Features

Not too long ago there was a branch of specialist packaging with the wonderfully evocative description ‘fancy boxes’. Sadly, the ‘fancy’ tag has more or less died out nowadays, but demand for robust...

Show organisers are preparing to open the doors for the Fespa Global Print Expo 2024, to be held in Amsterdam in March. 

The ins and outs of American football are a mystery to Overmatter. But the hoopla around the annual Super Bowl event is always something to behold.

Chris has worked in print since 1992. He started at the Financial Times newspaper aged 21 “which was quite the experience and baptism of fire into the world of print!”

Medicine’s loss is print’s gain! Becky is 19 and has been working at Glasgow-based J Thomson Colour Printers since April 2022.

Surf & Turf is a family-owned business, established in 2001, and best known for its custom-printed gazebos. The company’s journey began in an outhouse in founder Simon Lunt’s backyard.

There’s an old adage in the world of accounting: ‘don’t let the tax tail wag the investment dog’. In essence, we, whether as individuals or in business, shouldn’t make moves to minimise tax that might...

The trade is well aware – or should be so by now – of the government’s Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (EPR) legislation that aims to move the full cost of managing household waste onto...

For any one of a myriad of reasons, certain people manage to rise above others. But what makes a great leader – someone who is successful in their chosen field, a person that is revered and admired,...

Merry Hill shopping centre near Dudley has been undergoing a five-year, £50m metamorphosis. One of the largest such centres in the country, it features over two hundred shops, a bus station and a...

Nu-Coat prides itself on being the world’s first carbon-neutral manufacturer of self-adhesive products for the sign and graphics sectors. Only set up in 2018 and despite the challenges of lockdowns...

It’s easy to think of the past in black and white. The family photographs, movies, books and magazines we see from 100 years ago or older, are resolutely monochrome. We know that people of the times...

A single-pass printer for boxes, paper bags, tote bags, folders, canvas frames and more. It runs at speeds that set it apart from the competition and boasts a price point that makes it difficult to...

Online personalisation can be big business in difficult times, if you approach it carefully. The early promise of personalised photobooks disappeared into the clutches of big suppliers who can use a...

Back in March Offset Print & Packaging started the complex installation of the latest, whizziest iteration of Koenig & Bauer’s large-format Rapida offset press, the 145. This is the first one in the...