Business Management - Industry Trends

As part of its new business plan, NPES has acquired the 1/3rd ownership stakes held by Printing Industries of America and Idealliance.

What Monique Gregoire loves about the industry is that it is fast-moving, constantly changing with opportunities to grow and learn.

A profile of Bob McAleavey, 31, plant manager, at Specialized Printed Forms, a Div. of Ennis, Caledonia, N.Y.

There are a number of moving pieces in the news media landscape that have had to adjust to change and digital disruption over the past 20 years. Only now are we starting to see the effects of digital disruption as it reaches maturity in the news space. Digital has provided more accessibility and speed, but there are very real risks affecting the quality of journalism. Not only does print still have a role in the digital future of news, it may just be necessary to guarantee that we have accountable and legitimate news for the foreseeable future.

Van Leeuwen has designed “instagrammable” ice cream packaging. Designing for social media just might be a new packaging trend.

What follows are some of the show floor highlights and “must-see” products that you will see at the ISA International Sign Expo show.

ISA’s Sign Industry Quarterly Economic Report shows that the sign industry is growing well above the pace of the overall U.S. economy.

In this Under 40 profile, Print+Promo, Printing Impressions’ sister publication, catches up with Brian Gill at thumbprint.

Concerned about all of that paper we’re writing and printing on, the Yadong Yin research group at University California Riverside decided to come up with a substrate that could be “written" on, and subsequently erased, through a variety of methods. This piqued my interest.

All commercial, wide-format, in-plant and quick printers will find value in a special program that has been developed at ISA Sign Expo.