Step it up in terms of experimentation and integration or witness wide-format print missing the mark in terms of potential. So how do your respond to that key takeaway from the 2013 Fespa Global Summit?

W2P: Should it be higher on your business development agenda?

Grassroots players discuss the findings of the annual Widthwise wide-format market survey and chew over the main issues of the day.

A look at what you’ll get for your money if you attend the Fespa Global Summit 2013

Want a European perspective on what’s happing in digital print, including wide-format? Then you’ll be interested in these newly released findings of the 2012 EDP Survey.

Once again, over 200 print companies took part in this annual poll designed to take the temperature of the wide-format print market. This is a synopsis of the main findings but for the full report go to http://www.imagereportsmag.co.uk/widthwise/

FESPA IS EXPANDING to explore the wider opportunities afforded by the new visual landscape. According to MD Neil Felton, speaking at the pre-show Fespa Fest event towards the end of 2011, “Fespa will always be print focussed, but we do need to embrace other technologies and Fespa’s focus will change to encompass wider imaging specialisms.” Hence at Fespa Digital 2012 in February you will see not just the integration of the Fespa Fabric ‘show within a show’ focussing on garment printing/decoration, but a space for narrow format/labelling too.

WIDTHWISE 2011:INDUSTRY CHIEFS COME TOGETHER TO DISCUSS THE FINDINGS OF THIS ANNUAL WIDE-FORMAT SURVEY AND CHEW OVER THE STATE OF THE SECTOR.

This is the fourth consecutive year that Image Reports has conducted the Widthwise Survey, asking printers of all sizes about business, market and technology issues. During the last four-year period, the large-format industry has been revolutionised by technology and economic turmoil. Since that shake-out, the pace of change hasn’t slowed but that change is typically now more incremental than transformational.

EACH YEAR THE EDITORIAL TEAM OF IMAGE REPORTS ACKNOWLEDGES PRODUCT INNOVATION WITH ITS ANGEL AWARDS. THE SELECTION IS BASED ON PRODUCTS INTRODUCED TO THE UK DURING THE COURSE OF THE YEAR AND CONSIDERED MOST LIKELY TO HAVE AN IMPACT IN THE WIDE-FORMAT SECTOR.