INDUSTRY NEWS
April 2025
FESPA Global Print Expo 2025
3 APRIL 2025
Preparations for the return of FESPA Global Print Expo 2025, European Sign Expo and Personalisation Experience are well underway. We’re thrilled to be back in Berlin for this year’s event with our new strapline ‘Where Visionaries Meet’, which shines a spotlight on our forward-thinking FESPA community.
From the 6 – 9 May 2025, at Messe Berlin, Germany, the co-located events will be a pivotal meeting point for forward thinking Visionaries in the print sector to connect and share their thoughts on the future of the industry; explore current trends; and see an array of new technologies, solutions, media and consumables across specialty print and signage.
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Authors Guild Launches “Human Authored” Certification to Preserve Authenticity in Literature
1 APRIL 2025
AI-generated books are flooding online marketplaces and increasingly look like, and sometimes even read like, human-authored books. The reader may have no way of knowing if a book they come across is AI-generated or authored by a human. The Authors Guild believes that readers have the right to know if a text was written by AI or a human, and that writers should have the ability to distinguish their work in increasingly AI-saturated markets.
Today, the Authors Guild unveils “Human Authored”—a first-of-its-kind official certification system that writers and publishers will be able to use in their books and in marketing to indicate if the text of a book was human-written.
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LOTF Conference – Final Speaker Lineup Announced
1 APRIL 2025
BOSS is delighted to announce the full speaker lineup for the Leaders of the Future Conference on Conflict Resolution and Emotional Intelligence which takes place on the 10th of April at Fellowes Brands in Doncaster. The keynote Nick Saunders will run a dynamic morning session titled 'Connection, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution: Turning Relationships into Results', followed by an afternoon hosted by industry leaders. First delegates will hear from 2024 BOSS Awards Professional of Year Linsey Adams, Reckitt Pro Solutions who will share her career journey to date. Then all will have the chance to partake in workshop sessions run by Leanne Gregg, evo Group, Jonathan Smith, Avery and Darryl Brunt, Fellowes Brands.
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Updates from Leigh Stationer's Academy
28 MARCH 2025
Updates from Leigh Stationer's Academy are now available on the Latest News page of the Academy's website.
Items this week include:
- A Message from the Principal
- LSA Students Uncover Centuries of History at Stationers' Hall
- 2lt Heine Receives Prestigious Lord Lieutenant's Commendation for Outstanding Service
- Year 7 Students Explore Tropical Wonders at Butterfly Gardens
- Year 9 Parents' Evening a Resounding Success
- Year 9 Options Process: Key Events and Next Steps
- Reminder: Year 11 & 13 Easter Intervention Schedule
- LSA Dance Extravaganza 2025: A Showcase for Talent
- Year 10 Maths Feast: LSA Students Achieve 7th Place
- Weekly Sports Fixtures: Year 8 & 9 Netball
- Leigh Stationers' Academy to Host Strive2Score Spring Talent ID Event
- PSHE Update: Supporting Personal Development Across Years 7-10
- Year 11 Career Opportunities and Post-16 Support
- Knowledge Assessments Scheduled for Module 4, Week 6
Warrant 2025 New The Stamford Notebook Company
27 MARCH 2025
Stamford's range of Notebooks, Journals, Diaries and Lifestyle Books have been developed, showcasing traditional skills in quality printing and bookbinding. We print in-house and bind by hand which allows us to offer a complete flexible service to a large appreciating cusstomer base. It has been clear to us that much production for similar products has drifted abroad by brands and publishers seeking lower and lower costs. We insist in using the best quality materials that we can source as locally as possible. Out paper is milled by James Cropper to our specification.
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Warrant 2025 New Contact Originators
26 MARCH 2025
Contact originators were awarded three Warrants for Optimus, Print HQ and Magnaforma.
