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Slim down RIPs to beef up efficiency

How times have changed. Just over a decade or so ago, most commercial printers relied on just a CTP for imaging and needed only one RIP, or a workflow with an embedded RIP, to drive it.

Star product: Komfi Spotmatic 54

Komfi's low-cost B2-plus digital spot varnisher.

Me & my: Presstek 52DI-AC

When a print business only four years into its life has 20 staff, a rapidly growing turnover and a raft of machinery investments under its belt, you know it’s doing well.

Singh returns to print with buyout deal

Former Communisis director Gurdev Singh is back in the industry after acquiring a Yorkshire-based printing business.

Ink and speed issues delay Landa-enabled Manroland Sheetfed press

The cost of Landa NanoInk is one of two factors currently preventing Manroland Sheetfed from integrating the technology into a hybrid press, according to chief executive Raphael Penuela.

Q&A: Jonathan Gulbe-Mitchell Transport and finishing manager, Print 4

Back in May, Print 4’s Adam Kill referred to a colleague with highly-amusing eyebrows. We had to follow that up, and here he is. We feel Jonathan may well be continuing the mutual mickey-taking in...

60 seconds with The Software Bureau

The Software Bureau was a management buy-out from Stralfors’ acquisition of DPS Direct Mail in 2005. Cygnus, its main data cleaning/preparation product, was initially developed for internal use, but...

Me & my: RTI Vortex 4200

Packaging is tipped as one of the next big markets to be addressed by digital printing. So a small packaging firm becoming one of the first in the UK to install a new machine based on new technology...

Is clickable print finally set to take off?

This year, the number of smartphone users around the world is expected to hit 1.75bn. Currently, 88% of smartphone users use their phones to research an online purchase. And mobile use now accounts...

Star product: Esko Suite 14

The latest version of Esko’s do-it-all design/production package.