Disciplines

Northern Flags runs up the colours for naval gazers

Northern Flags has helped naval supply store Mainbrace Marine provide the Royal Navy’s flags on a number of occasions. This time, however, the recurring client tested just how tight a ship the...

Overmatter: Vote dummy!

The recent local elections have, of course, resulted in some new printing bloopers hitting the headlines.

60 seconds with XIC

XIC started life in 1986, when founder Bill Fawcett bought out the franchised print business he was running. At that point, it was known as Xpress Print.

Star product: Heidelberg Speedmaster CS 92

A compact, high-efficiency SRA1 press.

What threat does IoT pose to printers’ kit?

Fridge freezers that auto-order milk, kettles that boil water using an app and thermostats that you control from your car... the internet and things that run on it have come a long way since Sir Tim...

Me & my: Dyss X9 3230C

It’s been 21 years since the brothers Ash and Krit Patel set up their own printing company in Leicester.

'It’s a transformation not a turnaround’

At PrintWeekLive! in March, we were fortunate enough to welcome the newly appointed Williams Lea Tag (WLT) global chief executive David Kassler as our opening keynote speaker.

‘A new era for printing on cardboard’

Cast your mind back to Drupa 2016, and the plethora of inkjet systems for printing onto corrugated board that were either on show, or being talked about as future products.

That’s a relief: make the most of your allowances

It’s well known that tax law is unclear, if not impenetrable. What is less well known is how much it’s grown in recent years. In 2009, UK tax law stood at 11,520 pages . But by 2016, it comprised...

Learning how to swim with the big fish

Mercian Labels is moving upwards and outwards. Two months ago the business upped sticks at its Derby operation and shifted it 40 miles to its headquarters in Burntwood, Staffordshire. This was a bold...