Best of British: engine of industry
Industrial Inkjet is a UK manufacturer with strong Japanese connections and an obsession with testing.
Digital’s corrugated coming of age
Converters and printers are getting imaginative with the latest digital tech.
Star product: Solimar ReadyPDF Prepress Server
A high-speed, high-volume PDF optimisation and preflight tool.
Star product: Hohner HSB 13.000 saddle-stitcher
This high-speed saddle-stitcher was revamped in 2020 and now boasts some smart features for remote diagnostics alongside a huge variety of options, making it a very versatile performer.
Me & My: Duplo PFi Blade
BCA Group in Enfield is a long-established family printing business that’s managed to adapt to changing times and fortunes for more than four decades. First set up in 1980 by Brian Cottee, it’s...
Me & my: Tekcel EXR
Upgrading its router has not only made H&H Reeds faster and more flexible, it has made the company a nicer place to work too.
Overmatter: sweet success
Anyone who has, like Overmatter, found themselves with their nose pressed up against the elegant windows of the Ladurée shop in London’s Burlington Arcade, will know that macaron making is a beautiful...
Q&A: Heather Davies, finance director, Fuller Davies
Heather retired in mid-April, having worked at Ipswich-based Fuller Davies since the firm’s inception some “35-plus years ago”. Her retirement plans include “spending special time with my three...
Rising star: Ronan McKechnie, lithographic apprentice, CPI William Clowes
Ronan is 20 years old and has been working in the industry since the summer of 2017. Earlier this year he was awarded Learner of the Year by specialist training provider Learn2Print, which provides...
60 seconds with Imprint Digital
Keith Sutherland started the firm that became Imprint Digital in 1972 when he was “thrown out of university for failing to do any work on my Masters’ degree”. This was because he was also organising a...
Enfocus releases PitStop Pro 2021
Enfocus has released the latest version of its PitStop pre-flight, editing and correction software.
Clarity is key when it comes to driving change
Celebrating 50 years of operation this year, Southend-based Formara Print & Marketing has, incredibly, come through the past 12 months unscathed. Stronger even. But over the past two decades the road...