Overmatter

Anyone who’s visited a high-volume printing superplant will be familiar with the sort of robot that transports huge reels of paper smoothly to the presses, as needed. Clever stuff indeed and a great...

When is an €800,000 press actually a near-€2m press?

A subversive new form of creative print work has generated a significant number of column inches in recent weeks, after copies (well, at least one copy) of David Cameron’s new memoir, For the Record,...

The wonderful thing about Tiggers, as everyone well knows, is that they’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!

If you’re not glued to the telly of a Tuesday evening then why on earth not? You absolutely should be – rooting for one of print’s own, Michelle Evans-Fecci who’s flying the flag for Wales in the...

Overmatter has an expensive tea habit. It must be Yorkshire Gold or nothing.

After many years in the printing and publishing business, Overmatter knows only too well the many and varied perils of the typo, or the item of dummy copy that makes its way all the way to print.

A year from now Drupa 2020 will be in its home stretch and while most manufacturers are keeping tight-lipped about their plans for the Messe Dusseldorf spectacle, excitement is nonetheless quickly...

Think about Johannes Gutenberg and the image that tends to springs to mind is of a bearded old chap in a hat, wearing some typical 15th century garb, perhaps inspecting a sheet from his revolutionary...

Hands up who loves Antiques Roadshow? Overmatter’s answers is “Meeeeeeeeee!”, particularly when there’s a print element to the valuable finds.