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60-seconds with: Awesome Merchandise
Awesome Merchandise started back in 2005 in founder Luke Hodson’s bedroom. “We were 19 and hoped to earn some pocket money by making pin badges. Armed with £300 and one of those Lexmark printers you...

Star product: Copytrax PrintMaster Cezanne
A decorative and industrial printer in a choice of formats.

One-shot wonders zero in on bullseye
Will digital printing technology ever truly dominate the industry? It’s a question never far from the minds of printers and the titles of exhibition seminar schedules. But it is one which is generally...

The decline of printed inserts doesn’t tell the whole story
A new report published by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) has measured, it claims for the first time, the combined number of printed media and third-party inserts placed in the UK.

‘I’d rather have been flying jet bombers’
Gary Arber isn’t what you would probably describe as our typical interview subject. He hasn’t bought a new press since the 1950s and you would probably struggle to get him to admit he’s passionate...

Me & my: Schneider Senator 115H ‘CT’
For many 80s and 90s kids, the word ‘sticker’ is a very nostalgic one indeed. In a simpler pre-iPad age, stickers, whether football profiles heatedly traded in the playground, or those collected at...

Step forward the Twitterati
To tweet or not to tweet? A question many in print are still no doubt grappling with. The most pressing question they’ll then face once they decide to take the plunge is who on earth to follow? Fellow...

Ipex preview: presses, ancillaries & consumables stand-by-stand
Your guide to the press, ancillaries and consumables exhibitors at this year's show.

Make sure you spell out your IP protection
Intellectual property, or IP, may not be your most pressing concern right now. But if you are not careful it could soon become so.

Historic Arber presses saved from the scrapyard
Five letterpress machines from the historic ‘print time capsule’ WF Arber & Co have been saved after a PrintWeek reader saw the article earlier this month.