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Milestones in inkjet
Of all the different print technologies currently in use, inkjet is probably the most interesting for its sheer versatility, working across documents and wide-format, labels and packaging and even 3D...
Star product: BlueCrest Epic Direct Mail
An automated, easy-to-use DM inserter that pushes the envelope.
Star product: Komori Impremia NS40
Komori is preparing to launch the Impremia NS40, a B1-format press that uses Landa’s Nanographic printing technology. It joins a growing sector of presses that are all likely to make a splash at Drupa...
Me & my: Vism project management software
For the past year large-format print specialist Service Graphics Swanley has been using a project management system developed by UK start-up Vism to handle the complex tasks of organising delivery and...
Rising star: Lewis Platt Apprentice digital printer, Resource
Lewis is 18 and has already been working in the industry for two years. He initially started working at Leeds-based Resource to fill time between college terms, and was then offered a position as an...
60 seconds with Edward Thompson
Edward Thompson started life way back in 1867, “the result of winning a bet on the horses”, and the firm grew rapidly in the 1960s on the back of the growth of commercial bingo.
Q&A: Douglas Connor, supply chain executive, Paragon Customer Communications
Douglas has been working in print one way or another since leaving school in 1988. He’s also club secretary of Hillsborough Pumas JFC in Sheffield, and manages the U15 side. He’s married with two...
Charlesworth reproduces Insta’s capital hotspots in book form
An enduringly popular festive gift, book sales routinely go through the roof in the run-up to Christmas and publishers do their best to ensure that all tastes are catered for, even those that...
De La Rue appoints interim CFO
De La Rue has appointed an interim finance chief to plug the gap left by Helen Willis, who left the company abruptly just over a fortnight ago.
Overmatter: Bed and board
Cardboard boxes, cardboard displays, cardboard desks and chairs, cardboard coffins… even entire buildings have been constructed from cardboard tubes. As most of us in the industry well know, cardboard...