Chris Jordan

Opportunities abound in digital print

Thinking about and planning for 2009? This we all need: new opportunities; new business options; and ideas to give us inspiration as to how we can grow and prosper. In the digital print world, there...

New chapter in photobook workflow

Over the past three years, demand for personalised digital photobooks, calendars, postcards and yearbooks has increased significantly. As all modern digital printers and presses produce good...

Workflow boom is a business boon

The wide-format, inkjet and super wide-format sector of the digital print market should be on your agenda for a closer look in 2008. It continues to grow at well above 10% per year and offers...

We must differentiate to accumulate

Two months on from Drupa, you could be forgiven for believing that we are in the middle of a major recession, and there is no digital print business to be had. True, the financial services and housing...

Workflow must check all the boxes

Most of the major suppliers including Agfa, Canon, Kodak, Heidelberg and Xerox are pushing a joint offset and digital production workflow. This strategy could work for large printers and service...

High hopes for low-cost file-checking

As the number of digital colour presses - or, as I prefer to call them, 'variable presses' - increases, even in this economic downturn, I continue to search for new inexpensive workflow or high-value...

Joined-up thinking for workflows

The following is an example of how a joined-up workflow can be used to successfully manage the production of complex, cross-media marketing materials, and remain flexible and simple to use.