form...

A Wapping choice.(News International to move editorial offices to Wapping)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... News International has lodged plans to move its editorial offices to a new building on a site alongside its Wapping, east London, complex. The futuristic 120,000sq m development on land currently used as a "car park and lorry marshalling...

Birmingham Mitsubishi.(Mitsubishi is about to install a five-colour B2 press at Partners in Print)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Mitsubishi is about to install a five-colour B2 press at Partners in Print, Birmingham, completing a recent string of press sales.It says that 2002 has been a good year for five- and six-colour press sales following the launch of its new...

Salary survey.(for women in UK packaging industry)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Women in the packaging industry are still being paid less than men, a new survey has found. A survey of Institute of Packaging members has found that in some cases women earn 28% less than men in equivalent positions, with the gap greatest for...

Sales successes.(Ashdown Printing Machinery sells equipment online)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Ashdown Printing Machinery, the secondhand supplier in York, is using the Internet as a successful sales tool having sold a Komori Lithrone 640 plus coater to the US and a Komori Lithrone 540 to Australia. The company says it can confirm...

PCC calls for help.(Printers' Charitable Corporation has to raise over #300,000 in 2003)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... The Printers' Charitable Corporation has to raise over #300,000 in 2003 if the charity is to bridge the gap between its reduced investment income and the costs of running its nursing home and two sheltered housing developments. It needs...

Potts sells off BP Cook.(Thomas Potts has sold its BP Cook screenprinting subsidiary)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Thomas Potts has sold its BP Cook screenprinting subsidiary in Harlow to former managing director Mike Cartin. BP Cook, otherwise known as Serigraphic, was the first company Thomas Potts bought when it was founded in 1996. According to...

McNaughton bar on the phoenixes.(James McNaughton Paper Group policy)
December 2, 2002... The James McNaughton Paper Group has added its weight to the anti- phoenix movement by making it company policy not to offer any financial support to failed firms that have re-emerged with similar managements or ownership. It is a step...

The doors finally close at Pacedene.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... North London display printer Pacedene is closing its doors after 30 years in business, throwing in the towel after two years of financial difficulty. Receivers from Grant Thornton have been appointed to wind the company down. It follows a...

Supermarkets: time to get tough call.(British Printing Industries Federation and the Packaging Federation are calling for the code of conduct governing supermarkets and their suppliers to be beefed up next year)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... The BPIF and the Packaging Federation are calling for the code of conduct governing supermarkets and their suppliers to be beefed up next year. The code was agreed in 2001, with the BPIF complaining that it was "ineffectual" and too much...

Changes at PPA.(Rebecca Cullen-Moreno of Tablet Publishing has succeeded Christopher Collins of The Economist as chair of PPA's export advisory group)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Rebecca Cullen-Moreno of Tablet Publishing has succeeded Christopher Collins of The Economist as chair of PPA's export advisory group. After a number of years at the helm of PPA's export initiative, Mr Collins has decided to step down from his...

MacExpo's finest.(PrintReady from Extensis and StingRay from Hermstedt were both awarded Best of Show by Macworld)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... PrintReady from Extensis and StingRay from Hermstedt were both awarded Best of Show by Macworld. The awards were made to what the magazine saw as the most exciting hardware and software products announced at MacExpo 2002 in London. To be...

Managing change.(in the printing industry)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Paul Holohan of Richmond Capital Partners, has shared his experiences with delegates to the recent BPIF Routes to Profitability conference at Brands Hatch. His presentation called Managing Change for Success reviewed the various types of change...

Modern apprentice signs on at the LCP.(London College of Printing)
December 2, 2002... Print recruits are being offered the chance to train with the London College of Printing, without necessarily attending the college in the Elephant & Castle. The LCP has for the first time in a decade begun to offer apprentice training,...

Printing truce in Northern Ireland.(Graham & Heslip has agreed a truce with the Northern Ireland Tourist Board)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Belfast printer Graham & Heslip has agreed a truce with the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, which it had been threatening with legal action for alleged favouritism towards W&G Baird, the company owned by former NITB chairman Roy Bailie. Graham...

Bobst set to buy Valmet.(from Metso Corp)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Metso Corporation of Finland has signed a memo of understanding of its intention to sell its Valmet Converting operations to Bobst Group, Switzerland, in a deal worth E90m. The planned sale of Valmet Converting, subject to due diligence and...

De La Rue profits plunge.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Following two profit warnings, De La Rue has announced a drop in pretax profits from #35.6m to #19.6m for the six months to September 28. John Marx, managing director of the security products division, is resigning now that his...

