Business Management - Industry Trends

The Printing Industries Alliance has arranged for private VIP scheduled tours of major exhibitors at drupa this year.

Action Mailers, a family-owned operation, relies on its longstanding employees to help serve non-profits and commercial entities.

The Inkjet Summit provides senior managers and business executives an educational forum about adding inkjet presses.

Building upon its record of introducing important technology innovations at drupa, Kodak will this year announce a new process free plate. With demand for its process free Kodak Sonora Plates growing to over 3,000 customers, Kodak’s latest addition to the Sonora Plate portfolio is designed to meet the rigorous demands of UV print applications. Also, debuting at drupa 2016 will be the new Kodak Flexcel NX System ’16, which builds on Kodak’s award-winning NX Advantage technology.

We all want our business to stay strong and grow. A problem we can’t ignore is starting to become more prevalent in our plants.

Extending its digital printing portfolio for drupa 2016, Heidelberg premiered a new inkjet system for the industrial production of digital printing applications in B1 format. The Heidelberg Primefire 106 is based on the leading inkjet technology from Fujifilm. In addition, the company revealed a new name — “Fire" — as a standardized family name for the entire digital printing portfolio.

Fujifilm Dimatix print heads can deposit precise levels of silver conductive nanoparticle fluids at high speeds.

The Inkjet Summit, a hosted buyer event, is slated for April 18-20, at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Regardless of whether it’s happening or not, the idea that Amazon might be opening hundreds of bookstores is blowing people’s minds.

What does Half Price Books, No. 3 U.S. bookstore chain, think about Amazon.com opening bookstores?