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A quick shout-out for some of the UK manufacturers showing their wares at drupa, and by all accounts doing us Brits proud. Timsons is over-the-moon at the extremely positive reaction to its T-Press inkjet book production system, which really does look...
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More musings from Drupa, day nine. We've broken the back of the show now, and the intense press conference schedule of the first week is behind us. One of the fascinating things from my own point-of-view has been observing the CEOs of a variety of...
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Not many trade shows could announce a 20% reduction in visitor numbers and make it feel like a celebration. Yet that's exactly what happened here at Drupa yesterday evening. Some 170,000 visitors had attended the show at the mid-point, a huge number...
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This morning I went to a very informative briefing here at Drupa, put on by the clever folk at InfoTrends. That chap Barney Cox, late of this parish, had some insightful thoughts on the emerging market for digitally printed packaging, and said the sector...
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So here we are, another Drupa – and this one full off green promise. I’m off on the train tomorrow, and feeling a combination of excitement and trepidation. Past experience – not just of print exhibitions, but of green promises generally - has brought...
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Greetings from the penultimate build day before Drupa officially opens its doors tomorrow. Shall be here for the whole show, do swing by and say hello if you're in the vicinity of Hall 7, where, along with my estimable colleagues from Druck+Medien...
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Given the amount of excitement that's already emerged in the run-up to Drupa, with the latest announcements from Landa being a case in point, I wonder what else the show will have in store for us in the way of mega-news? Apart from all the new kit...
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Whoever it was at GF Smith who came up with the idea for the Beauty in the Making event, held this week , deserves a gold star. Several gold stars in fact. I was there yesterday and it was marvellous. I loved the use of pallets of Colorplan as wayfinders...
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Price! Price! Price! It's all about price. That's how many people see print buyers. And the truth is, there are a number of print buyers out there who do focus on price. But these print buyers don't get the best from their suppliers. And they...
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"Who can do short-run spot varnishing" is an oft-asked question in the parallel world of Jo's Help Line, and it's an area that's proved tricky to crack - remember the seemingly nifty Dryprint printer/coater shown at Northprint 2009...
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Last week I had an interesting chat with someone who's working on a new project that, if successful, is likely to generate lots of additional printed items by the simple expedient of making it easy for people to do just that via social media. Shall...
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Yesterday I was privileged to attend a memorial service for the late, great John Crosfield. Many tributes, both moving and amusing, were paid to this extraordinary individual, who truly was a man of many talents. He had vision and belief in his ideas...
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Hands up who's going to Drupa? If you're not, because you're too busy, or you think it's too expensive, I urge you to think again. This has all the hallmarks of being an extra-special Drupa. It's always an amazing event, but the number...
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Yesterday I was at the London Book Fair. Judging by all the noise in book publishing around ebooks and digital platforms I was half-expecting the entire thing to be comprised of a giant iPad and a giant Kindle. How delightful to find it full of books...
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Pre-packs, phoenixes, call them what you will but when such dealings involve a certain set of circumstances, in particular original directors buying back a failed business and then carrying on with flawed business practices, it's fairly certain that...
