Business Management - Industry Trends

In IDEAlliance's study on wide/grand format inkjet systems, 24 systems were evaluated for color control, ink consumption, repeatability, print speed and many other factors.

This webinar will focus on why wide format is an integral part of the cross media mix: QR codes, text messaging, augmented reality.

Logo Label Printing of Durham, NC, has added an EFI Jetrion 4830 UV inkjet system to provide volume printing without the added costs of plates, setup, and prepress charges, for a wide assortment of substrates, including foil and clear label.

The industry continues to shrink, as evidenced by a brisk 2013 transaction season, capped by the jaw-dropping pickup of Consolidated Graphics by RR Donnelley. And while it was by far and away the biggest deal in '13, a glimpse at the PI 400 can provide further evidence of a shrinking market.

Do you currently sell both offset and inkjet? Are you confident that your sales staff understands the basic differences? Not knowing will affect your sales and integration of new technology.

A new media certification program for HP Inkjet Web Presses, has been introduced by HP, that will help save customers time by quickly identifying a range of substrates compatible with HP high-speed production inkjet systems.

Until there is an inkjet fluid that dries quickly and stays on the uncoated paper surface, designers wanting to design to the machine color space will have to require the printer to “fingerprint” the machine on the uncoated paper, as well as request the output profile for soft proofing. We can call this proofing profile “Uncoated Kool-Aid.”

International Paper will be the featured keynote speaker at the 2014 Inkjet Summit being held April 7-9, 2014, in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. "We are excited to be featured as a keynote speaker at this year’s Inkjet Summit and look forward to meeting with senior managers and business executives interested in our current and future strategies to improve their business," said Clay Ellis, International Paper's vice president of printing papers.

Good business sense and sensibility should tell us to understand why people react and behave as they do. We can then go about managing them in a way that will result in the most productivity, as well as career growth for the individual. It will cause us a lot less agony in dealing with them and wondering what we are doing wrong...nothing.

At the Screen USA Media Day event held last week at its headquarters in Rolling Meadows, IL, approximately 30 representatives from the graphics industry trade press, had the opportunity to watch live demonstrations of several inkjet printers, including the Truepress Jet L350UV inkjet label press, the Truepress Jet W3200UV flatbed inkjet printer, and Truepress JetSX B2 sheetfed inkjet press.