Technical Feature

Metallic Elephant is an Essex- based company that says it’s the only UK based manufacturer of new-design hot foiling and embossing machines.

Ever since digital workflows started to hit the industry in the early 1990s, the default has been to work in CMYK colours for linework at the design stage, and to convert digital photographs and scans...

Letterpress is no longer a mainstream commercial process, but it’s still appreciated for the look and feel of its results, appealing to traditionalists, craftspeople and enthusiasts.

Small flatbed inkjet printers first hit the market 12 years ago. They are compact, affordable and versatile devices that could help virtually any size of commercial printer to diversify, enter new...

Nostalgia can be big business, especially at this time of year. Just look at the success of the Corgi Model Club.

The web-to-print concept has evolved steadily over the past 20 years or so, and in the process has spawned a new drop-shipping business model.

For almost 40 years Vivid Laminating Technologies has been serving the print finishing sector, moving with the times as lamination moved from a trade speciality to in-house, with smaller formats...

Some people were predicting this was going to be an AI Drupa, or an automation Drupa. But most visibly, it was certainly a robot Drupa.

From the start, manufacturers of B2 digital presses made their compatibility with existing B2 offset finishing installations a big part of their pitch, and this works fine when replacing offset jobs...

Is B2 digital killing B2 offset press sales? When the first B2 format digital presses were announced at Drupa 2008 and 2012, their makers predicted that they would be bought to complement B2 offset...