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• Print Business Winter 2023

London Pride: Other printers are available

Rapidity is not the only print business in central London. Nor indeed the only central London printer with a new Xerox Iridesse. A mile or so further east, on the other side of the City, Kall Kwik City has moved to new premises in Fenchurch Street, ironically occupied until 2021 by the Colour Company.  George […]

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15 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

Artificial Intelligence can be the key to unlocking creativity

Printers are starting to implement the new flush of AIs that are becoming widely available. They are finding that these tools can benefit both their business and their customers. Artificial intelligence applications are already being used by some printers to save time, to generate ideas or to automate some functionality. Those with active IT departments […]

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15 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

Say What? A quick word with Paul Manning

Paul Manning has recently led Rapidity’s investment at its Clerkenwell premises, where it has spent the last 33 years, provides an opportunity to reposition the business. Why has it been necessary to adjust course? There has been a general fall in volumes and this work is not coming back. We have to focus on high […]

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15 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

ESP Colour acquires Severnprint to become bigger, bolder and brighter

ESP Colour is on a mission to become one of the country’s most successful print groups and has acquired Severnprint as a big step on that journey. Almost a year to the day that Simon Smogur completed the long planned management buyout of ESP Colour, ESP has acquired Severnprint and its two associate companies. This […]

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15 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

Digital finishing steps up to print’s new demands

Just as digital printing becomes more capable of taking on litho printing, so digital finishing is delivering better and more sophisticated products. Little wonder that so many suppliers are interested. At one time digital printing was about short runs, a limited range of products and operators expected to run multiple machines. Quality was probably not […]

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15 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

Bluestar sticks with BQ binders

Bluestar Trade Finishers has stuck with Horizon replacing a BQ470 with the BQ500 four-clamp binder to handle a flow of what is mostly short run litho work. Managing director Lee Harvey opted for the machine as a step forward from its old PUR binder where it was essential to batch the jobs needing PUR to […]

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15 January 2024
Drupa 2024

Ricoh freshens up toners while waiting for inkjet 

Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot rather than Waiting for B2 Inkjet, but the themes would have been the same: expectations dissipated by the long wait. In the meantime, new toner presses can deliver some measurable benefits. There is a large vacant space in the middle of the floor at the Ricoh Customer Experience Centre in […]

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15 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

A deep dive into Ricoh’s Auto Colour Adjuster

An unobtrusive device has the potential to change life for many printers. There are none of the flashing lights or even a large monitor that might signify its importance. Instead it has an input tray, output tray and a standard PC. This is the Ricoh Automatic Colour Adjustor, a high speed scanning spectrophotometer that collapses […]

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15 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

A deep dive into PrintIQ with John Alden

John Alden was quite possibly the only CEO of an international company to come by the Print Show. As CEO of PrintIQ, a rapidly growing MIS supplier, the opportunity was one of those ‘too good to miss’ occasions.  John Alden joined PrintIQ in April this year having been working as a consultant after the previous […]

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15 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

Buzzing Labelexpo bows out of Brussels

Labelexpo is moving to pastures new, and leaves long term home on a high as hybrid technology is way ahead. According to Noam Zilbershtain, general manager of HP Indigo, the label industry will be the first to go fully digital – “the first to adopt a digital first mindset” he told visitors to Labelexpo. Perhaps […]

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15 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

Developments cut labels production impact

Sustainability was never far from the surface in the Barcelona exhibition halls. The rise of LED UV compared to mercury vapour lamps to create UV delivers a sharp reduction in power consumption; linerless label production not only eliminates the carrier and thus cuts out waste, it means perhaps 80% more labels per reel with efficiencies […]

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15 January 2024
• Cover Story

Rapidity has London Pride

Rapidity is making a real virtue of its location in the heart of London, re-equipping the business, refurbishing its premises and evolving into a new type of print business. At one time Clerkenwell was the beating heart of British print. The area, bordered by London’s Farringdon Road in the west, City Road in the north […]

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15 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

Pressing the case for automation in labels

One of the strongest themes running through Labelexpo this year went well beyond the question of how ink might be applied to a self adhesive substrate. Label printers across he world are facing the same recruitment problems that commercial printers in the UK face. While this delivers some relief that the UK printer is not […]

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15 January 2024
• Print Business Index

The Print Business Index Q4 2023

The Print Business Index aims to use data to uncover trends that are driving the industry for today and tomorrow by looking back a few years and trying to see how markets and market sectors have been developing. A post Covid recovery in print failed to occur in 2022 according to data from the UK […]

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15 January 2024

AI can deliver for print

Every 20 years or so the printing industry receives a shock that leads to significant structural change, an earthquake after the tectonic plates that print is built on shift. This is frequently the result of outside events, for what sort of turkey votes for something that might lead to their own demise? Once the dust […]

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10 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

Global Graphics pilots a strike with Artificial Intelligence

The Smart DFE from Global Graphics uses AI to help process PDFs and to keep the inkjet presses running. A comparison between the printing industry and the world of vertical take off fighter jets is not commonplace. According to Eric Worrall, VP products and services for Global Graphics, it is valid. He likens running a […]

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10 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

Where does Artificial Intelligence fit in the printing industry?

Artificial intelligence has already been selected as the word of the year by dictionary publisher Collins. All of a sudden AI is everywhere, the overnight sensation that has taken years to break through. Now thanks to Large Language Models like ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence is here. Like the current state of politics, AI is something that […]

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10 January 2024
• Print Business Winter 2023

Screen positions for inkjet’s impact in commercial and packaging print

Screen, once a dominant player for drum scanners, is aiming to repeat that position across the field in inkjet printing. Only a generation ago a printer might turn to Screen, or rather Dainippon Screen, for a new studio camera or a four-colour proofing press. Today’s printer would be hard pressed to recognise a darkroom camera […]

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18 December 2023