Disciplines

CS Labels to double facility size in £3m investment
CS Labels will relocate to a new manufacturing facility and bring in a raft of new Xeikon label presses as part of a £3m investment, described as a “logical progression” for the firm.

Asos Magazine struts its stuff at 100 issues
Asos marked the 100th issue of its quarterly customer-loyalty magazine by making it available online for anyone to buy.

How much heavy lifting can your computers take on?
Machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics have dominated every technology conference, tradeshow and summit in the past six months.

Star product: Barbieri Spectro LFP qb
The latest plug and play spectro from the Italian manufacturer.

Me & my: Alwan Color Suite 6
Hine Labels in Rotherham loved its second digital colour press, a Dainippon Screen Truepress Jet 350UV+ narrow-web UV inkjet model installed a couple of years ago.

Overmatter: tempura-ray setback
Our excitement that one of print’s own could carry off the Masterchef trophy at the end of the show’s new season has proved to be sadly short-lived.

60 seconds with Serious Print Group
Serious Print Group started “out of an imminent redundancy” at a company managing director Nick Henry worked for in 2009. “I got together with three other guys that worked there one Friday afternoon...

Q&A Kerry Leach Prepress/Graphic Designer, Northside Graphics and DigitalPrinting.co.uk
Kerry is 24 years old and has been working for Northside Graphics for almost four years. She began her time with Northside as a placement student working towards a degree in Graphic Design &...

Perfect storm drives ink price hikes
It’s unlikely to have escaped anybody’s attention that consumables costs have been steadily on the up lately.

Online-only retailer can’t resist the power of print
Fashion retailer Asos has largely existed only in abstract cyberspace since its inception – one of the most recognisable brands to be truly online-only. But even Asos cannot deny the power of print,...