Design

The copperplate of Megan Rigby's stag design

Engraver's delight as winning design comes to life

An apprentice hand engraver has seen her work come to life at Baddeley Brothers as a die-stamped Christmas card after winning a competition aimed at keeping the craft of engraving alive.

Part of the Freetone colour picker

Pantone alternatives mooted

Alternatives to Pantone are popping up as the fallout from the Adobe-Pantone split also gains wider traction in the design community.

Some surprising returns to October’s ranking of most read stories

While the ongoing battle between Royal Mail and the CWU dominating October’s listicle wasn’t much of a surprise, the presence of an August news article covering the falling out of Adobe and Pantone...

All Pantone libraries bar CMYK Coated/Uncoated and Metallics will be removed from Adobe CC

Pantone hikes Connect pricing

Pantone has more than doubled the price of its Pantone Connect plug-in since the summer.

Dayfold: "The more creative print there is around, the better it is for everyone"

Dayfold pushes print's creativity and ROI

Dayfold has taken matters into its own hands to try to boost know-how about the creative possibilities of print.

The integration ensures uninterrupted file processing and colour conversion

Esko and GMG partner on new connection

Esko and GMG have partnered to deliver a new connection between GMG’s profiling and colour prediction tool, GMG OpenColor, and Esko’s native pre-press editing software, ArtPro+.

Nearly 50 businesses attended the event

Visual Print and Design raises charity money at open evening

Visual Print and Design held its first open evening since the pandemic last week to showcase its expanding range of services and raise money for charity.

As well as the usual mix of news roundups and thought-provoking features, the August & September ‘Taking ownership’ issue looks at two exit strategies that enable business owners to hand the reins to the people they trust most, their staff…

Keeping up the M&A theme, this issue’s briefing section kicks off with a look at the spike in company acquisitions (a dozen are featured in the issue's news digest alone) and asks if turbulent times...

Pressision team on a recent company trip to the James Cropper Mill

60 seconds with Pressision

Pressision began life almost 20 years ago. The firm’s vision and mission was born out of the frustration of a group of graphic designers who “didn’t have a print production house that would...

Colour confusion

Adobe’s decision to drop Pantone colour books has caused concern among users. So what does it mean for printers and what other options are there?