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St Austell Printing Company installs Technotrans reverse osmosis system
Cornwall-based commercial printer St Austell Printing Company has invested in a Technotrans alpha r.10 water treatment unit to boost the productivity of its presses.

Monotype launches cloud-based type service
Monotype has launched a cloud-based type service, Membership by Monotype, that grants access to more than 14,000 typefaces from the Monotype, Linotype, Ascender, Bitstream and ITC libraries.

Zünd launches re-engineered G3 cutter
Zünd has re-engineered its G3 digital flatbed cutter, doubling the beam height on certain models to enable them to handle thicker substrates.
Print credit where it's due
Jo Francis has a furrowed brow following a potential power of print oversight.

Crash positions: lifelines for when IT all goes wrong
The first sign of trouble is likely to be a subtle one. Perhaps a file is taking longer to load than usual, or maybe there is a strange whirring sound emanating from the server. Seemingly minor...

Editor’s comment: In training to be fit for the future
Over the past few months, there seems to have been a growing interest in print apprenticeships and training.

Timsons shape-shifts for digital future
Bespoke UK litho book press manufacturing came to an end this month when Kettering-based Timsons ceased production of its conventional book presses to concentrate on the manufacture of digital presses...

Star product: Epson SureColor SC-F7100
Purpose-built textiles machine with the latest technology.

Me & my: Matrix Pneumatic MX-530P
The weekly food shop. Not most people’s favourite activity. And yet imagine how much more tiresome this weekly ritual of jostling peevishly with other people’s trolleys and blinkering five-year-olds...

60 seconds with Point Control
Lancashire-based perfect and PUR binding specialist Point Control began life 18 years ago when founding directors Richard Berwick, Andrew Cavannagh and Shaun Gill decided they wanted to work for...