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SPI 2025: Where Screen Printing Meets the Future

May 23, 2025 by Editor

Screen printing has evolved well beyond graphics printing. With its precision, durability, and design freedom, screen printing is redefining what is possible in manufactured products. The European Specialist Printing Manufacturers Association (ESMA) describes screen printing as an innovation driver for industrial manufacturing worldwide. To show how screen printing is powering innovation, ESMA will host Screen Print Innovations, a new conference …

Sign Expo Surprises

May 17, 2025May 17, 2025 by Eileen Fritsch

At ISA International Sign Expo 2025, I looked forward to seeing the latest advances in printing and finishing equipment. But one of the joys of attending trade shows is discovering under-the-radar surprises. Here are a few things that caught my attention. PVC-Free Adhesive Materials A few days before ISA Sign Expo opened, I submitted an article to Wide-Format Impressions about …

Meet Creators of Branded Environments and Wayfinding Signage at ISA Sign Expo

February 10, 2025 by Editor

The Society for Experiential Design (SEGD) will hold two full-day educational programs concurrently with the 2025 International Sign Expo, April 23-25 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV. The SEGD is a community of graphic and exhibition designers, fabricators, architects, media developers, creative technologists, teachers and students who design experiences that connect people to places. The co-located …

Organizers of drupa 2028 Announce Shortened Event

October 22, 2024October 17, 2024 by Editor

To meet the changing preferences of drupa attendees, the 2028 drupa global trade fair for printing technologies will be two days shorter than the drupa 2024 was. The 2024 edition of the drupa trade fair for printing technologies ran 11 days from May 28 to June 7 and attracted visitors from 173 counties to displays in 18 exhibition halls in …

PrintSmart Summit Provides Deep Dive into Artificial Intelligence

March 7, 2024 by Editor

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 2024 (May 8-9) and the …

2024 Drupa Preview: 11-Day Global Trade Fair for Print Technologies Starts May 28

March 3, 2024 by Editor

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 into industrial segments such as …

Nine Macrotrends Affecting Printing Businesses in 2024

February 9, 2024 by Editor

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. To see more specifics, click …

PRINTING United Expo 2022 Exceeds Expectations

November 20, 2022November 3, 2022 by Editor

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.” said Mark J. Subers, president, …

ISA Sign Expo 2022: Back to the Future

May 31, 2022 by Eileen Fritsch

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 October, 2019. Like Rip Van …

Virtual Event Explores Opportunities in Specialty, Custom, and Industrial Printing

September 7, 2021 by Editor

The Association for PRINT Technologies (APTech) will host Unbound, a one-day virtual event and online trade fair for opportunities in specialty, custom and industrial printing. The Unbound event will be held November 16, 2021 from 10:00 am-3:00 pm EDT. There is no fee to attend. “Print is more than ink on paper and it’s more than a medium that conveys …

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