12 November 2018
| by Simon Eccles
One of the pioneers of desktop publishing software, Serif Software is a 31-year-old all-British company that four years ago reinvented its product range to suit the new era of affordable, downloadable professional apps.
29 October 2018
| by Simon Eccles
Super-quick cut-sheet inkjet colour press at a compelling price.
01 October 2018
| by Simon Eccles
At the end of last year the First 4 Group spent around £250,000 on a pair of new Italian-made envelope enclosing lines, a CMC 9000 and a smaller CMC 250, replacing a pair of older machines.
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
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