Features

Best of British: engine of industry

Industrial Inkjet is a UK manufacturer with strong Japanese connections and an obsession with testing.

Digital’s corrugated coming of age

Converters and printers are getting imaginative with the latest digital tech.

Star product: Solimar ReadyPDF Prepress Server

A high-speed, high-volume PDF optimisation and preflight tool.

Star product: Hohner HSB 13.000 saddle-stitcher

This high-speed saddle-stitcher was revamped in 2020 and now boasts some smart features for remote diagnostics alongside a huge variety of options, making it a very versatile performer.

Cottee: “The main reason we looked at the Duplo was because of the ease-of-use operating the software. It’s been a revelation”

Me & My: Duplo PFi Blade

BCA Group in Enfield is a long-established family printing business that’s managed to adapt to changing times and fortunes for more than four decades. First set up in 1980 by Brian Cottee, it’s...

Oliver: “Would happily buy again”

Me & my: Tekcel EXR

Upgrading its router has not only made H&H Reeds faster and more flexible, it has made the company a nicer place to work too.

Davies: "Dream bigger"

Q&A: Heather Davies, finance director, Fuller Davies

Heather retired in mid-April, having worked at Ipswich-based Fuller Davies since the firm’s inception some “35-plus years ago”. Her retirement plans include “spending special time with my three...

Rising star: Ronan McKechnie, lithographic apprentice, CPI William Clowes

Ronan is 20 years old and has been working in the industry since the summer of 2017. Earlier this year he was awarded Learner of the Year by specialist training provider Learn2Print, which provides...

60 seconds with Imprint Digital 

Keith Sutherland started the firm that became Imprint Digital in 1972 when he was “thrown out of university for failing to do any work on my Masters’ degree”. This was because he was also organising a...

Clarity is key when it comes to driving change

Celebrating 50 years of operation this year, Southend-based Formara Print & Marketing has, incredibly, come through the past 12 months unscathed. Stronger even. But over the past two decades the road...

No jab, no job?

Just over a year ago, Covid-19 developed from a localised outbreak in a Chinese province to a global pandemic.

Reputation rescue

Reputations, like trust, are hard to earn and easy to lose. Threats to a reputation come in many forms – rivals making underhand allegations, activity by state-run organs and malevolence in elements...

The new face of recruitment

The adoption of technology is relentless, but businesses – and that technology – still need people. Whether it’s for management, the shop floor, accounts or deliveries, people make the world go around...

Best of British: Finishing firsts

TS Converting Equipment is a multimillion-pound converting specialist built on a long history of innovation.

Keeping it all running

While an older machine might still be the perfect tool for a particular job, they are more prone to breakdown, and finding parts will only get harder and harder.