
Overmatter: Wales hits the wall
Overmatter is delighted to hear news of Welsh printing industry folk doing good work in the name of a good cause.

The positive effects of being neutral
Opting to go for carbon neutrality as a corporate goal is not to be taken lightly, says BrunelPrint commercial print director John Tugman. There is nothing neutral about such a move, demanding a...

Look out for your friends when they come to visit
Accidents in printing and its related industries are relatively uncommon but when they do happen, the outcome is all too often life-changing or, worse still, fatal.

Books take off as readers rekindle a love of print
It’s fair to say that the mood at the recent London Book Fair was pretty upbeat. Nielsen Book Research provided its latest findings on the eve of the show and its report made for positive reading –...

‘We want to be seen as number one in terms of quality’
With Fespa’s Global Expo just under a month away, chief executive Neil Felton talks about the organisation’s split personality, and how, despite representing different things to different people, its...

Wide-format sector holding firm in the face of Brexit fears
It happened with a bit of a whimper in the end. After months and months of build-up, Theresa May’s courier delivered a six-page letter to European Council chief Donald Tusk, and with that the process...

Q&A: Zoe Deadman Sales manager, KCS Print
Zoe is relatively new to the industry having spent three years in print, but as she was brought up in a printing family she “learned a lot at the dinner table”.

Boss is caught in The Act printing provocative tome
London-based Boss Print has taken on many innovative projects over the years, but it has rarely been faced with anything as boundary pushing as The Act, a retrospective from fine art photographer...

Don’t drop prices if things go tits up
Sad news from Essex, with what looks like the imminent demise of the UK’s largest single-site commercial sheetfed printer, Anton Group.

Toner specialist turns on to inkjet
It’s all change at Xeikon. As of next month the Belgian digital press manufacturer will have a new chief executive. And as of last month this long-time exponent of the merits of toner-based print...

A personal approach wins new ground for digital tech
Conventional wisdom has it that digital printing is best suited to short-run applications with very limited opportunities in packaging, which is mainly a business of very long runs.

Star product: Canon Océ Colorado 1640
The Colorado is the first printer to use Canon Océ’s new UVgel ink.