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Star product: Vivid Laminating Technologies VeloBlade 64

A flatbed-format device for automated cutting, creasing and perforating in a single pass
targeted at businesses looking to offer cost-effective custom dieless finishing services.

Business edge: Page with his DYSS X7-1624 cutter

Me & My: DYSS X7-1624

Outsourcing usually works fine until the volume grows and you start to add up the costs. In a world of instant turnaround, it can add time to a job too.

Sticking power: David Lugmayer with POS-Pack’s Combo

Me & My: Lynx Felix Combo

On the face of it, corrugated boxes and corrugated display units are pretty much the same thing. Both often need printing of some sort, then cutting, creasing, folding, and gluing to assemble them....

Tutt: Susanna Reid fan

Q&A: Andrew Tutt, senior account manager, Aquatint

Andrew is 54 and is married with three boys: Nick, James and Sam. He’s been working in print for 37 years with his first job at a printing and typesetting company based in Clerkenwell Road, London,...

Powell: kindness is key

Rising star: Lauren Powell, trainee account executive, Adare SEC

Lauren is 20 and has been working in the printing industry for just over two years. She found her way into print via her love of art, and finds printing processes intriguing as a result.

Jamie Court (left) with founder Alvin Brown

60 seconds with Clinical Print Finishers

Clinical Print Finishers celebrates its 45th anniversary this month. “Our company began in 1975 and was founded by Alvin Brown  after he was made redundant from a local printer.

Combining new and traditional techniques

Surface Print lies in the small industrial village of Clayton-le-Moors just outside Accrington, Lancashire. Founded 30 years ago by John Watson, whose father and grandfather had both etched their...

One for the road

Cars and vans are often a necessity for businesses. But as the government taxes anything of value, it makes sense for firms to understand the rules regarding cars and vans. Simple slips or a lack of...

Strength in numbers

Britain in the 2020s is a radically different place compared to that of the 1970s and 1980s; strikes are few and far between. ONS data shows that the Winter of Discontent of 1979 saw 29.4m working...

Grow your inner talent

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.” These are the words of Bob Proctor, the legendary American business coach,...

PPM fabricates a fancy fake facade for an iconic edifice

On the north bank of the Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge, the iconic Neoclassical facade of Somerset House is instantly recognisable. And while the Grade I listed building is currently undergoing...

Focus does as much manufacturing in-house as possible

Best of British: A focus on innovation

Garage start-ups leading to greater things are legendary in the US tech sector – Hewlett-Packard in 1938 and Apple in 1976 are genuine examples – but tend to be rarer in the UK. However, one example...

HP Latex 3100 printer uses HP’s thermal inkjet printheads with the water-based latex inks

Milestones in inkjet

Of all the different print technologies currently in use, inkjet is probably the most interesting for its sheer versatility, working across documents and wide-format, labels and packaging and even 3D...

Collecting Resource's trophy at the Printweek Awards

Rising star: Lewis Platt Apprentice digital printer, Resource

Lewis is 18 and has already been working in the industry for two years. He initially started working at Leeds-based Resource to fill time between college terms, and was then offered a position as an...

Edward Thompson: Bingo!

60 seconds with Edward Thompson 

Edward Thompson started life way back in 1867, “the result of winning a bet on the horses”, and the firm grew rapidly in the 1960s on the back of the growth of commercial bingo.