McNally: “The quality of it is really impressive and the speed is impressive”

Me & My: Mimaki UJF-6042 MkII e

Thanks to a relatively modest investment, this manufacturer has slashed sample delivery times for potential customers.

Overmatter: miniature marvels

What have we here? Teeny tiny replicas of 8in floppy discs and a 1:12 scale model of an Epson RF 80 FT dot matrix printer, complete with punched computer paper. Remember them?

Webster: Dairy Milk fan

Q&A: Graham Webster Business development executive, Tradeprint

Graham has worked at Tradeprint for five years, and also plays part-time professional football for Montrose FC.

60 seconds with: King Print 

In a coronation year, what better than to feature King Print of Kingsbridge? The firm started life in 1992 as a print and copy shop “with the first colour copier in town”, and the following year added...

Patel: targeting traffic lights

Rising star: Jay Patel Senior digital press operator, Micropress 

Jay is 26 and started out as an apprentice at Micropress Printers in Reydon, Suffolk in September 2020.

Fitting a quart into a pint pot

The Covid pandemic changed so much. It redefined retail, forced organisations to change working practices, led to the rise of remote working, and proved that technology has a very distinct role to...

Don’t let the bast**ds in

Hardly a day goes by without a warning or headline about scams. Employee frauds, push payment, or errant suppliers short-changing customers, the level of activity is rising, despite the actions of...

You're hired!

There are several routes into the world of print but one, the apprenticeship, can bring the young into an ageing sector and enable businesses to mould recruits to their way of working.

"The vehicle is used for deliveries most days, so we had to work around that too"

Killer App: Minuteman Press Bath dresses van to plug city festival

The past few months have seen several major cultural events that generated large amounts of print – the Coronation of King Charles III and Eurovision in Liverpool to name two – but the usual busy...

Much has changed in the  digital colour space over the past eight years

Drupa visitors can expect a digital print wonderland

The options for digital colour have come a long way, and the market is now fiercely competitive.

Print remains stubbornly a pale and male sector

Despite some increase in the number of women employed in the industry, print continues to stand out as a particularly non-diverse sector. But why? And what should be done?

With wide-format confidence continuing to increase, visitors to Fespa’s flagship expo were on the hunt for inspiration

Growth high on the agenda at Fespa 2023

After years spent in recovery post-pandemic, many wide-format printers have now finally broken free from the shackles of Covid and – despite, or perhaps because of, the other many current external...