Print-business leaders who want to learn more the implications of AI for the print industry may be interested in the line-up of presentations planned for the PrintSmart Summit 2024 on Tuesday, May 7 at the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland. The PrintSmart Summit is being held in conjunction with two other events: Americas Print Show … Read more
The printing industry is alive and changing. Commercial print-service providers have used digital printing technologies to forge new business models and develop new products and services to replace the declining demand for high volumes of printed magazines, newspapers, catalogs, and marketing collateral. Some printing firms are bringing new interactive-print capabilities to omnichannel marketing or getting … Read more
In a keynote presentation at the 2023 Printing United Expo, Lisa Cross, Principal Analyst at NAPCO Research, discussed 9 printing-industry macrotrends culled from recent NAPCO surveys of commercial print businesses, sign and display graphic companies, and print buyers and influencers. Some of the trends Cross highlighted included: Below is a quick summary of key points. … Read more
The economic slowdown that the printing industry experienced in 2023 is likely continue to well into 2024. That is one of the key findings from the PRINTING United Alliance’s midyear 2023 State of the Industry/Economic Outlook reports. At a keynote presentation at the 2023 PRINTING United Expo, Chief Economist for the PRINTING United Alliance Andrew … Read more
Direct-to-Film (DTF) printing is an apparel-decorating process that uses a professional-grade inkjet printer, thermal-transfer pigment inks, inkjet-printable transfer films, a hot-melt adhesive powder, and a controllable heating mechanism. After the hot-melt adhesive power is applied to printed graphic on the film, the film is heat pressed in a manner in which the graphic fully transfers … Read more
Global sales for printing presses and other equipment is expected to reach $16.79 billion in 2023, according to the Smithers market study The Future of Print Equipment Markets to 2028. At constant pricing, the annual sales of new presses, including pre- and post-press equipment, has lost $2.37 billion since 2018. This suggests the post-Covid marketplace … Read more
In the digital printing world, surface imaging (or surface decorating) refers to using different types of digital printing, cutting, embellishing, and engraving devices to add decorative designs and images to textiles, rigid panels, flexible films, wallcoverings, and other surfaces used in architecture, interior design, fashion, sports apparel, and residential and commercial décor. In other words, … Read more
Roland DGA’s VersaOBJECT printers can customize a huge variety of consumer products, industrial products and parts, interior décor, signage, POP displays, packaging, and more
PRINTING United Expo 2022, Oct. 19-20 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, was the largest live event in the graphic arts and printing industry since 2019. The expo drew registrants from 121 countries and was deemed a success by attendees, exhibitors, sponsors, and partners. “I’ve truly never seen this amount of engagement from a show.” … Read more
For an independent B2B journalist like me, trade shows are a great place to have quick, face-to-face meetings with multiple sources and clients within a few short days. So I was delighted to attend he International Sign Expo 2022 held May 4-6 in Atlanta. It was the first in-person trade show I had attended since … Read more
