Lisa Berwin
Buyers' Guide: Sheetfed offset & screen process inks
<b>Buying all consumables from one supplier optimises the overall package, even though it might mean paying a bit more for ink, writes Lisa Berwin</b>
Buyers' guide: MIS
With competition for every scrap of print business extremely fierce at the moment, measuring and understanding costs and being able to respond quickly to customer demands is even more important than...
Buyers' guide: Inline digital ?nishing
Printers were not convinced about the benefits of inline digital finishing until fairly recently. The fear was that it would slow down their machines and, more worryingly, impact productivity.
Buyers' guide: Process controls
Colour management is not an area in which everyone has been willing to invest time and money. However, moving forward, it could prove an extremely important and competitively advantageous asset.
Buyers' guide: Coated board
It's been a turbulent year for the coated board market with prices soaring and supply to the UK market under serious strain.
Buyers' guide: Screen process presses
In an increasingly digital world, the screen press still has its place and, even though it's become more of a niche operation in recent years, it has a great many practitioners and admirers. While the...
Learned ways to reduce duplication
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) is redefining its guidelines in an effort to pool together the resources of universities and colleges and minimise any duplication of costs. As...
Canon iR110
Although Canon had a strong brand and established market share of the office sector by the end of 1990s, its commercial presence had not yet reached the same heady heights. So in 2001, the company...
Ryobi 512
In the early 90s, Ryobi found itself facing a dilemma. Its customers that were using the single-colour 500K machine were increasingly asking for a two-colour press, while customers that were using its...
Flexo, letterpress and gravure inks
Gravure inks, in comparison to offset inks, are a lot less viscous. The gravure printing process requires liquid ink, which fills the cells of the printing cylinders at a high speed. To keep the...