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Copyright or wrong?

Ideas are the stuff of life for any business worth its salt. But of all the legal means of protecting ideas – trademark, patent and copyright – it’s the last which is so easy to breach, either...

It's crystal ball time again...

So begins a new decade of opportunity for print

As the decade drew to a close, Printweek took the opportunity to ask some of the wise men and women of print what were their highs, lows and key learnings of the past 10 years.

Murray: “The colour is more vivid and there is greater fine detail”

Me & my: Cron TP3632G+

Switching to processless plates has not only saved time and money for Isle of Wight printer Crossprint, but it keeps the pre-press operators happier too. They don’t have to wash the gunk out of...

The SC-F6300 has a maximum speed of 63sqm/hr

Star product: Epson SureColor SC-F6300

Versatile printer that can produce soft signage as well as promotional goods and short runs and samples of garments.

The printer unit of DE2, built from Babbage's designs

How Charles Babbage invented computer printing

Sitting on an upper floor of the Science Museum in London are hulking metal examples of a Victorian mechanical computer age that never actually happened. These are the invention of Charles Babbage...

Lake Image Systems employs 45 people worldwide, with 25 in the UK

Best of British: Speed camera enthusiasts

This year marks a quarter of a century since three employees of Hadland Photonics, a scientific and military imaging company in Bovingdon, decided they could do their own thing.

All I want for Christmas is...

Our annual round-up of print-themed prezzies to suit all tastes and budgets.

Beginning a beautiful relationship

In the current trading climate most printers spend more time fretting about retaining their existing customer base than focusing on winning new customers. However, it’s a harsh commercial reality that...

Great fakes

Fakes, forgeries and fabrications give printers a bad name and the fear of forgery was one of the reasons behind the 1637 Star Chamber Decree designed to prevent “abuses in printing seditious,...

Paper tigers

These are changing times for pulp and paper makers. While mill and machinery closures across Europe and the UK have resulted in shrinking capacity, particularly for graphical paper grades, this has...

Stokes and some of the Bristol Labels team

Keep it in the family

In 2004 the sales manager of the then named Bristol-based Baronial Labels, Paul Stokes, undertook a management buyout of the business along with his co-workers.

Overmatter: Measurement misadventures

When is an €800,000 press actually a near-€2m press?

Maskell: no more drainpipe trousers

Q&A: Derek Maskell, sales consultant, Interket

Derek is bowing out and retires this month after more than 50 years in the industry. He’s 73 and has been in print-related employment since 1966. He’s married to Donna with two children and three...

WIndles: the ‘spiritual home’ of cold foil

60 seconds with Windles Group

Bruce Podmore, Windles founder and managing director, started out printing in a shed in Aylesbury. Originally printing on a two-unit machine, his business grew quickly and in 1984 he joined forces...

Salisbury: Coventry City, Gavin & Stacey and Twitter fan

Rising star: Luke Salisbury, account manager, Emmerson Press

Luke is 21 and joined Kenilworth-based Emmerson Press just over four years ago as an apprentice.