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Greenpeace and Wilderness Society slam PEFC as ‘signing off forest destruction’ The war of words between paper certifications has escalated after FSC backers Greenpeace and The Wilderness Society published a scathing report calling PEFC ‘greenwash for bad forestry practices’. The report ‘On the Ground 2011’ is a follow-up to a report published earlier this year, now […]

An excellent article from www.creative pro on how to print colours correctly from InDesign was brought to my attention a couple of days ago. The article begins as follows. Billions of years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, print production managers checked documents with something called “progressive proofs” or “color proofs”. These printed pieces of […]

Letterpress is back, judging by the turnout at a launch night of boutique printer The Distillery, with hundreds of guests, including buyers from M&C Saatchi and Pacific Magazines, spilling out onto the street. More than 320 people attended the launch events held across two nights last week to officially open the firm, which specialises in […]

As a member of Adobe’s ‘service provider’ programme, we receive regular emails with helpful trip and tricks. This morning I received a particularly helpful email with a number of tips and tricks I was only vaguely aware of, or not aware of at all, in PhotoShop. Tips include dealing with distortions in photographs using Puppet […]

Our wonderful designer, Dragan Djuric, has created a new design portfolio for us, utilising work he has created for us over the last six and a half years, and incorporating other work he has done. The portfolio is very extensive and covers a wide variety of products. It consists of a moving ribbon of images […]

HP has confirmed that former eBay head Meg Whitman has been appointed as president and chief executive officer following the departure of Leo Apotheker after just 10 months in the role. Speculation surrounding Apotheker’s departurehad been rife during the past few days with the HP board reacting following investor criticism of Apotheker’s plan to migrate from […]

In a move that appears to be a swing away from the online and back to the increasingly unpopular print medium, the Telstra-owned Trading Post online has partnered with Fairfax Media to allow classified advertisements to appear under both banners. Under the agreement, general classified advertising packages for Fairfax customers will now include an online presence on Trading Post […]

We have just added two important updates to the ‘how to prepare  your files’ section of our web site. For some customers it is critical that the colour is perfect. We have added a detailed section on what to do when this is the case. You can view it by clicking here. We have also written a […]

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have created blood vessels using the 3D printer. The team is looking at ways of overcoming barriers to creating tissues and organs in the laboratory for transplanting to people. One of the biggest obstacles is to find a way to manufacture a vascular system to supply nutrients to […]

Welcome to our new look Kainos Print site.  The site has undergone extensive redesign and our back end software has been upgraded so that we can offer you more information such as: Latest news from Kainsprint and the printing industry Blog entries Our new site also allows us to update pages much more easily,  ensuring […]