Disciplines

Xerox to show Versants and unveil inline bookletmaker at PWL!

Xerox has unveiled more details of its plans for PrintWeekLive!, where it will officially launch an inline bookletmaker for the Versant.

GIS launches kit to support Fujifilm Dimatix Samba GMA heads

Global Inkjet Systems (GIS) has launched the new GIS Head Management Board (HMB-FD-GMA) to support the Fujifilm Dimatix Samba GMA printhead product line.

Overmatter: hidebound, not!

By way of a complete contrast with the last Overmatter column, which looked at the macabre practice of anthropodermic bibliopegy, we now turn to a rather more 21st-century topic that will be music to...

60 seconds with Sticky Labels

Vine Lodge Products (which trades as Sticky Labels) was set up in 1973 by the father of current managing director Gideon Hall. “He started from our garage with a Tickopress machine.

Make finishing touches the first priority

It started with finishing. Commercial printer PCL Digital was looking to win customers by offering more services. Print was well balanced on supply and demand, so managing director Nick Westley-Smith...

Me & my: Durst Rho 512R

Matt Tydeman is going large again. The managing director of an Essex-based large-format printer was looking for another – better – machine than his existing line-up that included models from...

Can paper replace fantastic plastic?

We’re just a month and a half into 2018 and the packaging industry’s sustainability agenda has been firmly set for the forthcoming year – and indeed beyond.

Star product: EFI Pro 24f

With the Pro 24f, EFI hopes to woo the flatbed faithful to its fold.

Killer app: Boss Print pulls out all the f-stops for photobook

The beauty of the world can be difficult to replicate in print. Cork-born graphic designer David Magee has been capturing lush scenery on camera in his spare time for 25 years. Now, for the first...

Liquidation can send you down the drain

The failure of Carillion, the UK’s second largest construction business, followed the loss of vast sums of money on big contracts and debts totalling more than £1.5bn, including a huge pension...