Disciplines

Lloyds Banking Group reviews print supply
Lloyds Banking Group is reviewing its marketing print services, which represents around 100 million printed items a year.

Sign & Digital confident of 10% visitor increase in 2016
Wide-format show Sign & Digital UK is forecasting a third consecutive year of growth next year, with organisers expecting to see a 10% jump in exhibitor and visitor numbers.

PressOn wraps world’s fastest racing car
Wide-format specialist PressOn has wrapped the body and tail fin of the world land speed record attempt car Bloodhound SSC.

Q&A: Chris Pinborough, manufacturing manager, Ancient House Press
Chris is the first recipient of the Kathy Woodward Award for Learning. He’s 32 and has been in print for 14 years, progressing from a time-served printing apprentice to his current role.

Killer app: A spoonful of Frenzy puts Poppins in the spotlight
The Bristol Hippodrome enlisted the help of Bath-based signwriter and wide-format printer Frenzy Designs to print a range of banners and signs to signal the arrival of the new Mary Poppins stage...

Bag charge set to benefit UK industry
The effects of a new law that requires retailers with more than 250 staff to charge shoppers 5p for each ‘single-use’ plastic carrier bag will take time to filter through, but could benefit UK...

Label show expands to embrace broader packaging market
It may be Labelexpo by name, but it is no longer just labels by nature. As Lisa Milburn, the managing director of the global series of Labelexpo events notes: “This is not a pure label show anymore,...

More power to the comeback kids
Here in the UK we’ve got a proud history of sporting comebacks: Liverpool in the 2005 Champions League final against AC Milan, England against Australia in the 1981 Headingley Ashes Test or Red Rum in...

60 seconds with Premier Design & Print
Founded at the turn of the millennium, Premier Design & Print was formed by the creative partnership of Simon Hughes and Laura Hughes, now very capably assisted by their design and production team.

Has processless become the new normal?
When processless plate technology was originally introduced in the 2000s it was met with a healthy dose of scepticism from many people in the printing industry.