Renee Walsh · President · T.I. Group
At PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas, Morten B. Reitoft meets Renée Walsh, President of TI Group in Toronto, for a conversation about growth, equipment investment and why flexibility is particularly important in the Canadian market.
TI Group operates across a broad range of applications, including commercial print, packaging, direct mail, corporate interiors and retail graphics. Within wide format, the company has built a significant Agfa installation, including Tauro H3300 UHS and Tauro H2500 systems.
For Renée, one of the attractions is the combination of speed and flexibility.
Canada is a significantly smaller market than the United States, and that often means shorter production runs and frequent changeovers. TI Group therefore needs equipment that can move efficiently between roll-to-roll and rigid applications rather than being optimized for only one type of work.
But Renée also explains an important part of TI Group’s investment philosophy: they don’t simply buy capacity and hope customers will come.
The business comes first.
TI Group typically invests once it can already see demand developing in existing customer relationships or in new opportunities. That makes ROI, utilization and production volumes critical parts of the calculation before another press reaches the floor.
Having Agfa’s Canadian organization close to TI Group is another advantage. Access to technicians, parts, the innovation center and local support — all in Canadian dollars — plays an important role in the relationship.
And Renée describes it very much as a relationship rather than simply buying another machine. Agfa’s people understand TI Group’s business, remain curious about where the company is heading and continue developing technology that can help it grow.
The interview ends with another TI Group colleague, Sunny, adding perhaps the simplest description of that relationship:
Agfa doesn’t just promise. They prove it.
Watch Morten B. Reitoft’s conversation with Renée Walsh from TI Group at the Agfa booth at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas.
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Bonjour #3· Deborah Hutcheson/AGFA and Ford ...
On the third and final day of PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas, Morten B. Reitoft and Pat McGrew sit down with Ford Bowers, President & CEO of PRINTING United Alliance, and Deborah Hutcheson from Agfa to look back at three busy days — and forward to where the industry is heading. The newly completed Las Vegas Convention Center has given PRINTING United more room to bring the industry's different parts together. Commercial print, wide-format, apparel, promotional products, packaging, software, finishing, and automation increasingly exist side by side rather than as separate industries. And that convergence may be one of the most important takeaways from this year's show. PRINTING United 2026 brought together more than 800 exhibitors across approximately one million square feet, with equipment, software and applications representing almost every part of the print ecosystem. Deborah has experienced that convergence directly at Agfa's booth. Customers aren't simply asking about faster printing equipment anymore. They want flexible automation, fewer touchpoints and technology that can grow as their production requirements change. AI is becoming part of that conversation as well. The PRINTING AI Pavilion returned this year with presentations and discussions about how artificial intelligence can move beyond the hype and become part of real production, workflow, and business processes. Ford admits there was initial concern that printers might be hesitant about AI, but the response at the show suggests the opposite: companies increasingly want to understand how to use it rather than whether they should. But technology is only half of the challenge. PRINTING United Alliance is also investing heavily in education and career development. Student Day brought young people from very different disciplines into the exhibition — not only graphic communications students, but programmers, engineers, chemists and others discovering that print offers far more career opportunities than they may have imagined. Deborah describes conversations with students who were surprised by the variety of technologies and applications they encountered. And Pat overheard perhaps the best reaction possible from young visitors walking into another part of the show: “I didn't know you could do that.” That curiosity matters. As automation, software, robotics and AI become increasingly important, the printing industry needs an entirely new mix of skills — and attracting those people requires showing them just how broad and technologically advanced the industry has become. Now the work begins again. Ford explains that planning for PRINTING United 2027 is already underway, but the Alliance will first evaluate everything from education and Student Day to hall layouts, signage, AI programming and visitor flow to understand what worked and what can be improved. Because just like the companies exhibiting here, the show itself has to keep evolving. Print takes all of us. Watch Morten B. Reitoft and Pat McGrew's conversation with Ford Bowers from PRINTING United Alliance and Deborah Hutcheson from Agfa as they wrap up PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas.