With a forward-thinking approach, the sector gears up for 2024, ready to harness modest growth opportunities while fortifying against the lingering aftereffects of policy shifts and market flux.
Andy Paparozzi
Denise Gustavson is the Editorial Director and Special Projects Editor for the Printing & Packaging Group, which includes Printing Impressions, packagePRINTING, In-plant Graphics and Wide-Format Impressions magazines, among other brands. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Wide-Format Impressions.
During the Leadership Summit, Andy Paparozzi, chief economist at PRINTING United Alliance, explained “really good news” when it comes to the economy.
This episode of Wide-Format Weekly features insight into the year ahead, equipment purchases at Orbus Visual Communication, how great design results in great wraps, Roland DGA's new object printer, and the inaugural Leadership Summit from PRINTING United Alliance.
The printing industry has continued to grow over the past year, albeit significantly slower than last year. Despite this, confidence within the industry has begun to increase. During PRINTING United Expo, Andrew Paparozzi and Lisa Cross shared the trends and challenges facing print providers this year.
The unforgiving combination of a slowing American economy and continued material shortages, labor shortages, and cost inflation will pressure margins across the printing industry this year, according to the 2022-23 State of the Industry Report published by PRINTING United Alliance and sponsored by Canon.
PRINTING United Alliance announced that Canon U.S.A. has collaborated with the association to sponsor its ‘State of the Industry’ research, a series of quarterly, panel-based reports addressing current print market and economic conditions.
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