This topic section of WhatTheyThink focuses on emerging trends in the rapidly-growing area of production inkjet. It features commentary and analysis on technical and business trends relative to the ability for production inkjet.
Leading printing industry analysts Marco Boer and David Zwang discuss efforts to develop an open standard, global taxonomy to replace the existing, outdated taxonomy that dates back to the early 1960s. Comprising both the print applications as well as the equipment, software, and materials used to manufacture the wide range of printed products being produced today, it will demonstrate the large size and scope of the overall industry. The new taxonomy will be released at the PRINTING United Expo in October.
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PRINTING United Alliance Partners with IT Strategies to Address Evolution of Printing Industry Classifications Industry professionals are invited to participate in special Standards Committee tasked with creating taxonomy roadmap that can be adopted into global and US systems
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(Read David Zwang’s commentary on this announcement here.)
PRINTING United Alliance announces its partnership with IT Strategies on an initiative to provide the printing industry with a comprehensive taxonomy designed to address the printing industry’s under-representation in government statistics and to help prepare the printing industry for growing business in the future.
PRINTING United Alliance Partners with IT Strategies to Address Evolution of Printing Industry Classifications
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PRINTING United Alliance announces its partnership with IT Strategies on an initiative to provide the printing industry with a comprehensive taxonomy designed to address the printing industry’s under-representation in government statistics and to help prepare the printing industry for growing business in the future.
According to Ford Bowers, CEO of PRINTING United Alliance, “The primary purpose of this initiative is to create uniformity of nomenclature, which helps discoverability of content and information online, at events, and across the industry. Using the same names and definitions in the same way will allow printers, OEMs and suppliers, and everyone else involved in printing to utilize a common ‘language’ that eliminates some of the confusion that currently exists. It will also be very useful in providing statistical tracking
More than 140 PRINTING United Digital Experience educational sessions can still be viewed on-demand until Jan. 31st. Marco Boer talks about emerging digital inkjet printing opportunities, David Zwang addresses the state of electrophotographic digital printing, and Ron Jacobs discusses key direct mail trends.