Business Management - Industry Trends

As a long-term supporter of the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association, Ricoh has renewed its partnership at the association's highest level as a Diamond Sponsor.

Everyone is scrambling right now as the reality of COVID-19 sets in. Scheduled conferences are trying to lock in new dates at a time when the pandemic will have abated.

Now is a great time to start thinking about the legislative, legal, and regulatory issues that could have an impact on your wide-format business in the coming months. This is the perfect time to re-evaluate your current compliance plans, and make some decisions about where to head this year.

IPI's latest research report examines in-plants at higher-ed institutions, looking into the most popular services they provide; which printed pieces have grown in popularity and which have declined; whether recruitment materials are printed in-house or outsourced; how they handle installation of wide-format graphics; and many other areas.

Here are ten of the top takeaways from SGIA's 2020 economic outlook, which can help wide-format shops better plan for how to spend their dollars — and grow their business — in 2020 and beyond.

You now have just one day left to enter the In-Print 2020 contest, the only print contest exclusively for in-plants.

Digital printing industry trends, says EFI CEO Jeff Jacobson, will continue to drive migration – AI integration, machine learning, workflow, multifaceted and end-to-end solutions, etc. Implementation of new technologies into new and different markets will continue to grow and shape EFI customers’ business initiatives. 

"Women’s Print HERstory Month" returns March 2020 with a call to action for global businesses across all printing industry verticals to put female leaders who manage teams and develop technology front and center and to share their achievements.

Just months after his retirement as senior VP of Rochester Software Associates, Tim Kelly passed away on Feb. 15. As a 25-year member of RSA’s senior management team, Mr. Kelly was a leader whose vision, passion for excellence and integrity greatly contributed to RSA’s success.

The in-plant community is a close-knit group — and even closer than you think for some. Over the years, several in-plant managers have fallen in love with each other and gotten married.