The question about questionnaires

Two survey led reports arrived this week: one the latest (ninth) Global Trends Report produced on behalf of Drupa and the other, produced on behalf of Printing United, focuses on the situation in North America. Both come up with some remarkably similar findings: the continued growth of digital printing, the residence of offset litho printing, […]

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