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If you look back over the four years since the last Drupa, or even the past decade, you won’t see much that’s revolutionary happening in conventional printing presses. Yet they’ve steadily become more...

Environmental scientists are often reluctant to broadcast specific global temperature changes, largely due to the natural ebb and flow of climate conditions, but when temperature data from February...

Despite being the lead (well, strictly speaking only) guitarist in indie rock cover band The Hoo Haas, it’s safe to say that Patrick Headley is better known, outside the Midlands music scene at least,...

Dean Johnson knew he had to expand his horizons when he could barely see any horizon at all. The family sign-making business he runs was so chock-full of equipment and bustling with staff and walk-in...

Even if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, you should not, according to Fraser Church, head of creative development at DST Output, automatically assume – contrary to what...

In terms of interest rates, there has never been a better time to borrow money. And as the economy begins to pick up, more lenders are looking to loan money to SMEs.

Zack is 19 and has spent six months in print – he was attracted to the industry because he wanted an apprenticeship that was “hands-on with some thinking involved”. His outside of work activities...

Ian Chamberlain set up Tudor Bookbinding in 1992, after spotting a gap in the market for a print finishing service while working as a binding room manager. The firm started off in the centre of...

As we start the countdown to Drupa at the end of May, it’s evident that increasing automation of the end-to-end workflow will be a major theme on a lot of stands.

It’s not for nothing that movie and cultural critics have called the omnipresent Star Wars movies a cradle-to-grave entertainment experience. Appearing in regular installments throughout the past...

John Good was founded in the mid 1980s primarily to serve the UK arts industry. The firm now supplies programmes and brochures to over 100 theatres and concert halls throughout the UK and Ireland.

James Birch can sense when he’s on to a good thing and this time he can feel it too: fabrics. Last week saw the official launch of a textile-printing arm of the company he directs, Colourgrpahics....

In the increasingly digitised age in which we live, direct interaction between businesses and their customers has been reduced to a bare minimum, due to the greater levels of automation offered by...

Terry has been in print for 15 years now, although he’s been a salesman since the day after he left school. “I just dipped my toe into a few other marketplaces before settling into ink.” He’s getting...

Nick Loaring, owner of The Print Project in Shipley, is an honest man. When asked about letterpress and the workshops he runs for the public, teaching the print laity how to wield type, he responds...