David Davis

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.

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The Rise of Inkjet Printing: How Transactional Production Is Transforming
BY David Davis
Dec. 15 2014
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...
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A Tale of Two Worlds: The State of Transactional Printing
BY David Davis
Nov. 12 2014
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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Book Printing Will Be Just Fine, Thank You
BY David Davis
Aug. 12 2014
We’ve followed book printing for well over a decade—well before Amazon and e-books began shaking things up like no tomorrow. E-books grew at a breathtaking pace for a number of years, and not...
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The Door Is Opening for Digital Printing in the Newspaper and Magazine Markets
BY David Davis
April 29 2014
Newspapers and magazines are important publishing markets where, until quite recently, digital printing has mostly played a marginal supporting role. Yet the advent of high-speed inkjet printing, as well...
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Direct Mail Proves to Be Resilient, But Change Is on the Horizon
BY David Davis
Nov. 5 2013
By most estimates, direct marketing accounts for more than half of all advertising expenditures in the US. Despite the rapid adoption of electronic forms of direct marketing, print media continues to capture...
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It's Not Over Until It's Over: The Rise of Digital Printing Is Changing the Dynamics of the Book Printing Market
BY David Davis
June 24 2013
Book printing has been a fertile market for digital printing equipment: In terms of output, book printing is one of the largest print markets, and digital print volume continues to grow year over year....
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State of the Market: Transactional Printing
BY David Davis
March 28 2013
Many people are quick to point out that transactional printing is a declining market, but then again, most printing markets are. Overall book manufacturing is shrinking; direct mail is significantly down...
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Transactional Printing Market Update
BY David Davis
March 31 2010
Producing bills, statements and other transactional documents was one of the earliest applications of high-volume digital printing and today remains an important market for digital providers. INTERQUEST...