Business Management - Industry Trends

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 in October doing something I haven’t done in a long time: visiting in-plants. I took a drive from 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.

PRINTING United Alliance will launch its First Live and Local event, sponsored by HP Inc. These community-building events were developed to educate local print service providers in areas of trends and convergence, research and economics, and business opportunities for diversification.

PRINTING United Alliance announced the recipients of the new Pinnacle Product Awards program (formerly the SGIA Product of the Year Awards). This award program celebrates 58 exemplary technologies and products from leading companies across the printing industry.

Heidelberg and Canon Solutions America led the pack of cutting-edge technology providers honored with Pinnacle InterTech Awards by PRINTING United Alliance.