Disciplines

The company originally started in 1878 as Reeds, a small family firm of printers and stationers based in Penrith in Cumbria. It remained in the same hands until 2006 when the now managing director...

As this issue’s ‘From the Archive’ proves, the counterfeiting of banknotes has been a perennial problem for the printing industry.

Watershed Packaging has been producing shrink sleeves for a number of years, with high-profile clients including Smirnoff and Deo-Go. But it has never delved into the beer market until now.

At last week’s Power of Print seminar at Stationers’ Hall in London, unsurprisingly the effectiveness of print was the main topic of the conversation.

The numerous benefits of print as an effective marketing tool hardly need repeating, yet a UK advertising market report published last month revealed that print advertising is continuing its slow...

It was one step too far from a government that is becoming too well-versed in u-turns. Newly-appointed home secretary Amber Rudd, in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference at the start of...

Following a torrid period when his beloved Printed.com could have ended up in the arms of another, founder Nick Green looks back on an “exceptionally hard” year, while looking forward to bigger and...

The onward march of social media continues. Today, roughly one in every three people in the world is an active social media user. But of course, that does not paint a true picture for the more...

Historically manufacturers used to unveil new ink ranges every three to five years. Often these inks were launched to great fanfare and would accompany a new piece of hardware. However, in recent...

UV-LED is becoming an increasingly common option for offset, as this press attests.