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Something happened last night that made me feel warm and fuzzy inside and full of seasonal cheer. Unusually for this time of year it didn't involve a bottle of Lidl's finest Gluhwein. While out with friends for a bit of pre-Christmas over-indulgence...
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How fantastic for our very own Sterling Press to have the first top-speed perfecting version of Heidelberg's new Speedmaster XL 105 in the world. That's quite a coup for the Kettering crew, I think. Not so long ago new kit like this would always...
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It was super-interesting to visit Bedfordshire the other week to see "Westferry Luton", Richard Desmond's new newspaper printing plant. One of the interesting things being the name, of course. I hadn't realised the Westferry name would...
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Speculation surrounding what will happen next at Manroland is throwing up some mind-boggling prospects. I read one report that mooted a solution involving a mega-merger between Manroland, Heidelberg and KBA to make some sort of ultimate behemoth in German...
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The other day I made the mistake of answering truthfully when someone asked me what I'd done over the weekend. "Yesterday I sorted my Christmas catalogues into size order," I replied excitedly, in one of those conversation killing, must...
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Imagine, if you will, that you run a large organisation that is busy with routine tasks every day (although not as busy as you used to be). When it comes to the run-up to Christmas, though, you are guaranteed to be REALLY busy. Really. Busy. Busy 10 if...
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It is a very sad thing that during the reign of our greenest government ever (what is the symbol for tongue-in-cheek, and eyes crossed with exasperation?) we see, this week, an announcement of the impending demise of the UK’s oldest environmental charity...
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It is surely inconceivable that Manroland will not continue in some form. Surely??? That said, up until Friday it seemed inconceivable that this bastion of the German equipment engineering industry with a history stretching back more than 160 years would...
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Many print buyers measure the success of their printers by their turnover. If a print supplier has a big turnover they must be doing well. But turnover is vanity and profit is sanity. I prefer to measure the success of a printer by the profits that they...
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Intrigued to see that CeWe has ambitions for the online greetings card business with its new Card Town offering. Given Moonpig's envy-inducing growth and profit performance it's little wonder that so many others are keen to gain a piece of the...
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Is the newspaper printing market as ripe for consolidation as web offset was? (And perhaps continues to be.) News that Guardian Media Group is considering its options re the future printing of The Guardian and Observer titles , with talk of a partnership...
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Saw a sobering tweet the other day that gave me pause for thought about the way print touches pretty much every aspect of a person's life, and death. It came from Mike Handley at Graphic Results in Belper ( @graphic_results ) and the tweet said: "Today...
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Will the Prosper inkjet system "save" Kodak? Industry analyst Andrew Tribute believes it can. In this video posted on Kodak's B2B YouTube channel Andy asserts that Prosper and the associated technologies around it will change the Kodak business...
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Do you remember the tale of the tortoise and the hare. And how everybody wrote the tortoise off. The tortoise was seen as having no hope of being number one. But the tortoise ended up a winner. Sometimes it feel like print has been written off as well...
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There's no wayward opinion in this post, just something I had to share. It's the colour picker in Adobe photoshop made real! A pen with an RGB sensor at one end can be used to scan real life objects and a cartridge creates the colour ink at the...
