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How to save time, waste and money with wide format automation
Combining a prepress solution with a workflow management system, nesting technology and a cut line manager, OneVision’s Wide Format Automation Suite has already proved popular. Stephan Reiter, Head of Strategic Alliances for OneVision Software AG, discusses its benefits.
Pedro Jacques de Sousa of DGI: my 30-year passion for print
The International Executive Director of Digital GraphicsGroup International (DGI), talks about almost three decades in print, growing businesses into new markets and the importance of networking.
A sustainable shopping list
Nathan Swinson Bullough, co-owner and Managing Director of UK based Imageco, on the firm’s sustainability journey.
Come back stronger with grants and funding
Printers are facing a host of challenges in turbulent times, but a financial boost for innovation can help you survive and thrive.
PrintFactory: making the jump to automation
Automated workflows bring major cost savings and production efficiency gains, so why are so few printers making the transition?
Be more colour critical with pressSIGN
How Bodoni’s colour management system can help printers produce accurate and high-quality results.
How to use WallArt to unleash customer creativity
Carlos Guerrero, Web Product Manager at HP Large Format Printing, on integrating HP Application Center design tools into printers’ websites for bespoke interior design.
Playing the textile transfer market
Sakurai’s Claudio Moffa tells us how the company is bringing conventional textile transfer technology into the digital and sustainable age.
Making a good match
Giacomo Gobbo of Grafcoast explains how the Grafco Color Reader system delivers easy, intuitive and inexpensive colour management.
Wide format lenticular printing
How the ability to produce eye-catching 3D or ‘moving’ pictures is within reach of ever more printers.
How to achieve unlimited special effects with water-based inks
Beppe Quaglia, CEO of Virus Inks, talks about how water-based inks are a match for plastisol or silicone.
An opulent performance
Torbjorn Johansson and Eva Théen-Johansson of Swedish digital textile specialist Tobex explain how the firm won gold in the roll-to-roll printed textile category at the 2020 FESPA Awards.
Slowing down fast fashion
As the founder and CEO of London-based not-for-profit garment manufacturer, Fashion Enter, Jenny Holloway wanted to do things differently. Now, with COVID and Brexit reshaping the commercial landscape, her ideas have never been more relevant.
New York's finest
Christian M Walter in Spain won a 2020 FESPA Gold Award in the serigraphies and fine art category with this limited edition portfolio, and also won the Best in Show Screen Award.
Phoenix rising
Vermeulen & Vermeulen Reclame in the Netherlands won a 2020 FESPA Gold Award in the wrapping category with a theme park-inspired Porsche car wrap. We spoke to founder Marcel Vermeulen about the work that claimed success.
Roll-to-roll branding at the ANOC World Beach Games
The Look Company won a 2020 FESPA Gold Award in the roll-to-roll printed textiles category with this event branding project for the ANOC World Beach Games, and also won the Best in Show Digital Award. We spoke to Jacob Burke, President of the Look Company Middle East, about his double success.
The key to gold
Protolab Electrotechnologies in India won a 2020 FESPA Gold Award in the functional printing category with these Membrane Switch Pro Keys 102. We spoke to CEO Sanjay Mehta about the win.
A break-out win with beer bottle
HAAS Die Werbemanufaktur in Switzerland won a 2020 FESPA Gold Award in the direct printing on three-dimensional products category with a 3D-printed beer bottle and the Judges' Innovation Award. We spoke to Fabian Nater about shattering the old ways of beer advertising.