Disciplines

Organisers commend Cologne show as ‘best Fespa ever’
Despite a slow Monday and a potentially disruptive train strike on Wednesday, Fespa, which ran in Cologne from 18 to 22 May, recorded its best show ever, as exhibitors and visitors alike showed...

UK refrains from ostentatious optimism
Despite the sad news regarding the seemingly imminent closure of Artisan Press and the death-knell ringing for Tullis Russell, the industry generally seems to be in a happy place.

Take a trip through print’s illustrious past
Printing offices of the not-so-distant past were alive with the noisy mutterings of temperamental thousand-parted survivors from the golden age of machinery. Today these have been replaced by near...

Have we binned our commitment to recycled paper?
Recycling is something we all do so naturally now that we barely stop to think about it. All of us have at least two bins in our driveways, if not three or four, and we are far more conscious of the...

Star product: LasX LaserSharp B2 Motion
A flexible and productive sheetfed laser cutting system.

Me & my: Kodak Sonora XP
Despite the fact the technology has been around since the mid-1990s, going processless is still, for many printers, a leap of faith. For Harrow-based Imega Print Group it was no different; joint...

Interview: ‘Complicated and difficult is our bread and butter’
In January 2012, Rob Kelly left the cosseted surroundings of St Ives, where he was the group’s marketing director, to go it alone as a marketing consultant. However, just six months later he returned...

Nurture both personal and professional growth
James Heskett, highly respected professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, once memorably claimed that employees and managers alike look forward to performance appraisals in the same manner as...

Coveris boosts global footprint with Elldex acquisition
Plastic packaging giant Coveris has acquired New Zealand-based flexible packaging company Elldex Packaging Solutions, in a deal worth NZ$30m (£14m).

Konica Minolta to make KM-1 announcement at London Digital Printing Forum
Konica Minolta is set to reveal more details about its KM-1 B2 inkjet press at next month’s London Digital Printing Forum, which the company is also sponsoring.