ROLL UP, ROLL UP

Are you a watcher or a participator? I ask because in this issue there are rallying calls for you to visit trade shows, attend conferences, take up eco schemes, and actively develop a crisis management plan for your business. The consensus seems to be act, act, act, so if you’re more of a thinker than doer you might feel you’re being somewhat chivvied along at an uncomfortable speed. But you know what they say about speed being of the essence, and perhaps the features herein will convince you to act sooner rather than later on certain issues.

I’m no Greta Thunberg, but let’s consider the urgency with which we need to make environmental change - as an industry and as individual companies. In all fairness there’s a fast-growing list of large-format digital and that of their clients. On p31, for instance, you can read about Rocket Graphics’ new print waste recycling scheme. But you can also read the BPIF’s and HP’s calls for more PSPs to get involved with what are now well-established but rather undersubscribed environmental schemes.

take more/faster actions than you currently are - read the Talking Point interview with organiser Frazer Chesterman on the aims and content of into how eco and supply chain issues are impacting large-format printer/ will colour your decision making when it comes to new kit purchases.

upcoming SDUK show, where the organisers are hoping for visitor numbers to return to pre-Covid levels. If you’re going I’ll hopefully see you there.

Hope we’re giving you food for thought, and action.

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