Given it’s trade show season, we asked a number of large-format print chiefs what technical advances they’d like to see that would improve their businesses. Here’s what they highlighted.

We need more apprentices in print, but is the funding there to allow us to bring more young talent into the industry? The BPIF and Print Scotland, both key training providers, explore the issue.

If you’re still operating your print company after all the last couple of years have thrown at us you may think you’ve learned all the lessons there are to learn about running a competitive business. But could these nuggets of advice from Colin Sinclair McDermott, creator of The Print Growth Academy and perhaps better known as The Online Print Coach, help you do better?

Matic Media founder and MD Richard McCombe gets personal to highlight issues that you may not think about as a boss - until you have to. Here he speaks in his own words.

It’s well known that to some, free means worthless. Perhaps that’s why UK large-format PSPs are proving slow to take up some environmental schemes offered free of charge. Jane Rixon, business development manager at HP large format production UK and Ireland, explores the issue and calls for more active participation.

If you want to offer your customers a carbon footprint for each job you do for them, you can, with a software tool that’s been around for some time but that has gone largely unnoticed.

The first print industry focussed EcoPrint summit will take place in Geneva on 6-7 June this year and right now this sector’s input and collaboration is being sought to help ensure it hits the mark. I talked with Frazer Chesterman from organiser FM Future on the subject.

Eco and supply chain issues - how are they impacting large-format printer/finishing machine manufacturing and distribution strategies? We asked the companies that make them to bring you up to speed.

Image Reports once again sings the praises of products and services that it considers the most notable of the year, so let the trumpets sound for the recipients of the 2022 accolades.

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