The Print Business

January 2008 • Vol 4 • Issue 1

4 From the Top

6 Upfront
The figures behind Drupa. When it's on, prices and questions for the organiser.
Plus Update on SMP and print's gloomy share record

12 My favourite business read
Charles Jarrold, PPA print personality of the year offers his suggestion

14 Supply chain
Poacher turned gamekeeper at Alliance & Leicester

16 Finance
Spectre of inflation raises its head for printers in 2008

18 Need to know - CTP
Will computer to conventional plate happen? The impact of China and more

22 Dispatches
Fuji takes to the green road and BPIF looks for ways to certify ISO 12647-2

COVER STORY
26 St Ives changes direction
With Simon Ward and Pat Martell in daily command, St Ives is undergoing the greatest change in its history

SPECIAL REPORT ISO 12647-2
32 Why choose process standards
The reasons to print to a standard are becoming unarguable. Customers want it and the technology can deliver

36 Williams Lea leads
The print management company insists its suppliers print to the ISO standard because it provides a measurable auditable trail of what its suppliers do

38 The ways to the truth
There are different paths to achieve the ISO standard, with Gracol 7, Fogra and System Brunner explained as means of achieving process controlled offset

46 Easy as LAB
White Horse Press managing director Peter Arnel cuts through the smoke to say print to standards is the greatest development this century

48 Vive la difference
Sego Print in Paris has earned Ugra's PSO certification after deciding it needed process controls for its Sira operation

50 China on my mind
A pan-European study of the print industry has thrown up ideas to ensure its competitiveness in the face ot the threat from China

54 A perfect matt result
Grycksbo paper mill in Sweden is independent after leaving Stora Enso and life is sweeter on its own

58 Gerald Judd saddles up
The paper supplier is adapting to the digital revolution by providing electronic tools for publishers

60 Under one roof
Picon is reborn after a merger between the organisations representing domestic and imported machinery suppliers

64 Innovation
Moves to support new formats and soft proofing breakthrough

66 Tailpiece
What Quen Baum is doing at Morgana