Disciplines

Give workers a lift and avoid getting a pain in the neck

According to the Health & Safety Executive, manual handling incidents account for over a third of accidents reported in the print trade.

Fespa 2018: stand highlights

What's new and what's hot at the wide-format show

60 seconds with Rondor Printing

Rondor Printing began life in the 1980s and after a couple of changes in ownership during the intervening years, Tracy Cone and Adrian Saunders took over the company in 2017 after working there since...

Overmatter: Ossas?

It’s not every day that a typo will end up getting nearly 50,000 ‘likes’ on Twitter, but that’s exactly what happened when online fashion behemoth ASOS fessed up to a blooper on a batch of its bags,...

Q&A: James Freemantle Proprietor, St James Park Press

James Freemantle is 38 and set up the Press in 2015 to focus on hand-made limited-edition letterpress printed books and ephemera.

The Label Makers conjurs the spirit of the Mary Rose

If you want to name your artisanal gin after King Henry VIII’s prestigious warship the Mary Rose, as the HMS Spirit Company has, you best adorn it with a label to match.

Pay gap figures should prompt printers to walk the walk

Print has long been a man’s game. It doesn’t take a master statistician to deduce from visitor demographics at print trade shows or a walk across a press hall floor that the vast majority of those in...

GDPR spells trouble for lazy marketers

Unless you’ve been living under a stone for the past few months, it can’t have escaped your notice that in a few short weeks the biggest shake up of data regulations in at least two decades will be...

Me & my: Riso ComColor FW5230

Sometimes you just want a no-nonsense machine for no-nonsense jobs. Spectrum Graphics is a small company with a big reputation for all kinds of digital material.

Fespa: global expo takes flight

Fespa’s flagship event, its global print expo, will be held at the Berlin Messe this year, the first time since 2007 the German capital has hosted the expo.