Dan Marx

On this week’s episode: The experiences of women journalists in printing, inclusion in the annual WFI150 list, exploring wide-format innovation, and applying to attend this year’s Wide-format Summit. Join us!

Adriane Harrison, Denise Gustavson, Gabby Houck, and Toni McQuilken discuss their experiences as women covering an often male-dominated industry, and share how the industry has changed.

Sustainability has become a part of doing business. And, whether efforts to become more sustainable are kicked off by environmental commitments, continuous improvement efforts, or more recently, mandates, those companies undertaking efforts see benefits.

At the recent Dscoop Edge Denver event, general sessions were punctuated by vision-focused presentations at HP executives, who gave event attendees a valuable view of where the company is headed and how it sees industrial print changing.

Lon Riley, founder of DPI Laboratory, discusses how "Cloud Dancer," Pantone's color of the year for 2026, poses problems for inkjet users using white ink. He describes how and why the color can be difficult to replicate, and how technology users can approach it and other subtle hues.

Linda Bishop of Thought Transformation discusses how print sales is changing amid smaller marketing budgets, leaner teams, economic uncertainty, and AI-driven outreach.

This column is the first in a monthly series highlighting trends, happenings, and markets in the wide-format graphics industry, and it comes at a time when the wide-format printing segment, as we know it, has changed.

Among the many things proven at last year’s PRINTING United Expo in Orlando, Florida, was that wide-format technology continues to develop

Lane Kathryn Hickey-Wiggins, president and CEO of DPrint, has made a name for herself in the wide-format printing segment, where she she has proven herself as a business leader, an ambassador for printing, and a strong advocate for women in the industry.

One of the more important things to consider among the evolution of these companies is that printing – the part our industry focuses so much of its attention upon – has become just another tool (albeit a very important one) they use to get the job done.