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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 05 December 2025

Building Resilience: Overcoming Economic Pressures in Printing

Potential tariffs, supply-chain disruptions, and waning demand for traditional print have created sustained margin pressure and operational uncertainty. This article builds on Part 1, "2026 Print Production Trends," which explored how technology and market shifts are reshaping print production.

  • Blog Post
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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 19 November 2025

2026 Print Production Trends: Technology and Market Shifts

As we approach the end of the year, the print industry stands at a pivotal turning point. Technology continues to accelerate—driven by automation, AI, and production inkjet—while economic, supply-chain, and labor challenges pressure every business model. Rather than viewing these forces as disruptions, leading printers are using them as catalysts for modernization, diversification, and sustainable growth. Learn more about what this means for printers and the recommended actions you can take.

  • IPMA Conference 2023
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  • 19 June 2023

Ideas to Take Your In-plant Beyond All Limits

Watch this panel of three in-plant print center managers in government, higher education and K-12 share a dozen ideas that have helped them and will help you that your print center beyond all limits. Hear ideas in four topics; repositioning post-COVID, growing the business, lessons from the "outside," and going paperless. Watch 4-minute session highlights or the full 36-minute session video.

  • White Paper
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  • IPMA Conference 2023
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  • 04 June 2023

Ideas to Take Your In-plant Beyond All Limits

Download the free Idea Book to get the 30+ ideas three top in-plant print center managers use to take their operations beyond all limits. Read Ideas for Taking Your In-plant Beyond All Limits for their exclusive ideas in four topics: repositioning, growth, lessons from the outside and going paperless.

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Accelerate Your In-plant's Future eBook

In this free eBook find out how you can accelerate your in-plant’s future and proactively respond to change. With many parts of the printing and in-plant industry changing, it may result in a resurgence of the in-plant outsourcing trend. Download the eBook and learn how to prepare your production print operation for the future, and create a plan to minimize threats and maximize your future opportunities.

  • Executive Brief
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  • 20 December 2022

Five Tips to Get the Most from Your Web to Print

With adverse economic and macro environment issues impacting the print industry, the need to maximize resources, including optimizing existing resources has never been greater. While about half of print operations have Web to Print solutions, many are not fully leveraging the benefits of automating workflow. We offer these five tips to get the most from your Web to Print solution.

  • White Paper
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  • 29 March 2022

Future-Proofing Your Business with Technology, Automation, and Tools

This white paper offers trend information about staffing, supply chain, print run trends and diversification from several In-plant Impressions and PRINTING United Alliance surveys and discusses how workflow software enables print shops to future-proof their operations. Includes two print center mini case studies and discussion of how production print workflow software solutions can future-proof your in-plant or commercial print business.

  • eBook
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  • In-plant Impressions
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  • 17 March 2021

Tips for Surviving the Pandemic and Recovering

In this eBook find 13 tips, strategies and workflow automations that have helped seven production print operations in five verticals ranging from government, to education, to healthcare during the pandemic and is positioning their in-plant print centers for recovery.

  • Blog Post
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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 18 September 2020

The Evolution in Printing Metrics

In-plant print center metrics that best predict success and evaluate performance have changed. In this post, Fenton discusses several metrics, relates how in-plant vs. commercial printer metrics differ, looks more closely at newer metrics like equipment utilization and offers evidence of the metric that may be the most predictive of in-plant success.

  • Blog Post
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  • Ryan McAbee
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  • 31 August 2020

Three Questions to Explore to Build a Data-Driven In-plant in 2020

Keypoint Intelligence – InfoTrends sees data as critical for the printing industry's future. Ryan McAbee offers three questions for in-plants to contemplate to plan how to be a data-driven in-plant in 2020. We'll visit each of these in-depth throughout the year with tips to help keep you on track.

  • Blog Post
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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 11 August 2020

Technology's Increasing Importance for Engaging Staff

A recent Harvard Business Review survey concluded overwhelmingly that technology has a greater impact on employee engagement than it did three years ago and will continue to be a major factor. Utilize the latest technologies in your print shop and ensure your staff has an active role in using, remaining current and fully employing these technologies as part of an overall employee engagement strategy to foster engagement and attract and retain staff.

  • Blog Post
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  • Elisha Kasinskas
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  • 30 July 2020

Two Videos Reveal Web to Print Benefits for K-12

Two new videos from RSA detail how our Web to print and workflow management software is exactly what Chino Valley Unified School District’s in-plant print center needs right now. Watch to see how they have navigated change from COVID-19 and the overall benefits they have realized using WebCRD.

  • Blog Post
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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 13 May 2020

How to Estimate Staffing Needs as Workload Changes

Howie Fenton shares a method to estimate staffing needs as your revenue changes using your current sales per employee ratio (SPE) and anticipated revenue changes. Adding automation and shifting and cross training staff can address workflow gaps and bottlenecks that result from staff imbalances.

  • Blog Post
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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 27 January 2020

Nine Steps to In-plant Profitability

In this vlog, I start a three-part series about the nine steps that I see that in-plants need to take to increase their profitability. While not every in-plant has a model to be profitable, in-plants can use these steps to ensure they are not losing money or operating below cost, and are operating as efficiently as possible for their parent organization.

  • Blog Post
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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 10 December 2019

Seven Ideas for Creative Problem Solving and Five Examples

The idea for this post came from answers to interviews in a recent IPMA research report that shows how some in-plant leaders are trying new answers to old questions. This article describes five “out of the box” solutions in-plants have used and offers seven ways to help you get outside your “box.”

  • Blog Post
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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 18 November 2019

Video: Two Things In-plants Need for Survival

Howie Fenton interviews RSA about the two-pronged approach in-plants need to survive. Reducing print production costs and building more value-added products and services to offset the decline of traditional products are the two things in-plant print centers need to do to remain competitive and use the balanced scorecard approach

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