June 2007 • Vol 3 • Issue 6
4 From the Top
8 Upfront
DXG Media, Fiery sales, Belgium's green printer, the financials of digital printing and more
12 My favourite business read
William Alden nominates the book that all his managers have read
14 Supply chain
Green has been a key theme behind the Tesco Direct catalogue
18 Finance
Reflects on Gordon Brown's impact as Chancellor
20 Need to know
What every printer needs to understand about FSC and PEFC papers
24 Dispatches
The stories behind the stories of the month and what's happening beneath the surface
DIGITAL PRINT SPECIAL
COVER STORY
28 Lightning strikes
Lightning Source would not exist without digital printing and is changing attitudes of the publishing world
32 Evolution not revolution
The story of how digital printing has reached the 21st century
33 On demand take over
Digital's greatest success is in short run print on demand, but what comes next?
36 Booked to supply
The book industry's supply chain has been changed by digital print
38 Direct Mail awaits conversion
This was the area supposedly ripe for transformation. It may only be happening now
40 Newspapers stay with metal
Digital printing has only made minor incursions into the newspaper world, we look at these projects
42 Display print goes inkjet
Inkjet has created a booming market in display printing, but is it sustainable?
44 Posters from Newcastle
NSL has transformed itself from a screen printer to a leading large format specialist with digital and litho printing
48 Premier changes
How leading paper merchant Premier Papers has reshaped to meet market demands
52 We love SRA2
We talk to printers who love the smaller four page format and find that they talk good financial sense
56 The Wombles of Dorset
Like the furry creatures of fiction, J&G Environmental finds a good use for what printers throw away
60 Hooray for holidays
The holiday industry continues to demand vast quantities of print, though the internet is shifting the emphasis away from the mega brochure
64 Innovation
Canon's flagship press, Efi's latest Storefront and more
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