Review

I swear by my... KBA SPC system

<b>Peter Allman, managing director, Brunswick Press.</b>

Star product: Shuttleworth digital dashboard

The Shuttleworth digital dashboard, a component of the Northampton-based firm's eponymous MIS, provides real-time production data through a sidebar on a user's desktop.

Star product: Printable Technologies TransPromo

The TransPromo On-Demand software approaches transpromotional marketing by integrating web-to-print, variable-data publishing and campaign oversight technologies. The tool is for low- to medium-run...

I swear by my... Mediatoolbox Engine

We updated our existing Mediatoolbox web-to-print system with the firm's content management tool, Engine. Click2Print is our rebranded web-to-print offering that allows customers to set up, order,...

I swear by my Horizon StitchLiner

This investment has given us the confidence to offer customers a wider range of services. Previously, we had a lot of bottlenecks and we sometimes had to lift jobs to complete shorter runs by the...

Star Product: Ideal DigiCut guillotine

Ideal has launched its new digital guillotine, the 5222 DigiCut, in the UK. The machine is the latest addition to the German manufacturer's guillotine and shredder line, supplied in the UK by Duplo...

Star Product: HDP fount solution

HDP has launched Freedom Fount, which it has described as a one-stop alcohol replacement solution. Aimed at sheetfed printers that want to reduce or eliminate IPA from their systems, the fount is IPA-...

Xerox 700

While it was the iGen4 and the ConceptColor 220 that collected Xerox column inches at Drupa, the machine that drew in the most customer enquiries was the new 700 digital colour press. The 700 is a...

Bobst Fuego

Ian Browning, managing director of Creative Productivity, says he invested in the Fuego to handle the companys increasingly diverse range of work

Heidelberg Speedmaster 52

Building on from the Speedmaster 74 that was launched just before it, the Heidelberg Speedmaster (SM) 52 claimed many firsts. Launched at Drupa 1995, it was the first B3 machine ever to have autoplate...

CreaseMatic Auto 50

Carmel Micallef, print finisher at Printstore, has been impressed with this creasers speed and its versatility has expanded the companys services

Manroland R50

If there's any part of the UK print industry that's intact at the moment, it's the B3 sector. Smaller, more flexible, and therefore more able to react to tough trading conditions, B3 printers are...

HP SmartStream Director

Workflow was centre stage for HP at Drupa. It had to be to ensure the company's latest high-speed presses, such as the 2,600ppm high-speed Inkjet Web Press and the 120ppm Indigo 7000, could be run...

Oc CrystalPoint

Oc has claimed CrystalPoint will "change the way wide-format prints are made by combining the best of both toner and inkjet printing" to produce mono and colour waterfast prints for large-format...

Star product: Press-sense iWay 5.0

Press-sense used Drupa 2008 for the world debut of its revamped web-to-print software iWay 5.0, combining new infrastructure and features. The enhanced web-based tool is claimed by the firm to offer...