September 2008
4 From the Top
6 Upfront
The BPIF Investment Conference;
PrintIT! needs partner printers; NAPM’s
perceptions of paper’s role; sales advice
from Paul Deane
10 My favourite business read
KBA UK’s managing director Christian
Knapp explains what’s on his bedside
table
12 Supply chain
How Andy Seal is encouraging greater
use of recycled papers in the public
sector
14 Finance
The economy is slowing and the signs are
not good
16 Need to know – Total Print! Expo
The highlights from Earls Court, home to
Total Print! Expo, the UK’s biggest print
show this year
22 Dispatches
Why Communisis lost Sainsbury’s;
Heidelberg plans for acquisition; Ifra’s
view on newspaper production
26 Innovation
Colour quality for the iGen3; range of
inkjets from Roland DG
COVER STORY
30 Ambitious Anton
How the Essex printer is changing in its
super plant and what it plans for the next
phase of growth
36 The ICE men arrive
New ink company is wedded to
traditional values on service
40 What’s in web to print
A look at the technology that is becoming
an essential purchase for a growing
number of printers
44 The franchise kings
Printwell is basing its future on websites
designed to help franchisees order their
printed marketing materials
48 Enjoying la dolce vita
Italian company Pixart is experiencing
explosive growth thanks to web to print
50 Future is complicated
Canon’s Insight report predicts that
printers need to take on complex jobs
to separate them from print-on-the-spot
temptations
52 How HenDi drives consolidation
The fi nancial research printer saw the
opportunity in an Oxfordshire journal
printer. John Pulford explains what
he saw
54 Paper cuts for profits
Paper companies are reducing production
capacity in order to return to profi tability
56 Processless becomes viable
The latest generation of processless plates
offers solutions for a growing swathe of
the printing sector
60 Tailpiece
Ryuta Sakurai is placing his faith in the
environmental credentials of the Sakurai
press
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