Digital’s diversity of opportunities

At the last Drupa, the undoubted star of the show, Benny Landa, claimed that only 2% of worldwide print volumes are produced on digital presses. Whatever margin of error you build into that, it’s...

60 seconds with White Duck Screen Print

White Duck began as a means to pool the skills and passions of its two founders: Rebecca Cleal, photographer and designer, and Joshua Roberton, screen printer. The firm began printing t-shirts back in...

Overmatter: bowing out

Regular readers may recall that Immediate Media paper manager Steve Wehrle is one of just a dozen ‘ever presents’ who’ve run every single London Marathon since the race’s inception in 1981.

Q&A: Josh Mumford Digital press operator apprentice, Healeys Print Group

Josh is new to the print industry, and is just three months into his apprenticeship in this marvellous industry of ours. When not at work his hobbies including football, music, cinema, and watching...

Lustalux installs new graphic wall hanging

Preston-based wide-format graphics company Lustalux has printed and installed a new graphic wall hanging at the Royal Preston Hospital

PwC confirms Polestar job cuts

Administrators at PricewaterhouseCoopers have confirmed that 183 redundancies have been made at Polestar.

Pre-packing Armageddon

Jo Francis ponders the motivation behind Polestar's pre-pack

Avery Dennison set to acquire Mactac Europe

Global manufacturer Avery Dennison has agreed to acquire the European business of graphic and label media manufacturer Mactac, in a deal worth around $200m (£137m).

Time Inc 'working closely' with Polestar administrator

Time Inc’s Guy Gleysteen has jetted into the UK to address the crisis in the publisher’s supply chain due to the situation at Polestar.

Vision Paper & Board extends Celebr8 Occasions

Vision Paper & Board has extended a range of graphical coated boards to target the greetings card market.

Print manufacturers react to IET Brexit warnings

UK print industry manufacturers Xaar and Morgana Systems have reacted to a claim that exiting the EU would be "a wholesale risk to engineering in the UK".

Packaids installs OmniFold 3000

Berkshire-based print finisher Packaids has invested in the first Kluge OmniFold 3000 folding and gluing system to be installed in the UK and Ireland.