Features

Me & My: Kongsberg C64 Edge
Based a few kilometres north of Norwich, and handily close to the newish northern semi-ring road, CIM Signs & Graphics has been offering signage services across East Anglia for nearly a quarter of a...

Me & My: EFI Vutek FabriVu 340i+
Venture Banners is a large-format trade services company based on the Park Drive Industrial Estate in Braintree, Essex, where it employs 51 people in recently expanded premises, including seven extra...

Q&A: John Jones, managing director, Powlsons Design and Print
John started working at Powlsons in October 1974, initially as an indentured apprentice, and then worked his way up to become manager and then managing director 20 years ago.

60 seconds with Acorn Web Offset
Acorn started business in 1979 initially producing coldset newspapers and general print.

Rising star: Thomas Barrie, pre-press apprentice, Authentix Security Print Solutions
Thomas is 19 and has recently passed his first anniversary of starting to work in the printing industry at Consett-based security printing specialist Authentix SPS.

Overmatter: Shuttleworth’s shelfie
Overmatter is delighted to see The Warple Press in Louth finding fame on X courtesy of legendary singer-songwriter John Shuttleworth.

Business inspection: Bringing in new talent
Standfast & Barracks is synonymous with Lancaster.

Seeking an even balance
We may be three quarters of the way through 2024, but stereotypes of jobs and the sexes still exist with, in many cases, women still having to break through a theoretical glass ceiling.

Buy right or buy twice
New technologies may have found their way into the world of print, but ultimately, it’s people that make any business in the sector work.

Don’t byte off more than you can encrypt
The highly digitised world we inhabit would be alien to someone sitting on the Clapham Omnibus 20 years ago.

Killer app: Vale Press makes Intermission its mission
It’s rare to see a printed magazine launch these days – but at retro film TV channel Talking Pictures TV, nostalgia is stock in trade.

Always adding value
For almost 40 years Vivid Laminating Technologies has been serving the print finishing sector, moving with the times as lamination moved from a trade speciality to in-house, with smaller formats...

The digital divide
As in other elements of commercial life, where once the world was completely analogue so digital has made inroads and revolutionised the world of print.

Star product: Kornit Apollo
The Apollo is an automated high-speed digital garment press for runs of one up to a few thousand, with a pricing model that could enable printers to break into DTG without breaking the bank.

Me & My: Konica Minolta AccurioPress C4070
If you take up residence in an old fire station, you may find that there’s something haunting you from the past. For the Ghostbusters it was a bad case of old spirits.