Business Management - Industry Trends

The Digital Book Printing Conference attracted more than 130 book publishers, printers and equipment manufacturers.

A federal district court in Texas made a ruling last week that will have wide implications for the printing industry and business employers in general. Printing Impressions reached out to Adriane Harrison, human relations specialist at the Printing Industries of America, to get more insight on what the court decision means for the printing industry, what's the likelihood that it will become law in the future and how employers should proceed.

The recipient of the 2016 Lewis Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award is Raymond Lawton, chairman of Lawton Printing Services.

This session will provide an overview of the current environment and options.

It’s no surprise to see wide-format shops attracting their fair share of attention in the M&A marketplace. We’ve represented a number of them as sellers in transactions this year, and they make an interesting contrast with our commercial printing and packaging clients.

The New York Observer, bought in 2006 by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, will end its print edition effective immediately.

With more states legalizing recreational use of marijuana, there is an opportunity for package printers to expand their offerings.

American voters have spoken: Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as America's 45th president in January and the Republican Party will maintain majority control of both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. Also of interest is what the election results will likely mean for people who make their livings working in the graphic arts industry. To gain some perspective both from what it means for printing companies, as well as for industry suppliers, Michael Makin, president and CEO of Printing Industries of America and Mark Nuzzaco, government affairs director at NPES The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies, weighed in.

No one predicted that wide-format inkjet would open a new market for printers for signage, vehicle wraps, building wraps, back drops, and more. Go back and look. The first wide-format printers were introduced as proofers for color printing. As Benny Landa has said: anything that can go digital will go digital. That is why the growth markets are packaging and new media — and by media I mean new substrates.

The 14th edition of Idealliance’s “State of the Industry Report” will mail to members by Nov. 15.