Simon Eccles

Best of British

Always adding value

For almost 40 years Vivid Laminating Technologies has been serving the print finishing sector, moving with the times as lamination moved from a trade speciality to in-house, with smaller formats...

Low-cost entry to DTG market

Star product: Kornit Apollo

The Apollo is an automated high-speed digital garment press for runs of one up to a few thousand, with a pricing model that could enable printers to break into DTG without breaking the bank.

"It can literally produce anything"

Me & My: Konica Minolta AccurioPress C4070

If you take up residence in an old fire station, you may find that there’s something haunting you from the past. For the Ghostbusters it was a bad case of old spirits.

Developments in robotics

The printbots are coming

Some people were predicting this was going to be an AI Drupa, or an automation Drupa. But most visibly, it was certainly a robot Drupa.

Post-press kit for digital B2

Finishing equipment that goes above and beyond

From the start, manufacturers of B2 digital presses made their compatibility with existing B2 offset finishing installations a big part of their pitch, and this works fine when replacing offset jobs...

Embellishment

Star product: Taktiful Reaktor and Kreator

Taktiful Reaktor and Kreator are two new products intended to help printers design and visualise embellishments.

Cutting tables

Star product: Kongsberg Ultimate

Kongsberg describes this next-generation digital cutting table as a game-changer and promises it will deliver the highest performance on just about any metric you can think of.

Workflow

Me & my: PrintIQ

When the large-format print and installation specialist Wallace Print found that its existing MIS was being stretched to its limits, it looked around for an alternative.

The B2 digital press market

Is B2 digital killing B2 offset press sales? When the first B2 format digital presses were announced at Drupa 2008 and 2012, their makers predicted that they would be bought to complement B2 offset...

UK manufacturing

Best of British: Ink in the veins

For more than 60 years, RK Print Coat instruments has been faithfully serving the global inks and coating sectors with indispensable test kits.