Earlier this year British Business Investments announced an additional £15m commitment to Compass Business Finance, taking its total commitment to £30m - the intention being to increase the flow of funding for asset finance products into UK-based smaller businesses operating in the print, packaging and manufacturing sectors. So who is asking for the money, are they getting it, and is this conversation more, or less, likely to make you apply too?
Features
No-code a no brainer
Colin McMahon - senior market research analyst at PTC focused on understanding how digital transformation empower organisations, processes, and people - outlines the value of no-code software tools.
Using your intelligence
Be clever and think smart. Software developments and integrations mean large-format PSPs have more opportunity than ever to gather and analyse data from across the whole of their operations, and to use that intelligence to make them more efficient and profitable.
Is green the only colour?
The volume of ‘eco’ consumables hitting the wide-format print market is impressive. But though the most visible, is the environment all that’s on the inks and media R+D spectrum?
Managing gross misconduct
Managing gross misconduct
From Menzies Law
Fast foreword to Fespa Global
This year’s show will occupy eight halls of Messe Berlin. Will you be one of those walking them?
Getting creative with cardboard
Carbon calculation made easy
IR Talks to... Martin Kingdon, Chair and Sustainability Director, POPAI UK/Ireland
This summer, on 15 June, POPAI UK/Ireland will run its biggest ever sustainability summit - ‘Impact22’. Topics on the agenda include the greening-up of retail POP and sustainable materials. I talked to chair and sustainability director, Martin Kingdon, to find out where the organisation thinks large-format PSPs
fit into the scheme of things.
Over to you... Gareth Craythorne, MD, Manor Signs www.manorsigns.co.uk
Manor Signs in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, has run a variety of wide-format printers in its time, with latex machines its current focus. The company recently replaced a HP Scitex FB500 with a HP Latex R1000 Plus, which it runs alongside a Latex 330. I talked with MD Gareth Craythorne about the latest investment and his reasons for making it.
Hidden disabilities – pitfalls for employers
Hidden disabilities – pitfalls for employers
From Menzies Law
Talking technical
What do PSPs still want in terms of technical development within the wide-format print sector? Here’s the grassroots response to the question.