Business Management - Industry Trends

Exploring the resilience, technological advancements, and strategic shifts defining North America's wide-format printing industry's leading companies.

When making decisions, it helps to have a grasp on “hot” markets. They don’t have to be big, but need to be profitable and growing.

The 2023 Wide-Format 150 makes its highly anticipated return for the sixth consecutive year, offering the most definitive ranking of the top companies in the wide-format printing industry across the United States and Canada, based on their annual wide-format sales volume.

This week's highlights include strategies for finding and keeping employees, the PRINTING United Alliance merger with Brand Chain and PERF, insights on the wide-format segment, a chat with Mike Rowe of Adnormous Graphics, and a view into the functional/industrial printing space. Great stuff!

Despite economic uncertainty, the wide-format printing market continues to grow at a steady rate. We see several wide-format trends that, if approached in the right way, represent opportunities for print service providers (PSPs) to truly thrive in the year ahead.

Asked why he purchased the HP Latex 3600 printer, owner Mike Rowe says, “I like redundancy.” He says a key production goal at his company is to be well equipped to take whatever work comes its way – and his technology play is not about capacity.

This year, DuPont celebrates the 35th anniversary of DuPont Artistri Digital Inks. In 1989, DuPont introduced Cromalin, the first pigment dispersions, that were sampled to desktop printers. Since then, the Artistri Digital Inks portfolio has evolved significantly

While many processes in this space have existed for decades, evidence of industry change can be seen in the peripheries. This article aims to check in with a handful of industry professionals on developments in the space they serve and to understand how they view its present and future.

This week on Wide-Format Weekly, The 2024 Pinnacle Product Awards are open for entries; Gary Jones talks OSHA with Cassie Green; Details on the latest Who Buys Wide-Format report; and we explore the current trends in soft signage.

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