Two Sides Partners Meeting 2023 – Royal Mail & SMP Recording

HP Wonderland at Dscoop Dallas 2018 is a new inspirational experience for print service providers, brands and creatives to see how the latest HP digital innovations can create virtually any print imaginable. Visitors to Dscoop Unleashing Print- Dallas, March 25-28, will have an immersive creative print experience at the curated HP showcase of amazing worlds of print using the latest HP Indigo and HP PageWide technology. “In HP’s #wonderofprint any idea can be printed to life - in any setting. This celebration of our customers’ innovation is made possible by the quality and versatility of HP digital print technology,” said Dave Prezzano, General Manager, Graphic Solutions Business Americas, HP Inc. “We created this print playground by bringing together the best creative minds and technology to help inspire PSPs, brands, and designers with the multitude of opportunities to grow business.”

It looks like rough going for the commercial printing industry in 2023, with labor shortages, cost inflation, supply chain disruptions continuing, and the American economy slowing appreciably. But even the harshest business climates bring opportunity. Some industries hold up well, creating pockets of growth, and market share and quality employees become available as the unprepared retrench or fail. Keys to capturing the opportunity include acting on leading indicators, marketing for the times, and superior focus and execution. The 162 commercial printing companies that participated in the “2022-23 PRINTING United Alliance State of the Industry Survey” (SOI) spoke frankly about their expectations for the coming year. Just 25.3% expect business conditions to be better than this year, 40.4% about the same, and 34.3% worse.

The proposed duties “have the potential to devastate entire industry segments, increase costs for businesses and their customers, jeopardize jobs, limit supply, and threaten the viability of many American small businesses,” a coalition of publishers and other businesses wrote on Friday in a letter to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). The letter continues, “The printing, publishing, paper-producing, and mailing industries employ account for approximately 8.5 million jobs in the United States and represent five percent of the nation’s total civilian labor force. Our industries are already trying to navigate significant financial challenges, and the preliminary duties on aluminum printing plates that are currently in place are making matters worse.