Apex for Hong Kong.(IIR Exhibitions has launched a printing show for Hong Kong to be called the Asian Print Expo (Apex))(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... IIR Exhibitions has launched a printing show for Hong Kong to be called the Asian Print Expo (Apex). It will also feature a Upex event and a conference run by Pira International. The venue is the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre and...

Digital on the cards.(Repropoint promotes its Indigo digital press)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Woking printer Repropoint is plugging the attributes of its Indigo digital press in a business promotion for last minute personalised Christmas cards. Full colour, short run cards can be ordered online at www.repropoint.com either of their own...

In the money.(British Engraved Stationery Association tour)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Twenty-two members of the British Engraved Stationery Association have been given a tour of the Bank of England museum by Ron Hughes of Aronique Design, the sole engraver of plates for British banknotes. BESA is now part of the BPIF and works...

Field sparks up works.(Chesapeake Corporation building factory in Germany)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Chesapeake Corporation is building a greenfield paperboard packaging and printing works in Delmenhorst, Germany to replace its existing factory 8km away in Bremen. The current site produces cigarette packs for the tobacco industry,...

Renfrew sends tartan message.(St. Andrew's Day postcard promotion)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... The BPIF has given a cautious welcome to the Chancellor's Pre-Budget statement, which spelt out that higher borrowing rather than higher taxes was the answer to the economic downturn. But the federation is concerned that additional...

Duffield's ten-colour Christmas present.(Duffield Printers installing a ten-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster SM 74-10P)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Duffield Printers in Leeds is relinquishing one of its five-colour Komoris for a ten-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster SM 74-10P. The press arrives this month as part of a total investment of #1.8m covering the replacement of its ctp, MIS and...

Garnett reaps rewards with ISO14001.(Garnett Dickinson Print)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... What started as a project to improve factory efficiency has led to the ISO14001 certification for Rotherham web printer Garnett Dickinson Print. Managing director Nick Alexander says: "We wanted to increase efficiency and reduce waste,...

HSE names the guilty.(website has details of convictions against firms and individuals)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... The HSE website now carries full details of the 900 convictions it has obtained against firms and individuals relating to health and safety issues. It says it obtained an 84% success rate with fines averaging more than #12,000. Visit...

Renfrew sends tartan message.(St. Andrew's Day postcard promotion)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Packaging printers looking for a change of scene after Christmas can join Pira International in Miami for what it claims is the world's first major Intelligent & Smart Packaging event. Three days in the sun are promised from January 27. For...

Renfrew sends tartan message.(St. Andrew's Day postcard promotion)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... The BPIF is embracing e-business by putting its latest membership survey online so that busy bosses can answer questions at the click of a mouse. This way the federation is hoping to lift responses by 20% over the last survey conducted in 1998....

Renfrew sends tartan message.(St. Andrew's Day postcard promotion)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Ingram Publishing is offering its Imagelibrary Premier Edition of royalty-free stock pictures to designers for #150. The six CD package has files of 25-30Mb which the company says allows images to be used at 300 dpi over a full A4 page. More...

Renfrew sends tartan message.(St. Andrew's Day postcard promotion )
December 2, 2002... Passengers on GNER trains and BMI aircraft travelling to Scotland last week found themselves presented with tartan postcards aimed at promoting a greater awareness of St Andrew's Day on November 30. Produced by Gardner Gibson in Renfrew on...

Consortium for smarter labels.(Smart Active Labels)
December 2, 2002... An international consortium has been set up to develop standards for and to promote the use of Smart Active Labels and is now looking for label printers to join. SAL is a technology that goes beyond Radio Frequency Identification labels...

Printer cited in `#2m fraud'.(court case )(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... A printer accused of swindling #2m from a City bank to pay for exclusive football ground seats is the victim of "twisted" evidence, a court heard. James Lovat, 46, is accused of fraud with business partner Stephen Riddle, 45, and Roger...

Spreading the word.(printing industry conference)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Julia Corkhill, sales director of Washington Envelopes, shows off the fruits of the company's new manufacturing process which it calls Lithoflex. Envelopes are printed and manufactured inline in one process on a Winkler & Dunnebier 627. The...

Spreading the word.(printing industry conference)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Reading printer Vinyl Graphics has provided local accountancy firm BDO Stoy Hayward with one-way vision film for its office windows so they act as an advert. The 4B sheets carry the company's name when viewed from outside, but are clear when...

Spreading the word.(printing industry conference)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Printing companies in Dorset got the benefit of experience gained by their opposite numbers in the East Midlands when the BPIF hosted a networking event at Poole. Cornwall, Bristol and Wales are the next areas to be visited, targeting the...

