David Davis is a director for INTERQUEST. He has more than 25 years of experience in the printing industry, where prior to joining INTERQUEST, he held technical and managerial positions in the newspaper, book and corporate publishing sectors. He is the author of numerous industry reports, publications and educational programs on a variety of industry topics. Mr. Davis is a frequent speaker at industry events and contributes regularly to a variety of trade publications.
In the last issue of DOCUMENT, we focused on some macro trends in the transactional market in North America based on in-depth surveys we recently conducted with large third-party transactional operations...
We are just wrapping up studies of transactional printing in North America and Western Europe. I will focus on North America in this article, but many of the macro trends in the market are playing out...
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