Print

Helvetica celebrates 50th birthday

Helvetica, one of the corporate worlds most widely used fonts, is celebrating its 50th birthday this year with a major exhibition at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art.

The copyrights and wrongs

Clinic topics this month: Nick Bourne on online ordering; Anne Copley on copyright issues; and Lance OConnell on visible light versus thermal

Vinyl kiss cuts and cellophane wrap

Joanne Gardner tracks down the solutions to your print problems

How to make the work flow

UK Print plc is a 15bn-plus business operated by 12,000 individual companies manned by about 160,000 employees. On the surface it would appear to be operating at an industry standard of around 80% in...

Accounting errors before a share fall

In September 2005, TripleArcs shares, listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), took a tumble after the print management group revealed it had made errors in its financial reporting. Last...

Chasing business to the ?nishing line

Darren White was just 21 when he bought a secondhand Shoei folder and a little Camco guillotine to set up his own trade finishing house, DW Print Finishing. At such a tender age, in such a cut-throat...

I swear by my... Robert Horne Imagine

I have produced calendars for Pirelli for the past 12 years. This year Pirelli created an edition featuring five internationally-famous women.

Star product: Sun Chemical Metal-Eco inks

Sun Chemical has launched Metal-Eco; the worlds first vegetable oil-based sheetfed offset metallic inks.

Joined-up thinking for workflows

The following is an example of how a joined-up workflow can be used to successfully manage the production of complex, cross-media marketing materials, and remain flexible and simple to use.

Finishers foretell the future of print

The changing shape of trade finishing over the past decade offers a fascinating insight into the way that the print industrys business models are changing from commodity-led to value-adding.

Is online marketing reducing direct mail printing?

Up to 83% of large UK businesses are producing online only versions of their marketing material, according to financial advisor Grant Thorntons research. Is this trend affecting printers?