First Quarter 2010 Profits for U.S. Commercial Printing Businesses Increase $830 Million Compared to 2009
WhatTheyThink, the leading online media organization serving the printing and publishing industry, today announced the availability of their most current report titled “U.S. Commercial Printing Profits, 1995 to Q1-2010.” Authored by Dr. Joe Webb, director of WhatTheyThink’s Economics and Research Center, the report is part of WhatTheyThink’s premium access subscription. Others may purchase the report […]
NAPL Leadership Road Show in Atlanta: Programs for Print Executives, Buyers, Designers
Following a highly successful first stop in Chicago, the National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL) Executive Road Show will be coming to Atlanta on June 24 for two programs. NAPL Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Andrew Paparozzi and Senior Vice President Bill Woods will bring industry best practices to life in the morning program […]
Online Ad Revenue Will Soon Surpass Print
“Over the next five years digital technologies will progressively increase their impact across all segments of entertainment and media (E&M) as digital transformation continues to expand and escalate,” a press release from PwC said Tuesday. “The uncertain economic background has done nothing to slow the pace of change, which has been far quicker than predicted 12 months ago. It is clear that the consumer is firmly in the driving seat of these changes.”
Memo to Media Cos.: Disruption? You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Memo to Media Cos.: Disruption? You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet. The media and entertainment industries have been through an unprecedented amount of upheaval over the past several years, as content has become increasingly digital, consumers have correspondingly moved their attention online and advertisers have begun to follow. The resulting shifts have caused turmoil in everything […]
The future of publishing
The future of publishing | BetaTales. Two completely different perspectives on the future of publishing: One is depressive, pointing out everything that is going in the wrong direction. The other perspective only sees opportunities. Check out this inspiring video from the publishing house DorlingKindersley.
New Printing Industry Trends
New Printing Industry Trends | Trending Topics Blog. The emergence of digital and Internet technologies in recent years have brought about new printing trends that will change the landscape of the printing industry. These printing industry trends have changed the way companies do business from the design to the printing phase of operations. In Australia, […]
Opportunities in Printing and Production
The book printing and production is a business which can offer you many satisfactions and its complexity offers you a special beauty. If we want to elaborate an investment plan in view of acquiring the equipments necessary for this, we must create a market study which largely comprises: the publishing houses with their market share, […]
Changes In the Print Industry
Technology continues to change our industry… and now it has changed forever! Microchips, the Internet, and new printing processes have accelerated changes to the print industry and we have a decision to make. The decision before us is “Am I going to ride out as long as I can the traditional print model” or “Am […]
Label Summit Latin America welcomes record visitor numbers
Label Summit Latin America welcomed 708 people to the two-day conference and table-top exhibition held in Mexico City on May 11-12. The event drew more delegates and exhibiting companies than any previous Labelexpo Global Series event in Latin America, and a 50 percent increase on the conference in Mexico City two years ago. This year’s […]
PSA SURVEY: FOUR MORE WEEKS TO GO
The goal of RIT’s Print Standards Audit (PSA) Survey is to capture the impact of standards and certification on printing operations around the world. Today, the survey is well on its way to fulfilling this goal. The survey consists of two parts: (1) a 15 minute Internet survey to collect information on the practices printers […]
Insolvency rate shows signs of improvement for start of 2010
The health of the print industry has shown little improvement but has not significantly worsened during the start of 2010, according to the latest insolvency figures from Euler Hermes UK. In its ‘Risk Bulletin’ table of hardest-hit trade sectors, print appeared fourth with an insolvency rate of 0.72% for the first quarter of the year, […]
FujiFilm To Measure/Rate Proofing Submissions For IPA/IDEAlliance Technical Conference
Can’t attend the IPA/IDEAlliance Technical Conference but still want to know how your proofer rates? Send it to Fujifilm. The Graphic Systems Division of FUJIFILM North America Corporation is using its Taskero Universe ColorPath Verified to measure all proofs during the IPA/ Technical Conference, which is being held in Chicago on June 7-8, and is […]
