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In On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin points out that it’s not the strongest or most intelligent of the species that survives, but the one that’s most adaptable to change.

Brexit may have disappeared from the news headlines in recent months but that doesn’t negate the fact that it’s meant firms have had to adapt to continue to trade in what is a huge market on our...

Print Station has an unusual origin story. Starting off as a team of DJs rocking the kasbah at weddings and bar mitzvahs, the company of disc-spinners realised it could offer print as an additional...

Just as the UK has a cluster of inkjet developers which one way or another can trace their origins back to Cambridge University colleges, it also has a crop of innovative UV curing lamp makers whose...

Labelexpo Europe made a welcome return in Brussels in September, after the lockdown hiatus, with manufacturers taking a broader focus than purely labels.

Ricoh’s new flagship toner press, targeted at high-volume commercial print operations, boasts a new print engine and significant improvements to quality, speed, automation and media range.

In 2015, Peter Haddad started a print business called Apprintable from his garage.

This is an online print personalisation service, aimed at the B2C market that enables customers to upload, edit and integrate their designs into a huge variety of printed products, such as giftware...

Here’s another pioneering British developer that grew up in the inkjet hothouse around Cambridge.

Overmatter wonders whether any prescient printing industry folk have manufacturer merch worth thousands of pounds squirrelled away at the back of the wardrobe?

David, also known as ‘Pez’ is 61 and has worked H&H Reeds for 45 years – we reckon he must be print’s longest-serving punk!

Robyn is 26, and has been working in the industry since 2021. Her focus at Coveris is on sustainable packaging.

Few, if any, businesses have survived the economic maelstrom of the last few years by sheer good luck.

Orchard Press was established 36 years ago and was owned by the Rowley family for 27 years. In 2014, Jason Grubb was approached with an opportunity to buy the business.

The UK’s data protection regime that came about following the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the subsequent new Data Protection Act (DPA), is around five years old...