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Target Report: Print Everything, Everywhere, All at One Place

Enabled by continual development of digital print technologies, almost everything we use has images printed on it in one form or another. Just about anything we can imagine being printed, can be printed, and is.

Around the country, in-plants are getting in on the sticker craze. Like any new offering, stickers are helping to raise awareness of their services and bringing in new customers.

There’s been a lot of buzz around artificial intelligence (AI), especially in the printing industry. While some print service providers (PSPs) have been hesitant to add AI technology into their operations for a variety of reasons, the benefits AI can offer to wide-format PSPs in particular provide can’t miss opportunities.

Retailers, particularly e-commerce purveyors that ship directly from factories abroad to U.S. consumers, stand to be the most impacted, but the merch market could hit some sourcing bumps, too.

Courtney Bills, CEO of Tactive, discusses her company’s recent acquisition and how print and promotional products work together to create “multisensory marketing for a digital world.”

Promo suppliers sell at least some of the cooler products named in the proposed class action complaint, but no industry firms are named in the suit or accused of wrongdoing.

If the China tariffs stay in place over time, promo suppliers say price increases are likely. Meanwhile, distributors are wrestling with how, at this stage, to communicate with clients about the levies.