What are YOU waiting for?… let’s make a list! That darn boat has really messed things up! The list of ‘restrained stock items’, as result of this is growing by the day. Equipment:- “sorry, stuck in the canal!” Toner:- “sorry, stuck in the canal!” Drums:- “sorry, stuck in […]

Buying equipment is not easy. How many times has a supplier asked you to share the proposal from his/her competitor, promising to beat/match it? The problem with this, is that it does not get you the best possible deal…it just get’s to the best ‘half-chance deal’. Some buyers […]

I know what you are thinking. ”We have a good working relationship with a digital print company and we send our cut-sheet work to them”. Nothing wrong with a little collaboration and long may it continue for those who work it well, BUT, you might be missing the […]

In Easter 2020, working with our ‘Print With Pride’ partners, we produced some very simple personalised Easter Egg boxes. The process was simple:- print a design onto box board using a Ricoh ProC9200, soft touch laminate, over-print in mono text the parts that we wanted to personalise, pass […]

You are probably thinking. ”We have a good working relationship with a digital print company and we send our cut-sheet work to them”. Nothing wrong with a little collaboration and long may it continue for those who work it well, BUT, you might be missing the point. The […]

I know a little about wide-format equipment, but Sarah Winterbottom knows a lot… so I rely on her and her team at Josero when the time is right. Based in Cambridgeshire, Josero offers a complete portfolio of products from machinery, inks, software solutions and spare parts for wide […]

The new Kyocera Taskalfa 15000 is a beast of a printer. Fast, quiet and environmentally friendly….are all topics for discussion. Maybe more impressive is that cut sheet inkjet does not need pre-treated stocks. But don’t take my word for it…listen to Chris Matthews.. he knows his stuff. Kyocera […]

Great business to be had and as always, to be appreciated. BUT…sometimes the files are just not right, are they? Are they ‘print ready’? Do they process quickly through your workflow? Do you experience font issues? Are the images, sometimes, not quite clear enough? Do you lose time […]