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Overmatter: mud runners
What do you get when you mix Antalis pink with brown? Lots of brown. Mud, in fact.
60 seconds with John Good
John Good was founded in the mid 1980s primarily to serve the UK arts industry. The firm now supplies programmes and brochures to over 100 theatres and concert halls throughout the UK and Ireland.
Capitalising on the trend for printed textiles
James Birch can sense when he’s on to a good thing and this time he can feel it too: fabrics. Last week saw the official launch of a textile-printing arm of the company he directs, Colourgrpahics....
Put the love back into commercial relationships
In the increasingly digitised age in which we live, direct interaction between businesses and their customers has been reduced to a bare minimum, due to the greater levels of automation offered by...
Q&A: Terry Shortland New business sales, Moore division DG3
Terry has been in print for 15 years now, although he’s been a salesman since the day after he left school. “I just dipped my toe into a few other marketplaces before settling into ink.” He’s getting...
Big H fires up fresh strategy for Drupa
With a reported share of just over 40% of the sheetfed market - significantly more than nearest challengers KBA and Komori combined – Heidelberg can be forgiven for primarily focusing on its core...
Putting old kit to new uses keeps artisan skills alive
Nick Loaring, owner of The Print Project in Shipley, is an honest man. When asked about letterpress and the workshops he runs for the public, teaching the print laity how to wield type, he responds...
Star product: Kodak Prosper 1000 Plus
This is a second-generation model of Kodak’s original monochrome Prosper 1000 inkjet web press, and claims to be the fastest in its class.
Me & my: OneFlow Systems’ OneFlow
Guernsey-based IPS Ultraprint offers a mix of international print-on-demand services together with commercial print for mainly UK customers, plus a range of items for local island customers such as...
Exhibitors praise organisers and visitor quality for 2016
While it might have only been mentioned in hushed tones in Amsterdam, many exhibitors were a little nervous about the ‘Drupa effect’ on this year’s Fespa Digital, falling as it does in the same year...