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For 10% of Graphic Arts Firms Overall, Packaging Is 50% or More of Their Overall Service Mix - Printers Eye Packaging Diversification: Opportunities, Processes, and Applications.


DUBLIN Dublin, city, Republic of Ireland
Dublin, Irish Baile Átha Cliath, county borough (1991 pop. 915,516), Leinster, capital of the Republic of Ireland, on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the Liffey River.
, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c46674) has announced the addition of Printers Eye Packaging Diversification Diversification

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Diversification is possibly the greatest way to reduce the risk.
: Opportunities, Processes, and Applications to their offering.

This Industry Measure/TWGA special report examines commercial printing shops that are producing packaging. How many commercial shops have expanded into packaging production? Is that production in-house In-house

In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm.
 or outsourced? What specific applications are being produced? What print processes are shops using for packaging? What volume of packaging work are commercial shops producing? The report also looks at the perception of packaging as a sales opportunity, as well as the various challenges that create barriers to entry.

While the printing industry is examined in aggregate, Industry Measure/TWGA survey data are broken down by market (commercial printers, trade shops) as well as by shop size. Current data are taken from the most recent Industry Measure/TWGA Printing survey and are analyzed an·a·lyze  
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 against historical data from past surveys to provide a context for current figures as well as directional In one direction. Contrast with omnidirectional.  trends.

Highlights

24% of commercial printers currently produce packaging in-house.

15% of graphic arts graphic arts: see aquatint; drawing; drypoint; engraving; etching; illustration; linoleum block printing; lithography; mezzotint; niello; pastel; poster; silk-screen printing; silhouette; silverpoint; sketch; stencil; woodcut and wood engraving.  firms are currently producing flexible packaging (non-standup pouches).

15% of commercial printers are producing packaging on a flexographic press.

43% of trade shops are using wide-format (inkjet) printers to produce packaging jobs.

For 10% of graphic arts firms overall, packaging is 50% or more of their overall service mix.

Content Outline:

Executive Summary

Inroads inroads
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 As Preferred Suppliers

Diversity Of Applications And Tools

Learning The Market

Is Packaging For You?

Packaging Involvement & Volumes

Packaging Production Mix Co In-Source Vs. Outsource

Packaging Volumes As A Percentage Of Overall Mix

Print Processes & Packaging Types

Print Processes Used, By Graphic Arts Segment

Packaging Applications Produced

Sales Opportunity & Investment

Packaging As A Sales Opportunity, By Graphic Arts Segment

Packaging As A Sales Opportunity, By Shop Size

Investment In Flexo And Large-Format Printers See wide-format printer.  

Packaging-Related Business Challenges

Packaging-Related Challenges, By Graphic Arts Segment

Packaging-Related Challenges, By Shop Size, Q4-2004 Vs. Q2-2005

Unique Perspectives Of Packaging Players

"Competition" Vs. The Economy

Decreased Emphasis On Pricing

Employee Skill Sets

Production Workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle.  

Where Business Should Go In The Future

Sales Opportunities By Ranking

Planned Investments

Conclusions

Benefits For The Serious

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Section 1: Introduction

Inroads As Preferred Suppliers

Diversity Of Applications

Diversity Of Tools

Learning The Market

Section 2: Packaging Involvement & Volumes

Section 3: Print Processes & Packaging Types

Section 4: Sales Opportunity & Investment

Section 6: Packaging-Related Business Challenge

Section 7: Unique Perspectives Of Packaging Players

Section 7: The Larger Packaging Environment

Section 7: Conclusions

TABLE OF FIGURES

TABLE OF TABLES

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