Disciplines

Overmatter: bags of style

Overmatter has an expensive tea habit. It must be Yorkshire Gold or nothing.

Dennis reproduces Arctic map for Antarctic team

Laura Gerrish, mapping specialist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), knows better than most that our polar icecaps are changing at a rapid rate that printed maps cannot keep up with.

Paper cuts into polywrap’s dominance

Take-up of paper wrapping in favour of polywrapping by publishers is gathering pace with three major media groups opting to make switches, including venerable weekly Country Life moving to paper wrap...

Government plan could be boon for Yorkshire’s creatives

With an economy worth an estimated £110bn per year, it is perhaps unsurprising that Yorkshire is not shy in shouting proudly about its successes, and it is against this backdrop that Yorkshire Day is...

Big news from PrintWeek Towers

**Klaxon** Important announcement to follow: from September, PrintWeek will become a monthly magazine.

Identity politics: a rebrand is more than just a makeover

As the industry barrels forward at an accelerating pace, the worst thing for a business is to be left behind. That could take many forms: shortfalls could be either financial or technological, but a...

Printers play it cool for festival fever

While many of us will be looking at the summer through the office or factory window, certain members of the printer fraternity are lucky enough to be spending it attending the long list of amazing...

Best of British: Hamillroad’s big screen test

How does a small Cambridge developer produce halftone screening software intended to outperform the big pre-press players? This is the story of Hamillroad, which sells advanced Digitally Modulated...

Star product: MGI AlphaJet

MGI’s do-it-all B1 inkjet is now set for beta trials.

Chapel shoulders increased workload with new Speedmaster

Chapel Press has bought a five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 75 to accommodate a recent surge in orders.