Print & Beyond: Why distance could decide your next move

What if the most important question facing printers today is not what to buy next, but how far to go? That is the provocation P Sajith, managing director at Impel Services (Bindwel-Stelda Group) plans to bring to the Print & Beyond 2026 seminar hosted by the Kerala Master Printers Association in Kochi on 28 February.

Titled, From roots in kochi to global reach, Sajith’s keynote will anchor the seminar theme, Print in a de-globalised world, around one deceptively simple idea. Distance. “Printing has always been a distance-driven industry,” Sajith says. “How far a product can travel before cost, risk, or relevance intervenes often decides whether a business succeeds.”

Drawing on his own journey from Kochi to Mumbai, Sajith will connect personal experience with industry insight, arguing that as globalisation slows and supply chains shorten, printers must choose their distance more intelligently.

“Some products will still travel continents,” he explains. “Others are becoming intensely local. Understanding the difference is now critical.”

Rather than offering a technology forecast, Sajith promises a way of thinking, urging printers to move from reactive converters to proactive solution partners, investing not only in machines but in people, capability and in-house testing. “The future of print will not belong to those who travel the farthest,” he says, “but to those who understand where they are needed.”

If you are navigating uncertain markets, shifting demand and tougher choices, this keynote may be the reset your strategy needs.

Besides Sajith, Pulkit Chhaparia, managing director at Cambay Foodservices Packaging, Surat will be talking about packaging in a de-globalised world, and Preeti Mishra, director and head for business development at Holosafe Security Labels in Greater Noida will talk on Next-gen innovative security printing.

Prof Rajendrakumar Anayath, vice chancellor at Maharshi Valmiki Sanskrit University, Haryana will be talking on Digital disruption and its impact.

The Seminar will round off with Ramu Ramanathan, editor PrintWeek/WhatPackaging? hosting a panel.