Features

At the cutting edge: slicing and dicing at lightspeed

Up until a couple of years ago laser cutting was considered a niche part of the print market. Most printers would send out this intricate finishing work to a handful of specialist laser companies that...

Give workers a lift and avoid getting a pain in the neck

According to the Health & Safety Executive, manual handling incidents account for over a third of accidents reported in the print trade.

Fespa 2018: stand highlights

What's new and what's hot at the wide-format show

60 seconds with Rondor Printing

Rondor Printing began life in the 1980s and after a couple of changes in ownership during the intervening years, Tracy Cone and Adrian Saunders took over the company in 2017 after working there since...

Q&A: James Freemantle Proprietor, St James Park Press

James Freemantle is 38 and set up the Press in 2015 to focus on hand-made limited-edition letterpress printed books and ephemera.

Fespa: global expo takes flight

Fespa’s flagship event, its global print expo, will be held at the Berlin Messe this year, the first time since 2007 the German capital has hosted the expo.

The deadline for GDPR compliance is now very near

In just over a month’s time, the greatest change to data protection law – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – will be upon us and nothing, not even Brexit, is going to stop its...

We’re jamming, we hope you like jamming too

Next year the grey suits might give paintballing a miss and instead head to Calverts in Shoreditch for a spot of alternative team building.

60 seconds with Minuteman Press Bristol

Minuteman Press Bristol was founded in 1998 and purchased by director Peter Wise in 2006, who was attracted by the combination of skilled graphic design, print production and bindery all under one...

‘Exploding’ sales flagged up need for more space

Iain Clasper-Cotte took the urgent call at 5.30pm. And less than 24 hours later his relieved client took delivery of the job: high-definition tension fabrics for 30 shops. This was just one of eight...

Getting difficult decisions right

It’s unfortunate that just as firms prosper, they can also fail. While creditors lose out, so do employees who become redundant.

Q&A: Helen Phillips Head of customer service, RNB Group

Helen is 30 years old and has worked in print for 10 years, after starting work in the industry while she finished her degree.

Strong arm tactics tackle heavy loads

There are robots and robots. One type inhabits the popular culture of books, movies and TV, where more-or-less humanoid machines may be heroes, villains, evil or good, oppressors or slaves. Then there...

Materials to conjure with: wide-ranging wide-format

For any brand or business shopping around for wide-format print, the industry offers a Willy Wonka-style profusion of delights to play with and pick from.

Help your staff plan for a comfortable retirement

Statistics from the Office for National Statistics published last September (2017) show that we’re living longer.