Focus on the future for a longer life

January is always one of the toughest months for print, and this year seems to have been no exception.

Q&A: Adam Roppert, production manager, Imprint Digital

Adam is 34 years old and as far as we know he’s the first former tank soldier to appear in PrintWeek’s Q&A. He has been in the printing industry for seven years and describes life with a young family...

Spend smart and enhance your portfolio

Oriel Printing Company had high hopes for its new print-enhancement service offering UV-based polymer varnishing and spot foiling. It was to be, according to the business, the first trade Scodix...

The publishers who put it all together

Which part of the magazine publishing sector has a colossal advertising spend yet doesn’t sell advertising in its titles, publishes new products every year, in two tightly defined timeframes and knows...

Overmatter: font of pleasure

Overmatter is convinced there is a deep and long-standing connection between the printing and brewing industries. Beer taps are, after all, called ‘fonts’.

60 seconds with Direct to Media Print

Direct to Media Print (DTM) was born out of Peerless Plastics & Coatings, a specialist in protective coatings for a multitude of different products.

Killer app: Celloglas ensures Computer Arts is up to scratch

Computer Arts magazine doesn’t like to hold back with the design of its covers. In 2015, the UK’s Top 30 Design Studios’ edition employed heat-sensitive inks on the cover and the year before it was...

The five pillars of sustainable production

Green credentials are no longer simply an attractive business bolt-on. Companies in all sectors demonstrating a commitment to reducing their environmental impact not only enjoy reduced costs, an...

Star product: Vivid Easymount Air EMA-1600SH

A wide-format thermal laminator with a pneumatic pressure system.

Me & my: Roland DG TrueVis VG-640

Over the past 10 years Perth-based husband-and-wife team Gary and Elizabeth Paterson have expanded from running a graphic design business in a converted garage into a full creative service with...

'Talk about value, not just the price’

It’s safe to say that the Independent Print Industries Association is not exactly the best-known trade body in print. But that’s not a concern for chief executive Marian Stefani, nor part of her...

Serial phoenixers give us all a bad rep

The print industry, like many others with room for consolidation, has a bustling M&A market, which in an ideal world would be characterised by honest, straightforward transactions where jobs are saved...