Mark Hanley charts the progress of the digital print market and speculates on a post-pandemic economy that could give analogue users cause for concern.
Covid-19 has been as disastrous for many production digital print markets as it has been for the economy in general, although there have been some interesting exceptions in markets such as digitally-printed labels, where sudden changes in supply chains and product demand have favoured the deployment of digital systems and all the flexibility they have conferred on suppliers of products. But in general Covid has imposed new economic disciplines all round.