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. Andrew Paparozzi and Lisa Cross shared the trends and challenges facing print providers this year.
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Kalie VanDewater is associate content and online editor at NAPCO Media.
As editor-in-chief of Packaging Impressions — the leading publication and online content provider for the printed packaging markets — Linda Casey leverages her experience in the packaging, branding, marketing, and printing industries to deliver content that label and package printers can use to improve their businesses and operations.Prior to her role at Packaging Impressions, Casey was editor-in-chief of BXP: Brand Experience magazine, which celebrated brand design as a strategic business competence. Her body of work includes deep explorations into a range of branding, business, packaging, and printing topics.Casey’s other passion, communications, has landed her on the staffs of a multitude of print publications, including Package Design, Converting, Packaging Digest, Instant & Small Commercial Printer, High Volume Printing, BXP: Brand Experience magazine, and more. Casey started her career more than three decades ago as news director for WJAM, a youth-oriented music-and-news counterpart to WGCI and part of the Chicago-based station’s AM band presence.
The material and labor shortages that marked 2021 aren’t going away anytime soon. The news isn't all bad, though. Here is an exploration of what 2022 will unleash for the package printing market and how PSPs can stay competitive.
Package printers' 2001 prospects look brighter than the cloudy overall economic picture. by Regis J. Delmontagne, President, NPES As 2001 began, our industry was concerned, for the first time in several years, with the prospect of an economic slowdown. The printing industry in general, and package printing in particular, have been doing very well recently, but some authorities fear even a modest economic setback could have disproportionate impacts. At last December's PRINT OUTLOOK® 2001 conference in Washington, for example, National Association of Printers and Lithographers Economist Andrew Paparozzi noted if the national economy grows in 2001 and 2002 at only about a 3.5 percent
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