Copy paper goes up at 6:00 pm on Sep 30. How much has your shop actually priced in?
A week when inflation, ordering, document AI, and packaging waste reduction all move at once. For print companies, the rational question is when—and on which jobs—to change price and process.
Copy paper pricing is about to change on a timestamp, while book publishing’s ordering is being fused with AI demand forecasting, and packaging has started competing on film-waste reduction. This is a week when a print company can misread the situation if it only tracks “paper price hikes.” Cost, demand, and data operations are moving at different speeds.
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
At Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, OGBS2026 was held on Sep 15–Sep 16. An on-site report described it as a “settled exhibition where new products are announced to match the show period.”
In the same week, Japan’s Statistics Bureau released the August CPI (2025 base year) on Sep 18. And ASKUL announced a copy paper price revision with the exact timestamp spelled out: “revision at 2026-09-30 18:00.”…
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Sources
- DirectCloud お知らせ（newsView?index=1172） / 2026-08-31
- P-PROM（feature） / 2026-09-11
- PR TIMES / 2026-09-15
- 総務省統計局（CPI 速報・月次） / 2026-09-18
- e-Stat（公表予定） / 2026-09-18
- 相模原市 公式サイト / 2026-09-01
- サンシャインシティ イベント情報
- P-PROM（events-and-exhibitions） / 2026-09-16
- 帝国データバンク（TDB）レポート / 2026-05-07
- アスクル（ショップニュース）
- イメージ・マジック（store.imagemagic.co.jp）
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