Features

Kriswillcode's clever design for the Wordle score badge. Image: Kriswillcode

Overmatter: Wear your Wordle

Hands up who’s become horribly addicted to the cult daily work-out-the-word game, Wordle?

Hunter: “The speed and ease-of-use is exactly what we need”

Me & My: Horizon BQ-160 PUR perfect binder

Allistair Hunter, managing director of Clacton-on-Sea-based print, direct mail and publishing business The DS Group says that to be successful in the printing industry and enjoy longevity you have to...

Star product: Hybrid Software Cloudflow

Workflow automation for packaging and labelling businesses.

Varijet 106: production powerhouse

Star product: Koenig & Bauer Durst VariJet 106

This press partnership sets out to offer the best of digital and offset for packaging printers.

Serif Affinity Publisher: competes with InDesign

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.

A passion for training: “Our factory is made up of 50% skilled former apprentices”

Best of British: Thinking inside the box

Avid readers of Printweek’s news pages may recall that in September 2018 the German finishing systems manufacturer Kolbus bought a British boxmaking machinery manufacturer called British Converting...

Best of British: A focus on building business intelligence

Lancashire’s finest and, as far as we know, only print MIS developer, Tharstern, has been around since the 1980s and continues to adapt and innovate as print changes into ever more automated...

Star product: Mutoh XpertJet Pro series

Manufacturer’s upgraded inkjets offer both speed and quality boosts.

Poland: “It’s been a blinding machine and a good addition to our range of equipment"

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...

Martin: loves a machine with a ladder

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.

"I’m a big fan of looking at improvements within my work"

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.

The UK’s most northerly printing company? 

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.

Widely spaced work stations enabled the firm to continue through lockdowns

Business inspection: Incremental automation sends revenue rocketing

In 2008, Matt Dahan was living and working as a freelance photographer in Australia when he had something of a lightbulb moment.

The consequences of failure

Businesses are aware of what follows from any failure to adhere to, or fulfil, a contract. They know they’ll suffer non-payment, loss of reputation and risk legal action.