FEATURE: Demand for photobooks is changing with developments in social media and suppliers are broadening their horizons to keep up. Laurel Brunner takes a look at the market.
FEATURE: Barney Cox finds that new effects, machines and methodologies are extending the creative potential in finishing for digital print applications.
FEATURE: Packaging is viewed as an irreplaceable print application, but what are the opportunities therein for digital print service providers? Barney Cox investigates.
FEATURE: Whether or not you lap up direct mail or chuck it straight in the recycling, it's big business for PSPs. Laurel Brunner explores why you need to fight smart in order to take part in this rapidly evolving space.
FEATURE: Barney Cox takes stock of recent developments in B2 sheet-fed digital presses and investigates the bottom line for printers considering making the leap.
FEATURE: Laurel Brunner gives her take on the year's advances in B2 digital presses, including recent launches and hybrid options.
NEWS: Four Indigo 7600s from HP will join four 7500s at Pixartprinting, the web-to-print company, which has hinted that its 'goal' is an Indigo 10000.
NEWS: Chicago-based Tukaiz says it is winning and producing jobs that no other business in its market can thanks to its installation of a Scodix S74.
NEWS: HP is currently demonstrating its Indigo WS6600 digital press at Labelexpo Americas with a number of new features.
NEWS: Cewe Color has installed an HP Indigo W7250 digital press in order to increase the production of products including photobooks.
NEWS: HP will demonstrate its HP Indigo and Designjet printers at Photokina to showcase their abilities in the photo printing market.
FEATURE: Laurel Brunner looks at recent developments in packaging and labels.
NEWS: Esko has revealed its plans for Labelexpo Americas 2012 in September.
FEATURE: The second part of Verdigris's feature on calculating a carbon footprint.
NEWS: East Sussex's Pureprint Group is one of two British companies involved in the beta testing of the HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press.
NEWS: Horizon International has launched the new SmartStacker, a system designed to convert digitally-printed B2 sheets into sets, individual sheets or book blocks.
FEATURE: 'How many drupas have you done now?' is a common question heard in the aisles of the Messe Düsseldorf. James Matthews-Paul reviews the narrow-format developments at drupa 2012.
NEWS: Brazil-based internet photo print company Digipix is to launch a photo print service using a web-fed HP Indigo WS6000p digital press, replacing the silver halide process.
NEWS: HP has released details on a number of environmentally conscious initiatives tied in with its Indigo range at drupa.
NEWS: HP is demonstrating its 1m-wide full-colour HP Inkjet Web Press at drupa this month, featuring technology that will be available from 2013.
NEWS: HP is to create a 'Digitally Printed Book Store' at this week's London Book Fair, in order to demonstrate to publishers the opportunities of digital technology for the book market.
FEATURE: Sophie Matthews-Paul looks beyond digital ink-jet for wide-format printing with a look at the alternatives on the market.
NEWS: German carton and sales display manufacturer Leupold has purchased the first HP Indigo WS6600 digital press for carton-folding applications.
FEATURE: Sophie Matthews-Paul has the scoop on HP's latest addition for drupa – a new B2 press, the Indigo 10000.
NEWS: Glasgow-based J Thomson Colour Printers has installed an HP Indigo 5500 press, its second purchase of the model.
NEWS: HP will exhibit its Indigo digital printing technology at PackTech 2012 later this month with a stand transformed into a 'Digital Supermarket'.
NEWS: Printer manufacturer HP has announced its search for entrants to the first ever HP Print Excellence Awards.
NEWS: Label manufacturer and print solutions provider Anglia Labels has installed a new HP Indigo ws4500 press at its facilities in Suffolk, UK.
NEWS: Whitchurch, Hampshire-based printing company John Dollin has replaced an old digital printer with a new HP Indigo 5500 press.
FEATURE: The average consumer wouldn't consider themselves as a driver of much of anything, apart from the family car, perhaps. But if various industry soothsayers are to be believed, the future lies with them.
FEATURE: Thinking narrower is about more than investing into new technological innovations: it is about business growth, the direction and the path.
FEATURE: It's rather like making buns rather than cakes. The ingredients are the same but, normally, you can achieve a higher margin by producing multiples.
FEATURE: Years ago we all knew the difference between a printer and a press, but nowadays the distinction is far from clear.
FEATURE: To my way of thinking, there is a world of difference between a printer, and a press.
