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Investment upgraded cutting capabilities and boosted productivity

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...

Venture's third FabriVu 340 assessed

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...

Started as an apprentice

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.

Based in Normanton, West Yorkshire

60 seconds with Acorn Web Offset

Acorn started business in 1979 initially producing coldset newspapers and general print.

Teenage kicks

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.

Bargain buy

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.

Standfast & Barracks

Business inspection: Bringing in new talent

Standfast & Barracks is synonymous with Lancaster.

Women in print

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.

Recruiting for the top job

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.

Cyber security

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.

Best of British

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...

Trading technologies

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.

Low-cost entry to DTG market

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.

"It can literally produce anything"

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.