Reports for the people who run print, packaging and document operations — written inside a Japanese printing company founded in 1948. Every figure carries its source. The judgement is yours.
After Durst brings MPS inside the group, label plants will split on whether they can sell “guarantee + setup design,” not on which press they buy. Can your plan
Back issues we rewrote with a new angle. The issue date stays as published; the reading is new.
2026-07-28 ｜ BPJ WIREOn the eve of the EU’s packaging rules, a contract addendum moved the workIssues the editor picked and numbered. Newest first.
7 editions carry no series label, so these figures do not add up to the full archive.
Subjects BPJ has returned to over the past year. The number is how many reports, not how many readers.
Compiled from public statistics — Japanese official releases and the US BLS public API — with each figure carrying its source.
The whole argument of an issue, and its numbers, on a single page — each figure printed with its source. Below is a real one, from a free report.
Briefs on feature reports are for members. Briefs on free reports are open to everyone.
Beyond Printing Journal reads the world from the printing floor. Money, power, faith, AI, culture and failure: we take what is happening in the world and re-read it from the position of the people who print it, pack it and deliver it.
Every report answers three questions. Who is making money. Where the work is moving. And what you can verify on your own shop floor next week.
We publish under two labels. BPJ WIRE is selected and drafted by the desk from world news. The numbered editions are the editor's own picks. Both are checked against the same source ledger. English editions are translated from the Japanese original, which remains authoritative.
We reach conclusions, but the judgement is yours. That is why each report ends with what to check next, and nothing else.
13 reports are free to read. 255 are for members.
Beyond Printing Journal is published by Bunseikaku Co., Ltd., a printing company in Japan founded in 1948.
Our own commitment is "Beyond printing, Print for the future" — to be a printing company that supports its customers' future. We cannot keep that promise without knowing what is happening beyond the press. BPJ is what we read, verify and write in order to know it, published as it stands.
We report on our own industry, including our suppliers and our competitors, from the same ledger. We sell nothing from these pages.