Profitable print companies build their success on anticipating and understanding client problems and coming up with solutions. Kevin Rogers, Business Development Director at Elanders, gives an overview of developments across the print industry that impact on maintaining service levels today. 

Narrow-web print has the capability to vary every aspect of its performance. Niklas Olsson of XSYS Print Solutions examines the need for special ink formulations to deliver the best possible results with this versatile technology.

It is impossible to tell the future but you can get close using specialised market research to paint a likely picture. Here, Chris Springford pulls together the evidence for the next few years of digital colour markets. 

Asia is set to overtake Western markets as the number one inkjet user in the world. What are the ramifications for manufacturers in the West? Sean Smyth investigates how long-term relationships between Western companies and Chinese manufacturers are improving Asian products and performance.

Over the last decade, digital printing technology has made significant progress. Many of its initial shortfalls have been overcome. Bill Parker, Managing Director of GMC Software Technology's UK operation, offers an overview of the business opportunities that digital printing can now offer. 

Print management, we know, is a powerful and growing facet of the print supply chain, but where are these companies trying to make money, asks Stephen Hill, and are they good enough to help your business? 

In book production, digital printing seems to have found its natural home. What then, asks Sean Smyth, can be learnt from this best-practice example?