Barb Pellow, group leader at InfoTrends, then highlighted 10 emerging industry trends. Among them: digital color will continue to be king; wide-format digital will be an integrated part of the marketing mix; inkjet will accelerate the offset-to-digital migration; enhanced substrates will drive digital volume; Web-to-print is about managing the marketing supply chain; content will reign; the rise of hyper-personalization will drive digital print and cross-media marketing; customers seek trigger-based marketing; mobile marketing will accelerate major changes in how people communicate; and direct marketing and social media will converge.
Mark Michelson now serves as Editor Emeritus of Printing Impressions. Named Editor-in-Chief in 1985, he is an award-winning journalist and member of several industry honor societies. Reader feedback is always encouraged. Email mmichelson@napco.com