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For almost 40 years Vivid Laminating Technologies has been serving the print finishing sector, moving with the times as lamination moved from a trade speciality to in-house, with smaller formats...

As in other elements of commercial life, where once the world was completely analogue so digital has made inroads and revolutionised the world of print.

The Apollo is an automated high-speed digital garment press for runs of one up to a few thousand, with a pricing model that could enable printers to break into DTG without breaking the bank.

If you take up residence in an old fire station, you may find that there’s something haunting you from the past. For the Ghostbusters it was a bad case of old spirits.

Does Data Image Group have the most adorable brand champion in print?

Paul was employed by De La Rue PLC from 1994-2015 and has been an active member of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers since 2010.

Isabel was one of the printing industry beneficiaries in The Printing Charity’s Rising Star awards this year, and is using her grant to take courses in graphic design and exhibition design and...

John William Northend set-up JW Northend in August 1889 at the age of 33. He left his secure job at William Townsend & Son, assured of his own technical ability to gain new customers based on an offer...

Premises are essential to a printer’s success. Not only do they have to be in the right location, but they need to have that ‘Goldilocks’ element to them – not to be so large so as to cost more than...

It’s not hard to find examples of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) within the print and related sectors.

Business is all about confidence. This means confidence in a supplier to do what has been agreed; confidence in a customer to pay on time; and confidence in the government and the economy to encourage...

Most newspaper printers work out of the spotlight. They might have the world’s biggest celebrities on their covers, but they avoid attention.

The Print Show launched in 2015 and has run every year since, with the unavoidable exceptions of Covid-blighted 2020 and 2021. It is now a well-established and popular fixture on the UK printing...

Some people were predicting this was going to be an AI Drupa, or an automation Drupa. But most visibly, it was certainly a robot Drupa.

From the start, manufacturers of B2 digital presses made their compatibility with existing B2 offset finishing installations a big part of their pitch, and this works fine when replacing offset jobs...