Disciplines

Me & my: Agfa Advantage N-DL

Many print companies that run a fleet of machinery from the same manufacturer are likely to cite benefits including consistent quality across the business, proven reliability, the ability to easily...

Orphans gets by with a little help from its press

Publisher Orphans Publishing, which also has a print arm (Orphans Press), was able to both commission and print a celebration of all things Beatles as the 50th anniversary of the seminal Sgt. Pepper’s...

Keep calm and carry on, again

Once again, an overly confident PM and disgruntled electorate have combined to give business confidence a kick in the nether regions, at the worst possible time – on the eve of the traditional summer...

Overmatter: runners & riders

A seasonal shout-out to some of the charitable acts being undertaken by industry folk this summer.

Q&A: Andreas Schillinger, managing director and co-owner, Lotus Labels

Andreas is likely to be a familiar name and face to many as he spent 16 years at Muller Martini UK, before a career change that saw him switch from the equipment manufacturing side of the industry to...

Set up a portal to new worlds of opportunity

This March Octink successfully targeted a host of the UK’s biggest-name construction companies with a new web-to-print service.

60 seconds with Colourgraphic Arts

Managing director Vince Scardarella started the firm 34 years ago with his brother. “We started as a repro company and it was natural for us to move into litho and digital printing considering our...

Train to gain: earning from learning

Demographic shifts, such as lengthening lifespans leading to longer working lives and developments in work, including the rise of the robots, all reinforce the trend towards people having several...

Star product: Antalis Cocoon

A recycled grade with near-virgin whiteness.

Clothing copycats exploit DTG trend

Counterfeit, fake, knock-off, copy, call it what you will, it’s a burgeoning trillion-dollar global market that has touched most of us either knowingly or unknowingly at some point in our lives, and...