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Only connect: pulling all the pieces together
It is the nature of a management information system that it has to connect with various other systems within a printing business from all sorts of vendors and across disciplines, from pre-press to...

Built to last
In the old days, printing machines were made to last. They were cleaved from solid chunks of metal and essentially built like brick outhouses. Despite technological advances making many of these old...

FPS boss looks to flexible future
A specialist in freelance print workers believes that changes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will result in more flexible working in future.

Drupa shortened to nine days
Drupa has reduced the duration of next year’s show from 11 to nine days and has acknowledged that fewer international visitors are likely to attend due to the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Drupa loses two more press manufacturers
Two more press manufacturers have pulled out of Drupa 2021.

Green light for Level 2 apprenticeship standard
The print trailblazer consortium has gained approval to develop a Level 2 Print Standard apprenticeship after a lengthy four year process.

Messe gives more details on how future expos will run
Messe Düsseldorf has issued further details about how it plans to run ‘Covid-secure’ expos, including one-way systems in the aisles and limiting the number of visitors.

Koenig & Bauer stands firm on Drupa
Koenig & Bauer has publicly backed Drupa 2021, stating that its participation in the expo “is not in question”.

Bombshell for Drupa as Heidelberg pulls out
Drupa 2021 has been dealt a major blow after Heidelberg – still the world’s largest press manufacturer – pulled out of all international expos next year including Drupa.

Fespa cans 2020 event, shifts to spring 2021
UPDATED: Fespa has scrubbed this year’s rescheduled Global Print Expo and relocated and brought forward next year’s event to enable visitors and exhibitors to adjust to the post-Covid expo landscape.