Des King

Manufacturing a cure for toxic errors is getting simpler

Swiss-made is synonymous with a meticulous attention to detail, reliable performance and unimpeachable standards. Think watches, chocolate, banking, the Red Cross and Roger Federer.

Innovative printing techs to help keep consumers healthy

Horsemeat in our lasagnes and campylobacter bacteria on our chicken packaging: two of the higher-profile food scares to hit our headlines of late. Understandably given the stakes, grocery food...

The pull package: why attention-grabbing packaging print will be emphasised at Drupa 2012

Research into consumer behavioural patterns in-store indicates that, on average, three out of every four items that end up in the shopping basket are impulse purchases made in about five seconds....

Is Heidelberg covering its bases or hedging its bets?

It's taken Heidelberg over five years in development to bring on-stream the largely home-grown Linoprint DoD reel-to-reel digital inkjet solution.

Used-kit dealers fulfil a worthy role

There are some who might see used machinery dealers as the industry's carrion crows, picking over the entrails within minutes of the liquidators moving in as yet another otherwise sound business falls...

UV curing sets out to woo wide-format

What do you do when you've honed a solution so finely to match the requirements of your chosen market that any further development is more enhancement than evolution? Some technology suppliers might...

Finishing still needs the human touch

Perhaps I haven't always been as attentive as I should in pondering the intricacies of saddlestitching. That all changed the other week, when I idly smoothed open an A5 promotional mailer and my left...

Finishing is key to cards that deliver

Christmas is definitely on the cards this month, though it's anyone's guess whether it'll be a white one, a green one or the grey of economic gloom. For those seasonally merry men at Nottingham's...

If you want to get ahead, get a niche

We have the poet John Milton to thank for the observation that "they also serve who only stand and wait", subsequently corrupted into that rather backhanded and patronising compliment "good things...

UK remains immune to the Drupa bug

HR departments around the country are already fully stretched treating cases of DFS (AKA Drupa fatigue syndrome). There's a lot of it about; not least in the pages of this issue.