Features

Last year the largest European trade web-to-print company pixartprinting launched an offensive in the UK by partnering with Precision Printing in Essex. So what’s in it for UK trade printers and why should they be impressed?

How two true print pioneers, Fujifilm and Inca Digital, together made UV inkjet print production a reality, and why the latest incarnations of this proven technology represent the benchmark by which others are judged.

Long, long distance learning . . .

Sophie Matthews-Paul finds this new machine to offer good quality and good features at a good price.

In the wide-format sector there are machines that are launched with a fanfare and do hitherto impossible digital tasks. On the other hand there is a quieter band of manufacturers producing engines which do as it says on the tin, and which continue to serve the large numbers of users who want to produce bread-and-butter applications without having their lives and working practices disrupted.

ROI is what it’s all about, which is why Fujifilm believes it has a way of convincing you that buying an Onset makes sense.

Fujifilm has recently announced a new initiative to encourage printers of all sizes to take its Onset Challenge (see Cover Story) – the intention being to prove the impressive ROI of the range, which has so recently been extended with the S40.

Making Lighter work of it - Software Special Report

As efficient workflow becomes ever more critical Sophie Matthews-Paul reports on the relevance of JDF adoption in the wide-format sector.

Thanks to QR codes, print has moved into a whole new dimension. Act fast and become involved to access new opportunities.

Printing has gone beyond surface. What you see is no longer the whole picture of what you can get. Thanks to the development of smart phones and the use of Quick Response or QR codes, print has now become a gateway to dynamic, moving worlds and new markets.

Twenty products across four categories receive plaudits from the European Digital Press Association. The European Digital Press Association, now in its fifth year, has gone from strength to strength with graphic arts magazines from 18 member countries representing over 1 million readers across Europe. Each year the EDP Association (of which Image Reports is the UK member) comes together to debate, discuss and award the best in innovative technology within the digital printing market and this time around it has presented 20 prizes across four categories: print engines, finishing kit, consumables and software.

The British Bankers’ Association provides pointers in how best to work with your bank to secure the finance you need in light of new guidelines.

Think Big, Act Smart

Time to go with the soft option?

Employment solicitor David Regan explains the implications for employers of the abolition of the default retirement age which has just started to kick in this spring.