April 2007 • Vol 3 • Issue 4
4 From the Top
6 Upfront
PrintIT!, Ian Denham, Directions survey, Fuji's strategy and more
10 My favourite business read
Martyn Elmy nominates the business book that has most influenced him
12 Supply chain
How Twinings controls its packaging print
14 Finance
Why the Chancellor juggled his options in the Budget
16 Innovation
MAN Roland starts the next change in sheetfeed presses with Direct Drive, and Global Graphics says watch out for the arrival of XPS files
20 Print down at the shops
How demand for greater impact and customer loyalty is feeding demand for print services
24 Winter on the South coast
JPS has installed a Heidelburg XL105 after considering its future in litho printing
COVER STORY
28 BPG pulls it together
David Holland is making BPG into a very serious player in web offset
SHORT RUN COLOUR SPECIAL
34 Under the covers of Anicolor
Heidelburg developed anilox litho printing to take on digital at short runs
36 The cost of short run litho
Research from Heidelburg favours its Anicolor concept
38 Digital short run can pay off
Infotrends says that HP digital colour has overtaken litho for most short run colour printing
Paper
42 Added value for cartons
An assessment of leading paper merchants reveals that changes are coming
NORTHPRINT SPECIAL
44 Best of show
We nominate the products that you need to see at the Harrogate show this month
50 Trends watch
Four leading trends affecting printers and where to find help and information during Northprint
54 Kelvin's Grand Design
Kelvin's Graphics' ambitious plans to create a new factory have paid off with a showpiece site in the northwest
58 Pigs can fly
This is what Printondemand is hoping to prove to book publishers that have not yet taken to digital printing
62 Positive that marketing works
Mitcham printer Positive Images UK is adopting a fresh face through marketing to prove that print is sexy and that as a printer it can stand out
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