Features
Clever chemists cook up special FX for value-add
Historically manufacturers used to unveil new ink ranges every three to five years. Often these inks were launched to great fanfare and would accompany a new piece of hardware. However, in recent...
A focus on the past helps build for the future
There’s no future in history, unlike heritage. And for one large-format printer what lies ahead has never been more promising for a service both high in impact and highly acclaimed.
You can’t put a price on the value of good relations
Price has long been king for print buyers and brand owners, particularly in recent years with budgets being squeezed to the limit. And with some printers falling over each other to offer the lowest...
Don’t let the funding maze deter skills goals
When printing giant Polestar shut its doors for the last time earlier this year, it wasn’t just the trade for its various high-profile clients that rivals were clamouring over – its staff were in...
Q&A: Daniel Reed Designer, The Cafeteria Studio
Sheffield-based Daniel specialises in design and typography, and his enthusiasm for all things print-related is such that outside of his day job he works on other projects and has created four new...
More connectivity should usher in a smarter era
An estimated 26 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2020, according to technology analyst Gartner. These include ‘smart’ fridges, and thermostats, as well as devices things like...
60 seconds with Geoff Neal Group
Geoff Neal started the eponymous business back in 1976, which makes the firm 40 years old at the end of October. Neal, now chairman, started out with just a single-colour Heidelberg Kors. The...
60 seconds with RS Bookbinders
RS Bookbinders was founded by Roy Shaddock in 1983, utilising his knowledge and experience gained in the bookbinding industry since the age of 14.
How SMEs can help build a better world
In any given year, one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health problem, according to the Mental Health Foundation, something which the organisation flags up on 10 October each year,...
Q&A: Adrian Saunders Print room manager, Rondor Printing
Adrian has been in print for 27 years, all of it at Lowestoft-based Rondor. He’s married to Rebecca with two children, Seren and Dylan. His hobbies include running, collecting film monsters and...
Why UK print needs to pay attention to cyber security
For a number of years, the words cyber crime and hackers had people thinking of balaclava-wearing tech geeks in bedrooms trying to make a quick buck out of unsuspecting victims.
Digital tech takes corrugated to the next level
Corrugated looks set to be the next big adopter of high-speed single-pass digital printing technologies. It’s a natural progression up in capacity from the big flatbed industrial inkjets that are...
‘I believe in global coordination and local action‘
While by the usual Xerox metrics chief executive in waiting Jeff Jacobson is still very much the new kid on the block, having not even reached his fifth anniversary, with almost 30 years’ industry...
Sector in flux explores global opportunities
There’s no question print management has become very big business in the UK, and equally there’s no question it’s now becoming a bigger proposition in its global scale as well.
Are bioplastics the complete green package, after all?
Bioplastics have come a long way since they were first marketed more than quarter of a century ago. What once began as a niche product with a very limited scope of application has burgeoned into a...