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'Passport? Check. Business cards? Check? Scuba gear? Hang on a second…’

Fespa Digital 2014: stand by stand

Who's showing what at this year's wide-format expo in Munich.

Getting to grips with digital’s post-press requirements

Ripe Digital discovered the importance of finishing the hard way. “When we bought our press, an HP Indigo, we thought ‘that’s it, we’re printers now’,” says director Richard Penny of when the company,...

60-seconds with Kolorco

Kolorco was founded over 22 years ago and remains unchanged in its private ownership today. The firm cut its teeth as a commercial litho printing company, growing organically and via acquisitions,...

Q&A: Matt Bates, business development manager, Chesapeake

Matt’s Cornish roots are evident in the fact that after leaving school he studied printing at Plymouth College of Art & Design. He subsequently embarked upon something of a tour of the industry’s...

Fashion favours the personal approach

Imagine changing your home decor as often as you buy new clothes and upgrade your phone. Chances are you won’t be finding this too much of a stretch – or at least you won’t be finding the idea as...

Fringe benefits

The year is 1947 and eight plucky theatre groups have turned up uninvited to the inaugural Edinburgh International Festival, established to “provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit”...

Business inspection: Printer turns publisher to boost service

Becoming a magazine publisher enabled KPM to offer clients a broader marketing approach.

Strengthening the FSC chain could lose it valuable links

FSC – not, most would agree, the most popular acronym in print. The majority of printers of course wholeheartedly support the organisation’s ethos and are more than happy that the majority of papers...

Q&A: Leslie Manning, chairman, Rapidity Communications

Although he is clearly way too young to retire, that’s exactly what Les Manning plans to do come May after 43 years in print. His four sons all work at London-based Rapidity, so we guess he’ll still...

Tinkerers in search of the eureka moment

Print’s best-known eureka moment came more than 550 years ago, when Johannes Gutenberg figured out a way to print books using moveable type and a press based on the sort of screw press used for making...

Star product: Delphax elan

A high-output SRA2 sheetfed printer that undercuts B2 rivals.

Me & my: Fastbind Casematic H46Pro

In early 2011, Midlands-based digital print outfit John E Wright detected a growing trend. The company, which is headquartered in Nottingham and operates seven offices in nearby locations, noticed...

Business inspection: How to reap the rewards of awards

Entering industry awards helped Screaming Colour to stand out from its rivals.

New-look investors

Necessity is the mother of invention, or so it’s said. This has certainly been true when it comes to raising funds for growth in recent years; it has been a lean time for securing business loans from...