Disciplines

Tangent profits slide 80% in 'challenging year'
An "acute" decline in business card sales contributed to an 80.4% drop in pre-tax profits at Tangent Communications in the 12 months to 28 February 2015.

Government targets late payments with Small Business Conciliation Service
The government will create a new body to help settle disputes between small and large businesses, especially over late payment, as part of a new Enterprise Bill that will also target a further £10bn...
Brains to go with the brawn
Jo Francis has something of a brainwave at Fespa 2015.

Digital manufacturers seek to cash in on pumped-up inkjet
Very high speed inkjets look set to shake up the large-format printing market in the coming year. The mighty HP will bring its PageWide technology to market, battling existing Memjet technology that...

Proper profiles can unlock a colour-corrected sector
The fundamental principles of colour management are pretty straightforward: we use profiles to record the characteristics of printing devices and of the substrates and adapt the way we lay the ink...

The shape of print to come: thermoforming is a hot topic
UV inkjet is undergoing a boom in applications, fuelled in part by advances in materials science that have enabled the development of speciality inks that can meet a variety of unique needs.

Welcome to the 2015 Wide-format report
Writing this on the eve of what looks set to be a record-breaking Fespa, it’s easy to see why there remains such a buzz around the wide-format sector.

Sci-fi finishing kit delivers productivity gains for some
Lasers have long been a staple of science fiction. Whether it’s Darth Vader ordering the destruction of the planet Alderaan from his giant orbitting Death Star or James Bond and the US ‘Space Marines’...

Seven smart investments that won’t break the bank
We’ve put aside the big ticket items and six- or seven-figure budgets in order to take a look at some wide-format ‘bargain buys’ – useful pieces of equipment or software that cost less than £10,000.

Lessons from ink’s past teach the best of both worlds
It was Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana who came up with the aphorism “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” and it’s certainly true that the past has much to...