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Pickersgill: Remember to say thank you

New year predictions: Koli Pickersgill, Immediate Media

Immediate’s production and repro director believes that printers should be evangelical about the power of print.

Levy: Be true to yourself and your values

New year predictions: Diana Levy, Royal Horticultural Society

RHS print and production services manager Levy believes that printers and buyers should stop viewing each other with suspicion if they really want to succeed.

Murray: “The colour is more vivid and there is greater fine detail”

Me & my: Cron TP3632G+

Switching to processless plates has not only saved time and money for Isle of Wight printer Crossprint, but it keeps the pre-press operators happier too. They don’t have to wash the gunk out of...

The SC-F6300 has a maximum speed of 63sqm/hr

Star product: Epson SureColor SC-F6300

Versatile printer that can produce soft signage as well as promotional goods and short runs and samples of garments.

The printer unit of DE2, built from Babbage's designs

How Charles Babbage invented computer printing

Sitting on an upper floor of the Science Museum in London are hulking metal examples of a Victorian mechanical computer age that never actually happened. These are the invention of Charles Babbage...

Lincs lives and village vistas celebrated in charity calendar

An enduringly popular stocking filler, calendars continue to fly off the shelves every festive season and many are produced to raise money for good causes.

Silverman: "one of the last great characters in the envelope industry"

Tributes paid to George Silverman

Retired industry stalwart and ‘envelope guru’ George Silverman has died aged 72.

Paper tigers

These are changing times for pulp and paper makers. While mill and machinery closures across Europe and the UK have resulted in shrinking capacity, particularly for graphical paper grades, this has...

Stokes and some of the Bristol Labels team

Keep it in the family

In 2004 the sales manager of the then named Bristol-based Baronial Labels, Paul Stokes, undertook a management buyout of the business along with his co-workers.

Overmatter: Measurement misadventures

When is an €800,000 press actually a near-€2m press?