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  • Plain sense?

    Travelling to other countries - including such far-flung locations as, um, Austria - it's a real shock to go into a café and find someone on the next table lighting up. Here on the small island many measures have been introduced to curb cigarette consumption, the latest being the restrictions on...
  • Plenty of time to take in print panoply

    Last night I queued for two-and-a-half-hours at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This was a form of self-inflicted penance for being a complete maroon and not acting immediately upon the "must book tickets" thought that flitted across my withered brain when the David Hockney: A Bigger Picture...
  • Feeling the love with print

    Valentine's Day. Hopefully a bumper period for people involved in various aspects of print production. Cards, obviously. And an increasing amount of personalised ones, although these are likely to be a straight replacement rather than an additional print piece. That said, a personalised card is more...
  • Use self-locking cartons for packaging

    Use self-locking cartons for packaging that don’t use glue or stitching and don’t need to be segregated when recycled, says Alex Vergopoulos, Meriden Paper director We continually endeavour to cut down on potential waste and cost. This year, for instance, we have been focusing on packaging and reducing...
    Posted to Environmental Tips (Weblog) by Print Week on 10-07-2009
  • Sainsbury's to say Cheerio to cereal boxes

    I popped into Sainsbury's in my lunch break the other day. Not the most thrilling blog you are thinking, but it gets better, so stay with me. I was looking for milk, so petrified was I that I would have to wake up the next morning without a cup of tea, that I actually gave up my lunch break to brave...
    Posted to Inking outside the box (Weblog) by Chloe Setter on 06-22-2009
  • Chocolate

    Its Easter so there has to be a chocolate printing story somewhere! I remember when I was a child my father used to take his printing diploma students on annual day-trip from Watford to Birmingham to the Cadbury factory in leafy Bournville just south of the city. This was not an indulgent trip to sample...
    Posted to Ultra Bold (Weblog) by caroline Archer on 03-20-2008
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