July 2007 • Vol 3 • Issue 7
4 From the Top
6 Upfront
The winners from the Quality in Print Awards. Why has Howitt Digital
rebranded? The BPIF in 2007. Details of
Ifra and more
12 My favourite business read
Mark Alexander, Xaar marketing director
nominates his favourite business read
16 Finance
The BPIF’s second national finance
conference is coming in September. We
preview the event and line up of speakers
18 Need to know – Folders
What every printer needs to know about
modern folding technology. What to use
and how to use it
22 Dispatches
The latest from the front line of the
industry including investments for
Qualitech, rebranding for Pensord and
how Lynx dpm helped a design student
COVER STORY
26 Round the digital table
What the industry’s decision makers
think about digital printing’s role in 2007
provided a lively discussion
EXCLUSIVE
32 How it all began
Benny Landa, whose Indigo digital press
started it all, talks exclusively to The
Print Business
36 Kent’s OPL gets bigger
Offset Productions is moving up the
formats to gain more work
38 Labels tempted by digital
Digital printing is nibbling away at the
edges of label printing. Can it become a
major process?
42 Added value for cartons
Carton printers are urged to find added
value ways of producing cartons as
brands look for on shelf appeal
46 Print with va-va-voom
The motor industry is a great friend of
print, and from high quality brochures to controlling the brand through newspaper
ads, from marketing material to manuals,
print remains crucial
50 Expanding empires
How Alden Press manages a global
business with operations in India and
Malaysia
52 Tracking the chips
RFIDs are creeping in to all areas of
business and paper companies are gearing
up to produce the smart devices
56 Howard Smith dives deep
There’s a new approach at Howard Smith
Paper and managing director Andy
Buxton explains the reason for change
60 JDF inches forward
We revisit Sheffield’s Northend to find
out how it is progressing with a JDF
implementation involving Heidelberg and
Shuttleworth
64 Innovation
Inkjet is touted as the next big thing.
The question is whether it will be here
tomorrow or if the reality is a little further
off
66 Presstek finds DI’s place
The sweet spot for DI presses is becoming
more clearly defined says Quen Baum
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