The Evolution of Perfect Binding - Part III
9th August 2010
Moving towards the present day, advances in perfect binding came one after another and once more towards the end of the 1980’s, technologies in bookbinding took another dramatic leap upwards with the advent of PUR...
The Evolution of Perfect Binding - Part II
2nd August 2010
The first early attempts at perfect binding employed traditional, flexible animal jelly glues, however attempts at perfect binding only really became commercially viable with the development of synthetic resin dispersion technologies...
The Evolution of Perfect Binding - Part I
26th July 2010
The evolution of bookbinding in documents and literature has evolved somewhat from its roots in the first century A.D. where recordings on clay tablets were replaced by what we would recognise as the first conventional books...
Heidelberg to Re-Enter Digital Printing
26th May 2010
Here at Purely Digital HQ, we’re always keen to keep on top of developments in the world of Digital print. It was therefore interesting this week to see that Heidelberg...
HP Helps Expand Digital Printing Portfolios
18th May 2010
The recently held IPEX 2010 Exhibition was the perfectly opportunity for digital companies begin to outlining future plans with regards to their product ranges...
Print Companies Face Sharp Rise in Price of Paper
26th March 2010
With the country slowly but surely recovering from the economic tussle it has faced over the past couple of years, things looked to be taking a turn for the better across several industries...
Digital Printing is Growing Trend for Business Professionals
18th March 2010
Ask any business manager what makes the cornerstones of a good organisation, and the chances are a vast majority of them will highlight the importance...
Exciting Times for Print Media and its Digital Future
25th February 2010
Technology has long been sculpting many industries across the world, and not surprisingly, the world of printing is not exempt from this...
Doing it the Digital Way
15th February 2010
Here at Purely Digital HQ, we’ve recently been taking a nostalgic look back over the years and discussing how much the printing industry has changed over the past ten years. We realised that up until a decade ago...
Purely Digital wins award
18th November 2009
We’re very proud to announce that our magazine Passionate has won an award at the national Digital Printer Awards....
All Black and White
20th September 2009
Not so many years ago colour photographs were a luxury and monochrome was standard, my own wedding photographs were totally in black and white...
Sweet success is getting greener
19th August 2009
Purely Digital has completed its first job on paper produced from bagasse – the fibrous waste product from sugar cane mills...
When Sending Files To Print, Be Sure To Zip Them | Purely Digital
8th August 2009
Before you email or upload a file, try compressing it with the inbuilt Compress function from within Mac OS or Zip in Windows. This creates a ZIP file...
Document Bleed
8th August 2009
The term “bleed” is used for all objects overlapping the border of your document: Let’s say you are working on a brochure with images that butt right up against the side of your pages...
Children show the way on environmental issues
15th April 2009
Our company was developed around environmental issues - at Purely Digital we are all parents (and grandparents) and we want to do all we can to help combat climate...
Chairman swaps boat for Indigo Digital Press
15th April 2009
Here at Purely Digital we have a somewhat spurious link with the Ipex 2010 “Champion of Print” Benny Landa (founder of Indigo)...
Greener than lamination
15th April 2009
"We were one of the first companies in the country to invest in a UV coater. This equipment will coat any type of paper in a UV varnish (gloss or matt)...
Did you know we do VDP
15th April 2009
"Imagine shooting 1 or 100,000 arrows from a single bow simultaneously and having each one hit its intended target – right in the bulls-eye!”...
We can print on much heavier substrates
15th April 2009
With a recent upgrade to or HP Indigo Press we can print onto substrates up to 400gsm and 460 micron. For our customers this...
Proud to print and bind thesis
18th April 2006
Our M.D. Andrew had a call last week from a cousin who is studying for her PhD in Yorkshire. She wanted to know if we would print and bind her thesis when she has completed it...