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Technology Outlook 2022—Wide Format & Signage and Textiles & Apparel Trends and Technologies

In this year’s third annual Technology Outlook, Richard Romano and Cary Sherburne look at new trends, technologies, and products in wide format and signage and textiles and apparel.

Thursday, June 09, 2022

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In our annual Technology Outlook, we tend to group wide-format and signage and textiles and apparel together, as there is a bit of overlap—maybe not in terms of end users, but certainly in terms of equipment and manufacturers. Soft signage is perhaps the best example of where the two segments overlap, but companies like Mimaki, EFI, Durst, and others are active in both wide-format and textiles.

If there is one recent news story that, in a way, sums up the current state of wide-format printing, it was the acquisition of Inca Digital by Agfa.


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