Killer app: Wall art that's off the scale

The Photographers’ Gallery recently launched the Soho Photography Quarter (SPQ), a cultural space presenting free open-air exhibitions and projections. It is currently displaying Fire/Flood, an...

Good vibes at Connect’s ePS revamp

Just prior to the 2022 Connect event, the last with EFI branding, the business spun off its Productivity Software manufacturer into a standalone venture, with the division acquired by private equity...

Is the decline in skilled print workers a cause for concern?

On the face of it, statistics released recently that revealed the number of skilled tradespeople working in the print sector fell by 73% between 2006 and 2021 seem alarming.

Printweek editor Darryl Danielli

You can’t please everyone, so focus on what your people want

I suspect becoming embroiled in what many people would dub a ‘woke war’ is not exactly at the top of most print business leaders’ list of things that keep them awake at night. Not with everything else...

The protection racket

Data protection issues are rarely far from the news. And as the recent ransomeware attack on Royal Mail in January illustrated, not only are they publicly embarrassing, they can be commercially...

Industry insight: VMC features a packed conference programme

VMC - back with a bang for the 10th anniversary

The BPIF’s Visual Media Conference (VMC) event returns to Leeds’ Rose Bowl on 4 April 2023, for the first time in three years.

Full marks: Baker (L) with operator Stone: “We have been singing from the rooftops about it”

Me & My: SwissQprint Nyala 4

A grant of £54,200 from New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) Growing Business Fund helped to fund a new 3.2x2m flatbed/roll printer at CIM Signs & Graphics, a sign printing and installation...

“HP customers have the flexibility now to run a variety of jobs with limited  paper waste”

Star product: HP PageWide Advantage 2200

A high-quality, high-throughput inkjet web press flexible enough to change with the user’s needs.

Affinity Version 2: Adobe users will find the Affinity tools very easy to adapt to

Star product: Serif Affinity Version 2

A fully featured yet very low-cost challenger to Adobe’s Creative Suite – with Pantone swatch libraries. What’s not to like?

Tokyo's Big Sight expo centre hosted IGAS 2022

IGAS 2022: Tokyo story

Japan combines a modern high-tech industrialised economy with a lively print market that has led to a large number of printing equipment suppliers playing an outsize role internationally. So it’s...

Best of British: Rewinding for the future

Ashe Converting Equipment is a family-run firm with an international client base.

KPM Group now has access to a large library of Two Sides tools

KPM Group becomes latest Two Sides member

Print and paper advocacy group Two Sides has revealed KPM Group as its latest member.