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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.

60 seconds with Maskot
Is this the UK’s most northerly printing company? Established in 2015, Maskot started as a small graphic design company providing brand identity and development services.

Signs 24-7 prints windows of opportunity for Cheshire’s high streets
Cheshire West and Chester Council was keen to brighten up several high streets across the region to encourage more footfall and help its post-pandemic bounce back.