Simon Eccles
Best of British: The road to success
Taopix was one of the first software developers to come up with a commercially successful system that allowed printers to implement web-to-print ordering for photobooks, since expanded to a range of...
Star product: Ultimate TechnoGraphics Ultimate Bindery 5.8
A unique solution for creating and testing finishing workflows.
Star product: Roland DG VersaObject MO-240
A compact high-resolution colour printer for 3D objects.
Me & My: KSP rigid boxmaking system
Not too long ago there was a branch of specialist packaging with the wonderfully evocative description ‘fancy boxes’. Sadly, the ‘fancy’ tag has more or less died out nowadays, but demand for robust...
Coatings clean & green
Nu-Coat prides itself on being the world’s first carbon-neutral manufacturer of self-adhesive products for the sign and graphics sectors. Only set up in 2018 and despite the challenges of lockdowns...
Reliving the colours of an earlier world
It’s easy to think of the past in black and white. The family photographs, movies, books and magazines we see from 100 years ago or older, are resolutely monochrome. We know that people of the times...
Star product: Axzyra AX-Ultra
A single-pass printer for boxes, paper bags, tote bags, folders, canvas frames and more. It runs at speeds that set it apart from the competition and boasts a price point that makes it difficult to...
Me & My: Zakeke visual commerce platform
Online personalisation can be big business in difficult times, if you approach it carefully. The early promise of personalised photobooks disappeared into the clutches of big suppliers who can use a...
Me & My: Koenig & Bauer Rapida 145
Back in March Offset Print & Packaging started the complex installation of the latest, whizziest iteration of Koenig & Bauer’s large-format Rapida offset press, the 145. This is the first one in the...
Best of British: The genies of the lamp
Just as the UK has a cluster of inkjet developers which one way or another can trace their origins back to Cambridge University colleges, it also has a crop of innovative UV curing lamp makers whose...