Print

Star product: Sakurai Maestro 10211

Sakurai is now selling its screen presses directly in the UK and is promoting the Maestro 10211 to litho and screen printers and print finishers looking to take advantage of the screen process unique...

I swear by my... Canon ImagePress C1

We took one look at the ImagePress C1 and knew that it would benefit our business. Traditionally, we have outsourced jobs such as book covers as we had found that digital didnt give us the quality...

Star product: GDR KM40 Automatic Binder

With an all new design specifically for short-run book production, the KM40 Automatic Binder has a range of unique and upgraded features for printers producing both litho and digitally printed books.

I swear by my... Norpak 5000

The polyprocessor was installed to replace our existing Norpak CF35. Demand for polywrapping was growing beyond the capabilities of the old machine.

Star product: XCP Pressguard

Scottish-firm Marott Graphic Services has launched a protection fluid aimed directly at the printing industry.

Reshaping the repro house to better fit the changing landscape of print

As it approaches its 50th anniversary, Bermondsey-based FE Burman has evolved from its roots in traditional repro into a full-service print firm. After adding digital print in the 1990s, at the start...

Concentrate for improved fortunes

According to Marcus Clifford, managing director of BPIF McInnes Corporate Finance, a joint venture set up with the BPIF last year, you can see the effects of consolidation in the printing sector and...

Prints place in the media mix

Youve probably received one; you may have even sent one. Theyre fairly innocuous items that can be opened and dismissed at the click of a button yet their arrival could signal the death knell for...

Edotechs founder returns to BPO sector as chief exec of EDM Group

Sam Ferguson, founder of Edotech, the print management company bought by Astron for 130m three years ago, has made a return to the BPO sector at the helm of EDM Group.

Screen shares centre stage

Gradually and quietly over the past handful of years, printers in the large-format and POS sectors have stopped calling themselves screen process printers. The savvy operators are now calling...

Proof positive

Readers Digest is the first publisher to implement an entirely paperless proofing system from repro supplier Colour Systems.

Full service included

When printer Henry Burt joined forces with Newnorth in 1976 the former had been in operation for more than 100 years. The firm had a solid foundation, but also, perhaps, a rather old-fashioned...