Review

Star product: Komfi Spotmatic 54

Komfi's low-cost B2-plus digital spot varnisher.

Me & my: Presstek 52DI-AC

When a print business only four years into its life has 20 staff, a rapidly growing turnover and a raft of machinery investments under its belt, you know it’s doing well.

Me & my: RTI Vortex 4200

Packaging is tipped as one of the next big markets to be addressed by digital printing. So a small packaging firm becoming one of the first in the UK to install a new machine based on new technology...

Star product: Esko Suite 14

The latest version of Esko’s do-it-all design/production package.

Me & my: Spandex ImagePerfect Digital vinyls

When vans across the local area are emblazoned with your signwriting handiwork, it’s important you ensure they look good for a long time. The key is finding the right vinyl range to use, with quality,...

Me & my: KBA Rapida 106

Press installs come, for many companies, off the back of feeling their existing kit, while doing all right, is not quite competing anymore on the productivity and automation fronts. Most...

Star product: Canon Océ Arizona 6100

Canon targets high-capacity flatbed rivals with new Arizona.

Star product: Xerox Versant 2100

New mid-level production engine ups speed and quality.

Me & my: Heidelberg Eurobind Pro

A lot has happened at GPS Colour Graphics since Joseph Smith founded the business at 34 High Street, Belfast, back in 1797. The company has passed through the hands of several different families, been...

Star product: Rutherford Easyloop

Rutherford's cost-effective closed-loop colour control system.

Me & my: Agfa Azura TU plate

Making print and packaging dreams come true for some of the world’s leading brands might seem daunting. But it’s all in a day’s work for London-based firm Gavin Martin Colournet, which also found that...

Me & my: HP Indigo 7600

To the maxim ‘be nice to people on your way up, because you’ll meet them on your way down’, director of FE Burman Paul Regan would add another piece of advice: ‘Be nice to everyone you work with,...

Star product: MBO M80

A modular folder that can “grow and change with your business”.

Me & my: GMG OpenColor

In today’s marketplace it’s more important than ever that proofs and plates are produced accurately. Any problems on press result in wasted materials and lost time on expensive machinery. Clients...

Star product: Flint Ultraking XCURA

New UV inks designed to work with LE and LED curing systems.