Digital Printing-Wide Format - Roll to Roll

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

Greg Stecker will describe how his business grew from traditional offset toward high-margin display graphics.

In some ways the digital transformation of textile printing has been accelerated due to the COVID-19 crisis.

Two of the Smithsonian Institution’s finest museums rely on in-house printing operations to produce the graphics that accompany their numerous exhibits.

As technologies advance, in-plants find themselves much better suited to producing signage than the facilities departments and in-house sign shops that traditionally handled them. Some in-plants are strategically taking over sign making.

Considerations of print speed, print quality, and flexibility factor strongly in wide-format equipment purchases. A strategy involving all three is essential.

The new portfolios deliver advanced photo and color quality, enhanced precision, and new graphics application potential.

On Monday, Sept. 13, judges gathered at In-plant Printing and Mailing Association headquarters to judge the In-Print 2021 contest, the only printing contest exclusively for in-plants. They selected 29 Gold award winners.

In a new video, IPI Editor Bob Neubauer chats with two university in-plant managers about how wide-format printing became a “lifesaver” during the pandemic. They talk about the benefits of latex and UV-curable systems, the challenges of finding space for the equipment, and the huge profit margins of wide-format printing.

Providing all the printing for a large grocery chain is a challenging task, but the four-person in-plant team at Coborn’s Inc. does it with style, spoiling its customers with fast service.