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Business inspection: Thriving and surviving
Planning the launch of a new business is challenging in any market at any time, but doing it while also coping with serious mental and physical illness takes it to another level.
Killer App: No room for Scilly errors
As the year draws to a close, most people will just now start thinking about replacing the calendar that by this point hangs on the wall from a precarious single page. Robert Sanger, however, has been...
60 seconds with Kingfisher Labels
The company was established in 1996 by managing director Martin Jackson with a three-colour Mark Andy label press.
Fespa to share ‘New Perspectives’ at 2023 event
Fespa Global Print Expo 2023 and European Sign Expo 2023 will return in May, with the strapline ‘New Perspectives’.
Q&A: Giles Foden, managing director, Quantum Print & Packaging
Giles has been in the print and packaging game since 1989. He’s 55, married and has a daughter. His hobbies include tennis (Quantum is a sponsor of the ITF World Tennis Tour W100 tournament in...
60 seconds with Cotswold Letterpress
After a career in print sales Pete Roberts started his own business hand-printing letterpress stationery, and slowly grew to become the town printer ending up with a five-colour litho press and all...
Rising star: Brandon Smith, HP digital printer and ABG finisher, Harkwell
The electrical trade’s loss is print’s gain. Brandon is 20 and has been working at Poole-based Harkwell, which specialises in labels and pouches for a wide range of customers, since the spring of...
Nailing down the kilowatts
Wrap up and prepare, there’s no doubt we’re all facing a hard winter, with industry hit as much as households by the rocketing price of gas, electricity and vehicle fuels. While the government...
Star product: Uchida AeroDieCut
A B3 die-cutter that mixes the benefits of conventional technology with modern automation and step-and-repeat functionality, making it a versatile addition to any small printer’s kit line-up.
Star product: Scodix Ultra 6000
This B1 digital packaging embellishment press can deliver a wide range of finishing effects and will fly through in minutes makereadies for complex jobs that would take hours on analogue alternatives.