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• 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.

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• Blog Post
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• Howie Fenton
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• 24 September 2025

Dealing with Tariffs Part 2: The Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios

This second installment in our tariff impact series explores both extremes of this economic squeeze. In a best-case scenario, in-plants seize the opportunity to reclaim outsourced work, become regional print hubs, justify capital investments, and raise their strategic profile.

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• Blog Post
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• Howie Fenton
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• 04 September 2025

Dealing with Tariffs Part 1: Pricing, Sources, and Mitigation Strategies

This is the first article in a two-article series that focuses on a strategy to maintain service levels and financial sustainability. In this blog, we discuss how in-plant operations must implement targeted pricing strategies, agile sourcing plans, and forward-looking mitigation tactics, while also preparing for vastly different potential outcomes depending on how the broader print industry adapts to this new economic climate.

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• Blog Post
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• Howie Fenton
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• 26 June 2025

How to Increase Customer Experience, Improve Financial Performance, and Prove Strategic Value

In-plants are often challenged to prove their value, financially maintain their internal business, and compete with commercial alternatives. One of the most effective ways for in-plants to strengthen their position is by focusing on the customer experience. RSA’s WebCRD and workflow automation solutions help in-plants meet these higher expectations by simplifying and improving the ordering experience.

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• Blog Post
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• Howie Fenton
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• 11 February 2025

Personalization as a Value-Added Service

Faced with rising competition and changing customer demands, in-plant printers today need to expand their service offerings to differentiate themselves. Personalized services like customized marketing materials, personalized direct mail campaigns, and tailored packaging solutions help them provide this. Variable data printing (VDP) enables these services, allowing in-plants to produce unique, individualized content at scale, ensuring that each piece of printed material feels personal and relevant to the recipient.

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• Blog Post
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• Rochester Software Associates
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• 16 January 2024

The Leading Web to Print Solution for In-Plants Has Been Transformed

Version 12 of RSA’s leading Web to Print software offers a reimagined user experience and technology that’s ready for anything. 

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• Blog Post
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• Rochester Software Associates
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• 19 August 2022

9 Tips to Encourage Customer Loyalty

If you want customers to spend more with you and give you their repeat business, use these nine tips to gain their loyalty.

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• Blog Post
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• Howie Fenton
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• 02 July 2021

Is it Time to Pivot to Growth Applications and Strategies?

In this article, we discuss print applications that are likely to decline and grow post-pandemic and a strategy to help you win back clients of your in-plant that may have outsourced their work during the pandemic. Using this knowledge will help you negotiate the twists and turns in product demand.

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• Blog Post
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• Howie Fenton
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• 18 November 2019

Video: Two Things In-plants Need for Survival

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• Case Study
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• 28 February 2019

Tacoma Public Schools

RSA helps district print shop continuously do more with less.

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• Blog Post
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• Howie Fenton
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• 06 December 2018

How Does Web to Print Provide Benefits to the In-plant and the Customer?

How Does Web to Print Provide Benefits to the In-Plant and the Customer? In a previous blog (Software Ownership, Reducing Costs and Adding Value), we presented the idea that the most valuable software has benefits for the in-plant staff and for the customer. Unfortunately, the chart did not make a strong case

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• Print 2017
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• 13 October 2017

Bold Moves for the Future

Watch as three in-plant panelists in healthcare, higher ed and government/finance discuss virtual reality (V/R), inkjet, and wide format services, their challenges, success measurements and organizational impact. Special V/R demo.

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• eBook
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• 07 April 2016

The Five Leading In-plant Issues

In this eBook compilation of a five-article series about key in-plant issues, learn how 9 leading in-plants in government, higher ed, financial services, healthcare, professional services, and non-profit are solving each of these top 5 issues they face today, including: combating outsourcing; reducing costs and increasing efficiencies; relevancy; growth and adding services.

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• Graph Expo 2015 (IPMA Session)
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• 28 September 2015

IPMA In-Plants Make A Splash Lunch N Learn In-plant Panel

In-plant print center panelists from UC Davis, and Fairfield and Cedarville Universities, discuss how their in-house printer centers remain relevant at a session hosted by the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA) and moderated by InfoTrends' Howie Fenton.

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• White Paper
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• 11 May 2015

InfoTrends: How Web to Print Helps In-Plants Increase Value

Learn from leading in-plant case histories and InfoTrends research how to overcome the four typical stumbling blocks to implementing Web to print, the three critical factors in-plants need for success, and how in-plants succeeding with Web to print have reduced costs and increased value.

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• In-Plant Graphics
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• 15 October 2014

A Tale of Two In-Plants: Achieving and Attaining Web to Print Success (2)

Part two of a webinar series highlighting the experiences of how in-plants, UPMC and Penn State University, use Web to print technology to steer operational success. InfoTrends President, Jeff Hayes moderates and presents in-plant research.

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• eBook
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• IPMA Conference 2014
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• 01 June 2014

55 Ideas in 60 Minutes

Get exclusive ideas and insights from four top in-plant print center leaders in higher education, government and K-12.

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• Blog Post
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• Elisha Kasinskas
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• 02 January 2014

Videos: Game-Changing Strategies for Adding Value

In this five video series, we provide a template for how an in-plant can meet today's challenges by increasing the value of the print center in their organization. Here, we showcase four top in-plants that are serving more customers, capturing more work, and positioning themselves as a strategic asset rather than a cost center.

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• Print 2013
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• 18 October 2013

In-Plant Power Play: Game Changing Strategies for Adding Value

Discover how four top in-plants are increasing the strategic value of the print centers in their organizations.

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• PRINT 2013
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• 02 October 2013

Empowered In-Plants Tell All: Success Stories from the Field (Revisited)

Learn from new top in-plant print centers from around the US in insurance, higher education, government and healthcare as they share their secrets of success, how they stay relevant, what they see in the future, and their insights for other in-plants.

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