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If the mere mention of colour-matching is enough to raise your blood pressure, you’re not alone - it’s a difficult area. But relax - the process is being made easier. 

What have your systems suppliers been doing to help you keep running in a disrupted working environment? See if yours are doing as much as others…

What’s having the greatest impact on your business at the moment?

An economic re-start over the coming months means businesses will face tough decisions, . As redundancies are neither cheap nor easy, the alternatives to achieve savings yet retain skilled staff are worth examining. Here are some of the options together with the legal issues to consider.

By Jane Rixon, Signage and Decoration Business Development Manager, HP Large Format Printing

Looking beyond the Covid-19 pandemic, Walter Hale highlights some good habits - and principles - that can help you manage cash more effectively as you enter the new normal. 

Wondering when it will be ‘back to business’? Isn’t everyone. There can’t be a single print operation that has not been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, nor can there be a single way of coming out the other side as fit as before, but is there a case for what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger? I asked ImageCo MD and Fespa UK board member Nathan Swinson-Bullough for his take 

On 24 June the Print4All conference ‘Future Factory’ will stream, focussing on sustainability and I4.0 working. The shake-up and fall-out from the Covid-19 pandemic makes the event more relevant than ever, so should it be in your diary?

Amidst a global economic reboot due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will climate change - and ‘greening-up’ - continue to be a real consideration?

Are you ploughing big sums of money into developing end-to-end management information systems in-house because you can’t find anything off-the-shelf that works for your business? If so, you’re not alone. 

When it comes to installing management information systems, all sorts of horror stories circulate in the large-format print space. Print company chiefs talk at length about the lack of sector-specific systems/modules, wasted time and money. So what’s being done to lay these concerns to rest?

Fespa Global and SDUK may not have taken place this spring – but fear not, Simon Creasy brings you up to speed on KEY technical developments that would have been showcased.