Personalised page-turners
12 October 2018
Once a staple of the direct marketing world, the catalogue is coming back, but this time it’s personalised and more effective than ever. Jim Bower…
Key articles
Wild Format: put a new shine on
10 October 2018
Sometimes digital print, however beautiful, is just not enough. This is when the latest print and finishing options have their moments in the spotlight as…
A little label goes a long way
8 October 2018
You don’t have to buy an expensive label press to develop a presence in the label market. Digital Printer looks at two producers of short…
Continuing disruption
2 October 2018
High-speed inkjet presses have always been seen as a disruptive force and as their image quality continues to improve this disruption is reaching more applications,…
Wild Format: bespoke packaging with wide-format digital printing
24 September 2018
Wide-format printing is not typically associated with packaging, but there are a growing number of devices that are suitable for some short run packaging applications.…
Balancing act
14 September 2018
Whether you’re an environmentalist by conviction or just cash-conscious, there are compelling reasons to adopt sustainable practices in your business. Michael Walker spoke to two…
Transfer window
13 September 2018
Heat-fixed transfer printing is a refreshingly lively application of digital print where creativity and sales ideas matter more than spending tens or hundreds of thousands…
Wild Format: an introduction to calibration and device profiling
7 September 2018
In ICC technology the reference colour space is a device independent colour space, CIE Lab It’s now 25 years since the International Color Consortium (ICC)…
One by one
31 August 2018
All in a day’s work – books ready for packing at Books on Demand The “book of one” is now a solid commercial reality. Michael…
Surface attention
28 August 2018
Anti-skid floor laminates from Grafityp are suited to areas of high foot traffic like airports and shopping malls Like many other aspects of finishing, developments…
Wild Format: the vinyl cut
16 August 2018
Print and cut applications make for beautiful signage. With HP latex printers print and cut applications are also odourless Screens are square. But digital…
Current trends in digital presses
6 August 2018
These samples from Xerox Iridesse beta site IPW1 show straight metallic and mixed metallic and CMYK print There have been several new production presses…
Wild Format: colour management for wide format interiors
30 July 2018
To reproduce spot colours accurately in digital large format printing, you must use an extended colour gamut ink setup, with the additional colours Orange, Green…
Wild Format: variable data printing
23 July 2018
Variable data software allows you to take an image and vary the colours and text throughout the print run to create multiple versions of the same…
Selling the value of digital print
23 July 2018
Canon Europe’s Mark Lawn – offering business training is essential to the company’s credibility When you buy a new digital press, you expect operator…