Technical Feature

With digital print having become a fixture in the industry (it hit its silver jubilee last year) you might think that as the market became established a strong secondhand market would have emerged...

Edale is one of the last companies to design and build conventional printing presses on British soil. It enjoys a healthy international market for its modern flexo presses for label, flexible...

Printers are facing a perfect storm with rising job numbers, shrinking average order values, a less clear-cut distinction between the most appropriate production methods and the ever-present spectre...

Heanor in Derbyshire is home to Autobond, a 40-year-old family-run company that specialises in high-speed sheet laminators with heavy-duty construction and the latest electronics.

As an industry that uses plastics on a daily basis, what do UK print and packaging businesses really feel when they hear the material being berated?

One of the pioneers of desktop publishing software, Serif Software is a 31-year-old all-British company that four years ago reinvented its product range to suit the new era of affordable, downloadable...

When wide-format inkjet print technology started to become widely commercially available in the 1990s, many in the industry believed it signalled the death knell for screen printing.

It started with single-use carrier bags, then progressed to plastic straws, water bottles and food packaging.

Back in 2015, PrintWeek posed the question: Has processless become the new normal? The answer at the time was not quite, but it’s getting there.

Everybody makes mistakes, but for a market where margins are already supermodel slim, even the smallest of errors can have a big impact on profitability.