Disciplines
Whittington Moor upgrades with Polar
Chesterfield-based print firm Whittington Moor has invested in a new Polar 115N Plus guillotine for its finishing division.
Best of British: Masters in media studies
Here at Printweek we had a bit of a debate about what ‘British’ actually means in manufacturing terms. There are quite a few firms with UK-based factories and workforces that develop their own...
20 under £20k
Print and print-related machinery comes in all shapes and sizes and while you might have to fork out millions for a full bells-and-whistles super-duper new press, there are plenty of smaller...
Star product: Vivid Laminating Technologies VeloBlade 64
A flatbed-format device for automated cutting, creasing and perforating in a single pass
targeted at businesses looking to offer cost-effective custom dieless finishing services.
Me & My: DYSS X7-1624
Outsourcing usually works fine until the volume grows and you start to add up the costs. In a world of instant turnaround, it can add time to a job too.
Me & My: Lynx Felix Combo
On the face of it, corrugated boxes and corrugated display units are pretty much the same thing. Both often need printing of some sort, then cutting, creasing, folding, and gluing to assemble them....
Overmatter: Suits you, sir!
Newly-crowned WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has also become an inadvertent champion for the power of custom printing.
Q&A: Andrew Tutt, senior account manager, Aquatint
Andrew is 54 and is married with three boys: Nick, James and Sam. He’s been working in print for 37 years with his first job at a printing and typesetting company based in Clerkenwell Road, London,...
Rising star: Lauren Powell, trainee account executive, Adare SEC
Lauren is 20 and has been working in the printing industry for just over two years. She found her way into print via her love of art, and finds printing processes intriguing as a result.
60 seconds with Clinical Print Finishers
Clinical Print Finishers celebrates its 45th anniversary this month. “Our company began in 1975 and was founded by Alvin Brown after he was made redundant from a local printer.