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Killer app: A bloody good job

What flows through your taking advantage of the addi- cess,” he explained. “The cli-
veins and gives you life? Yes, tional bleed to three sides ent was really happy with the
blood – though some of our that the team uses as stand- final sample, which allowed
readers might be glad to ard for wallcoverings, and us to go into production
hear we’d accept ‘ink’, too. using Xanita battens on the knowing the output would
Leeds-based Digital Plus’ lat- reverse of its caption panels.
est fit-out, at the Thackray be as desired.” Having run
Museum of Medicine in What challenges were multiple projects from the
Leeds, was certainly a strik- overcome? site, however, setting up the
ing job. The wide-format digital templates for a flaw-
specialist had to prove its Running a job with con- less install proved “relatively
colour-matching chops in an Digital Plus was approached by Thackray Museum sistency in delicate red tones, simple”, too.
exhibition examining the across an entire exhibition,
politics and power behind would require approxi- as the firm had given requires a keen eye for col- What was the feedback?
donating blood. mately 6sqm of print over 17 Thackray a set of digital tem- our. Given that Digital Plus The museum was thrilled.
wall panels in various cus- plates from which it could didn’t have a sample or Jack Gann, Thackray’s in-
What was produced? tom sizes, printed directly generate its own print-ready Pantone shade to match, it house curator, said: “We
D ig i t al P l us w a s on 10mm Xanita board, and artwork. was very much a case of lean- have worked with Digital
approached by Thackray two wallcoverings printed The team then ran its ing into 24 years’ worth of Plus on the print work for
Museum, a long-term client directly to a single 3.4x4.8m Kavalan stock through experience in file manipula-
of over a decade, with the Kavalan Gecko PVC-free several of our exhibitions at
unusual exhibition idea. The sheet. Digital Plus’ Agfa Anapurna tion, explained Gareth Thackray Museum of
museum wanted to cover 3.2m roll-to-roll press, with Hartley, the firm’s head of Medicine and have always
the exhibition walls in floor- What did the job entail? the 10mm Xanita processed projects and installation. found them to provide a
to-ceiling print, yet ensure Pre-press was a “simple on an Agfa Mira flatbed. All “The colour and image qual- friendly and helpful service
the fit-out was sustainable. process”, said David Brisk, finishing was done by hand, ity was sampled using our that responds to our chang-
The eventual print project sales director at Digital Plus, with trimming done on-site, tried and tested sample pro- ing needs.

Q&A: Nicole Spencer, managing director, RMC Digital Print

Nicole is 46 and “kind of ers I can’t justify buying one 86 so we will see how I get
fell into the print industry by on this year. So far, the best
What would you most books I’ve read this year are
chance”. She joined RMC
like to print? The Silence In Between by
on a short-term contract, Josie Ferguson and All the
thinking it would just be a I love seeing our print Colours of the Dark by Chris
when I’m out and about or
few months “but that was when it’s on TV – so more of Whitaker
nearly 14 years ago, and I’m what we already do What is your favourite
still here”. phrase or saying?
These days, Nicole runs What is your favourite ‘If you don’t like it, just
and owns the business, TV programme? leave it’
Spencer: “I’d love to time-travel across the years”
which is something she Ted Lasso
never imagined back when Cat or dog, or…?
got involved with Fespa UK What is your dream bit What is your favourite
she started. “Pretty early on and that’s become a big part of kit? book? Dog but I don’t have one.
in my career, I went to a I’ve got two tortoises
of my professional life.” She I’ve always wanted a liq- My favourite book is Still
Fespa event and that really says her daughter keeps her uid laminator – I just like Live by Sarah Winman. What is your greatest
opened my eyes to how busy outside of work. “My watching them work but I read a lot and have set luxury in life?
vibrant and connected the house is often full of her now we’ve got a varnish on myself a target of 100 books. Not having to rely on any-
print community is. I soon friends.” one of the five-metre print- I missed it last year and did one else financially

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