Practicers of the dark arts still cast a spell
Once respected as guardians of the written word, printers today have little or no responsibility for content proofing, but pride in print remains
The Games may yet get a thumbs up from printers: Olympics tenders
There has been much grumbling about London 2012 from the print sector, but companies that saw the opportunties are reaping the benefits
The Sun in UK newspaper first with augmented reality poster
The Sun distributed the UK’s first augmented reality poster associated with a national newspaper to mark the beginning of the Olympics.
P.I.Y. Print it Yourself
Are you someone that prefers to print items yourself? Have you started in business and already run off a sheet of business cards on your desktop printer? The last time you needed some flyers – did you run those on the same printer?
The History of Business Cards
Business Card History Usually business cards are an afterthought – something you pick up in your day to day life in business. What if someone was to ask you how they started. Would you be able to answer them? Well take a look below and have a look at the history of how business cards […]
Advertising spend in UK printed press down 10% in Q1 of 2012
The latest year-on-year figures reveal advertising in printed press showed the greatest decline compared to other mediums in the first quarter of 2012.
Don’t be a Square
It would seem we have a run on radius corners – or cut business cards this month. We’ve already produced 5 sets of business cards with a radius to one corner & we have one in with a radius to one whole side, so I thought I’d write a little more on the benefits of […]
Nano What? Nanographic Printing or Nanography
Nano what? Nanography™ is the science behind Benny Landa’s revolutionary digital printing technology. Nanographic Printing™ technology combines the performance of offset with the versatility of digital printing and is game-changing for mainstream commercial, packaging and publishing markets. It is expected to ignite a second revolution in print. Nanographic Printing™ Presses print in up to eight colors, operate at […]
Printing for London 2012 gone to America!
The decision to grant the contract to Weldon, Williams & Lick of Fort Smith, Arkansas has sparked outrage among British businesses who have demanded to know why they were not chosen. Previous Olympic organising committees in Seoul and Barcelona gave their ticket printing deals to the national equivalent of the Royal Mint. But Locog, who also outsourced […]
Monitors – why you shouldn’t trust them!
A while back I can remember a story of a customer who had designed their printed item (lets call it a leaflet for the benefit of this piece). The customer wanted to produce the piece themselves at home and send over a print ready file to their printer. A couple of days later the printer […]
