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Harry Gilmore webs up the film on his Micro B2 single and double-sided film laminator, loads in his sheets of paper and sets the temperature gauge to 120ºC.
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Ten ways to cut your business costs
11 May 2012Print firms are no strangers to the discipline of cost reduction. For years, the industry has been caught between the internet, print management firms and increasingly severe recessions. Budgets have fallen, company sales have been hit and, for many ...
"I'm more energised and excited than ever": an interview with Benny Landa
02 May 2012Can Benny Landa do it again? He spearheaded the digital printing revolution in 1993 when he launched his Indigo E-Print 1000, promising "a print run of one". Now, after selling Indigo to HP in 2001, he has sensationally returned to print with Landa D...
Digital finishes first in the race for run-lengths: Drupa post-press preview
27 April 2012The job of the finishing manufacturer is generally a reactive one: whatever the press manufacturers, both digital and litho, have planned for the future, the finishing manufacturers must be able to offer something that fits at the end of the line. So...
Warming up for 'the Olympics of print': your guide to Drupa 2012
04 May 2012B2 or not B2? That is the question digital manufacturers have been asking themselves pre-Drupa and - for the most part - they have opted for the affirmative answer. So much so, in fact, that some are already calling Drupa 2012 'the B2 Drupa'. However...
An expertise in inline innovation
27 April 2012A creative approach to inline manufacturing has given this mailing house an edge
Briefing
Sector responds to gov't initiative that takes no prisoners
11 May 2012When Graham Baker, managing director of Scarbutts Printers, read in his local newspaper that the printshop at Maidstone Prison had won a multi-million-pound printing contract from the private sector, he saw red.
Could postal deregulation bring about a two-tier service?
04 May 2012When TNT Post announced in 2009 that it was to undertake a small-scale trial providing an end-to-end (E2E) mailing service delivering directly to households and businesses in Liverpool, more than a few eyebrows were raised.
Will DM technology usher in a new screening revolution?
27 April 2012Whether, conventional, stochastic or hybrid, or to use their respective abbreviations AM, FM or XM, halftone screens have long been associated with improving print quality. From the mid-nineties to the mid-noughties there was a rush of screening adva...
Printers say ill-considered pre-packs still need regulation
20 April 2012Pre-packs, and their more infamous relation, the phoenix, have been a feature of the print industry since the Enterprise Act 2002 made administration the dominant form of insolvency. As with many legislative reforms, the aim was noble but the consequ...
Has higher education shut the door on print apprentices?
16 April 2012Leeds City College's decision to close its in-house print facility is yet another blow for print industry training, especially when set against a decade of decline in the number of skills-based print courses available in the UK.
Comment and Opinion
Quantum boasts ambition, but can Xeikon live up to it?
16 March 2012It is no secret that inkjet will be big at Drupa 2012 and the most likely label for the 2012 iteration of the world's largest graphic arts trade show will be 'Inkjet Drupa' (again). It's too early, though, to count out toner-based technology and apar...
Toner-based print still has a few surprises up its sleeves
16 March 2012With less than 50 days to go until Drupa 2012, the four-year buzz is building to fever pitch. The launch announcements have been coming thick and fast and we have seen the likes of Esko, HP, Kodak and Xeikon all set out their Drupa stalls.
Marketers and printers as one: a Red Sofa interview with Pitney Bowes' Christoph Stehmann
11 May 2012Christoph Stehmann, Pitney Bowes vice-president of document messaging technologies talks to Darryl Danielli
Buy presses now, or wait for the next generation?
11 May 2012What is more important: the future or the present? At Drupa 2012, the answer depends on who you're talking to and where they are in their product development cycle. Digital manufacturers like Xeikon and Landa, who are several years away from commerci...
Printing in prison could help industry if properly placed
11 May 2012Four years ago I visited Maidstone prison - not at Her Majesty's pleasure, I hasten to add, but for a feature - and came away impressed by what they were trying to achieve. The print shop manager told me at the time that the goal wasn't necessarily t...
'Focus on post-press and value': a Red Sofa interview with Horizon's Eijiro Hori
09 May 2012Eijiro Hori, president of leading post-press equipment manufacturer Horizon, talks to Darryl Danielli
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