Identifying The Printing Industry’s Disruptors

Things change. For example, consider this quote from the 2054 Merriam-Webster Dictionary: “Football (/fo-ot-bôl/) Any of several games played between three teams on a triangular field having goalposts at all three sides, and whose object is to get the ball over a goal line, into a designated goal by running or kicking.” Wow! How did…

Mid-Year Consumables Market Update: Imported Aluminum Offset Plates Under Siege

With the year already more than half over, it’s a great time to pause and take stock of what’s going on in the consumables space — aluminum offset plates, paper, inks, and everything else needed to actually produce printed materials.   While we have certainly come a long way from the shortages and price hikes…

End-Buyer Research: Companies With 101-500 Employees

ASI Research has launched a new series profiling the people distributors work with most closely: end-buyers. Each week, we’ll release a new data set that spotlights one of eight markets and looks at end-buyers through demographics such as gender, region and company size. Read the previous entries in our End-Buyer research series. This week, our research focuses…