We are now entering the second day of the Online Print Symposium 2022 – but of course not without giving you a little insight into yesterday. The day was packed with interesting presentations, exciting new ideas and lots of networking. Curious? Take a look for yourself! Of course, the video can only give you a first impression of the atmosphere at the Online Print Symposium.
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Prices for print products continue to rise – as shown by the current zipcon Online Print Price Index, which looks at the first quarter of 2022. This puts print – at least in terms of appearance – seamlessly between food, gasoline, and electricity. Following the impact of the pandemic, which has hit various industries and markets with varying degrees of severity over the past two years, the consequences of the war in Ukraine are being felt by everyone.
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With its machine concept, the Italian manufacturer NEOS Digital Printing Solutions is pursuing the idea of using the print heads of all known manufacturers depending on the media spectrum required – if necessary, even within one printing machine. zipcon was curious and wanted to know whether a new “hidden champion” for industrial inkjet printing was growing up?
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Metrix, Directsmile, Dims!, Lector, Gamsys, Alphagraph, Printleader, Technique: it is almost ten years ago that EFI took over all these software houses and integrated their solutions into its own portfolio. Since then, the American company has been considered a real heavyweight in production software for print and packaging service providers. Now EFI has spun off the entire division and sold it to the private equity firm Symphony Technology Group (STG).
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Today, we’re going to talk out of our own experience. As a service provider, we of course know how important it is to deal with mistakes properly. Mistakes happen, after all we are all only human. But how one behaves in case something goes wrong can be decisive for whether a business relationship continues or breaks up. With the following example, in which we were a customer, we not only want to sensitise people to the topic, but above all show them what they should pay attention to.
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The ongoing shortage of paper and the additional rise in prices for printing inks, printing plates and energy have presented online print shops with major challenges in the last quarter of 2021. Although most of them were able to keep their prices stable for a long time during the year, there are now signs of a turnaround: Online print prices are on the rise, across almost all product groups and suppliers.
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“Christmas is when the best gifts are at the table, not under the tree.” In this spirit, we wish you a reflective Christmas, happy holidays with your loved ones and a happy new year. Yes, 2021 was much like a roller coaster ride: with many “downs” but also numerous “ups”; economic slumps but also filled order books; insolvencies but also success stories.
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The zipcon consulting team has a new accomplice: Judith Grajewski is the new face within the consulting team of the Essen-based consulting company for the print and media industry. She will be taking over the duties of Sabrina Tenschert, Senior Consultant and member of the zipcon management team, who will be going on maternity leave in mid-November and taking a one-year maternity leave.
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The Zipcon Onlineprint Price Index (ZOPI) provides guidance on pricing in the printing industry. In March, we last compared developments on the market. The current analysis of the first half of 2021 shows what has happened since then. In the last ZOPI we could see that Flyeralarm had reduced their prices for flyers by 11 percent around the turn of the year, against the general trend on the market.
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The Online Print Symposium 2021 is full of news: Start-ups can apply to present at the OPS and take advantage of completely new opportunities. In addition, the first speakers have already been announced and the Early Bird ticket deadline is fast approaching.
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