Printers

Overmatter: star turn

What better way to celebrate the installation of the UK’s first Fujifilm Jet Press 720S B2 sheetfed inkjet press than by having a legendary rugby player pop in to cut the ribbon?

Q&A: Ben Manning, production director, Rapidity

Ben is slightly older than London-based Rapidity, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month. Unsurprisingly given his family connections to the industry, he has also been “working in the print”...

Killer App: Creative approach makes for a very Good print job

Creative printer John Good, which mainly supplies programmes and brochures to theatres, was commissioned around a year ago by design agency c-ll-ct-v-ly to print private equity bank Berenberg’s...

Die-hard litho firm learns to love digital

Keith Whisson was not always a fan of digital print: “There are too many fools buying digital presses who don’t know much about print. It has brought the value of print, which used to be a prosperous...

Sleeve specialists get into a groove

Last year was a watershed moment for sales of vinyl records in the UK. Just over 2 million LPs were purchased in 2015 – a 64% increase on the previous year and a 21-year sales high, according to...

Opal produces a jewel of a job for McCullin’s photos

Bath-based Opal Print would have been as surprised as anyone to find out it had been selected to print acclaimed war photographer Don McCullin’s new retrospective Irreconcilable Truths.

60 seconds with Amberley Labels

Amberley Labels was established in the early 1980s and when the owner retired in the mid-90s there was an MBO. This resulted in a new phase of innovation, and the firm’s investment in high-tech...

Q&A: Geoff Neal, chairman, Geoff Neal Group

Geoff has spent 52 years in print and set up the eponymous London business that still bears his name in 1976.

Killer app: SMP helps reward Leicester’s steadfast supporters

They pulled off the underdog sporting triumph of the century. Leicester City FC, 5,000-1 outsiders to win football’s Premier League at the start of the season, lifted the trophy at the end of their...

UK businesses are under attack from high-tech scammers

When it targeted Speedscreen, Prime Group and Rapidity within the past few months, it was something none of the companies had heard of, yet the scam dubbed ‘CEO fraud’ now tops the list of fraud...