Disciplines

Agfa snaps up Ipagsa for lower-cost offering

Agfa Graphics is expanding its market reach with the acquisition of the pre-press business of Spanish manufacturer Ipagsa.

Route One to take UK's first Landa S10P

Route One Print will become the first UK company to install a Landa S10P Nanographic printing press, in a move the firm believes will help facilitate a broader shift to print-on-demand models.

PDF 2.0: Scene-setter, not a game-changer

After 10 years in the making, it looks like PDF 2.0 will finally reach real world users in the next year or so. Since the 1990s PDF has been the dominant format used to deliver document files for...

Star product: CSL DuraUV 1600

A tweaked Roland opens up new UV LED-based possibilities.

Understand your own value and clients’ needs

It’s a familiar refrain. The customer tells you they consider their suppliers to be ‘partners’. Yet when it comes to the crunch, their priority appears to be screwing you down in price to get the job...

Cool heads keep sector calm under pressure

In the world of report and accounts production, R&A could just as well stand for ‘reliable and accurate’ as that’s exactly what printers who operate in this space need to be.

New leadership sets out targets for growth

Signs Express rates itself the largest sign company in the UK and Ireland, with more centres than any other business in the industry.

Saxon distills the essence of Moonshine into packs

O’Donnell Moonshine spirits come in four different flavours, each with a name more colourful and evocative than the last – ‘High Proof’, ‘Roasted Apple’, ‘Bitter Rose’, and ‘Tough Nut’. Flavours this...

Print can adapt to climate change

There’s been a definite whiff of autumn in the air this past week after what has been a long, hot summer. Unfortunately, it’s become increasingly apparent that the white heat of some very tough...

Corbyn seeks to revive local papers

For each ally Jeremy Corbyn wins, he seems to make a new enemy too.