Features

Envisaging a new brand identity

At the end of 2015, the creative minds at Envisage Brand Experiences took the approaching new year as an opportunity to begin to plan for a renewal of the company’s image and on its website posted:...

Weighing up your options in the great green paper debate

Twenty years ago forests around the world were in crisis: more than 200 million hectares were lost between 1980 and 1995 in developing countries alone. In response to this alarming trend, the Forest...

Digital revolution has delivered big opportunities

Anyone who’s travelled towards central London along the M4 motorway surely cannot fail to appreciate just how impactful large-format print can be.

‘We want to offer support, not create a dependency’

Becoming chief executive and secretary of The Printing Charity after heading up the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, might seem like trading in the Ferrari for a safe and sensible Volvo, in terms of...

Stronger teams build stronger businesses

Lindsey Halewood was scared of heights until she went on a staff engagement exercise for Prinovis, where she works in the press room.

Print brings brands closer to customers

Would you pay more than £10 for a personalised tube of muesli? Some of German retailer MyMuesli’s customers are willing to, which is why it invested in a Heidelberg Omnifire direct-to-shape 4D inkjet...

Ensure you keep your staff out of the danger zone

On the whole, print has a reasonably good safety record. According to the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) annual statistics, the printing sector has a lower accident rate than associated...

60 seconds with Lollipop Print

Lollipop’s roots can be traced back almost 25 years under the name of Document Options, which was started in a boarding house in Brighton. As the business evolved, new premises were acquired and the...

Q&A: Ben Manning, production director, Rapidity

Ben is slightly older than London-based Rapidity, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month. Unsurprisingly given his family connections to the industry, he has also been “working in the print”...

Assessing digital presses in the post-Drupa landscape

With the dust now settled after a flurry of new digital press announcements at Drupa, it’s a good time to go though, compare and contrast and put them into some sort of context.

Sitting comfortably II: more views from the red sofa

There was never any doubt that digital was always going to be a hot topic at Drupa. In terms of product launches, star turns, largely from the show’s birthday boy, and the sheer scale of the digital...

Sitting comfortably? Notes from the big, Red Sofa

In the first of our series of interviews from the DrupaDaily Red Sofa, Darryl Danielli talks to one of the oldest companies exhibiting at the expo, as well as one of the youngest attendees. Words...

Signs of life after the death of a star

Polestar’s collapse shocked the industry, but its demise could be good news for the remaining web offset printers.

60 seconds with Willow Printing & Design

Established in 1978 above a local delicatessen by husband and wife team John and Pat Kilshaw, Willow Printing & Design has grown into its own factory and from its litho roots into a multi-service...

Logistics and the just-in-time production model

An approach centred on timeliness, efficiency and frugality, its origins lie in the mid-20th century. But it remains relevant today because, after all, time is still money.