Disciplines

The company’s huge HQ and manufacturing site in Northern Ireland

Best of British: Purveyors of fantastic plastics

Brett Martin is a long-established specialist in plastics that are used around the world in a wide range of applications. Its sheet plastics division makes materials such as foamboard, PET and...

A spectrophotometer is needed to measure colour charts and make profiles

Taming colour’s Wild West

Most wide-format printers are capable of producing a very wide colour gamut so that it’s relatively easy to print a pleasing image with vibrant colours that appear to be just what the client ordered....

Star product: IGS digital production line

This bundle offers a cost-effective way of producing short runs.

Watts (left) and production director Karl Jackson with the newest Edales

Me & my: Edale FL3

In 1996, Martin Jackson purchased a Mark Andy three-colour flexo press for his fledgling Bristol-based self-adhesive labels business Kingfisher Labels. Fast forward 24 years and today the business...

Rising star: Kira Latham, account manager, Route 1 Print

Kira was headed for the heat of the kitchen but ended up in a hot seat in print instead. She’s 22 and joined Rotherham-based Route 1 just over four years ago.

60 seconds with Adverset

Adverset began life in 1989 as a design and advertising studio and was one of the first firms in the UK to embrace Apple. “Our first Mac was the original Mac Plus. At the time monitors only had black...

In sickness & in health

We as humans are prone to disease, illness and injury but thankfully we tend to recover. However, in the intervening time we leave others to pick up the pieces causing inconvenience for friends and...

Keeping it in the family

They say that you can choose your friends but not your family. While that is true, there is no pre-ordained requirement to run a business with your family, and there might well be good reasons not to...

Copyright or wrong?

Ideas are the stuff of life for any business worth its salt. But of all the legal means of protecting ideas – trademark, patent and copyright – it’s the last which is so easy to breach, either...

It's crystal ball time again...

So begins a new decade of opportunity for print

As the decade drew to a close, Printweek took the opportunity to ask some of the wise men and women of print what were their highs, lows and key learnings of the past 10 years.