17 September 2018
| by Simon Eccles
When A3 Design & Print installed its second Heidelberg Versafire CP digital press earlier this year, managing director Tony Pooles named them Victoria and Albert following a poll on social media.
03 September 2018
| by Simon Eccles
After 10 years in the making, it looks like PDF 2.0 will finally reach real world users in the next year or so. Since the 1990s PDF has been the dominant format used to deliver document files for printing.
13 August 2018
| by Simon Eccles
The UK printing industry’s favourite magazine launched in 1958 as The Litho Printer and, via a number of different guises, has for the past six decades covered every technological development; every merger; every brilliant start-up and every sad demise; and the careers of every ‘diamond geezer’ in the industry (as well as a few dodgy ones).
13 August 2018
| by Simon Eccles
Greens the Signmakers is a long-established digital printer and signmaker based in Kingston upon Hull. It was founded in 1963 by Reg Green, originally a traditional signwriter who hand-painted commercial liveries such as coaches.
23 July 2018
| by Simon Eccles
Frip Finishing’s origins stretch back almost half a century, to the founding of Impact Printing Company in Scotland in 1970, supplying cheque printers and MICR ribbons to the security sector.
09 July 2018
| by Simon Eccles
One of the largest point-of-sale printers in the UK, SMP Group operates from a factory in south-east London, between Greenwich and Woolwich.
09 July 2018
| by Simon Eccles
Canon comes late to the digital labels market, albeit with a high-end offering
25 June 2018
| by Simon Eccles
Xanté’s new X-32 is an all-new heavy-duty flatbed UV direct-to-object printer with a particularly deep bed capability, capable of printing directly onto large items as long as they have a reasonably flat target surface.
11 June 2018
| by Simon Eccles
A fast and simple laminating system that can handle single- and double-sided jobs up to B2.
29 May 2018
| by Simon Eccles
A quarter century has passed since serious proposals were first made for six- and seven-colour process sets to replace the need for spot colour inks.
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