This week and subsequent is devoted to publishing the contents from Difficulty 4: The Expertise Outlook Difficulty. This text gives an outline of what to anticipate within the subsequent two weeks.
As everybody was conscious, 2024 was a drupa yr which all the time means new applied sciences. And whereas there might not have been any actually revolutionary new developments that debuted on the present (like digital printing, manufacturing inkjet printing, or JDF), the evolutionary applied sciences and new merchandise on show have been simply as impactful and are simply as more likely to rework the trade over the subsequent 4 years—or till the subsequent drupa.
The subsequent main occasion is PRINTING United in September, so on this interstitial interval between the 2 exhibits, the print version—and this two-week slate of tales from it—will look again at a number of the main developments that have been on show in Düsseldorf, and look forward to what to maintain a watch out for in Las Vegas. We must always level out on the outset {that a} hefty portion of the articles on this problem appeared in some type within the drupa present each day, which, as we suspect a good variety of folks know, WhatTheyThink produced. Along with stay protection of particular product bulletins, purchases, or different information, we had additionally had our contributors write some general “analyst” articles that have been supposed to function a information to approaching completely different lessons of kit from a possible purchaser’s perspective: What the present panorama is, what questions must you ask distributors, who a number of the main gamers are, and so on. These articles have been designed in order that they might be useful references for any printer going to any present and trying to put money into a specific class of product. Whereas these have been written with drupa in thoughts, because the present, our writers have added any post-show updates and are supposed to function information to attending PRINTING United or every other trade occasion—and even simply doing your individual analysis. And since this can be a Expertise Outlook problem, the emphasis is on the brand new applied sciences which can be driving the brand new tools hitting the market.
This problem is grouped into 9 “themes”:
- labels and packaging
- sustainability
- show graphics and textiles
- industrial and specialty printing
- digital and inkjet
- offset
- binding and ending
- software program and workflow
In every theme part, our analysts take a look at a number of the main tendencies and applied sciences driving them.
Final week, we additionally offered our complementary Expertise Outlook Week of webinars. To look at any of the archived periods, please go to whattheythink.com/webinars or try the devoted Expertise Outlook web page.
Over the course of this week and subsequent, every day we are going to publish a narrative from a number of of the theme sections.
Complementing the “sustainability” part, Pat McGrew spoke with Jonathan Graham, Advertising Director for palamides, about getting ready for sustainability laws and the challenges of “web zero” options. Search for that subsequent Monday, August 26,
This Friday’s on-line version may also embody the newest installment of our “Tales from the Database” collection, this time taking a look at expertise funding tendencies, culled from our historic database of Print Outlook surveys.
On Thursday, search for David Zwang’s chat with Mark Subers, President of Exhibitions and Occasions for the PRINTING United Alliance, about what to look ahead to in Las Vegas subsequent month.
Subsequent Thursday, August 29, search for Joanne Gore’s shut take a look at 10 technological developments which can be reworking the printing trade.
For right now’s version, we additionally compiled a roundup of a number of the main information bulletins that got here out of drupa.
Lastly, on Friday, August 30, Johnson’s World rounds up some successful mail items that caught his consideration.
So, with out additional ado, adieu, and welcome to the Expertise Outlook problem!
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