Paper merchants go online with Tharstern.(Robert Horne Paper Company and Howard Smith Paper)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Pira International and Ifra have published a 250pp intelligence report called The Future of Newspaper Advertising which claims to predict how the market is evolving. E-mail ravl@pira.co.uk for more details. Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

Paper merchants go online with Tharstern.(Robert Horne Paper Company and Howard Smith Paper)
December 2, 2002... Tharstern, the management information system supplier, has launched Supplier On-Line, an optional module that allows printers to buy paper online from Robert Horne and Howard Smith through their MIS. The development is a step forward for...

System redesigned from January.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Tharstern is also redesigning the Customer On-Line system, with clearer pages and a new Request for Quote module available from January. The RFQ module, currently on trial at the Anton Group in Essex, allows printers to save templates for...

Butler & Tanner shows what a `novice' can do.(company award details )(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Century old printer Butler & Tanner has picked up the award for Rookie of the Year in the Ikea print awards. These cover a number of printing technologies and encompass suppliers from across Europe. For example, Sebaldus Broschek, Hamburg,...

GEK and friends club together in aid of charity.(GEK Printing Equipment)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Proving that corporate responsibility is not the sole preserve of large companies, Edinburgh used machinery dealer GEK Printing Equipment has raised well over #1,000 for charity by hosting a golf day. The event was held at Ratho Park Golf...

Three cheers for the brave.(James McNaughton Paper Group Ltd)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... The scourge of the printing industry at the moment is simply Other Printers. It is Other Printers that force the prices down. It is Other Printers that secure huge payment holidays on new equipment and it is Other Printers that go bust and are...

Letter: Intech problems.
December 2, 2002... We have an Intech PSA1100 pile turner which has some electrical problems, and unfortunately the manufacturer is in liquidation and we are unable to get a wiring diagram or any support from the supplier. Can anyone help? Having just...

Letter: We printed 1 million too.(Letter to the Editor)
December 2, 2002... I was interested to read the item VLM makes big impression (Printing World, November 18), where the digital printer exceeded 1 million impressions in one month. You may be interested to know that these counts are not unusual to us. In July we...

New share issue.(Quebecor offers shares in Quebecor World)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Quebecor is issuing another $306m-worth of shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange to raise more money to pay off debt. Eight million new shares in its printing subsidiary Quebecor World, which saw sales and profits edge downwards last quarter,...

BASF perks up.(reports 80% rise in Q3 pretax profits)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... BASF has increased its Q3 pretax profits by 80% before special items, and is now promising full-year profits 15% above 2001 levels. However, the company adds that it is `concerned that sales prices are increasingly coming under pressure. Higher...

T/R moves market.(T/R Systems mvoes to Small Cap securities exchange)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... T/R Systems, the loss-making manufacturer of cluster printers, has moved from the Nasdaq national market to the Small Cap one. But T/R Systems still does not comply with Small Cap requirements that its shares should have a minimum bid price of...

Sainsbury's printers wait for the squeeze.(Sainsbury's cost cutting measures include print services)
December 2, 2002... Printers may be expected to reduce their prices by 5% or more for Sainsbury, as the supermarket group struggles to regain the top spot in food retailing. Although its interim profits rose 11% to #354m, the firm has lagged behind Tesco and...

NUR's sales tumble.(NUR Macroprinters)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... NUR Macroprinters has continued its fall in sales and profit, which are both down 50% on the third quarter of 2001. The Israeli company has been badly hit by the downturn in advertising. Sales for the three months to September 30 stood at...

News Corp Q1 profits up.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... News Corporation has seen net profits double in the first quarter from $73m to $162m, thanks to better ad revenue from its US tv stations. But profits from UK papers were halved by an ongoing price war. Ad revenue at The Sun, News of the...

VAW is sold by Alcan.(VAW Packaging acquired from Norsk Hyddro by Alcan)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Alcan, the aluminium group that owns Lawson Mardon, has bought flexible packaging printer VAW Packaging from Norsk Hydro for E345m. VAW has premises in Epsom, Leeds and Tunbridge Wells in the UK, although production is overseas in 14...

Mbos in printing still growing.(management buyouts)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... The number of management buyouts in printing and packaging is still growing, says Paul Holohan of Richmond Capital Partners. However, this is not necessarily a sign of a healthy industry, he adds, and is mostly due to the lack of successors...

Non-printers sought by Polestar to lift quality.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Polestar is looking for "Kaizen managers", the new name for its manufacturing improvement managers, and is now deliberately looking for people without prior printing experience. Its adverts in the Daily Telegraph say: "We're looking for...

