Disciplines

Star product: Van Son VS3 offset ink
An easy to use general-purpose sheetfed offset range.

Me & my: Baumer HHS Xmelt
Finding a better way to apply peel-off adhesive to envelopes may seem like a minor detail when you’re a £42.5m business like Anton Group, but it all goes towards improving quality and client...

Business inspection: Find your niche in the printiverse
Mimtec used to do virtually everything but print. The thermoforming specialist, based in Fareham, near Portsmouth, is just that, a specialist in the hyper-niche market of vacuum and pressure forming,...

Q&A: Tim Hill Managing director, Speedscreen
Tim has been in the print game since leaving school at 16, and his first job was as a camera operator at a screen printer in Rochester.

Taking posters to new heights
There’s little doubt that when it comes to outdoor advertising, digital technology has really upped the ante in terms of driving engagement. From a poster that deliberately makes people yawn through...

Freed-up funds ensure wheels keep turning
"We would never have considered it 10 years ago, or even five years ago.” This single sentence from Linney Group managing director Miles Linney sums up just how much things have changed in the...

60 seconds with Fine Print
Fine Print started life in Oxford in 1991. The firm, run by managing director Dan Bakewell since an MBO in 2003, still holds to the guiding principles of the founder – hire the best people and give...

‘Everyone wants a solution – bigger, faster or better’
Last week was the main judging day for the PrintWeek Awards was held, so we took the opportunity to grill more than 20 leading buyers on subjects ranging from what challenges they face, what drives...

Buyers recognise that print works
In a break from the norm, this issue’s interview features not one, but 21 willing victims – namely the print buyers from the main judging day of the PrintWeek Awards.

Can a short-term outlet bring long-term benefits?
It was a Chip Shop, but it didn’t sell chips. Rather, it sold print. More specifically, it sold screen-printed chipboard.