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Overmatter: Wear your Wordle
Hands up who’s become horribly addicted to the cult daily work-out-the-word game, Wordle?

Me & My: Horizon BQ-160 PUR perfect binder
Allistair Hunter, managing director of Clacton-on-Sea-based print, direct mail and publishing business The DS Group says that to be successful in the printing industry and enjoy longevity you have to...

Star product: Hybrid Software Cloudflow
Workflow automation for packaging and labelling businesses.

Star product: Koenig & Bauer Durst VariJet 106
This press partnership sets out to offer the best of digital and offset for packaging printers.

Design for print: stalled potential?
Today’s design and layout programs are really good. So good in fact, that there’s not a lot that could make them better. And that is a problem for their developers and also for their users.

Star product: Mutoh XpertJet Pro series
Manufacturer’s upgraded inkjets offer both speed and quality boosts.

Me & My: Vivid Laminating Technologies VeloBlade Volta 69+
Brighton-based One Digital had always outsourced die-cutting jobs. It had a sizeable array of equipment in its factory that allowed it to take on all manner of digital and litho work, including a...

Overmatter: Check your cheques
Cheques are just so last century, aren’t they? But not for Overmatter, oh no. So it was exciting to see a cheque doing a very 21st-century social media thing – going viral – thanks to a data file...

Q&A: Neil Martin, print post and paper procurement manager, Tesco
Neil is “a young at heart, sixty-something singleton” who started his print career in 1977. He enjoys eating out, going on the occasional holiday, and spending his time with his daughter.

Rising star: Josh Phizacklea Procurement assistant, James Cropper
Josh is 26 and has been working in the industry – in his case papermaking at Cumbrian manufacturer James Cropper – since 2014.