Darryl Danielli

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Make the most of social media but don’t forget your IRL connections - Printweek

2 months ago | printweek.com | Darryl Danielli

To some it’s the devil incarnate, a source of incalculable damage to people’s mental health and a toxic font of untruths. To others it’s an incredibly useful communication channel that marries powerful insights with huge reach. For me, it’s a bit of both: when I think of my kids, it’s most definitely the anxiety inducing former but when I read some of the posts by industry leaders on LinkedIn or discover a helpful how-to video on YouTube it’s more often the latter.
InSoft releases 'significantly smarter' Imp ganging software - Printweek

2 months ago | printweek.com | Darryl Danielli

Imp version 14 was released last month and will be premiered at Hunkeler Innovationdays next week, where InSoft is exhibiting. According to Santosh Mulay, vice president – business development, the latest iteration of Imp offers “significantly smarter ganging results which directly translates into material and time savings”.
Printing Charity heralds increased support but says it can do more - Printweek

Nov 15, 2024 | printweek.com | Darryl Danielli

In his welcome, Printing Charity chair David Phillips said that this year the charity had supported 300 people through 600 grants, totalling more than £640,000 and the number of people that had access to its confidential helpline, which provides practical, emotional, and financial support 365 days a year, had increased 30%. "This is an amazing testament to the to the work of the charity and its team,” he said.
Ricoh hosts customer event and readies Z75 B2 inkjet for UK demos - Printweek

Oct 21, 2024 | printweek.com | Darryl Danielli

The Pro Z75 at Ricoh’s Customer Experience Centre (CEC) in Telford is already running test sheets and is in the final stages of engineering sign-off, with the first live customer demos slated to start in the next few weeks. The CEC’s machine is configured with Heidelberg pallet feeder as well as a two drawer Ricoh feeder, and a conventional stacker unit. Later it will be retrofitted with an undercoat unit.
Heidelberg puts Jetfire through its paces for UK customers - Printweek

Sep 26, 2024 | printweek.com | Darryl Danielli |Jo Francis

Heidelberg UK head of software solutions Paul Chamberlain hosted the one-day event. He used his welcome to highlight Heidelberg research on some of the challenges facing customers, detailing how the event’s aim was to address the top three responses in the survey: retention of skills, automation and competitor pressure.
European online trade printer launches UK operation - Printweek

Sep 20, 2024 | printweek.com | Darryl Danielli

The Netherlands-headquartered business was founded in 2018 by captain Marco Aarnink, who prior to starting the business owned Dutch online printshop Drukwerkdeal. He sold Drukwerkdeal to Cimpress in 2014. Print.com offers trade print services to designers, marketers, resellers and printers through its site or via custom APIs that can integrate with clients' existing ERP or MIS.
The Print Show targets growth with new sign event for 2025 - Printweek

Sep 20, 2024 | printweek.com | Darryl Danielli

According to event director Chris Davies, while the final numbers were still being processed, he was confident visitors were up on last year’s 3,800 “for sure”. “The general consensus from exhibitors is that the quality of visitors has been fantastic, building on the success of last year,” he said.
Accentuate the positive and have faith in your ability to succeed - Printweek

Sep 4, 2024 | printweek.com | Darryl Danielli

For example, it’s nice to have confidence the economy will remain stable, and inflation and interest rates will both head in the right direction. Equally having faith that every one of your competitors will price a job in a sustainable way, ensuring a level playing field, would be a wonderful thing. And it goes without saying that it would be great to believe that every new customer will stick to your payment terms and pay on time, rather than try to enforce their slightly more ‘relaxed’ approach.
How can we help smaller printing businesses up sales per employee? - Printweek

Jun 28, 2024 | printweek.com | Darryl Danielli

However, like so much previously received wisdom in a rapidly evolving industry, what was once a universal business truth no longer automatically holds true. This was relatively new news to me. And while there has in the past always been the occasional outlier, now it seems increasingly common for a company to report sales per employee two or even three times what used to be considered a respectable figure.
EFI claims world's first all-in-one full-colour box production system - Printweek

Jun 7, 2024 | printweek.com | Darryl Danielli

Ken Hanulec, EFI’s vice president for worldwide marketing, said the Packsize EFI X5 Nozomi was the world's first full-colour, on-demand box line. He described it as the perfect marriage of single-pass Nozomi technology with that of right-sized packaging kit manufacturer Packsize, resulting in an all-in-one production line for printed, right-sized packaging.