Itma – a way into the rag trade?
15 July 2019
Itma, the international tradeshow for textile machinery, demonstrated how far digital textile printing for garments and home décor has come. Nessan Cleary reports.
Features
New techniques to put you on your metal
1 July 2019
If you want a truly metallic look on your printed materials, then you have to use real metal.
Finance can be the soft option
28 June 2019
There was a time when the difficulties involved in arranging finance for buying software could put many printers off. No longer.
Match-making for brands
6 June 2019
As digital printing extends its reach into more and more applications, an issue that’s growing in importance in many sectors is brand colour accuracy.
Mail ordered
24 May 2019
Post-GDPR, direct mail is thriving for those who have the data and generating real results for its clients.
Wild Format: Using variable data for bespoke prints
23 May 2019
Digital print has the fantastic capacity to enable extremely short runs, down to a single copy, since there is almost no start-up cost, at least…
The sublime art of textile printing
17 May 2019
Textile printing has become an established part of the wide format market in garments and decor as well as soft signage.
Wild Format: choosing the right spectrophotometer
13 May 2019
There can be no quality control without making measurements, and the necessary instrument for such measurements in the graphics business is a spectrophotometer.
Walking the gang plank
10 May 2019
It’s usually assumed that digital print is for short run and litho is for larger quantities, but the choice isn’t so simple.
Wild Format: look at me
1 May 2019
It’s in the nature of wide format graphics to grab attention, relying on size and positioning together with a very graphic design.
Swiss roll
17 April 2019
The thirteenth Hunkeler Innovationdays attracted the largest number of visitors yet to the shores of Lake Lucerne.
Wild Format: digital printing for 2019
15 April 2019
Business is all about profit and getting the most out of your investments. In the graphics industry we look to maximise margins on every job.
Signed on delivery
20 March 2019
Sign & Digital UK will return to Birmingham’s NEC from 2 – 4 April, with over 185 exhibitors.
The power of four
5 March 2019
Andy Knaggs looks at how Industry 4.0 is already affecting the print sector.
Two decades in digital print
19 February 2019
Last month’s annual EFI user conference was the twentieth.