Events and reference.
The Print Show in Birmingham reported a 12% rise in attendance, 4% before one adjustment. Impressions Expo Dallas follows this issue. Then the calendar to 2028 and reference links.
PRINTING United Expo, Las Vegas, 23 to 25 September
Section 01 reports the show: the organiser’s preliminary figures and why they do not reconcile with its own 2025 release, what was new on the floor and what was only new to the hall, and the numbers that came with it.
The Print Show, Birmingham, 29 September to 1 October
The Print Show and The Sign Show, co-located in Hall 1 of the NEC, report a final attendance of 5,567 against 5,336 the year before, a rise of 4%. The 12% in the headlines excludes about 350 visitors who came in 2025 through a partnership with the PPMA Show. Against 5,336 less 350, which is 4,986, the rise is 11.7% (our division), so the two figures reconcile once the exclusion is stated. Large Format Review’s headline uses the 12%, and the organisers’ own headline leads with 5,500. The organisers’ figure of more than £1m of business is an early indication. One exhibitor, Plockmatic Group, reports £527,000 of orders taken on its stand, so the million-pound total leans on one stand.
Sources: The Print Show, 5 October 2026 · Large Format Review, 5 October 2026
Impressions Expo Dallas, 21 to 23 October
The organiser lists Impressions Expo Dallas for 21 to 23 October at the Hilton Anatole, after this issue went out, and Impressions magazine’s preview of 5 October expects more than 120 exhibitors. What exhibitors announce there will be checked against their own pages and reported in Pulse, not previewed here.
Sources: Impressions Expo · Impressions, 5 October 2026
Calendar
The dates below were read on the organiser’s page on 7 October, except where the Note column names a different source.
| Dates | Event | Location | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12–14, 2027 | PSI | Cologne | Promotional products; the press release announces the move to Cologne from 2027 |
| Jan 21–23, 2027 | Impressions Expo Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center |
| Jan 26–28, 2027 | RemaDays Warsaw | Nadarzyn, near Warsaw | Halls F and E |
| Feb 2–4, 2027 | C!Print Lyon | Lyon | Eurexpo |
| Feb 21–23, 2027 | Printwear & Promotion LIVE! | NEC Birmingham | Dates are new; the first issue's calendar listed this show as undated |
| Mar 3–5, 2027 | TecStyle Visions | Stuttgart | Textile finishing, with wetec |
| Mar 18–20, 2027 | Impressions Expo Atlantic City | Atlantic City, NJ | Atlantic City Convention Center |
| Apr 6–9, 2027 | FESPA Global Print Expo | Munich | Dates from Print Monthly's report of 19 May 2026 |
| Apr 27–29, 2027 | FESPA Middle East | Dubai | Dubai World Trade Centre |
| Sep 14–16, 2027 | PRINTING United Expo | Las Vegas | Las Vegas Convention Center |
| Sep 16–22, 2027 | ITMA | Hannover | Textile and garment technology; dates from Deutsche Messe |
| May 9–17, 2028 | drupa | Düsseldorf | A nine-day event; drupa 2024 ran eleven days, per its results release |
| Oct 18–20, 2028 | PRINTING United Expo | Atlanta | Georgia World Congress Center |
Viscom Italia’s page carries no 2027 date, so none is listed. Dates are not frozen. Printwear & Promotion LIVE! gained its dates after the first issue. PRINTING United publishes a calendar to 2031, and its 2030 slot read October 16 to 18 in our own note of 8 September and reads September 18 to 20 on the organiser’s page now.
Organisers are the source for attendance too, because others print larger numbers. A Polish stand builder tells exhibitors that FESPA Global Print Expo 2027 in Munich will reach more than 200,000 visitors from more than 150 countries. FESPA’s own report of the 2026 edition in Barcelona, across six co-located shows, is 24,798 total visits and 15,495 unique visitors. The stand builder’s figure is 8.1 times the first number and 12.9 times the second (our division).
Sources: Sensations Worldwide · Print Monthly, 16 June 2026 · Viscom Italia · PRINTING United Alliance, event calendar
Reference
Glossary. The terms this issue leans on are defined at narrow web, unit production system, automatic press, impressions per hour, cost per print, Delta E, print embellishment, direct-to-object printing, EmpCo and RaaS and pay-per-pick. The full glossary has the rest.
Atlas. The atlas prints each figure with the period it is stated for and the day we read it, in four tables: input costs, what crosses a border, what compliance costs and what the market is said to be worth. The input costs include electricity prices, the natural check on the cure-cost arithmetic in section 02.
Verdicts. The register has a page for each claim checked in section 07: 44, 49, 59, 61, 70 and 73. The register lists every verdict by rating. The weekly source list is in the first issue’s reference section.