October 2009
4 From the Top
6 News
EU edges towards support for print;
transpromo gets thumbs up; Ferag shows
extra fold
10 My favourite business read
Nicola Bisset, managing director of MIS
provider OCSL, nominates the book
which completely changed her way of
thinking
12 Innovations & Investments
The hits from Labelexpo included digital
presses from Epson, Durst and Efi and
flexible platesetter from Lüscher; Kodak
workfl ow for Butler Tanner & Dennis;
Xeikon for Wales
22 Need to Know – MediaPro
A new type of event comes to London
next month; these are the reasons to plan
a visit
28 Pride in Print
There’s a seasonal fl avour to what print
can achieve with Halloween, Christmas
and London Fashion Week involved
COVER STORY
32 Blue for you
The expansionist Essex printer believes
it has covered all the bases with the
acquisition of a box-making business
38 Talking transpromo
It has still to become mainstream
but that is a matter of when not if as
those meeting in London for The Print
Business agreed
42 Delivering transpromo
Reelfed digital printing is the key to a
showcase implementation of the ideals
of transpromo – in Israel
44 Feats of Clays
The St Ives book printer is installing its
fi rst digital production line and it could
change production for good
48 Booked for digital
How book production is being totally
transformed by reelfed digital technology
50 TJ goes further, faster
Two new Océ lines and a plan
to automate binding underpin
developments at the Cornish book
printer
52 Labelled with inkjet
Roll label printers have a myriad of
options to choose from in order to go
digital as Labelexpo demonstrated
56 Bottleneck breaker
An MBO T800 folder at Nuffi eld Press
has had an immediate impact on the
sheetfed print busine
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