Status of Print. Frank Romano Professor Emeritus RIT

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1 Status of Print Frank Romano Professor Emeritus RIT

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5 Major trends Erosion of print volume slows Print volume effects on printing industry Competing business sectors Effect on printed products Technology upheaval Multi-channel marketing 5

6 Where did print go? Electronic Offshore Print 2010

7 Run lengths

8 Revenue changes

9 Competing business sectors

10 10 What is print?

11 Books Photo books Self-published books Technical books Specialty books Presentations, Proposals

12 Periodical Magazine Journal Newsletter Reprint/preprint Reply cards

13 Catalog Consumer Business Hybrid

14 Newspaper Daily Weekly Specialty

15 Directories White/Yellow Pages Association Parts/Price Lists Other

16 Promotional Flyers Brochures Booklets Circulars Ad Inserts

17 Direct Mail Post Card Self Mailer Booklet Envelope Mail

18 Technical Documentation Manuals Guides Tech Bulletins Instructions

19 Legal-Financial Annual/Quarterly Transactional TransPromo Legal Reports IPOs Other

20 Office Communication Reports Presentations Forms Announcements

21 Stationery Invitations Business Cards Party packages

22 Packaging Labels and Tags Folding Carton Flexible Corrugated Test

23 Miscellaneous Greeting Cards Wrapping Paper Calendars Posters

24 Industrial Textiles Plastics Glass Printed Electronics

25 Printed Electronics

26 Print technology confusion Offset improves incrementally Offset volume diminishes Digital toner improves incrementally Digital toner volume static Digital inkjet improves incrementally Digital inkjet volume growing

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28 Printing processes compete Digital now 15 percent of all printing 28

29 Follow the equipment

30 InfoTrends Color vs mono

31 Paper Uncoated Coated gsm Hybrid paper No such thing as plain paper

32 Offset litho advances Half size (20+-inch) presses to 40/41-inch presses VLF (60-81-inch) presses Auto plate loading JDF Direct drive motors Registration automation Color control Integrated coating Spot colors Light to heavy stocks Anicolor ink systems Integrated finishing Packaging capabilities UV drying Goss M600 web to sheetfed 32

33 Presses vs. Toner Printers in. 13x19 to x22.5 Spot colors CMYK (HP Indigo does spots) 10,000+ sph ppm Static print Variable print 33

34 Xerox

35 Kodak Nexpress

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37 Canon

38 Konica Minolta

39 Ricoh

40 Digital label printers

41 Key packaging issues Globalization Time to market JIT supply chain Changing legislation Security issues Shifting consumer trends Micro-marketing Versioning Shelf space competition Brand management and protection

42 Digital enhancement adds value Kodak NexPress Dimensional Clear toner Xerox 1000 clear toner Scodix inkjet texture coater

43 Inkjet trends Single-pass inkjet Variable dot sizes Wide, super-wide format Roll, flatbed B2 sheetfed High-speed continuous feed 43

44 InfoTrends Inkjet

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46 InfoTrends Inkjet flavors

47 Inkjet inks Reducing the use of aggressive solvent inks EFI VUTEk BioVue ink Eco solvent inks Major trend is UV curable inks HP water-based latex inks that use heat curing 47

48 Wide Format inkjet

49 Wide Format Roll Flatbed 49

50 Flatbed inkjet

51 51 Game changers

52 Sheetfed B2 Fujifilm Japan Dainippon Screen digital sheetfed inkjet printing presses Agfa M Press 52

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54 Landa nanographic printing

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56 Roll-fed toner Xerox 490/980 Océ Xeikon

57 Roll-fed inkjet

58 Fujifilm 58

59 Impika

60 Kodak inkjet Kodak Versamark CIJ and DOD inkjet DOD Versamark VL2000 CIJ Prosper Press 60

61 Ricoh/Screen Based on Screen TruePress Jet 61

62 Océ inkjet 62

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64 Océ InfiniStream

65 HP Inkjet Press 65

66 Xeikon Trillium

67 Xerox

68 New Liquid toner FujiXerox Océ Xeikon Memjet partners Delphax Océ wide format Ryobi HP Indigo Xante

69 Press makers and others Konica Minolta Myakoshi and Ryobi KBA and RRD HEI, manroland, Komori with Landa

70 Delphax, MGI, Fuji-Xerox

71 Hybrid Printing HP Kodak Heidelberg Komori Manroland KBA

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73 Workflow is many workflows Marketing workflow Creative workflow (file) Business workflow (specs) Pre-press workflow (plate, proof) Printing workflow (sheets, rolls) Finishing workflow (products) Distribution workflow (ship, mail) Billing/archiving workflow

74 A multi-media world

75 The print universe

76 Past and future of print