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Ashgate Automation founder John Price passes away

John Price, founder and managing director of Ashgate Automation, has passed away, aged 58.

Q&A: Clive Andrews-Lewis, studio manager, KJB UK

Clive has spent 36 years in print and says it was his vocation right from school, “real man and boy stuff”. Despite the photographic evidence he also says he’s loved all his years in the trade.

60 seconds with SPS Group

SPS Group was founded in 1968 by Ian Martin as a local screen printing business. The firm has developed into a POS and retail specialist employing 175 staff. It is run by Ian’s sons Toby (pictured)...

Business inspection: Eco standard-bearer pushes into Europe

The five-figure investment required to secure the EU Ecolabal was a price well worth paying.

UK print must do more to resolve gender imbalance

In Britain, 2014, the average full-time pay gap between men and women is 10%, women make up just 17% of FTSE 100 board directors, and a quarter of women, according to a recent Business Environment...

Interview: We laud failure, because you learn new things by failing

In 1993, Webmart chief executive Simon Biltcliffe, working at the time as a regional sales director for web offset print at BPC, was sent to Japan on a supplier visit.

Slim down RIPs to beef up efficiency

How times have changed. Just over a decade or so ago, most commercial printers relied on just a CTP for imaging and needed only one RIP, or a workflow with an embedded RIP, to drive it.

Star product: Komfi Spotmatic 54

Komfi's low-cost B2-plus digital spot varnisher.

Me & my: Presstek 52DI-AC

When a print business only four years into its life has 20 staff, a rapidly growing turnover and a raft of machinery investments under its belt, you know it’s doing well.

Singh returns to print with buyout deal

Former Communisis director Gurdev Singh is back in the industry after acquiring a Yorkshire-based printing business.