INDUSTRY / NEWS 8 email: news@printmonthly.co.uk May / June 2023 - Issue 342 PrintMonthly printmonthly PrintMonthlyMagazine The Online Print Coach, Colin Sinclair McDermott has become the latest endorsement partner for BPIF Insurance Services, a part of the trade association’s range of print-focused services. The BPIF previously reviewed its insurance scheme to better improve its service to association members by working with insurance broker Aston Lark. The scheme offers BPIF members discounts on a range of insurances as well as a wide range of cover not offered by standard policies. The latest collaboration demonstrates the ways in which associations and industry specialists are continuing to collaborate and bring solutions to printers and end-users. The Online Print Coach delivers coaching throughout the print industry and the collab means he will ensure that businesses and individuals are aware of the pitfalls and risks in the industry as well as the services that can help protect against them. The Printing Charity names new president Michael Grade CBE, Lord Grade of Yarmouth has been named as the President of the Printing Charity for 2023. Currently Chair of OFCOM, Grade started his career as a print journalist and says he is a “great believer in the power of print as a communication channel”. The new President first cut his tooth in the world of print in 1960 as a journalist and sports columnist at the Daily Mirror and later went on to add many strings to his bow in roles at major UK broadcasters such as controller of BBC One, Chief Executive of Channel 4, Chair of the BBC, and Executive Chair of ITV. In addition to this, Grade has held positions such as Chief Executive of First Leisure, Chair of Pinewood Studios, Chair of the Charity Fundraising Regulator, Chair of the Media Museum Bradford, and a Trustee of the Science Museum. “I am looking forward to supporting The Printing Charity's crucial work providing practical, emotional, and financial support to everyone in the print, packaging, paper, publishing, and graphic arts sectors,” says Grade. Jon Wright, Chair of the Printing Charity, adds: “We are delighted that Lord Grade has agreed to support the charity as our 2023 President and the keynote speaker at our Annual Luncheon, an event now in its 194th year. “He is the latest member of a distinguished line of past charity Presidents, including most recently George Osborne CH.” Michael Grade CBE, Lord Grade of Yarmouth has been named as the Printing Charity’s 2023 President Colin Sinclair McDermott will use his platform and coaching to advocate for specialist print insurance The Online Print Coach collaborates with BPIF Epson continues to support HMF Epson has continued its work to raise awareness for charity partner the Human Milk Foundation (HMF). The HMF is the largest supplier of donor human milk in England and Wales and distributes donor human milk to babies in hospital neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and families at home, helping mums with conditions like cancer through The Hearts Milk Bank. At the start of the year, Epson announced it was supporting its charity partner with responsive label printing technology to help with the chain of custody for donated breast milk. Epson donated a TM-C3500 ColorWorks label printer along with labels from Magnum Materials that can withstand pasteurisation temperatures of 65 degrees, and freezing temperatures of minus 22 degrees. More recently, Epson and the HMF have produced a range of special dye-sublimated gifts available from the HMF’s online store (www.hmfgifts.com) with the range including designs from students at Hertfordshire-based school Longdean. All proceeds from the online gifts go straight to the HMF. The dye-sublimated range of gifts were designed by local students Demonstrating the potential of inkjet and recycled clothes Epson has partnered with Japanese fashion designer, Yuima Nakazato, to showcase the possibilities of inkjet and dry fibre technologies used on recycled clothing. Nakazato’s self-titled brand YUIMA NAKAZATO was shown at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week Spring – Summer 2023. The collection showcased creative and sustainable fashion, created using a “potentially industry-transforming textile production process”. Epson’s dry fibre technology, which has been used commercially to recycle office paper, requiring virtually no water, has been adapted to produce printable non-woven fabric from used garments. The upcoming Paris show illustrated how switching to digital textile printing using more environmentally friendly pigment inks offers the fashion industry a more sustainable and less wasteful means of textile printing. The fabric used was derived from material from used garments sourced from Africa, the destination for many discarded garments from around the world. Nakazato visited Kenya where he collected around 150kg of waste garment material that otherwise would have gone to a “clothes mountain”, a large pile of discarded textiles. Epson and YUIMA NAKAZATO plan to continue exploring the possibilities within sustainable fashion and inkjet By Carys Evans By David Osgar By David Osgar By David Osgar
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