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Chinese built machinery is now very common in the printing sector, though it’s not always obvious because some of it carries reassuringly familiar European or Japanese brands, which lend it a feeling...

The Drupa 2024 team recently treated selected guests, including lucky old Overmatter, to a taster of the Drupa Song that will be the opening soundtrack every day at the upcoming show.

Owen’s journey in the industry began at 17 when he started working at his father’s print business.

Sharman & Company started printing The March Advertiser and Fen District Gazette in March, Cambridgeshire more than 150 years ago.

Geneve carried off the Trainee of the Year Award at this year’s Printweek Awards. She’s 32 and has been working in the industry since 2021.

It’s hard to know which is worse – a print company with not enough business, or a firm with enough work but plant that has broken down. Neither are ideal and both are worrying.

There are stories of print company owners moving on and selling up. And there are accounts of individuals dying leaving survivors to deal with the firm’s future. The reality is that no small privately...

Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company and pioneer of mass production, once said: “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

At around 70,000 copies sold per issue, Empire magazine is proof that the sector is far from moribund. However, it did want its March 2024 issue to be a bit more dead – or rather, undead.

Taopix was one of the first software developers to come up with a commercially successful system that allowed printers to implement web-to-print ordering for photobooks, since expanded to a range of...

Printing to garments and other accessories is an excellent way to get into the growing apparel market, covering everything from promotional clothing through to fashion and sportswear.

A unique solution for creating and testing finishing workflows.

A compact high-resolution colour printer for 3D objects.

Not too long ago there was a branch of specialist packaging with the wonderfully evocative description ‘fancy boxes’. Sadly, the ‘fancy’ tag has more or less died out nowadays, but demand for robust...

Show organisers are preparing to open the doors for the Fespa Global Print Expo 2024, to be held in Amsterdam in March.