March 2009
4 From the Top
6 Upfront
The genius of KBA’s Genius;
nationalisation in Germany; recession
bites in the US; Two Sides on a roll
9 Finance
Why not try the ‘creative mbo’ as a way of
selling your business
10 My favourite business read
Vio’s Gavin Page names a guide to
strategic selling as the book he has found
most valuable
11 Supply chain
Andy McCulloch relates how Dyson
controls the quality of its print image and
manages its suppliers
12 Dispatches
Norman Revill sets Manroland on service
course; 20 printers help on Carbon
Calculator
16 Innovations
All the announcements and
developments from the Hunkeler
Innovation Days
18 Pride in Print
Seed catalogues, conference invitations
and Cadbury’s dancing eyebrows feature
22 Need to know – recycled papers
Check out the latest reasons for using
recycled papers here
COVER STORY
28 Digital printing in the round
Four leading users of digital printing
explain what the technology has brought
to their businesses
DIGITAL PRINTING SPECIAL REPORT
32 The great hope of transpromo
Is it an over-hyped application or one that
represents a new avenue for print? The
pieces are falling into place
36 Direct and precise
Digital printing has had a huge impact on
direct mail, something that is only going
to increase
40 Smile please
Photobooks are the application that is
exciting digital press suppliers
42 Read all about it, anywhere
What are the tools to use when calibrating
to reach the ISO standard?
42 Paper’s chains
Digital printing lets publishers print their
titles close to small groups of readers, and
the technology is causing publishers to
think hard
46 Never out of print
The book industry is waking up to the
potential of digital printing
50 Research into digital
CFI has upped service levels by mixing
digital and litho printing
52 From prepress to print
Pure digital print was not enough for
prepress operation Altaimage
56 An academic argument
Digital printing is proving perfect for the
under-pressure academic journal market
58 The art of fi nishing machines
Japanese supplier Horizon marries art and
form into products which are automated,
aimed at short runs and gaining in profile
60 Managing the cash
Cash fl ow is a key issue in today’s
economic climate, but MIS can be used to
help get the money in
64 Eyes on Northprint
The Harrogate show should provide
something to justify a visit
66 Tailpiece
Presco has discovered that the explosion
of digital printing is leading to an uptake
for its small-scale fi nishing products
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