Business Management - Industry Trends

PRINTING United Alliance has announced that the call for entries has opened for the annual Product of the Year Awards competition. The deadline to submit entries online is September 8, 2020.

By selling vinyl decals to support and stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, The Mailworks is supporting Black-owned organizations.

It's no secret that printing and related graphic communication companies have the need for skilled entry-level employees as experienced journeymen retire. A vocational training center, the Cuyahoga Valley Career Center, offers a great model for addressing the problem.

In an age when six feet apart is the norm, how will in-plant production meetings take place from now on? Will employees continue to gather in conference rooms? Are video calls really a workable substitute? In part two of our report on the future of in-plants after COVID-19, we talked with nearly a dozen managers about this and other key issues.

This article highlights the efforts of three printing companies, and provides recovery-focused strategies presented by a well-known industry consultant.

Three months after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, articles about the impact of COVID-19 are still the most well read stories on IPI’s site. Here’s your chance to catch up if you missed any of them.

In order to support social distancing measures and protect workers as businesses reopen, HP and 3M have collaborated on signage templates for print service providers to offer to customers.

More than three-quarters of in-plants now provide wide-format printing, according to the latest IPI research, with other services like graphics installation, contour cutting, and scanning on the rise. Here’s an excerpt from our newly published report.

If you have decided to move into government procurement contracts, there are several secrets to understand. First, this is a highly regulated world, at both the state and federal level. Second, recognize that printing itself is often considered a service in government contacts.

Faces Behind Masks, a nonprofit organization based in Israel, has debuted a platform to connect digital printing companies with hospitals to provide stickers with photos of medical professionals' faces to adhere to their PPE.