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HP's web press has all the attributes to push digital print into the mainstream
Last year, there were several product launches in inkjet technology. The most significant was HP's web press, which was actually delivered to a customer while many of its rivals were still at the...
Small change, big difference
Even litho printers can offer their clients short-run print-on-demand services and it could stop them going further afield Easibind is challenging the total cost of print jobs by reducing sizes,...
Everybody's talking about... low pricing
Unsustainable or unrealistic prices are being blamed for the tight margins across the print industry. How can pricing be made more sustainable?
Print's place in the marketing eco-impact scale
It's easy for some to point a finger at the print industry for being a significant polluter in the marketing arena, but this view is outdated and fails to take account of recent developments in print...
It pays to calculate end-to-end impact
I've had a light-bulb moment on the topic of plate production. It started when I read US print consultant John Zarwan's white paper The Environmental Impact of a Printing Plate.
Inkjet will dominate, but not quite yet
How many column inches have been devoted to inkjet technologies in the last year or so? Answer: a lot.
Used-kit dealers fulfil a worthy role
There are some who might see used machinery dealers as the industry's carrion crows, picking over the entrails within minutes of the liquidators moving in as yet another otherwise sound business falls...
Cheaper plates are a false economy
German pre-media consultant Michael Mittelhaus last year published an in-depth report on the development of the European printing plate market. In this he stated that within four to eight years...
It's time to get tough with customers
I began writing this column on a day when the best part of 4,000 job losses were announced across a plethora of UK businesses. This was followed swiftly by the quarterly Bellwether report on marketing...
UV curing sets out to woo wide-format
What do you do when you've honed a solution so finely to match the requirements of your chosen market that any further development is more enhancement than evolution? Some technology suppliers might...
Financial support in turbulent times
The BPIF recently conducted an online survey of member companies in association with specialist professional services organisation Begbies Traynor Group. The results, published in October, showed that...
Taking stock of your greatest assets
People. They're a nightmare, aren't they? They can be confrontational. Awkward. Lazy. Some of them have a seemingly unfeasible number of dead or dying grandparents, so they have lots of funerals to...