This episode of wide format weekly includes key trends and opportunities, mergers and acquisitions, direct dye sublimation, and Canon's wallpaper challenge. Happy holidays to all!
Dan Marx
We sat down with Peter Schaefer, partner at New Direction Partners, to get his perspective on what wide-format printers need to know about M&A activity.
As the wide-format segment has grown, the quest for companies to differentiate, and to define themselves among the crowd, has become increasingly difficult. And while the segment is highly competitive, it remains strong.
To put a lid on a momentous 2024, the Wide-Format Impressions’ “News Team” offers their impressions on the last twelve months.
Canon USA, Inc.'s John Ingraham, senior marketing specialist, Large Format Solutions, and Angel Georgiou, senior product marketing specialist, sat down to discuss the wallpaper challenge that Canon presented at PRINTING United Expo in Las Vegas.
Mergers and acquisitions in the wide-format space continue to be robust, though the industry and economy make for a changing playing field.
Rich Reamer, senior director of Product Marketing and Planning, Large Format Systems at Canon USA, Inc., sat down with us to discuss Canon's wide-format portfolio and how they address the needs of their large format customers.
One opportunity available for wide-format PSPs and their customers is the ability to print textures or finishes, offering a tactile and/or visual “bonus” when compared to flat printing on a flat substrate.
Victoria Nelson Harris discusses Mimaki's recent Digital Textile Microfactory event, developments in digital textile printing technology, and changes in the textile printing space.
This week's Wide-format Weekly highlights new products, color spaces, a sales superstar, and two valuable views into the interior design space.
Mimaki USA’s Digital Textile Microfactory event, presented October 30 at the company’s Los Angeles, California-area technical center, provided those in attendance with an expansive view of digital textile printing as it stands today.
Marty McGinnis and Bob Swiatek of Trinity Displays discuss the company's work on the Eggo House of Pancakes, and describe why "experience" is a growing part of display work.
Gene Hamzhie, CEO of FireSprint, shares how his for-the-trade wide-format printing business has expanded from producing yard signs and banners and into producing decals. Hamzhie discusses the technologies that have enabled him to access this new opportunity and shares whether he’s considering new opportunities in the near term.
Experts and students in the textile industry gathered for the recent Textile Discovery Summit, which focused on its theme, “A Path Forward Through Innovation: Advancing Manufacturing, Circular Economy, and the Future of Textiles.”
Dan Crownover, president of Texas Nameplate (Lancaster, Texas) shares the company’s quest to produce the high-durability products the company specializes in, while at the same time striving to seek sustainable solutions and minimize electrical power. Further, he discusses efforts to digitize production while maintaining maximum durability.
