Print Congress 2006

PRINT CONGRESS HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 2007

The printing industry is one of the largest of the UK’s manufacturing industries and is an industry that serves all sectors of the economy including public authorities, financial services, publishers, distributive services and the manufacturing industry. Its customers range from multinational institutions to a small family run business.

In March 2005, the UK printing industry employed around 170,000 employees in nearly 12,300 companies, with a turnover of £14.3 billion. Printing companies can be found in every town throughout the UK. Now expand this to the rest of the world and you find that approximately 5,000,000 people work in the printing industry, with a turnover of $568 billion.

The printed word remains one of the most powerful tools of communication and although the industry is changing month by month it is still growing and is becoming one of the most dynamic industries around.

The task now is to ensure that printing continues to grow not only in size but also in quality. With the increasing number of software packages and high quality small printers available in high street shops, printers world-wide need to offer their customers that extra special ingredient.