As the printing industry’s need for new talent intensifies, its most thoroughly conceived partnership for workforce development is making steady progress on multiple fronts. Mariano Rivera, a legend in Major League Baseball and a philanthropist in private life, is working with printing companies and suppliers in Florida, Texas, and the Northeast to expand...
Patrick Henry
Antimicrobial coatings can help printers meet the demand for clean, germ-free environments — but the benefits mustn’t be oversold...
Ongoing economic, legislative and regulatory issues for printers are as worthy of attention as anything taking place nationally...
If the substrate is the fifth color of printing, then consistency is the sixth: the quality that gives the laydown of ink or toner its recognizable character and unambiguous visual identity, job after job. The perception of color consistency is the result of making sure that everything in the print run...
Where did all the paper go? If there are such things as existential questions for the printing industry, this surely is one of them. Printers aren’t agonizing over it now, and realistically, probably never will. But, the current tightness of the market for the kinds of paper that commercial and...
Promotional calendars are hardly a new tool for printers to use when wooing customers and prospects. But, when a specimen like the 2019 wall planner from Diamond Packaging comes along, it asks us to think of printers’ calendars not just as marketing giveaways, but as works of art and platforms for interactive “smart” technologies as well...
Production inkjet printing success depends on the quality, range, availability and price of roll-fed and cut-sheet substrates offered.
“Convergence” happens when printers expand from their core businesses into adjacent market segments as a way to grow and diversify.
