Features

 

Crossing the finish line

30 November 2015

The Horizon Stitchliner   Drupa 2016 could be a key show for finishing technology. Industry author and journalist Cary Sherburne assesses current trends and looks…

Top of the leader board

27 November 2015

The weekly Verdigris blog   As if the deforestation and corrupt abuses by Asian Pulp & Paper (APP) weren’t bad enough for Indonesia, the country…

Clarity and quality

23 November 2015

Joanne Smeeton and Glenn Crowley have created Westland Digital, a new range of wide format media for PPB.   Having rebranded as PPB – Service…

At your service

23 November 2015

The acrylic coater at Frimpeks in Saxmundham   Few companies in the UK label and wide format markets are particularly familiar with the name Frimpeks…

Classes apart

23 November 2015

Following the decimation of print training in the UK, Learn2print was created to try to help fill the need. Six years later, it is going…

Chemical reactions

17 November 2015

The weekly Verdigris blog An ongoing European initiative linked to the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) directive could spell the end of…

Retail innovation

16 November 2015

Leading the way is group director for innovation and technology EMEA, Bobbie Andrews. Mobile and digital technology is helping to make point of sale print…

Automatic by the people

16 November 2015

It invests significant sums into IT, online systems and workflow automation, but trade printer RouteOne Print never forgets that it is old fashioned customer service…

Applied and sleek

16 November 2015

Eazyprint in Northamptonshire is the first to be using a new combination of GMP laminating machine and films to achieve a range of special variable…

VGL finds humidity solution

9 November 2015

The ELMC10 humidity system at VGL Having installed a new HP Indigo press, Berkshire print company VGL needed to ensure a stable environment for the…

Spread your bets with a hybrid

9 November 2015

Low cost hybrid wide format UV printers can print on anything, roll or sheet. Simon Eccles asks if these are the ideal machines for newcomers?…

The DI gurus

9 November 2015

The Diguru management team: top – Richard Harwood (left) and Alex Marszal; bottom – Nick Newby (left) and Luke Willett Down near the south coast…

Ticking the boxes

3 November 2015

Ricoh’s European production printing business has taken off since it opened a Customer Experience Centre in Telford last year, and that is no coincidence, writes…

Duplo 600i Booklet System

3 November 2015

  New fully automated system with stitching, folding and trimming The print industry is increasingly faced with shorter run lengths, so customers are looking for…

Guilty as charged

3 November 2015

Simon Eccles looks at the particular problems of static and humidity in digital print working, and some of the systems that help to solve them.…

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