The Label Makers conjurs the spirit of the Mary Rose

If you want to name your artisanal gin after King Henry VIII’s prestigious warship the Mary Rose, as the HMS Spirit Company has, you best adorn it with a label to match.

Pay gap figures should prompt printers to walk the walk

Print has long been a man’s game. It doesn’t take a master statistician to deduce from visitor demographics at print trade shows or a walk across a press hall floor that the vast majority of those in...

GDPR spells trouble for lazy marketers

Unless you’ve been living under a stone for the past few months, it can’t have escaped your notice that in a few short weeks the biggest shake up of data regulations in at least two decades will be...

Me & my: Riso ComColor FW5230

Sometimes you just want a no-nonsense machine for no-nonsense jobs. Spectrum Graphics is a small company with a big reputation for all kinds of digital material.

Fespa: global expo takes flight

Fespa’s flagship event, its global print expo, will be held at the Berlin Messe this year, the first time since 2007 the German capital has hosted the expo.

Star product: Jetrix KX6U-LED

InkTec’s brand new entry-level signage and graphics flatbed.

Sweet deals: how to make friends & influence people

These days it seems there are as many marketing strategies to promote a print business as there are tools to keep the presses running.

The deadline for GDPR compliance is now very near

In just over a month’s time, the greatest change to data protection law – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – will be upon us and nothing, not even Brexit, is going to stop its...

We’re jamming, we hope you like jamming too

Next year the grey suits might give paintballing a miss and instead head to Calverts in Shoreditch for a spot of alternative team building.

Cruise to leave Sky

Mark Cruise, head of print management at Sky, is leaving the business at the end of this week as part of a reshuffle of the broadcaster's print buying and creative production operations.

Inkthreadable first in Europe with new Kornit

Inkthreadable has dramatically increased output capacity with the installation of the first Kornit Avalanche Hexa HD6 direct-to-garment printer in Europe.

Inkless raises €1m for printing without cartridges

Dutch start-up Inkless has secured a €1m (£870,000) funding package to produce a system for printing without ink, toner or cartridges.