Compulsory winding up.(Calendar)
December 2, 2002... The following cases are due to be heard at Leeds District Registry, The Courthouse, 1 Oxford Row, Leeds LS1 3BG * Intervale Publishing Ltd Suite 1, 19a Sunrise Business Park, Higher Shaftesbury Road, Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 8ST on...

Appointment of liquidators.(Brief Article)(Directory)
December 2, 2002... * Streamline Publishing Ltd Publisher of Swimmer magazine. Liquidator: W Paxton, Robson Laidler, 2nd Floor, 6 Market Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6JF * PW Print Ltd Printing. Liquidators: CS Jackson and MRE Matthews, Tenon Recovery,...

Meetings of creditors.(Calendar)
December 2, 2002... * Euro Screen & Litho Ltd at David Rubin & Partners, Pearl Assurance House, 319 Ballards Lane, London N12 8LY on November 27 * Computer & Printer Systems International Ltd at Holly Lodge Hotel, 70 London Road, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4...

Notices to creditors.
December 2, 2002... * Print Management Holdings Ltd Creditors to send claims to AG Stoneman and JJ Godefroy, Menzies Corporate Restructuring, 17-19 Foley Street, London W1W 6DW Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

Final meetings.(Calendar)
December 2, 2002... * Ravelle Printers Ltd at BDO Stoy Hayward, Commercial Building, 11-15 Cross Street, Manchester M2 1BE on December 18 at 1pm for members and at 1.15pm for creditors * Tellprint Ltd at Tenon Recovery, 19 Borough Road, Sunderland SR1 1LA on...

Israeli dimension.(Jerusalem Post signs up with PEPC for digitally printed newspapers)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... The Jerusalem Post has signed up with PEPC, the print at point of purchase operator of Presspoint kiosks for delivering digitally printed newspapers. PEPC is in the throes of an IPO in the US which will give it funds to expand its network of...

NCS points the finger.(NCS Integrated Solutions to distribute Germinate Press Signate products)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... NCS Integrated Solutions is to distribute the Germinate Press Signate suite of press fingerprinting and diagnosis tools in the UK, Europe and North America. Managing director Roger Stockdale says: `This is one of the most significant...

Low cost bundle.(Pisces Imaging Sciences and Ultimate offer software)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Pisces Imaging Sciences has teamed up with Ultimate to offer a bundle of low cost platesetter and Impress imposition software. The PlateJet 7600 images to metal plates using an inkjet principle to apply a proprietary liquid to a presensitised...

NUR V3 inks find favour.(Gardners is testing inkjet printers)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Cardiff digital print specialist Gardners is putting V3 of NUR's inks through tests on its NUR Fresco 3200 wide format inkjet machines. These have been fitted with the new eight-colour head with the result, says digital print manager...

Peak practice makes perfect.(Buxton Press installs a second Agfa Galileo)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Magazine printer Buxton Press has stepped up ctp production with the installation of a second Agfa Galileo, this time the top of the range Galileo VXT, as it aims to increase turnover by 50% over the next three years. The company prints a...

Ctp hunt as Carter goes for Komoris.(Carter Litho orders 18 press units)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Carter Litho, Slough, is now on the lookout for a ctp system having placed an order for 18 Komori press units to be delivered over the next nine months. The company is moving out a 150 million impression Heidelberg Speedmaster for a...

Special Lotem 850 for GraphicInline.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Creo has supplied Leicester direct mail specialist GraphicInline with a Lotem 850 Quantum platesetter, an unusual format which suits the firm's 24pp web presses. The move comes as the company migrates from being a pure print company,...

Royal occasion.
December 2, 2002... Howard Smith Paper and Scheufelen are inviting entries for the prestigious 2003 Consort Royal Awards, to be held next October in Paris. Printers and designers are free to submit as many pieces of work as they like printed on the Consort Royal...

Swatch update.(Sappi Nash mills adds to its brands)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Sappi Nash mills has updated the swatches for three of its leading business stationery brands. Information such as features and benefits, applications, printing specification and environmental information is now included. Visit...

Green shipping.(ship Cellus awarded with German Blue Angel eco-label)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... One of the three ships that carries pulp for Swedish forest group Sodra has been awarded the German Blue Angel eco-label. The ship in question, Cellus, is the first transport vessel in the world to be fitted with a catalytic converter to reduce...

Curtis rewarded.(Curtis Fine Papers wins environmental award)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Curtis Fine Papers has been named as a regional winner in the Vision into Business for the Environment of Scotland (Vibes) competition. It was commended for its steps to make its business greener and proactively protect the local environment...

