Features

If you’re thinking of selling-up, take note of these preparatory ground works to ensure you get he best value out of your business. Dr Colin Thompson, managing partner at The Cavendish Academy gives his top tips.

Nessan Cleary looks at the current trends in ink development for the wide format sector.

One of the most important components of any print system is the ink itself, thus a great deal of R&D money is spent on developing new ink types as you’d expect. It’s a given that for the most part inks determine application possibiities so in a maturing market like the UK, where print companies are generally satisfied with the print quality, speed and price of their wide-format inkjet printers and will only replace their existing devices if a new machine can demonstrate a clear return on investment, new ink formulations are where it’s at for many suppliers. 

Melony Rocque-Hewitt finds out just what’s so intelligent about this mini-beast.

Roland DG’s SolJet Pro XR-640 was launched in September last year and is billed as the company’s flagship machine. The SolJet range, which it now tops, is a highly successful one with a reputation for being powerful workhorses that are the mainstay of many a wide-format business.

InfoTrends is globally renowned for its research and consultancy services in the imaging, print and digital media industries. As its director of wide-format printing, Tim Greene is well placed to talk about the trends within the sector. As usual, he’ll be involved delivering the analysis from the data collected in the Image Reports’ annual Widthwise survey - currently being conducted among the UK’s wide-format participants. So in the run up to those findings we discussed how the UK wide-format sector fits into the bigger global picture and what’s impacting the market.

Step it up in terms of experimentation and integration or witness wide-format print missing the mark in terms of potential. So how do your respond to that key takeaway from the 2013 Fespa Global Summit?

Why you should be aware of the fledgling Higg List eco index.

Heard of the Higg Index yet? Indications are that you will, and that one-day it will impact upon the way you do business - and who with - because this is a fledgling eco index that promises to fly far and high.

CS Labels is the largest Xeikon site in Europe specialising in short-run colour labels. Melony Rocque-Hewitt finds that amidst this, is a trio of wide-format printers producing decals for children’s wellies.

Our unpredictable and unseasonal weather of recent years has meant that the humble Wellington boot has been elevated to almost iconic status. Wellies are everywhere and have become a portable canvas (albeit a rubber one) for children’s cartoon characters, spots, stripes, Union Jacks, vegetables, flowers et al.

The economy may be still, but the wide-format industry is trying to grow

Have you ever read that business bestseller about the seven habits of highly effective people? 

There is no such thing as a domestic market. 

New textiles and wallcovering printing opportunities created by HP Latex Ink Technology

In this roundtable discussion about W2P, Peter Lancaster, consultant, Gavin Page, Macnhester Printers,  Richard Clark, Raccoon, Christ Southall, Fosco Hayes Hurdley and Ian Richard Ingle from www.eyeswidedigital.com debate the issues.