Features

Phil Thompson, head of BPIF Business, considers the options of outsourcing and internal diversification.

Five years of growth in five years of operation signal GTP is doing something right.

Once again, over 200 print companies took part in this annual poll designed to take the temperature of the wide-format print market. This is a synopsis of the main findings but for the full report go to http://www.imagereportsmag.co.uk/widthwise/

Should you be talking to your suppliers about flexible and complEmentary training? Ronen Zioni, HP EMEA GSB marketing director, thinks there’s never been a better time to do so. 

Do you shy away from difficult conversations in the workplace? Many managers do, but there are ways of making them less painful as Natasha Stone, a communications consultant at the Learning Consultancy Partnership, explains.

Nessan Cleary reports on the technical trends and developments related to superwide inkjet printers.

There’s wide-format and then there’s superwide - but it can be hard to define exactly what a superwide printer should be. Obviously these are going to be wider printers, but how wide? 

How are kit manufacturers ‘selling’ such technologies to the show’s vast and varied range of visitors?

Drupa is the shopfront for suppliers to the print trade so it goes without saying that wide-format is going to be represented. But how will kit manufacturers in this space represent themselves and their wide-format solutions at this giant of a show, where digital print - and inkjet in particular - promises to be a focus yet must rub shoulders with all the other print technologies and vie for attention with the enormous cross-section of visitors the show attracts? We asked a random selection of Drupa exhibitors with wide-format offerings, for their take on the issue…

Epson has a brand new solvent printer aimed firmly at the outdoor signage market. Nessan Cleary takes a look. 

Epson launched the SureColor SC S30600 at the Fespa Digital show in Barcelona earlier this year and these are now beginning to trickle into the UK.

Dan Sanders talks to Melony Rocque-Hewitt about how wide-format digital print is becoming part and parcel of the ebb and flow of mariner life.

Dan Sanders is sales director of Coast Graphics situated in Hamble, Hants, which along with Cowes is regarded as the epicenter of UK marine trade and activity. A busy, busy man, the business is booming as increasingly more mariners turn to digital wide-format printing to adorn their crafts.

Posters, cup cakes and the Internet

Verdigris founderLaurel Brunner explains what steps are afoot to help you develop a measurable environmental policy, with a focus on ISO 16759.

It can be hard for individual printers to develop a measurable environmental policy but the forthcoming ISO 16759 should address this. For a growing number of printers, sustainability and working to protect the environment are becoming more important. This is not just because many print company owners believe in helping the industry to be more environmentally friendly, but also because customers are putting them under increased pressure to do so.

Why companies like this award winning wide-format printer are using the 112 Extreme combined heat welding, eyeleting and cutting, finishing machine.