According to John Tschohl of the Service Quality Institute, many people respond to a crisis by being overwhelmed by stress, which turns to fear. It is easy to be afraid when you’re in this situation, but if you remain brave, everyone around you will be too, and together you will be able to turn anything […]
According to Laurel Brunner of the Verdigris Project, many hundreds of thousands of books are published every year around the world. Supply chains are complicated and entrenched, but it’s essentially a local business. And yet, despite the fact that prints runs for works of fiction can be as low as 1000 copies, digital printing has […]
Silas Amos, designer and design strategist, discusses five ways to persuade a client to be bold and innovative with their print. Much of the media I work with is packaging and my clients are typically marketing leaders and brand managers for big brands stocked in retail outlets such as supermarkets. Over the past few years […]
According to Vaughan Patterson, head of Commercial and Industrial Print at Ricoh SA, you have to focus on adding value to customers’ businesses right now. Nobody has money to spare in this fragmented lockdown that’s been thrust upon us, but everyone is looking for the same thing. On Maslow’s hierarchy, most businesses are in survival […]
Keeping up with the global trend of being agile and maximising online technologies, Africa Print’s new LIVE online platform will allow audiences to experience product launches, webinars, events and video tutorials from the comfort of their personal spaces. The LIVE Platform will feature interactive content across different online platforms (Webinars, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook Live and […]
Laurel Brunner of the Verdigris Projects says that thanks to advances in materials and imaging, flexography has also become increasingly sustainable over the years. Flexography is often considered a sort of industrialised version of letterpress printing, and capable of producing only rudimentary quality. But that hasn’t been true for years. Flexographic printing has evolved considerably […]
Printing SA has updated the COVID-19 Temporary Employer Relief Scheme (TERS) notice from the Department of Labour with new information. Read the updated document and annexure document below: STEP-BY-STEP-GUIDE-TO-COMPLETE-TERS-ONLINE-APPLICATION-05052020-V2-EVZ Annexure-B-National_Disaster_Payment-Excel_Template PRINTING SA +27112871160 info@printingsa.org http://www.printingsa.org
According to Laurel Brunner of the Verdigris Project, working online has actually proved to be entirely possible for most of us. The rise in experience with online meetings advances what pundits call the digital transformation. For those of us completely immersed in printing technology history, this phrase generally means the shift from analogue to digital printing. […]
Laurel Brunner from The Verdigris Project says industries should be reusing, reducing and recycling as much as possible and should follow the four building blocks of a Circular Economy. We hear a lot about the Circular Economy, most of it quite confusing for printing companies and print buyers. However, we recently came across a comprehensive […]
According to Samantha Choles, Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa, we need to get the facts straight about paper and recycling and cut the greenwash. I recently drew cash at an ATM and was greeted with an on-screen message: ‘If everyone said no to a receipt just for one month, we would save 45 trees.’ […]