Optimus™ is a groundbreaking flexographic printing plate technology developed by Contact Originators, designed to optimise ink usage and improve print quality within the corrugated packaging sector. This patent-pending technology integrates advanced studio techniques with tailored plate surface patterns, different plate types, and LED exposures. This combination yields precise and efficient ink laydown with up to 20% savings on ink usage and 10% on ink formulation.
PrintHQ is a transformative digital shim printing technology for the corrugated printing sector, developed by Contact Originators in partnership with AV Flexologic. Recognising inefficiencies in the traditional manual processes of shim mounting and skew checking, Contact Originators designed PrintHQ to address accuracy, traceability, and workflow integration challenges that flexographic printers face.
MagnaForma™ is a groundbreaking innovation by Contact Originators, featuring a world-first design and manufacture of a 2.8m wide mounted multi-piece photopolymer flexographic plate for the corrugated printing industry. This technology was developed to address the longstanding challenge faced by corrugated printers, who have been limited to utilising only 1.9m of their press width, unable to fully capitalise on their equipment’s capabilities.
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Warrant 2025 New Flashes and Flames
25 MARCH 2025
Flashes & Flames is a weekly newsletter for CEOs and senior executives of media companies, primarily in the UK and US. It is different to almost all other media for this audience because it is longform analysis with many of the features being 2-3k words. It has almost 2,000 subscribers. I attach testimonials from some of my readers. The domain is www.flashesandflames.com. It is paywalled but judges can get access by going to the subscription page on the site. Use the coupon code premier to get full acccess free of charge.
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Warrant 2025 New PDQ Print Hub by Haybrooke
24 MARCH 2025
PDQ Print Hub by Haybrooke was developed in response to the evolving needs of the printing industry, where traditional print providers often struggle to compete with online giants. The platform leverages automated pricing technology to streamline print procurement, aiming to empower traditional printers with a modern, competitive solution. PDQ Print Hub enables greater efficiency, transparency, and flexibility, bridging the gap between traditional print providers and the demands of today’s print buying market.
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Update from Leigh Stationer's Academy
21 MARCH 2025
Updates from Leigh Stationer's Academy are now available on the Latest News page of the Academy's website.
Items this week include:
- A Message From the Principal
- Reminder: Year 9 Parents' Evening
- Year 9 Options Process: Key Events and Next Steps
- Year 11 & 13 Mocks Conclude: Focus on Summer Success
- Year 11 & 13 Easter Intervention Schedule
- Weekly Sports Fixtures: Strong Performances Across Rugby and Cross Country
- PSHE Update: Supporting Personal Development Across Year 7-10
- Year 11 Career Opportunities: Guidance and Resources
- Careers Across the Curriculum - Parent Volunteers Wanted
- Work Experience Reminders for Years 10 & 12
- Year 9 Booster Catch-Up Clinics
Warrant 2025 New - Barley Communication
19 MARCH 2025
Barley was founded in 2016 by James Ford and Sam Williams. Both had taken voluntary redundancy from a big agency whose values no longer aligned with their own. When they talked about what to do next, they found they had a shared vision which they brought to life in Barley - ‘smart people making a difference through brilliant work’.
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Warrant 2025 Renewal Supadu Smart Buy Buttons (Supadu Ltd)
18 MARCH 2025
Warrant awarded for a ground- breaking solution that enables publishers to engage readers across the digital sphere. Whether on a blog, from a newsletter or marketing campaigns, in a book club or other 3rd party website and social channels, Smart Buy buttons check live product information for availability then adds the product into the publisher shopping cart fully integrated into the distribution channels driving engagement, sales and audience reach.
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Warrant 2025 New - Private Client Sports, Inc. for Sail Sport Talk
17 MARCH 2025
Broadcasting to 100 million people in 168 countries combined on the following platforms: American Forces Network, 200 radio stations in United States and 500 Internationally, Sports Byline Channel on the following multi-media platforms: TuneIn Radio, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, CRN Talk. Private Client Sports, Inc also covers Music, Travel, Rugby and Equestrian Sports in addition to Sail Sport Talk.