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Happy birthday to PrintWeek!

This issue of PrintWeek celebrates our diamond anniversary, marking 60 years since this magazine’s illustrious forbear, The Litho Printer, was launched as “a companion to print in Britain”.

Sparkling moments in print’s history

The UK printing industry’s favourite magazine launched in 1958 as The Litho Printer and, via a number of different guises, has for the past six decades covered every technological development; every...

The industry needs a better focus on gender imbalance

Writing the words ‘women in print’ feels clunky, uncomfortable and outdated. Surely in 2018, it shouldn’t even be a term or subcategory discussed in the media? However, as much as we dislike it, it...

Star product: Fujifilm Superia LH-S2

Fujifilm has developed this low-chemistry offset plate as a halfway step between processed and processless technologies.

Me & my: Mitsubishi EDiA EX electric folklift

Greens the Signmakers is a long-established digital printer and signmaker based in Kingston upon Hull. It was founded in 1963 by Reg Green, originally a traditional signwriter who hand-painted...

Are you feeling the ripples of the ‘Blue Planet effect’?

It started in December last year with David Attenborough.

‘I’m really excited about where the market is going’

Danny Clarke, managing director of Howard Hunt Group’s eponymous manufacturing business and Graft print management, is a passionate man.

YM ready with new paper wrap solution

YM Group is poised to roll out a new paper wrapping option for catalogue and magazine customers who want to move away from polywrap.

Anapurna hybrid replaces three machines at PrintBig

PrintBig has installed a new Agfa Anapurna H3200i LED flatbed to do the work of three machines in a bid to boost productivity by up to 40%.

Smurfit Kappa joins Two Sides

Smurfit Kappa has joined the paper advocacy group Two Sides.