The Printing Industries of America (PIA) Digital Think Tank held a lively discussion about the opportunities digital printing is bringing to today’s print service providers.
There is no doubt that the quality, speed, and low print volumes these digital printing solutions can produce are opening up new opportunities. Yet for all the opportunity, obstacles still remain.
Reporting on the conference, WhatTheyThink Editor Richard Romano reports that one of the biggest obstacles is data. He shared a comment from one customer who was struggling to get the right data from their customers to create a high-value variable data campaign:
“A lot of the barriers to expanding new print applications, particular high-value and high-margin work, are on the client side. Some clients—like magazine publishers and their advertisers—have enough data, and good data, on subscribers to take full advantage of variable-data printing, and yet they don’t. They can . . . put so much information on this sheet, and they only choose to print ‘Tom, here’s the nearest store where you can buy a pizza.’ They don’t get it.”
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