Upgrade at Varkaus.(StoraEnso announces plan to upgrade)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... StoraEnso has announced a E50m plan to upgrade its pulp production line at Varkaus, Finland, which produces directory papers and special newsprint grades. The existing stone groundwood pulp (SGW) line at the mill is no longer competitive...

Inveresk's cash crisis deepens.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Inveresk is now in an urgent search for funding to save its remaining 170 jobs following the breakdown of merger talks with Swedish manufacturer Klippan. It will appeal to its beleaguered shareholders "with a view to recapitalising the...

Getting the best out of Nimrod.(M-real Sittingbourne offers new guide for printers)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... M-real Sittingbourne has produced an intriguing guide for printers demonstrating the range of printing techniques that can be used on the different grades of Nimrod paper. Each themed page of the guide has been printed on a different grade...

Exporting waste helps out textiles.(brief profile of Future Reycling )(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... A company set up only last year to reprocess printers' waste that has previously been considered unrecyclable is now expanding and looking for more waste from companies around the UK. Future Recycling was founded by Richard Cross and is...

Hospital helpers.(Jonathan Davies launches campaign to benefit children's hospital )(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Welsh rugby legend Jonathan Davies has kicked off a campaign to help build a new children's hospital in Cardiff while also helping the environment. In aid of the Noah's Ark hospital appeal, Aylesford Newsprint will donate #1 for every tonne of...

Belfast boost.(Andersonstown News installs new equipment )(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Belfast's Andersonstown News has become the first newspaper in Northern Ireland to install a Quad-Stack into an existing single-width Web Leader press line. Quad Stack is a four-over-four single-width colour printing unit made by Seattle's Web...

Tripling the colours.(Bornholms Tidende buys web offset press system from Tensor Group)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Danish newspaper printing Bornholms Tidende is to triple its colour capacity after ordering a 21-unit web offset press system from US manufacturer Tensor Group. The 1400 Series press units have rugged durability, ease of operation and low...

Archiving thumbs up.(evaluation of new software from PscdotNet)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... PscdotNet's Digital Studio image archiving software has been given the thumbs up by Northcliffe Newspapers. At a recent seminar, its deputy group advertisement director Steve Hollingsworth said the system would give `sales and creative users...

Digital inking for Gosses.(new system is available )(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Goss has announced that its patented digital inking system is now available on the Universal 70, Uniliner and the new Uniliner S. The system uses a patented page pack to improve print quality and reduce ink waste. It makes ink metering...

Desmond's free daily set to roll.(Richard Desmond's plans to introduce free newspaper)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... The newspaper sector in the capital was buzzing last week with speculation concerning Richard Desmond's plans to launch a free evening newspaper as a rival to the Evening Standard. A spokesperson for Mr Desmond's Express Group confirmed a...

Faster MSCi.(unveils new ctp systems )(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Mitsubishi division MSCi in Waltham Cross has introduced faster ctp systems to the UK newspaper market, with improvements made to the Western Lithotech DiamondSetter 347 and 435 Newspaper platesetters. With new automated capabilities, both...

Partners in production.(Tera Digital Publishing and Ppi Media form partnership )(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Italian editorial systems supplier Tera Digital Publishing has announced a partnership with Ppi Media, the automated newspaper production systems specialist recently bought by MAN Roland. Tera will integrate its GN3 editorial system in the...

KPG's thermal stance is paying off.(Kodak Polychrome Graphics' experiences at a recent trade show)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Kodak Polychrome Graphics has evaluated its Ifra performance and believes that although violet ctp newspaper technology made most of the headlines at the show, its own experience suggests thermal is gaining acceptance. It sold six thermal...

Catching 'em young.(youngsters take printing course in Leeds)
December 2, 2002... A GCSE in Printing? Believe it or not the idea is proving surprisingly popular with youngsters in Leeds By Alex Grant At the Leeds College of Technology, 41 students are coming to the end of their first term of a printing course. Nothing...

A traditional market for printing.(layoffs affect printing industry in Leeds )(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Traditionally one of the main printing centres in Britain, Leeds may not seem to be the best place to appeal to youngsters to consider a career in print these days. Between November 2001 and January 2002, St Ives announced it was cutting...

Bound for glory.(profile of Clays of Bungay )(Company Profile)
December 2, 2002... Clays, the Bungay book printer prides itself in the quality of its manufacturing By Jim Larkin When industry expert Tony Clark argued in these pages a few weeks ago that the quality of British bookbinding was deteriorating, it is fair to...

Imperial echoes.(printing industry in South Africa )
December 2, 2002... Globalisation in printing terms means a new player in the equation, South Africa. But work is not going in one direction By Gareth Ward British printers have been retaining work that used to go to the Far East and also, with the exception...