The Print Show event has been a major printing event in the industry. Printing companies do get a chance to present their offerings and moreover, visitors come to know about different printing companies in this event.

The Print Show event was organized the last month at NEC Birmingham from 11th October to 13th October. It turned out to be a great success. There were 130 exhibitors who participated in this event. The approach of this event was ground up and not top down.

Print Show Event 2016

Different companies expressed their views about the event. Ian Howley, Nova Chrome’s managing director said “Nova Chrome UK are pleased to be returning to The Print Show this October, and are looking forward to demonstrating the ease, quality and versatility of dye sublimation printing to an even wider audience than last year”

Howley added “The system is supplied with colour palettes that can be loaded in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel Draw for easy reference.

“The applications for this versatile system include high visibility signage, safety products and garments and the more traditional promotional products and giftware—giving garment printers, sign shops, and other service providers the opportunity to widen their target audience.

“Other new arrivals include a selection of products designed for the sublimation printing process, including towels, gift tins, new finishes, new sizes of our Chromaluxe photographic products, Photo Slate, and much more besides.”

Julian Marsh, Harrier LLC’s Bussiness Development Consultant said “Harrier Print really is looking forward to exhibiting at this year’s Print Show”.

He added “Harrier is one of the UK’s leading digital printing companies with unrivalled HP Indigo production capacity. Due to the seasonality of our core photo business we are able to offer this capacity to the market providing high quality, economical, fast turnaround digital print and finishing to trade customers.

“As well as our Indigo production capability we have about 20,000 square feet of bindery where we IUV varnish, laminate, cut, crease, fold, saddle stitch, wire-o and PUR bind. We also have high-end Kolbus hard case making and casing in production lines in-house. This gives us the capability to produce tens of thousands of soft and hard cover books a day with the option of full variable personalisation at no extra cost.”

“Anyone visiting the show who is considering a move into digital, already outsources trade digital, or has the opportunity for a large scale personalised promotions project should drop by the stand and talk to the team.”

Kuczynska said “Labo Print heavily specialises in large-format printing, and we are recognised as one of Europe’s leaders in this field, exporting hundreds of prints every day to many countries,”.

She added “Our company has selected The Print Show as the UK event that will help us to launch our new products—cardboard displays and digital printed labels. Whether you want a cardboard display for a retail store, event or trade show, Labo Print can create any style cardboard display for you, and don’t forget that our cardboard displays are 100 percent recyclable, therefore your company can be eco-friendly.

“Our labels are digitally printed on EFI Jetrion 4900ML 330 delivered on rolls for machine or hand application. These labels can be used in the food and drink industry, logistics, cosmetics and many others. Our labels are also made to the highest standards and fully comply with the requested regulations. Further to this, they are the perfect solution for producing short runs of multiply types, as there is no minimum order.”

Kuczynska concludes: “Years of experience in the industry, a group of the best experts and an excellent machine park based on the most modern digital printing technologies—all of this allows us to constantly provide our services at the highest, European level.”

Commissioning editor of Smithers Pira, John Nelson has given some analysis on the future of production print industry. Here in his analysis, he highlighted that though the volume of printing has been decreasing but the value of printing is on a high rise.

Production printing pertains a concept that a data resides on a person’s or an organisation’s PC and it is further digitally printed and send over to another person or an organisation.

This could be due to the fact that online books and resources are available and many readers inclusive of students, teachers and general readers use online resources for reading. Through online resources, readers get books free of cost or the cost associated with them is very low as compared to printed books and resources.

Moreover, environmental factors take into account as for the production of papers, companies have to cut down the trees. Also, recycling of paper is a big issue. If used papers are burnt over, they could cause environmental pollution.

In connection, there is a decline in postal service activities as well. As per statistics, there is a decline of 2.6% in 2014 as compared to 2013.  People are more relying on emails and messengers.

Moreover, the analysis shows that the use of inkjet printing will increase as compared to toners. The industry will envisage a growth of 4.9% from the year 2016 to 2021.

The Future Of Production Printing

Majorly production printing has demand in the financial sector where analysts do analysis on financial records and future forecasts. Moreover, in government offices, regulatory authorities it has a great demand.

Though the companies are moving towards paperless offices and different software publishers are providing digital signature’s facility. This is to ensure that, you don’t have to print and sign the document. You can simply do it by using your computer.

HP has been taking initiatives to promote the creativity within print industry. HP teamed up with Wallpapers to create exciting new designs.

It was magazine’s 20^th anniversary and it specialises in digital poster production. Through SmartStream Mosaic technology 220,000 unique designs were created. F.E. Burman was the print and communication specialist and Tony Brook was the graphic designer on this project. Tony is a renowned designer who already worked with big enterprises. He created twelve unique designs with full of colours and attraction with his team.

Creativity promoted By HP

“It’s a designer’s dream to be able to create this many original artworks and to push digital printing as far as we have with HP Mosaic,” Sarah Douglas, Wallpaper creative director further explains: “Working on this project with HP Indigo has been incredibly exciting and has inspired us to totally re-think our attitude and approach to print technology and the printing process.”

While speaking about HP, Brook said “Speaking about the HP technology, Brook adds: “What really impressed us was the quality of the print with HP Indigo. It is remarkable how even flat colours are, particularly light tints, and how smooth vignettes are without feeling mechanical.”

HP also marked this special event as the 25^th anniversary of their first inkjet printer. HP also arranges a contest ‘My HP DesignJet and Me’ for its customers and there were considerable prizes associated to this contest.

The head of large format printing at HP, Thomas Valjak commented, “We are committed to ongoing reinvention to meet the evolving needs of architects, engineers, graphics production, GIS and construction professionals and helping customers work where and how they want to.

“In 1991, HP DesignJet was born in Barcelona and more than two decades later our 60 percent market share clearly shows the true partnership we have been building during those years with our customers.”

An event for graphic professionals, Expoganza, will be organized by Grafenia this year.

The event is to be organized on 17^th of November at Manchester Production hub, where more than 500 graphic designers will participate. Earlier the similar event was organized in the January the recent year. The participants appraised the event and showed their intent to have similar type of events in future. There are workshops organized in this event which are very helpful to professionals. Likewise, ‘Creating stickier relationships with clients’, ‘Google’s micro-moments’, ‘How winning web means print spend follows, ‘How automating your studio can help you grow’, and ‘Some (just some mind) of our marketing secrets. There would be E-Web Studio, E-Fabric Gallery, E-Web Studio, E-business lounge, E-Print Boutique, E-Web Studio, E-Tech Hub and E-Display Sales counters in this event.

Grafenia’s Expoganza Event For Graphic Professionals

Peter Gunning the chief executive of Grafenia commented: “Visitors told us it wasn’t like any trade event they’d been to before; the feedback we got was so positive that we promised ourselves there and then that we’d run more.”

Also Gunning added: “We want to help partners show it off to their own clients and are happy to lend demo equipment”.

“It’s amazing what you can achieve with fabric and we want people to be blown away with how fricking cool it looks!”

Visitors will have the opportunity to take part in a number of workshops, such as ‘Creating stickier relationships with clients’, ‘How winning web means print spend follows’, and ‘How to diversify into fabric’.

Fabric art is one of the most momentous features of this event. Generally fabric art is not much trendy in such exhibitions and by promoting this stuff, company is getting great value and is attracting a lot of visitors.  People belonging to different areas can participate and enhance their knowledge about new trends in the market.