Disciplines

Smart posters reached for the sky but never took off

The concept of an interactive poster is simple; getting the consumer to engage with the content to establish or reinforce a relationship between brand and user.

Star product: Domino K630i

A compact press for high-volume mono book production.

Me & my: Microsoft Dynamics NAV PrintVis

Constantly dipping in and out of an MIS and numerous other disparate workflows and software platforms can prove fiddly and inefficient.

Overmatter: trolling the trolls

Well-known Arsenal fan Piers Morgan, the man so many people seem to love to hate (Overmatter cannot imagine why) seems to have met his match in the face of wildly popular Harry Potter author JK...

60 seconds with Cumbria Mailing Services

CMS started in 1996 when a few rugby club friends started discussing a suggestion by current chairman, Tim Tucker, “over a round of bitter lemons”.

Q&A: Philip Dodd Managing director, Healeys

Philip is the founder and managing director of Healeys in Ipswich. He’s been in print for 45 of his 66 years, has three grown-up children and manages to find time for fitness training (including...

Fishing a fresh opportunity from stormy waters

There was nothing pretty about the finish when floods all but annihilated Celloglas’ Leeds premises and every scrap of machinery in it. A lesser business might have succumbed, but multi-site Celloglas...

A tale of innovation over two centuries

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Koenig & Bauer, which was the first manufacturer in the world to make a motorised cylinder printing press and is the oldest press maker still in existence.

Killer app: Wyndeham scores 10 for folded underwear job

Luxury quarterly 10 Magazine was seeking innovation for its Victoria’s Secret issue, which hit the newsstands earlier this month. In stepped Cornwall-based Wyndeham Roche, with whom it had worked...

Which UV drying tech is winning the battle for the sheetfed litho market?

Over the past few years UV curing technology has become a major component in the sheetfed litho sector.