Disciplines

Great fakes

Fakes, forgeries and fabrications give printers a bad name and the fear of forgery was one of the reasons behind the 1637 Star Chamber Decree designed to prevent “abuses in printing seditious,...

Paper tigers

These are changing times for pulp and paper makers. While mill and machinery closures across Europe and the UK have resulted in shrinking capacity, particularly for graphical paper grades, this has...

Stokes and some of the Bristol Labels team

Keep it in the family

In 2004 the sales manager of the then named Bristol-based Baronial Labels, Paul Stokes, undertook a management buyout of the business along with his co-workers.

Maskell: no more drainpipe trousers

Q&A: Derek Maskell, sales consultant, Interket

Derek is bowing out and retires this month after more than 50 years in the industry. He’s 73 and has been in print-related employment since 1966. He’s married to Donna with two children and three...

WIndles: the ‘spiritual home’ of cold foil

60 seconds with Windles Group

Bruce Podmore, Windles founder and managing director, started out printing in a shed in Aylesbury. Originally printing on a two-unit machine, his business grew quickly and in 1984 he joined forces...

Salisbury: Coventry City, Gavin & Stacey and Twitter fan

Rising star: Luke Salisbury, account manager, Emmerson Press

Luke is 21 and joined Kenilworth-based Emmerson Press just over four years ago as an apprentice.

Sullivan: "It does what it says on the box"

Me & my: Ricoh Pro C9210

At the beginning of this year Positive in Mitcham, south-west London, invested around £200,000 in three new major pieces of equipment.

Print’s major trends of 2019 show no signs of abating

It has been a lively – some would say tumultuous – year for print. Brexit aside, the sector saw a number of major trends in 2019, but perhaps most notably M&A activity, business failures, and...

Felton: “We’ve had such demand that we’ve had to add two more halls"

Fespa bullish on Madrid 2020 success

The biggest event on the wide-format print calendar will return in March, away from its usual May date as is custom on a Drupa year.

The new ink pumping system cost £52,000 to fit

Hickling & Squires slashes plastic waste by 80%

B2 commercial litho printer Hickling & Squires has installed a new pump-to-press ink system that will significantly cut single-use plastic waste and ink usage at its Nottinghamshire plant.