Review

Me & my: Tri-ang Lionel Gutenberg Printing Press

Half a century ago a lucky child might get a real working model printing press in his or her Christmas stocking. Not the famous John Bull rubber stamp set, this was an authentic-looking plastic and...

Me & my: EFI DirectSmile Cross Media

Cheadle, Cheshire-based POS printer Cestrian prides itself on its innovative approach to business. The company produces retail POS, outdoor graphics and event and exhibition material from its ‘print...

Star product: Colorific Lightbar

Colorific's solvent-UV conversion system for eco-solvent printers.

Star product: EFI Radius 15.1

The latest version of the end-to-end modular ERP for packaging and label printers.

Me & my: Kodak NexPress SX3300

Sometimes the relationship between the sales and production sides of a business can be fraught due to conflicting priorities and many a mutual misunderstanding about exactly what the other does, how...

Me & my: Mimaki JFX200-2513

A burgeoning range of profitable new applications, including printing onto slate, can be chalked up to The Graphic Station’s latest addition, a Mimaki JFX200-2513 flatbed UV wide-format printer.

Star product: Horizon RD-4055

This modern, easy-to-use die-cutter aimed predominantly at the packaging market is creating a stir.

Star product: HP Indigo 7800

HP’s top-of-the-line SRA3 model is fast and versatile.

Me & my: Komori Lithrone S429 H-UV

Climbing to the very top rung of a company’s management structure can be difficult for somebody who isn’t an expert in how all aspects of a business should be run. But fortunately for Harrogate-based...

Star product: Epson SureColor SC-F7100

Purpose-built textiles machine with the latest technology.

Me & my: Matrix Pneumatic MX-530P

The weekly food shop. Not most people’s favourite activity. And yet imagine how much more tiresome this weekly ritual of jostling peevishly with other people’s trolleys and blinkering five-year-olds...

Star product: Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102

Heidelberg's high-volume, flexible general purpose simplex offset press.

Me & my: Fuji Brillia plates, PlateRite platesetter and processor

For many printers, beta testing a prospective bit of kit is something akin to a Top Gear challenge. The kit is put through its paces on all sorts of different jobs, the data’s crunched and pored over,...

Star product: Phillips Plastics Movie Presentation Folder

Reusable presentation tool with movie capability.

Me & my: Ricoh Pro C901

It’s fair to say that Gaby Purton has had a varied career. Once a midwife, before becoming a manager at a nursing agency and then a driving instructor, Purton now takes care of a very different kind...