Features

Fespa preview: Opening up new perspectives

When the Fespa Global Print Expo last opened in Munich, in 2019, no one could have predicted that a global pandemic would severely hamper all exhibition activity around the world for the next few...

The Zünd G3 cutter gives Graham and Geoffrey Davey the option to do 3D routing work

Me & My: Zünd G3 3XL-3200

Founded 25 years ago in Kettering, Northants, Artisan Signs is a family-run, large-format print and signage company that works with a broad range of clients, taking in large retail, marketing and...

Killer App: Labour of love for debut author’s print

While writers joke about a novel being their ‘baby’, the reality is that first-time parents can be forgiven for a little trepidation seeing their creation come into the world.

L&M uses technology to meet customers’ needs

Best of British: High-tech with a hot-metal heritage

How L&M Imaging, abranch of the famous Linotype company, has moved with the digital times.

Q&A: Bob Richardson Library learning and education officer, St Bride Library 

Richardson, known as the ‘Encyclopaedia Of All Things Print’ at St Bride Library in London, has just retired. But friends and colleagues are delighted he will still be on hand to share his expertise...

Rising star: Jaime Havery, marketing graduate, CustomerKNECT

Jaime is 21 and has been working at the recently rebranded CustomerKNECT (formerly MetroMail) in Seaham since May 2022, with the firm’s new name giving her an ideal opportunity to flex her marketing...

60 seconds with EC2i

EC2i is now in its 21st year as a wholly independent company but the firm’s heritage “goes back to pedigree parents” who set up Essex Colour back in 1980.

Use every possible tool to recoup costs

Increasing general inflation, rising input prices, changes to taxation, demands for more pay – just some of the challenges that businesses, print or otherwise, are having to cope with. What with the...

Offering a helping hand

Not for decades have we all been under so much pressure financially. Rising energy bills, relatively high mortgage rates, food prices on the increase, and to cap it all, a tax burden that is at a...

Killer app: Wall art that's off the scale

The Photographers’ Gallery recently launched the Soho Photography Quarter (SPQ), a cultural space presenting free open-air exhibitions and projections. It is currently displaying Fire/Flood, an...

The protection racket

Data protection issues are rarely far from the news. And as the recent ransomeware attack on Royal Mail in January illustrated, not only are they publicly embarrassing, they can be commercially...

Industry insight: VMC features a packed conference programme

VMC - back with a bang for the 10th anniversary

The BPIF’s Visual Media Conference (VMC) event returns to Leeds’ Rose Bowl on 4 April 2023, for the first time in three years.

Full marks: Baker (L) with operator Stone: “We have been singing from the rooftops about it”

Me & My: SwissQprint Nyala 4

A grant of £54,200 from New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) Growing Business Fund helped to fund a new 3.2x2m flatbed/roll printer at CIM Signs & Graphics, a sign printing and installation...

“HP customers have the flexibility now to run a variety of jobs with limited  paper waste”

Star product: HP PageWide Advantage 2200

A high-quality, high-throughput inkjet web press flexible enough to change with the user’s needs.

Tokyo's Big Sight expo centre hosted IGAS 2022

IGAS 2022: Tokyo story

Japan combines a modern high-tech industrialised economy with a lively print market that has led to a large number of printing equipment suppliers playing an outsize role internationally. So it’s...