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KAS Paper Systems

Best of British: Paper masters

Just over 70 years since ES (Edward Stephen) Hampstead set up KAS Paper Systems in New Malden, this British manufacturer is still going strong.

'Transforming' the world of slip case and bottle box production

Star product: Perfect Box Solutions Optimus Prime

Falling somewhere between slow manual boxmaking options and pricey automated systems, this machine may have a familiar face but it is one of a kind – and could have a ‘transformative’ impact.

"Offset quality, digital flexibility and inkjet economics"

Star product: Ricoh Pro Z75

This B2-plus duplexing inkjet press is aiming to take over short-run offset work – and give dry toner digital presses a run for their money – by offering higher capacity but lower operating costs.

Second Nyala investment expected

Me & My: SwissQprint Nyala 4

When GMD Print & Install’s founder Justas Gadliauskas visited SwissQprint’s UK office, he was looking for a used large-format flatbed printer. Instead, with the help of a tailored payment plan...

Beatle fan

Q&A: Ian Cunningham, Global category lead – print, direct mail and branded merchandise, APS Group

Ian is 58 and has worked in the industry for 30 years, having originally trained in graphic design.

Early introduction to print

Rising star: Louisa Stokes Client services administrator, Augustus Martin

Louisa is 21 and started working at Augustus Martin in January 2022.

No job is too small or too big

60 seconds with Fathers Finishers

A dream of Nick Fathers become reality in 2003 when he bit the bullet and started Fathers Finishers.

Overmatter: Who doesn’t love a pull-up banner?

Perhaps more realistically, who does?!

Harwood King has the golden touch

King Midas may have suffered from the blingiest of afflictions, but he probably didn’t know his way around a foiler. Sussex fine art printer Harwood King Printmakers, however, definitely does.

Building a company can be a bruising experience

Business inspection: Signs of strength

"If you don’t have resilience, don’t think about starting your own business. Plain and simple.”

M&A

Caveat emptor

Buying a business out of administration can be profitable in some situations, but it is incumbent on the buyer to understand exactly what they are buying.

Protecting your assets

You couldn’t make it up

Sometimes we come across stories of criminality that are so outlandish as to be unbelievable – where the brass neck of the perpetrators is beyond belief. Yet these stories are often, remarkably, true.

Wide-format's gala expo

Visionaries welcome

The Fespa Global Print Expo is the wide-format print organisation’s annual flagship event, this year being held at the Messe Berlin, with the city proud of its 200-year history of holding trade events...

Global Print Expo

Fespa 2025 stand highlights

The wide-format sector’s big annual shindig is back, this year hosted in trendy and vibrant Berlin, with a focus on innovation and the potential within the sector.

Best of British: Elephantine ambitions

Metallic Elephant is an Essex- based company that says it’s the only UK based manufacturer of new-design hot foiling and embossing machines.