New Year predictions - HP's Ronen Zioni:
What do you think will represent the single biggest opportunity for printers in 2013 and why?
The opportunity for diversification. Digital printing technologies and economic conditions are fostering a softening of the traditional areas of operation in the graphic arts - but clearly, there are markets where digital print has started to make its presence known like never before, including labels and packaging and newspapers. More and more general commercial printers are expanding - via digital printing technologies - into the consumer photo-specialty market, or into large format printing, and other areas that a general commercial printer would never have approached before...