Business Management - Industry Trends

In recent years, opportunities in backlit signage and silicon edge graphics (SEG) have exploded due to advancements in the necessary inks, equipment, and substrates and increasing creativity applications for the format. Is this upward trajectory set to continue?

Toner shortages are complicating the ability of teachers at one Canadian district to provide students with photocopied assignments. Some are questioning whether supply chain disruptions are fueling an ill-advised push toward digital distribution.

During the week of October 11th, dozens of EFI customers and prospects, along with industry media and analysts attended a series of EFI Ignition open house events.

In a new blog, Consultant Howie Fenton discusses how in-plants can assess the risks in new software investments and then mitigate or minimize those risks.

We took a closer look at the top trends impacting the wide-format market right now, everything from supply chain issues to staffing problems.

There are four major components to defining Industry 4.0, aside from simply calling it the Fourth Industrial Revolution. How has the print industry, as a whole, done with embracing this new wave of technology?

Longtime industry executives spanning all printing communities are represented on the PRINTING United Alliance 2022 Board of Directors.

I spent two days last week doing something I haven’t done in a long time: visiting in-plants. I took a drive Philadelphia to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and stopped in at five in-plants to see how things have been going.

While wide-format producers say orders are back to pre-pandemic levels, sourcing the materials they need is proving to be a major challenge due to a variety of factors.

Though improvements to the current paper supply and delivery challenges are likely in 2022, that isn’t the same as a return to pre-COVID-19 business practices. It may be nearly impossible for printers looking to enter new markets to obtain paper inventory.