Balancing the books
19 August 2019
Books and booklets are just as much an option for the non-specialist digital printer as they are for the dedicated book-of-one factories.
Key articles
Head for the clouds
13 August 2019
Michael Walker looks at Cloud software offerings for production and colour management and business intelligence.
Horses for courses
1 August 2019
Sheet-fed electrophotographic presses continue to be the mainstay for many print service providers for short-run fast turnaround work on a variety of different media.
Click to print
29 July 2019
These days every business needs an online presence but web-to-print systems can go beyond being a simple sales tool to become a valuable part of…
The right staff
23 July 2019
A roundtable event sponsored by Canon aimed to share experience and ideas for how to attract, retain and develop staff.
Every cloud has a silver lining
22 July 2019
Cloud computing is one of those technology buzzwords that’s come to mean a variety of different things. The first in a two-part series.
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.
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.