Features

Saving energy can result in big benefits

Five ways to reduce energy bills now

It is no secret that energy bills are skyrocketing. Ofgem’s household combined gas and electricity cap, tied to wholesale prices, has risen by 80% to £3,549/year in Q4 2022. And there are no such caps...

Radford: “We’ve seen a big increase in production since we installed it”

Me & my: Komori GL429

When Devon-based commercial printer Hedgerow Print decided to consolidate its warehouse footprint on an industrial estate in Crediton and move from two smaller units into a larger 930sqm premises in...

Beese: Latest purchase is the bee’s knees

Me & my: Titanium 2516

Mike Beese is constantly on the lookout for new opportunities. The managing director of Pontypridd-based DecTek thinks that for companies to survive and indeed thrive in the cutthroat world of...

A compact four-colour SRA3-format double-sided digital toner press

Star product: Canon imagePress V1000

A do-it-all ‘Swiss Army knife’ toner press with Canon’s next-generation technology.

Durst P5 500: targeted "wherever fast, industrial-scale production is required"

Star product: Durst P5 500

A high-throughput and versatile roll-to-roll inkjet.

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?

Best of British: Developer with big impact

Tucked away behind an imposing old cotton mill outside Marple in Cheshire, a modern factory unit houses the world’s largest independent developer of packaging software.

Rising star: Daniel Hutt Trainee field service engineer, InkTec

Daniel is 25 and has been working in the printing industry for five years. He joined the Witney-based supplier of large-format printers, inks and media last year.

Q&A: Paul Hewitt, owner, Generation Press 

Paul is a fourth-generation printer and left School at 15 to take on printing apprenticeship, “my teachers thought that would be better for them!” He’s married with two teenage daughters who “may or...

Rising star Matthew Kenyon, number 2 printer, MM Packaging

Matthew is 21 and has been working in the printing industry since January 2020. He was a finalist and highly commended in the Trainee of the Year category at the Printweek Awards earlier this year

400 copies of each book were printed

Killer App: Swallowtail migrates art book job to litho

High-quality, large-format art books are stock-in-trade for publisher Mascot Media – so when it recently helped a printmaker into a short-format digitally printed edition, Mascot co-owners/directors...

Small can be beautiful

SME leaders share powerful insights into how their operations outshine larger rivals

Taking a partnership approach to safety

Employers need to introduce their workforce to the idea that health and safety rules are for the benefit of all if they’re to become part of a company’s culture

Fanning the flames of fiduciary failings

Two experts highlight the importance of company directors seeking good legal advice to be fully aware of their duties and obligations

Business Inspection: Ground-breaking robotics

GroundWow’s innovative world-first ground-printing technology proves a hit