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Star product: Hybrid Software Cloudflow

Workflow automation for packaging and labelling businesses.

Varijet 106: production powerhouse

Star product: Koenig & Bauer Durst VariJet 106

This press partnership sets out to offer the best of digital and offset for packaging printers.

Serif Affinity Publisher: competes with InDesign

Design for print: stalled potential?

Today’s design and layout programs are really good. So good in fact, that there’s not a lot that could make them better. And that is a problem for their developers and also for their users.

A passion for training: “Our factory is made up of 50% skilled former apprentices”

Best of British: Thinking inside the box

Avid readers of Printweek’s news pages may recall that in September 2018 the German finishing systems manufacturer Kolbus bought a British boxmaking machinery manufacturer called British Converting...

Best of British: A focus on building business intelligence

Lancashire’s finest and, as far as we know, only print MIS developer, Tharstern, has been around since the 1980s and continues to adapt and innovate as print changes into ever more automated...

Star product: Mutoh XpertJet Pro series

Manufacturer’s upgraded inkjets offer both speed and quality boosts.

Poland: “It’s been a blinding machine and a good addition to our range of equipment"

Me & My: Vivid Laminating Technologies VeloBlade Volta 69+

Brighton-based One Digital had always outsourced die-cutting jobs. It had a sizeable array of equipment in its factory that allowed it to take on all manner of digital and litho work, including a...

Overmatter: Check your cheques

Cheques are just so last century, aren’t they? But not for Overmatter, oh no. So it was exciting to see a cheque doing a very 21st-century social media thing – going viral – thanks to a data file...

Martin: loves a machine with a ladder

Q&A: Neil Martin, print post and paper procurement manager, Tesco 

Neil is “a young at heart, sixty-something singleton” who started his print career in 1977. He enjoys eating out, going on the occasional holiday, and spending his time with his daughter.

"I’m a big fan of looking at improvements within my work"

Rising star: Josh Phizacklea Procurement assistant, James Cropper

Josh is 26 and has been working in the industry – in his case papermaking at Cumbrian manufacturer James Cropper – since 2014.

The UK’s most northerly printing company? 

60 seconds with Maskot

Is this the UK’s most northerly printing company? Established in 2015, Maskot started as a small graphic design company providing brand identity and development services.

Widely spaced work stations enabled the firm to continue through lockdowns

Business inspection: Incremental automation sends revenue rocketing

In 2008, Matt Dahan was living and working as a freelance photographer in Australia when he had something of a lightbulb moment.

The consequences of failure

Businesses are aware of what follows from any failure to adhere to, or fulfil, a contract. They know they’ll suffer non-payment, loss of reputation and risk legal action.

Top health & safety myths

Health and safety law is central to regulatory intervention. But this wasn’t always so, and as a result, myths have become entrenched in operations leaving some unable to tell fact from fiction. But...

An international affair

Margins in print can be slender. Looking at the most recent Printweek Top 500 report, compiled in association with business advisory and accountancy firm Grant Thornton, the average industry operating...